Critical Essay

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 70

Editorial Exercise

1 - Written assignment (including essay) - 30

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This module will introduce you to historicist literary scholarship, and a range of representative works in their literary, cultural, social, and historical contexts. Indicative content may include but is not limited to: 
<ul><li>Restoration literature </li></ul>
<ul><li>Augustan literature </li></ul>
<ul><li>Romanticism </li></ul>
<ul><li>Victorian literature </li></ul>
<ul><li>Modernism </li></ul>
<ul><li>Postmodernism </li></ul>
<ul><li>Characteristic forms, genres and literary techniques </li></ul>
<ul><li>Characteristic themes </li></ul>
<ul><li>Important historical, cultural and social contexts </li></ul>
<ul><li>The literary canon and challenges to it   </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

In-Person - 

Self-directed - 

Practicing New Historicism. 

The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism.

The Cambridge Companion to Modernism 

A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. 

The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel.

A Companion to Romanticism 

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers. 

A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. 

1650-1740. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature

EN1011 - Revolution and Reform: Literature in Historical Context from 1660 to the Present Day

EN1011-PRD2-PER-ALV1

This module will be delivered through a range of teaching and learning activities, including lectures, seminars and guided independent study. Lectures will introduce you to relevant literary, historical and cultural contexts and concepts. Seminars will provide opportunities for applying and articulating your knowledge. Your learning will be supported by study materials on the Virtual Learning Environment.

Revolution and Reform: Literature in Historical Context from 1660 to the Present Day

Think critically and argue persuasively using evidence from appropriate sources. 

Skills

Identify literary forms, styles, tropes and themes characteristic of English literary texts from the Restoration until the present day.

Knowledge

Respond to tasks and instructions accurately and present your work in forms appropriate for creative, academic, and professional purposes. 

Demonstrate curiosity, an enquiring attitude and willingness to explore the applications of your learning in academic contexts. 

Values and attitudes

Analyse a range of texts in their contexts. 

Explain and describe how texts and contexts inform one another. 

Develop the capacity to identify and question your own assumptions. 

Demonstrate self-motivation, commitment and initiative. 