Poetry and Gender (U02723)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : LLC-4-EL0141

This course looks at gendered concepts of authorship as they appeared in and helped to shape the poetic practice of this period. The first half of the course examines the poetry of women writers in the 1790s and their influence on Wordsworth and Coleridge. The second half of the course examines the way in which the gendered field of poetry thus produced created its own problems for later writers such as John Keats, Mary Tighe, Byron and Hemans. By concentrating on these issues the course tends to suspend the question of what "romanticism" is or is not, but the course will end with a discussion of the romantic canon as it has been traditionally constructed and the reasons for its exclusion of female poets

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? 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 int he second year course. Passes in third year courses in the subject area amounting to at least 40 credits.

? Special Arrangements for Entry : Numbers are limited and students taking degrees not involving English or Scottish literature need the written approval of the head of English Literature.

? Costs : Essential course texts.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th 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

Students will learn to recognise, and understand the possibilities of, various poetic forms (blank verse autobiography, conversation poem, sonnet, and description of sublime nature, Spenserian allegory, ode); understand the mutually-defining interrelationship of literary form and gendered poetic identity; and be familiar with ways of understanding the process of tradition- and canon-formation and its role in authorising literary criticism as a discipline.