To introduce students to recent critical approaches to the study of eighteenth-century literature and culture
To encourage students to recognize the global dimension of a variety of eighteenth-century texts
To enable students to develop skills in close reading and argumentation in relation to a clearly defined thematic focus
To enable students to develop skills in group work and presentation in relation to a clearly defined thematic focus
Module learning outcomes
An understanding of the significance of historical perspectives in the interpretation of literary texts
An appropriate critical vocabulary with which to consider the global dimension of eighteenth-century literature and culture
An awareness of the relationship between the metropolitan experience of global commerce and innovations in literary form and genre
Assessment
Task
Length
% of module mark
Oral presentation/seminar/exam Team Presentation
N/A
100
Special assessment rules
None
Reassessment
Task
Length
% of module mark
Essay/coursework Reassessment: 1500 word Essay
N/A
100
Module feedback
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Indicative reading
The reading list will vary from year to year: selections may be drawn from periodicals such as The Spectator; the travel-writing of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, William Hodges, Captain Cook, and others; slave autobiographies by authors including Olaudah Equiano; and the poetry of (for example) Alexander Pope, John Dyer, Anna Seward, Phillis Wheatley, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld.