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

Postgraduate Course: Victorian Women's Writing (ENLI11020)

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
SummaryThis course, using fiction and non-fiction texts, considers themes of gender, class and empire (including Scotland and England in relation to each other), as well as looking at questions of social position of women in Victorian society in Victorian women's writing and the intersections between fiction and non-fiction. It considers women as literary critics: articles eg. Geraldine Jewsbury, Mulock Craik, Oliphant; women as fiction writers, Charlotte Bronte, Eliot, Gaskell, Jewsbury, Mulock Craik, Oliphant; the woman question or women's issues: Besant, Martineau, Nightingale, Norton, Oliphant. It also considers women's writing unpublished at the time, eg. letters: Helen Mackenzie, Jane Welsh Carlyle, and autobiography (published and unpublished): Annie Besant, Ellen Johnston, Margaret Oliphant, Christian Watt.
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.
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
The intended learning outcomes of this course include knowledge of the Victorian period, with specific concentration of women's writing in this period. The student will be able to discuss topics related to the course one to one, in small groups and in the larger seminar.

They will also be able to produce short summaries of discussions and longer papers, exploring theoretically and analytically, on texts and topics relating to the course.

They will have reasonable computer skills and familiarity with finding and sourcing information in libraries, printed texts and on the web.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information 1 hour(s) per week for 2 week(s).
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiser Course secretaryMrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Anne.Mason@ed.ac.uk
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