Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- How to research develop an appropriate interdisciplinary topic in the period using archival sources
- What is common and what is specific to the approach of different disciplines to the study of gender and culture in the eighteenth century
- Specific issues raised about gender across literary, historical and history of art and design disciplines
- Current key debates in eighteenth century studies
- How questions of sexuality and gender changed across the long eighteenth century
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- demonstrate the capacity for self-directed problem-solving and independent work with a strict time-frame
- draw upon a range of relevant primary and secondary sources to explore specific historical questions
- communicate a coherent and convincing argument at length in written form
- develop ideas in concert with others in the context of discussion and debate
- identify and outline the main debates in a given field
Cognitive Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- critically evaluate both primary source materials and arguments in secondary texts
- conceptualize historical and cultural issues in new ways as a result of interdisciplinary work
- identify and analyse the shifting historical frameworks through which gender is understood across the period
- synthesize and integrate the analysis of primary sources and secondary texts in a coherent written argument
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- identify and develop a topic for further research which might form the basis of an MA dissertation
- apply appropriate critical and historical approaches to diverse cultural forms
- describe and evaluate the state of research and scholarship on gender and culture in cross-disciplinary perspective
- identify lines of enquiry about gender and cultural change common to historical and literary disciplines
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Preparation for scheduled sessions | 100 |
Follow-up work | 76 |
Seminar | 24 |
Completion of assessment task | 100 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Michel Foucault (1991). Discipline and Punish. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Norma Clarke (2000). Dr. Johnson’s Women. London: Hambledon.
Aileen Riberio (2002). Dress in Eighteenth Century Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Paula McDowell (1998). The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. OUP: Clarendon.
David H. Solkin (1993). Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Ellis Markman (1996). The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Linda Baumgarten (2002). What Clothes Reveal. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Ruth Richardson (1989). Death, Dissection and the Destitute. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Janet Todd (1987). Sensibility: An Introduction. London: Methuen.
Amanda Vickery (1998). The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. New Haven: Yale University Press.
V.A.C. Gatrell. The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868.
Margaret J.M. Ezell (1993). Writing Women’s Literary History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
Margaret J.M. Ezell (1999). Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
John Brewer (1997). Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Harper Collins.
Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus eds. (1997). Gender in Eighteenth Century England. London: Longman.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
There will be no non-contributory assessments in this module, but classroom activities and individual discussions, should help you to judge how you are progressing in the module.Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Presentation
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Students receive oral feedback on their presentation, both from peers and staff in class, as well as with staff by appointment.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal