Module Identifier EN36720  
Module Title LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST: THE C19TH WEST  
Academic Year 2001/2002  
Co-ordinator Dr Martin Padget  
Semester Intended for use in future years  
Next year offered N/A  
Next semester offered N/A  
Course delivery Seminar   20 Hours 10 x 2 hour seminar workshops  
Assessment Continuous assessment   2 x 2,500 word essays   100%  
  Resit assessment   Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements.    

Module objectives / Learning outcomes


This module aims to:
Situate the American West using historical, geographical, cultural and ecological criteria
Examine images of the nineteenth-century West in literature and other media up to the mid twentieth century
Ask what ideologies and practices sustained the expansion of Euro-Americans into the West during the Nineteenth Century, and to examine how literary and visual representations sustained, questioned and contested those ideologies


On completion of the module students should be better able to:
demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of a range of issues relating to the form and content of the writing
articulare this knowledge and understanding accurately and coherently in speech and writing.

Module description


To situate the American West using historical, geographical, cultural and ecological criteria
To examine images of the nineteenth-century West in literature and other media up to the mid-twentieth century
To ask what ideologies and practices sustained the expansion of Euro-Americans into the West during the nineteenth Century, and to examine how literary and visual representations sustained, questioned and contested those ideologies


On completion of the module students should be better able to:
demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of a range of issues relating to the form and content of the writing
articulate this knowledge and understanding accurately and coherently in speech and writing.

Reading Lists

Books
** Recommended Text
James Fenimore Cooper. (1826) The Last of the Mohicans.
John Rollin Ridge. (1841) The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit.
Caroline Kirkland. (1841) A New Home - Who'll Follow? Or Glimpses of Western Life.
Mark Twain. (1972) Roughing It.
Bill Brown (ed.). (1997) Reading the West: An Anthology of Dime Westerns.
Zane Grey. (1912) Riders of the Purple Sage.