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Undergraduate Course: Modernity and the Discourse of Discovery 1550-1740 (ENLI10117)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course aims to examine the production of representations of early modern culture in the period between 1550-1740 by exploring a number of texts published during this time. The course begins by introducing a number of theoretical perspectives upon the relationship between colonial narratives and the production of early modern cultural history. The work of Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt, Laura Brown and Homi Bhabha will figure here. It then develops these insights in the context of seven key early modern texts: Thomas More's Utopia; John Milton's Paradise Lost; William Shakespeare's The Tempest; Aphra Benn's Oronooko; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock; and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: ( English Literature 1 (ENLI08001) OR Scottish Literature 1 (ENLI08016)) AND ( English Literature 2 (ENLI08003) OR Scottish Literature 2 (ENLI08004) OR American Literature 2 (ENLI08006))
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Essential course texts
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully completet the course will enhance their knowledge of the literature of the period, with specific regard to a number of major genres and intellectual issues. They will be equipped to explore for themselves the meaning of cultural 'modernity' and, in particular, the links between the emergence of 'modern' philosophical discourse in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the development of new political and cultural formations. It will enhance their ability to read critically and comparatively and to engage with an area of specialist research not otherwise available to students at Edinburgh.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/studying/undergrd/honours/3year/2004-2005/coursedesc/ls3spr.htm
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements Numbers are limited and students taking degrees not involving English or Scottish literature need the written approval of the head of English Literature
Additional Class Delivery Information 1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s).
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Lee Spinks
Tel: (0131 6)50 3616
Email: Lee.Spinks@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Catherine Williamson
Tel: (0131 6)50 3620
Email: Catherine.Williamson@ed.ac.uk
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