Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Cognitive Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- present your research findings confidently to the group
- work in teams or pairs on specific set tasks
- use internet resources effectively as part of historical research
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- the relationships between long eighteenth-century literary modes and genres such as epistolary and, Gothic fiction; neoclassical and Romantic poetic forms; drama; and non-fiction.
- question whether there are common historical or formal descriptors for the ‘long eighteenth century’.
- make connections between fictional and discursive writings of different genres
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- a range of eighteenth-century fictional, poetic, and other texts
- the interrelationship of literary production, its reception and wider historical context
- a range of recent and historical critical approaches to eighteenth-century literature, and their cultural contexts
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- analyse and comment in detail on poetry, drama, essays, novels and philosophical texts
- investigate, research and structure arguments around the particular themes and concerns of a vexed historical epoch
Syllabus
The module moves chronologically from Restoration libertinism to Gothic fiction of the 1790s and to another famous libertine, Lord Byron. You will study texts in drama, poetry and fiction (Please note that texts may change from year to year):
1.George Etherege, The Man of Mode, William Wycherley, The Country Wife
2.Thomas Shadwell: The Libertine, Aphra Behn: The Rover
3.John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Poems
4.Seduction Narratives: Eliza Haywood, The British Recluse, and Elizabeth Rowe, Letters Moral and Entertaining
5.Matthew Lewis, The Monk
6.William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
7.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads
8.Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
9.John Keats, Poems, 1820
10.Lord Byron, Don Juan
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include
- Lectures
- Seminars
- Office hours for individual feedback on essays
Learning activities include
- Office hours for individual feedback on essays
- Experience of organizing and running a seminar
- Individual study and research
- Accessing and evaluating online resources
This module includes a Learning Support Hour. This is a flexible weekly contact hour, designed to support and respond to the particular cohort taking the module from year to year. This hour will include (but not be limited to) activities such as language, theory and research skills classes; group work supervisions; assignment preparation and essay writing guidance; assignment consultations; feedback and feed-forward sessions.
Type | Hours |
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Seminar | 20 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 75 |
Completion of assessment task | 125 |
Lecture | 20 |
Follow-up work | 50 |
Teaching | 10 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
https://library.soton.ac.uk/english.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (from the Historical Texts database).
Assessment
Summative
Summative assessment description
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Timed Assignment | 50% |
Critical essay | 50% |
Referral
Referral assessment description
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Critical essay | 100% |
Repeat
Repeat assessment description
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Critical essay | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External