Undergraduate Course: New Women, New Men?: Gender Revolutions in Late 19th c. British Fiction (ENLI10309)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The aim of this course is to explore the shifts, transitions, and revolutions in thinking about gender in late 19th century British fiction. This course covers the emergence of the "New Woman" and her counterpart the "New Man", as well as the Victorian doctrine of "separate spheres", and debates over suffrage, education, sexual double standards, the marriage question, and sexual purity. Through texts exploring the plight of modern men and women, this course examines the period’s shift from a doctrine of difference to a model of equal rights. It also considers the way in which both male and female authors responded to these shifts and reassessed their roles as authors. |
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
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Learning Outcomes
| Students will gain an understanding of the ways in which fiction stimulated and reflected gender debates in the period; they will gain an understanding of the historical development of gender debates within British literature; they will gain a grasp of the origins of modern ideas of gender and gender equality.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Jeremy Robbins
Tel: (0131 6)50 3675
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Course secretary | Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
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