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

Undergraduate Course: Poetry and Gender (ENLI10177)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis 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
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.
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
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.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/studying/undergrd/honours/4year/2004-2005/ri4spr.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 Robert Irvine
Tel: (0131 6)50 3605
Email: R.P.Irvine@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Anne.Mason@ed.ac.uk
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