| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours. 10 x 2-hour seminar workshops |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 2 X 2,500 WORD ESSAYS Continuous Assessment: 2 x 2,500 word essays | 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment | RESUBMIT FAILED ELEMENTS Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. Where this involves re-submission of work, a new topic must be selected. |
On completion of the module students should typically be able to:
1. locate and discuss issues relating to gender in their cultural and historical context;
2. demonstrate an ability to write about literary texts in the light of recent critical debates;
3. construct focused and well-structured arguments;
4. engage in coherent oral discussion of the material studied.
This module will explore the writings of the Romantic period in relation to the changing social history of the time, concentrating in particular on issues of gender. During the years which bridged the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries social attitudes and behaviour with regard to gender were in a state of flux, in transience from the emergent feminism of late eighteenth-century radicalism to the rigid polarization of gender roles characteristic of the Victorian epoch. In this option we will be looking at the works of both male and female writers of the period to examine the manner in which such changes found expression in literary texts.
This module is at CQFW Level 6