Undergraduate Course: Madness, Sexuality and Subversion in Victorian Literature (ENLI10175)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course is an examination of a range of Victorian literary texts that represent experiences of madness and sexuality. The course is a close textual study of how those experiences were depicted , and of how they relate to nineteenth century debates about shifting definitions of madness and of how sexual identity was associated with it.. |
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
| Students who complete this course successfully will develop a knowledge and understanding of how madness was interpreted in the nineteenth century as a social category, and of how novels and poems of the period reflected a new interest in contested definitions of what madness was. Students will also acquire a knowledge of how sexual experiences are represented in Victorian literature, and of how those experiences are closely associated with ideas about madness.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ken Millard
Tel: (0131 6)50 8304
Email: K.Millard@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Anne.Mason@ed.ac.uk |
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