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2011/12 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

ENGL5349M Race, Empire, Romanticism

30 creditsClass Size: 11

Module manager: Dr David Higgins
Email: d.higgins@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2011/12

Pre-requisite qualifications

As for MA programme

Module replaces

Nation and Empire in British Romantic Writing ENGL5329M

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- consider how British Romantic writers represented other nations, cultures, and ethnicities;
- examine how they articulated Britishness (or Englishness) in relation to these others;
- investigate how they supported imperialism, and how they opposed it.

Learning outcomes
- An understanding of the relationship between literature and imperialism in the Romantic period.
- An awareness of how new discourses of race and nation emerged in British Romantic writing, across a range of genres.
- A knowledge of various critical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between writing, race, and empire.

Skills outcomes
- Critical skills in the analysis of literary texts.
- Awareness of the relationship between text and context.
- Development of appropriate critical terminology.
- Understanding of generic conventions.

Masters (Taught), Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity;
- evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
- self direction and effective decision making;
- independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
- to engage critically in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.


Syllabus

The following texts will be covered:
- Byron, Lord George Gordon, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III) and the 'Turkish Tales'.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, various poems of the 1790s, including 'Fears in Solitude' and 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'.
- Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and 'The English Mail-Coach'.
- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative.
- Elizabeth Hamilton, Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah.
- Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africs.
- Various abolitionist poems of the Romantic period.

Teaching methods

Delivery typeNumberLength hoursStudent hours
Seminar102.0020.00
Private study hours280.00
Total Contact hours20.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)300.00

Private study

- Seminar preparation: reading primary texts and relevant secondary texts, and considering specific preparation questions.
- General reading on the module topic.
- Research towards the unassessed and assessed essays.
- Writing the unassessed and assessed essays.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

One unassessed essay of 2,000 words.

Methods of assessment


Coursework
Assessment typeNotes% of formal assessment
EssayOne 4,000 word essay100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 24/02/2012

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