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PGT Course Details Book FACULTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE M.St. & M.Phil. Course Details 2019-20 Contents INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Course convenors ................................................................................................................................ 5 Post-doc mentors ................................................................................................................................ 5 A-Course: Literature, Contexts and Approaches ......................................................................... 6 B-Course: Research Skills ................................................................................................................... 6 C-Course: Special Options ................................................................................................................. 7 Dissertation ........................................................................................................................................... 8 M.Phil. in English Studies (Medieval Period) .................................................................................. 8 A-COURSES ............................................................................................................................................. 10 M.St. in English (650-1550) A-Course ...................................................................................... 10 M.St. in English (1550-1700) A-Course ................................................................................... 14 M.St. in English (1700-1830) A-Course ................................................................................... 27 M.St. in English (1830-1914) A-Course ................................................................................... 29 M.St. in English (1900-Present) A-Course ................................................................................ 37 M.St. in World Literatures in English A-Course ......................................................................... 44 M.St. in English & American Studies A-Course .......................................................................... 51 B-COURSES ............................................................................................................................................. 56 Overview ....................................................................................................................................... 56 M.St. in English (650-1550) and the M.Phil. in English (Medieval Period) B-Course..... 57 M.St. in English (1550-1700) B-Course ................................................................................ 61 Michaelmas Term 2019 - Material Texts................................................................................... 61 Hilary Term 2020 - Early Modern Textual Cultures: Writing, Circulating, Reading .......... 66 M.St. in English (1700–1830) B-Course ............................................................................... 71 Michaelmas Term - Material Texts, 1700–1830 .................................................................... 71 Hilary Term - Textual Cultures, 1700–1830 ............................................................................ 73 M.St. in English (1830–1914) B-Course ............................................................................... 76 (i) Material Texts 1830-1914 ...................................................................................................... 76 (ii) Transcription ................................................................................................................................ 79 (iii) Bibliography, Theories of Text, History of the Book, Manuscript Studies: 1830-1914 M.St. in English (1900-present day) B-Course ..................................................................... 82 (i) Material Texts 1900-Present .................................................................................................. 82 (ii) Material Methodology ............................................................................................................... 86 (iii) History of the Book 1900 – present day ............................................................................ 86 M.St. in World Literatures in English B-Course ...................................................................... 88 Introduction Page 3 of 316 (i) Material Texts in English and American Studies and World Literatures ......................... 88 (ii) Material Methodology ............................................................................................................... 92 (iv) World Book History ............................................................................................................... 94 M.St. in English and American Studies B-Course ................................................................... 98 (i) Material Texts in English and American Studies and World Literatures ................... 98 (ii) Material Methodology .......................................................................................................... 98 (iii) Scales of Attention ................................................................................................................ 98 C-COURSES .................................................................................................................................... 101 Michaelmas Term C-Courses ................................................................................................. 101 Old English poetry: Cynewulf and the ‘Cynewulf canon’ ...................................................... 101 After the Conquest: Reinventing fiction and history ............................................................. 105 Chaucer before the Tales ............................................................................................................. 119 Milton and the Philosophers ........................................................................................................ 124 Travel, Belonging, Identity: 1550-1700.................................................................................. 132 Women and the Theatre 1660-1820 ...................................................................................... 139 Shakespeare, History, and Politics ............................................................................................. 146 The Romantic and Victorian Sonnet .......................................................................................... 163 Place and Nature Writing, 1750 - the present....................................................................... 165 The Spectacular Enlightenment .................................................................................................. 168 Literary London, 1820-1920 ..................................................................................................... 173 Victorian and Edwardian Drama 1850-1914......................................................................... 178 Modern Irish-American Writing and the Transatlantic ......................................................... 186 Virginia Woolf: Literary and Cultural Contexts ........................................................................ 192 American Fiction Now ................................................................................................................... 195 Prison Writing and the Literary World ...................................................................................... 197 Hilary Term C-Courses ............................................................................................................ 201 Old Norse ......................................................................................................................................... 201 Age of Alfred ................................................................................................................................... 203 Devotional Texts and Material Culture c. 1200-1500 ........................................................ 206 The Pearl Poet ................................................................................................................................. 217 The New Theatre History: Dramatists, Actors, Repertories, Documents......................... 218 Utopian Writing from More to Hume ........................................................................................ 229 Early Modern Biography ............................................................................................................... 232 Verse satire, 1720-1840 ............................................................................................................ 242 Senses of Humour: Wordsworth to Ashbery ........................................................................... 246 Women’s Poetry 1680-1830 .................................................................................................... 258 The Lessons of the Master: Henry James and His Literary Legacies ................................. 262 Literary Institutions, Normal and Peculiar ................................................................................ 267 Bodies in Pain and Suffering Minds in C19th American Literature .................................... 271 Life-writing .....................................................................................................................................
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