Module Details

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Title The Novel: 1740-1830
Code ENGL386
Coordinator Dr J Roberts
English
roberts@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2022-23 Level 6 FHEQ Second Semester 30

Aims

The module will introduce students to a variety of forms of prose fiction in the period 1740-1830. The module will give students an understanding of how the novel developed in the century following the earliest British examples.


Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Students will acquire analytical skills and vocabulary appropriate to university-level work and be able to use them appropriately in relation to a range of sources from different historical periods and social contexts.

(LO2) Students will gain the ability to construct and support argument in written or spoken forms suitable for academic work and be able to participate constructively in group discussions.

(LO3) Students will gain awareness of cultural, theoretical and historical contexts of literature and language use.

(LO4) Students will have the ability to write well-constructed prose, reflecting appropriate scholarly knowledge and independent response within a sustained argument.

(LO5) Students will have knowledge of one or more specific literary historical periods and the language and genres associated with it/them.

(LO6) Students will have the ability to demonstrate research and evaluative skills that support wider literary or linguistic analysis, criticism, and/or data collection.

(S1) Students will gain the ability to analyse and interpret sophisticated texts closely and critically.

(S2) Students will gain the ability to construct and support argument in both written and spoken forms.

(S3) Students will gain the ability to write with appropriate subject knowledge, using appropriate approaches and terminology.

(S4) Students will gain the ability to identify and assess relevant information and data, and argue independently in response.

(S5) Students will gain the ability to critically evaluate research materials.

(S6) Students will gain the ability to undertake independent research, and to develop a sense of research attitude.


Syllabus

 

This is a course for anyone interested in the novel. If you enjoyed Romantic Literature, you might like this, as it covers much of the same period, but with an emphasis on novels rather than poetry. If you studied eighteenth-century literature, this picks up the story of what happened to the novel after Defoe and Richardson. If you took Victorian Literature, this is the story of how the novel got to the point where writers such as the Brontës and Dickens could appear. The course looks at prose fictions from the period 1740-1830, with particular attention to the interwoven issues of realism and counter-realism, genre and narrative; sensibility, education; the gothic and the supernatural.


Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching Method 1 - workshop
Description: Students in a larger group hearing about and discussing the set reading for the week in question
Teaching Method 2 - Tutorial
Description: Students in a smaller group discussing about the set reading for the week in question.
Teaching will be F2F or online as appropriate.
The majority of teaching will be delivered face to face on campus. Online delivery will be used to complement the on campus delivery and where technology affords a better learning experience.


Teaching Schedule

  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours     11

    22

33
Timetable (if known)     60 mins X 1 totaling 11
 
    60 mins X 2 totaling 22
 
 
Private Study 267
TOTAL HOURS 300

Assessment

EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
mark
Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
submission
Notes
Assessment 2: take-home paper (24 hours, scheduled by SAS) There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment. Assessment Sched  24    67       
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
mark
Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
submission
Notes
Practice Essay         
Assessment 1 There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When): 2    33       

Recommended Texts

Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module.