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Fiction in the Age of the Machine (VS1) (U02995)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : LLC-3-U01552

A study of the impact of technology and the industrial revolution on the creative and imaginative literature of the period from the 1820s (with Thomas Carlyle's early essays) to the present, with some emphasis in the modern period on science fiction and visual media. Authors include Dickens, Gaskell, Stevenson, Brown, Gibbon, Orwell.

Entry Requirements

? This course is only available to part year visiting students.

? This course is a variant of the following course : U01552

? Costs : Essential course texts

Subject Areas

Home subject area

English Literature, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 1 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
10/01/2006	09:00	10:50			Room 2.05, 18 Buccleuch Place

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	09:00	10:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students should appreciate the developmental nature of the impact of technology on literature as people adjusted to the idea of the machine; as the first generation gave way to people who had had more time and who had more ambiguous attitudes to 'progress'; overall, the impact of the machine on individuality leads to a variety of literary strategies which are closely studied.