Anglo-Scots and North Britons 1750-1835 (U01379)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : LLC-3-U01379

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, Hugh Blair, Alexander Carlyle, and others.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Passes in English or Scottish Literature 1 and English or Scottish or American Literature 2, with a mark of 50 or above at the first attempt in the second year course.

? Special Arrangements for Entry : Numbers are limited to 15, with priority given to students taking degrees involving English or Scottish Literature and Visiting Students placed by the Admissions Office. Students not in these categories need the written approval of the Head of English Literature before enrolling. In the case of excess applications places will be decided by ballot.

? 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 : To be arranged/Unknown

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

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

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

1. The course will develop skills in essay-writing, independent reading, group discussion, oral presentation, small-group autonomous learning
2. Students will have read critically some key texts in the formation of British Literature in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
3. Students will understand and be able to describe aspects of nation theory as applied to English, Scottish and 'British'; texts of the period
4. The course will develop understanding of the history, theories and practice of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment writing and its relation to Romantic national culture and ideology
5. The course will develop critical perspectives on disciplinary and generic evolution through study of a range of texts including prose fiction, discursive and philosophical prose, poetry, and drama