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From Wordsworth’s lakes to Walter Scott’s Scottish Highlands, the concept of literary Romanticism is irrevocably tied to ideas of place and locale. During the Romantic era colonisation, urbanisation, agricultural reform and conflict all redefined how writers thought and wrote about their place within the world. This course will explore how Romantic texts have engaged with and defined place, looking not just at canonical examples of the romantic English landscape, but also exploring Romanticism’s global reach and Victorian and modern legacies.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Session | First Sub Session | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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From Wordsworth’s lakes to Walter Scott’s Scottish Highlands, the concept of literary Romanticism is irrevocably tied to ideas of place and locale. During the period we now think of as the Romantic era, colonisation, urbanisation, agricultural reform and conflict all redefined how authors and poets thought and wrote about their place within the world. This course will explore how Romantic texts have engaged with and defined place, looking not just at canonical examples of the romantic English landscape, but also exploring romantic locations across global space, and romantic legacies which stretched into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 13 | Feedback Weeks | 15 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | To identify and analyse the ways in which Romantic texts engage with questions of transnational, national and local identity. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | To describe and discuss the different definitions and understandings of the Romantic and Romanticism |
| Procedural | Create | To write correctly and to argue fluently and to produce pieces of literary analysis at postgraduate level. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 15 | Feedback Weeks | 17 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Analyse | To identify and analyse the ways in which Romantic texts engage with questions of transnational, national and local identity. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | To describe and discuss the different definitions and understandings of the Romantic and Romanticism |
| Procedural | Create | To write correctly and to argue fluently and to produce pieces of literary analysis at postgraduate level. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 20 | Feedback Weeks | 22 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided. |
Word Count | 3500 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Analyse | To identify and analyse the ways in which Romantic texts engage with questions of transnational, national and local identity. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | To describe and discuss the different definitions and understandings of the Romantic and Romanticism |
| Procedural | Create | To write correctly and to argue fluently and to produce pieces of literary analysis at postgraduate level. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Essay resubmission. Written feedback will be provided. |
Word Count | 3500 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Evaluate | To describe and discuss the different definitions and understandings of the Romantic and Romanticism |
| Conceptual | Analyse | To identify and analyse the ways in which Romantic texts engage with questions of transnational, national and local identity. |
| Procedural | Create | To write correctly and to argue fluently and to produce pieces of literary analysis at postgraduate level. |
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