Unit information: Literature 3 - 1700 to 1830 in 2010/11

Unit name	Literature 3 - 1700 to 1830
Unit code	ENGL39004
Credit points	20
Level of study	H/6
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Unit director	Dr. James
Open unit status	Not open
Pre-requisites	None
Co-requisites	None
School/department	Department of English
Faculty	Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

This unit focuses on the literature of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Poets to be studied might include Swift, Pope, Johnson, Gray, Blake, Crabbe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, or Keats; novelists and prose writers might include Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Richardson, Johnson, Burney, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Austen, or Mary Shelley; and dramatists might include Sheridan.

Aims:

The aim of this unit is to give students a grounding in Literature of the 18th and early 19th centuries; to give students an understanding of the distinctive qualities of literature of this period; and to give students an understanding of the distinctive qualities of some important writers of the period.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Learning objectives include the ability to develop and express, in lucid and correct prose, cogent arguments in essays; the ability to select and analyse pertinent passages from the literary text that would support such arguments; the ability to make intelligent use of secondary criticism and theoretical perspectives (where appropriate); mastery of the technical vocabulary and analytical tools of literary criticism and of the conventions of academic style and referencing.

Teaching Information

Lectures, tutorials.

Assessment Information

• 1 formative essay of 1,000 words

• 1 summative essay of 2,000 words

Reading and References

• Abrams, M.H., Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature (New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1971)

• Bate, Walter Jackson, The Burden of the Past and the English Poet (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1970)

• Bloom, Harold, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1961; revised and enlarged edition, 1971

• Fairer, David, ed., English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century 1700-1789 (Harlow: Longman, 2002)

• McGann, The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983)

• Rogers, P., ed., The Context of English Literature: The Eighteenth Century (London: Methuen, 1978)