Undergraduate Course: The Fiction of Doubt (ENLI10173)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | A study of Victorian novelists' attempts to explore the changes in the religious systems of their day, making a distinction between individual belief and public religious activity. Some major writers of the century tackled this difficult theme at a time when public attitudes to its discussion were sometimes hostile. Towards the end of the course we include some poetry and some non-fictional prose to emphasise the width of the topic at a time of rapid religious change and scientific advance. |
| Course description |
Not entered
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
| Many regard the Victorian period as one of full churches and unchallenged Christian conformity; this is a seriously misleading picture of a complex and lengthy period. The course intends to explore the changes within the period; to introduce the reader to some of the varieties of religious observation in the century; to discuss ways in which fiction can depict the inner workings of the human mind with any accuracy. The course also looks at the work of the century as sometimes radical experiment which permitted unexpected clarity and honesty.
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Additional Information
| 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). |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Ian Campbell
Tel: (0131 6)50 4284
Email: Ian.Campbell@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Catherine Williamson
Tel: (0131 6)50 3620
Email: Catherine.Williamson@ed.ac.uk |
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