Anglo Scots and North Britons (P00442)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P00442

This course will consider the antecedents, the literary, linguistic and cultural consequences, costs (and compensations) of the 1707 Union of Parliaments. We shall investigate the origin and scope of the term 'Britishness', the poetics of nationhood and of assimilation, and the source of much that remains current in Anglo-Scottish cultural politics today. In addition to obviously 'literary' drama, poetry and prose by John Banks, Daniel Defoe, Allan Ramsay, James Thomson, James Boswell, Tobias Smollett, James Macpherson, Robert Burns, Henry Mackenzie, and Robert Fergusson, we shall encounter some of the major discursive writing of the Scottish Enlightenment (and its antagonists), in works by David Hume, Adam Smith, High Blair, Alexander Carlyle and others.

Entry Requirements

? Costs : Purchase of essential texts as required.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Common Courses (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures), (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : To be arranged/Unknown

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

? Other Required Attendance : 2 hour(s) per week for 1 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will:
become familiar with the antecendents, the literary, linguistic and cultural consequences, costs (and compensations) of the 1707 Union of Parliament;
gain insight into one of the most significant periods of Scottish writing through detailed and extensive study of texts across a range of genres and types;
develop tools for describing critically the poetics of nationhood and of assimilation;
understand the leading theories and ideology of the Scottish Enlightenment and the 'Science of Man';
develop understanding of the history of national literature in a British context;
develop critical perspectives on methodologies of nationalism through an awareness of recent theoretical and practical approaches.