EL35QL Scottish Literature into the Modern World: 1750-1900
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30 credit points: 12 weeks
Course co-ordinator: Dr A Lumsden
Pre-requisite(s): Available only to students in programme year 3 or above who have passed 60 credit points in level 2 English courses, or by permission of the Programme Co-ordinator.
Over the span of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Scotland experienced 'a social and economic transformation unparalleled among European societies of the time in its speed, scale and intensity' (T. M. Devine). The course examines how this changing Scotland is imagined in some of the key literary texts of the period, and relates these texts to their literary, linguistic, social, historical and intellectual contexts. Writers whose work is studied on the course may include James Macpherson, Robert Burns, John Galt, Lord Byron, Walter Scott, James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, J M Barrie and Arthur Conan Doyle.
1 two-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week: Tue/Fri at 1
1 two-hour written examination (40%), In-course assessment: essay (35%),
exercise (15%), and seminar work (10%)
Re-sit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%)