Undergraduate Course: The Reign of Terror: Fear and Loathing in Romantic Literature (ENLI10315)
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 | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course introduces students to different concepts and discourses of terror in romantic period literature. It concentrates mainly on the relationship between the aesthetic category of the sublime and the political climate of fear created by the Reign of Terror in France in the mid-1790s and intensified by the revolutionary wars in Europe. The course explores how ideas and perceptions of terror fed into romantic literature, and how romantic literature in turn helped to reshape notions of fear. Through reading primary texts and examining contemporary images (such as paintings and engravings) students will develop an enhanced understanding of the connections between the romantic language of terror and other topics, including millenarianism, anti-jacobinism, spectatorship, violence, prophecy, pantheism, materiality, subjectivity, friendship, domesticity, the Gothic, the body, imagination, sexuality, and liminality. The course will begin with an introductory session outlining the main themes and writers on the course, and close with a seminar addressing the relevance of notions of terror and the sublime to (post)modern culture and society. |
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 15 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
194 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
plus attendance at Autonomous Learning Group for one hour per week
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
60 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
10 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One course essay of c. 2500 words (30%);
One class participation mark (10%)
and one take-home exam essay of c. 3000 words (60%). |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- An understanding of the cultural significance of literature 1759-1822;
- An enhanced ability to apply different methods and theories to the interpretation of texts;
- An enhanced ability to discuss and develop intellectual ideas with others;
- An enhanced ability to work collaboratively on group projects and presentations;
- An improved ability to develop and sustain intellectual arguments in essay form.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Tim Milnes
Tel: (0131 6)50 3615
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Course secretary | Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: |
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