Postgraduate Course: Victorian Conventions (ENLI11076)

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	An attempt, through sampling prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, to explore what public (and sometimes private) attitudes were prevalent, and in particular to show that while Victoria's reign was long there were many varieties and developments of belief and practice during the period. Convention is mirrored and frequently challenged in satirical writing which forms a large part of the course.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
Some sense of the variety of the period and the difficulty of generalisation; some discussion of how we approach the analysis of particular genres developed during the period (including the serial novel and the very long three-volume novel); some extended discussion of the relationship between ideas in imaginative literature and the public beliefs.