Undergraduate Course: Stevenson and the End of the Nineteenth Century (ENLI10259)
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 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. |
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- have a famililarity with a broad range of Stevenson's writing in fiction and non-fiction.
- have an understanding of various genres of fictional and non-fictional writing practised in the late nineteenth century.
- have an ability to make critical and contextual comparisons between the writing of Stevenson and his contemporaries.
- have an awareness of the literary, critical and cultural questions raised by these genres of writing.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Penny Fielding
Tel: (0131 6)50 3609
Email: Penny.Fielding@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sheila Strathdee
Tel: (0131 6)50 3619
Email: S.Strathdee@ed.ac.uk |
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