The Global Eighteenth Century - ENG00012C

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  • Department: English and Related Literature
  • Credit value: 10 credits
  • Credit level: C
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Summer Term 2022-23

Module aims

  • 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

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Oral presentation/seminar/exam 100.0

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100.0

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.