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Postgraduate Course: Anglo Scots and North Britons (CLLC11036)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis 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.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Purchase of essential texts as required.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
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.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information 2 hour(s) per week for 1 week(s).
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Susan Manning
Tel: (0131 6)50 4671
Email: Susan.Manning@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Anne.Mason@ed.ac.uk
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