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

Postgraduate Course: Stevenson and the End of the Nineteenth Century (ENLI11070)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
Summary This course looks in detail at the novels, prose and poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson, making connections with his work and the fiction and non-fiction of the last decades of the 19th century. We will look at subjects such as: children's fiction, gothic, adventure, anthropology, SCotland, the Pacific. We will compare Stevenson to writers such as: R. M. Ballantyne, Jack London, Henry James, J. G. Frazer.

*This course is taught jointly with undergraduate students and consequently postgraduate places are limited

Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will have developed:

* a famililarity with a broad range of Stevenson's writing in fiction and non-fiction.

* an understanding of various genres of fictional and non-fictional writing practised in the late nineteenth century.

* an ability to make critical and contextual comparisons between the writing of Stevenson and his contemporaries.

* an awareness of the literary, critical and cultural questions raised by these genres of writing.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements Jointly taught with undergraduate students (ENLI10259)
Additional Class Delivery Information 1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s).
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Penny Fielding
Tel: (0131 6)50 3609
Email: Penny.Fielding@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Kara Mccormack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Kara.McCormack@ed.ac.uk
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