Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Lecture | Two x 1-hour lectures each week |
| Seminars / Tutorials | One x one-hour weekly seminars |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 1 X 2000 WORD ESSAY on a single text from Section A | 33% |
| Semester Exam | 3 Hours 2 QUESTION EXAM Question 1 on a single text from Section B Question 2 on any two texts from the module | 67% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit or resit failed elements and/or make good any missing elements | |
| Supplementary Exam | 3 Hours Resit exam Resit examination | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
demonstrate knowledge of a representative range of literary texts from across the period
locate texts in appropriate cultural and historical contexts
articulate a detailed critical analysis of individual texts from the period that shows an understanding of their distinctive qualities
relate texts from the period either to each other, or to a common theme
Content
DRAMA
2. Libertine and Court Culture
3. William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675)
4. Aphra Behn, The Rover (1675)
5. From Libertinism to Sensibility: Wycherley, Behn and Sheridan
6. Richard Sheridan, The School for Scandal (1777)
PROSE FICTION
7. Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel
8. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) 1
9. Robinson Crusoe 2
10. Gender, Sensibility and the Mid-Century Novel: Pamela (1740)
11. Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740) 1
12. Pamela 2
POETRY
13. Religion and Poetry
14. John Milton, Paradise Lost (1666) 1
15. Paradise Lost 2
16. Satire and Poetry
17. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1714)
18. The Rape of the Lock 2
19. Labouring-Class Poetry: Stephen Duck and Mary Collier (1730-1739)
20. Module Conclusion + Examination Preparation
Brief description
This module seeks to introduce students to a representative range of writing across the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. The seminar texts illustrate a number of key cultural and political issues: the Restoration of 1660, Puritan versus Cavalier culture, the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, imperialism and colonialism, the growth of a professional literary marketplace, changing conceptions of authorship, the development of the novel, the cult of sensibliity and debates about the "feminization" of culture. In addition to the above, the lectures and seminars will also address the following areas in relation to the literary texts: town and country, gender, sexuality, class, religious expression and morlaity. The module familiarises students with a range of literary forms: poetry, the novel, drama, satire. For each seminar text, there will be 2 lectures: one closely focused on the text, and the other locating that text in wider contexts (cultural, political, biographical, critical, theoretical).
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Communication | (Written) in essays and examination answers students are encouraged to express their ideas articulately and fluently (Oral) seminars are based on group discussion and brief student presentations |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Students are encouraged to take more personal initiative in the planning and conduct of their preparation for assignments than at Level 1, and to make use of a broader range of resources; formal feedback on essays and informal feedback on seminar participation helps students measure their improvement |
| Information Technology | Substantial use is made of electronic text-databases (EEBO, LION), of electronic journals, and of Blackboard, and students are encouraged to familiarise themselves with these |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Only insofar as the module covers key areas of literature in which students intending to teach English would need to demonstrate competence; or which might be related to future academic research |
| Problem solving | In essays and examination answers: by formulating and putting into practice a critical approach appropriate to text and topic set |
| Research skills | In preparation for seminars, essays, and exams: by investigation of literary texts, associated critical and scholarly writing, and the relationship of literary texts to historical an cultural contexts |
| Subject Specific Skills | Close reading of older literary texts; grasp of generic and intertextual relationships between texts; identification and analysis of appropriate historical and cultural contexts |
| Team work | Informal group work in seminars |
Reading List
Should Be Purchased(c1997.) Restoration and eighteenth-century comedy /edited by Scott McMillin. W.W. Norton & Co Primo search Bunyan, John (1678) The Piligrim's Progress Penguin edition Primo search Defoe, Daniel (1719) Robinson Crusoe Penguin edition Primo search Haywood, Eliza (1719-20) Love in excess, or, The fatal enquiry /by Eliza Haywood; edited and with an introduction by David Oakleaf. Broadview Press, 2000 Primo search Pope, Alexander (1994) Selected Poetry, ed Rogers, Pat Oxford World's Classics Primo search Richardson, Samuel (1740) Pamela, ed Keymer, Thomas and Wakely, Alice Oxford World's Classics 2001 Primo search Supplementary Text
(2000.) A companion to literature from Milton to Blake /edited by David Womersley. Blackwell Publishers Primo search Brewer, John (Sept. 1997) Pleasures of the Imagination:English Culture in the Eighteenth Century Farrar, Straus & Giroux Primo search Colley, Linda (May 2005) Britons:Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 Yale University Press Primo search Hill, Christopher (1988.) A turbulent, seditious, and factious people :John Bunyan and his church 1628-1688 /Christopher Hill. Clarendon Primo search Hughes, Derek (July 1996) English Drama, 1660-1700 Oxford University Press, Incorporated Primo search Richetti, John J. (1999.) The English novel in history 1700-1780 / John Richetti. Routledge Primo search Spencer, Jane. (1986 (various p) The Rise of the woman novelist :from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen /Jane Spencer. Blackwell Primo search Todd, Janet (1986.) Sensibility : an introduction /Janet Todd. Methuen Primo search Reference Text
(1996.) Pope /edited and introduced by Brean Hammond. Longman Primo search Essential Reading
Collier, Mary The Woman's Labour Primo search Duck, Stephen The Thresher's Labour Primo search
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 5