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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : English Literature

Postgraduate Course: Nation and Empire in Early Modern Writing (ENLI11040)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaEnglish Literature Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThe course will examine the formation of English identity in early modern culture and consider how this process was affected by relationships between England, Scotland and Ireland. It will begin by exploring the development of a distinctively protestant English culture and the threats that were perceived to this. This vision of English identity will then be examined in relation to contemporary understanding of two troublesome neighbours: Scotland and Ireland. The course will take a discursive and comparative approach to early modern culture drawing upon texts from a variety of sources: literary, religious, legal, historical and political.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Essential course texts.
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
This course will enable students to:
-critically assess the shaping of English identity in pre-modern culture
-critically analyse and compare the representation of Scottish and Irish identity in the period
-analyse how early modern literature creates and contests national and imperial forms of identity
-explore the relationship between literary and non-literary sources
-engage with recent historical scholarship on the 'British'question, contemporary studies of nationalism and identity-politics, and colonial and post-colonial theory
Assessment Information
1 essay of 4,000 words (100%)
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Dermot Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Dermot.Cavanagh@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Anne.Mason@ed.ac.uk
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