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EL5586: IRISH AND SCOTTISH ROMANTICISM, 1760-1830 (2016-2017)

Last modified: 28 Jun 2018 10:27


Course Overview

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Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Session Second Sub Session Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Cairns Craig

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

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What other courses must be taken with this course?

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What courses cannot be taken with this course?

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Are there a limited number of places available?

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Course Description

This course explores the development in Ireland and Scotland of kinds of literature which came to be typical of the movement now classed as 'Romanticism'. Beginning from James Macpherson's Fragments of Ancient Poetry, it traces the changing relationship of art to nature and the emergence of an identification of the nation with the qualities of its natural environment. The development of specific modes of literature - pastoral, georgic, 'national tale', the Gothic and the historical novel - are traced in relation to developing constructions of national identity - British, Irish, Scottish, Celtic, Teutonic - to which they contribute. The course will plot the mutual influence of writers and texts from the two countries - Macpherson's Ossian on Charlotte Brooke's Reliques, Maria Edgeworth (Castle Rackrent) on Walter Scott (the Waverley novels) and Scott on Charles Maturin (Melmoth the Wanderer) - and the ways in which they stimulate each other to distinctive representations of the nation.


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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay (80%); presentation (20%).

Formative Assessment

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