Transatlantic Comparisons (P01093)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P01093

In addition to the research skills training common to all Postgraduate courses (essay writing, independent reading, group discussion, oral presentation, small-group autonomous learning) in this course students will study a series of paired major nineteenth-century texts from both sides of the Atlantic.

Entry Requirements

? Costs : Purchase of essential texts as required.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

English Literature, (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

1. read critically some enjoyable and important nineteenth-century American prose in relation to contemporary writing by British and European authors.
2. establish the self-conciously comparative nature of American writing in the nineteenth century and the rivalrous nature of Anglo-American literary reception.
3. develop understanding of the history, theories and practice of comparative literary studies, from its beginnings in eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment writing and European Romantic nationalsim through its institutionalisation during the nineteenth century.
4. develop critical perspectives on methodologies of comparative literary study through an awareness of recent theoretical and practical approaches.