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Credit value: 20 credits
Credit level: M
Academic year of delivery: 2018-19
See module specification for other years:
2019-202020-21
Module will run
Occurrence
Teaching cycle
A
Spring Term 2018-19
Module aims
to introduce students to some of the best writing by British women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
to explore the relation between languages of sentiment and sensibility and the language of political controversy and debate in the period
to introduce students to the skills and techniques of interdisciplinary research
Module learning outcomes
Subject content
a knowledge of the varieties of womens writing of the period across a range of styles and genres
an awareness of some of the difficulties and possibilities for women in interacting with public life in the period
a knowledge of recent critical and historical work relevant to the topic
Academic and graduate skills
the research skills necessary to make good use of research resources available, including historical material such as newspapers and caricatures as well as literary texts
the research skills necessary to interdisciplinary study
Assessment
Task
Length
% of module mark
Essay/coursework 4,500 word essay
N/A
100
Special assessment rules
None
Reassessment
Task
Length
% of module mark
Essay/coursework 4,500 word essay
N/A
100
Module feedback
Written feedback, given in Week 5 for original assessment, and within two weeks of submission for re-assessed work
Indicative reading
Mary Wollstonecraft, Political Writings, ed., Janet Todd (London: Penguin, 1994)
Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, eds Tone Brekke and Jon Mee (Oxford: Worlds classics, 2009)
William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of the Vindication of the Rights of Woman, eds Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (Broadview, 2001)
Amelia Opie, Adeline Mowbray, or, the Mother and Daughter, ed., Anne McWhir (Broadview, 2009)
Amelia Opie, The Father and Daughter and Dangers of Coquetry, eds Shelley King and John B. Pierce (Broadview, 2003)
Charlotte Smith, Celestina, ed., Lorraine Fletcher (Broadview, 2004)
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