Postgraduate Course: Stevenson and the End of the Nineteenth Century (ENLI11070)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course looks in detail at the novels, prose and poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson, making connections with his work and the fiction and non-fiction of the last decades of the 19th century. We will look at subjects such as: children's fiction, gothic, adventure, anthropology, SCotland, the Pacific. We will compare Stevenson to writers such as: R. M. Ballantyne, Jack London, Henry James, J. G. Frazer.
*This course is taught jointly with undergraduate students and consequently postgraduate places are limited
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| Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will have developed:
* a famililarity with a broad range of Stevenson's writing in fiction and non-fiction.
* an understanding of various genres of fictional and non-fictional writing practised in the late nineteenth century.
* an ability to make critical and contextual comparisons between the writing of Stevenson and his contemporaries.
* an awareness of the literary, critical and cultural questions raised by these genres of writing.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Special Arrangements |
Jointly taught with undergraduate students (ENLI10259) |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s). |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Penny Fielding
Tel: (0131 6)50 3609
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Course secretary | Miss Sophie Bryan
Tel: (0131 6)51 1764
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