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Walter Scott and his World

EL5071/EL5577

CREDIT POINTS 30

Course Co-ordinator: Dr Alison Lumsden

Pre-requisite(s): Available only to registered postgraduate students

Note(s): Running in second half session in 2010/11.

Walter Scott is beyond doubt Scotland’s most significant and best-known writer of fiction. His significance lies beyond this, however, for his roles of poet, editor and collector as well as his lasting literary influence make him one of the most culturally significant of nineteenth century figures both in Scotland and internationally. This course aims to explore the full cultural, critical and historical backgrounds to Scott’s work and to set it alongside the writing of his contemporaries. Supported by the work of the Walter Scott Research Centre it will suggest a range of intellectual avenues by which students might develop postgraduate interests in Scott and explore his work in relation to writers such as Jane Austen, Susan Ferrier and James Hogg.

Teaching is 1 x 2-hour seminar per week, plus 6 x 1-hour workshop.

2 oral presentations (10% each); 1 x 3000-3500 word essay (65%); 1 x 1000 word exercise (15%).

 

 

 

 

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