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Course Proposal Details for - The Novel in the Romantic Period: Gender, Gothic, and the Nation
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School
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Summary
This course addresses the politics of the novel at a crucial stage in its
development, namely the four decades after the French Revolution in
1789. It examines the way in which the formal resources of the novel
were utilized to stage the conflict between the Enlightenment's
assumption of a universal human nature, which was seen as underlying
the ideology of radicalism in France, and reactionary discourses of
tradition, nation, and culture.
Normal Year Taken
Year 4 Undergraduate
Course Level (PG/UG)
UG
Visiting Student
Availability
Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits
20
Credit Level (SCQF)
SCQF Level 10
Home Subject Area
English Literature
Other Subject Area
Course Organiser
Robert Irvine
Course Secretary
Anne Mason
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Institution)
Total contact
teaching hours
20
Any costs to be met
by students
Pre-requisites
Students MUST have passed: ( English Literature 1 (ENLI08001) OR
Scottish Literature 1 (ENLI08016)) AND ( English Literature 2 (ENLI08003)
OR Scottish Literature 2 (ENLI08004))
Co-requisites
Prohibited
Combinations
Visting Student Prerequisites
Keywords
Novel, Gender, Gothic, Nationality, Romantic Period, French Revolution
Fee Code (if invoiced
at course level)
Proposer
Jacqueline Barnhart
Default Mode of
Study
Assessment
Default delivery
period
Semester 1
Marking Scheme to
be employed
Common Marking Scheme - UG Honours Mark/Grade
Taught in Gaidhlig?
No
Course Type
Standard
Special Arrangements
Components of
Assessment
Course Essay 30% (2,500 words); class participation assessment 10%;
exam 60% (2 hours)
Exam Information
Syllabus:
Syllabus
1. Introduction
2. William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794)
3. M.G. Lewis, The Monk (1796)
4. Emma Hays, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796)
5. Sydney Owenson, The Wild Irish Girl (1806)
6. Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1801) and Ennui (1809)
7. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814)
8. Walter Scott, Waverley (1814)
9. John Galt, Ringan Gilhaize (1823)
10. Stories from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine by James Hogg and
others
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and Skills
Study Abroad
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Reading List
Compulsory:
Reading Lists
William Godwin, Caleb Williams. Oxford: World's Classics, 1982.
M.G. Lewis, The Monk. Oxford: World's Classics, 1982.
Emma Hays, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney. Oxford: World's Classics,
1996.
Sydney Owenson, The Wild Irish Girl. Oxford: World's Classics, 1999.
Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1801) and Ennui. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1992.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814), Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996.
Walter Scott, Waverley (1814), Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2011.
John Galt, Ringan Gilhaize (1823). Edinburgh: Canongate, 2010.
Stories from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine by James Hogg and
others will be supplied by the teaching team via VLE.
Recommended:
Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
Butler, Marilyn. Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries. Oxford: OUP,
1981.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. New Haven: Yale
UP, 1992.
Duncan, Ian. Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The
Gothic, Scott, Dickens. Cambridge: CUP, 1992.
Ferris, Ina. The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland.
Cambridge: CUP, 2002.
Gallagher, Catherine. Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Woman
Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820. Berkeley: University Of
California Press, 1994.
Johnson, Claudia. Jane Austen: Women, Politics and the Novel. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1988.
---. (1995) Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the
1790s. A Study of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, and Austen.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Kelly, Gary. English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830. London:
Longman, 1989.
---. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1993.
Klancher, Jon. The Making of English Reading Audiences 1790-1832.
Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Lynch, Deirdre. 'Nationalizing Women and Domesticating Fiction:
Edmund Burke and the Genres of Englishness.' Wordsworth Circle 25.1
(Winter 1994): 45-49.
McMaster, Graham. Scott and Society. Cambridge: CUP, 1981.
Siskin, Clifford. The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in
Britain, 1700-1830. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1998.
Trumpener, Katie. Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the
British Empire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1997.
Watson, Nicola. Revolution and the Form of the British Novel, 17901825: Intercepted Letters, Interrupted Seductions. Oxford: Clarendon,
1994.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.
Course description
This course will introduce the student to the history of the novel in a crucial stage of its development. Each wee
(narrative voice, focalization, plot structure etc); their thematic relation to the historical/political contexts in w
route through these issues will fall into three (chronological, but also thematic) stages. After an introductory se
by events in France. The last of these texts, Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney, introduces the student to
to explore women's writing, first the groundbreaking Irish 'national tale', and then by Jane Austen. In this part o
addressing the social and political questions explored in the previous three weeks.
At this point the student will submit a term essay (2,500 words) on the material covered so far. Research for th
seminar discussion.
The last three weeks of the course turn to Scottish fiction and Scott's transformation of the 'national tale' into t
position to understand the gender politics of these male-authored texts, as well as their more obvious national
Learning outcomes
1. By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate competence in core skills in the study o
2. By the end of the course the student will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the political deba
3. By the end of the course the student will be able to distinguish the various genres and modes of fiction
4. By the end of the course the student will be able to analyse the relationships between gender, nationa
5. By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate the ability to reflect critically on a variet
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