FACULTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE M.St. & M.Phil. Course Details Booklet 2018-19 Introduction Page 2 of 246 Version Details Date Version 1.0 2018 course details published 04/07/2018 Version 1.1 Formatting corrections (1550-1700 B-course) 11/09/2018 Disclaimer We expect the contents of this booklet to be updated over the course of the summer, due to the planned arrival of new staff. If any changes are made, we will issue an updated version and students will be informed. Contents Introduction to the M.St. in English Language and Literature by Period, the M.St. in English and American Studies, the M.St. in World Literatures in English, and the M. Phil. in English Studies (Medieval Period) .......5 Course convenors .........................................................................................................................................................5 A-Course: Literature, Contexts and Approaches ..................................................................................................5 B-Course: Research Skills (Bibliography, Palaeography, Transcription, Book-History etc.) .......................6 Assessment ....................................................................................................................................................................6 C-Course: Special Options ..........................................................................................................................................7 Assessment ....................................................................................................................................................................7 Dissertation ....................................................................................................................................................................7 Introduction to the M.Phil. in English Studies (Medieval Period) ..........................................................................8 Second Year Assessment ............................................................................................................................................8 A-COURSES ......................................................................................................................................................................... 10 M.St. in English (650-1550) A-Course ............................................................................................................... 10 M.St. in English (1550-1700) A-Course ............................................................................................................ 13 M.St. in English (1700-1830) A-Course ............................................................................................................ 24 M.St. in English (1830-1914) A-Course ............................................................................................................ 25 M.St. in English (1900-Present) A-Course ........................................................................................................ 32 M.St. in World Literatures in English A-Course .................................................................................................. 37 M.St. in English & American Studies A-Course ................................................................................................... 43 B-COURSES ......................................................................................................................................................................... 48 M.St. & M.Phil Course Details 2018-19 v1.1 Introduction Page 3 of 246 Overview .......................................................................................................................................................................... 48 M.St. in English (650-1550) and the M.Phil. in English (Medieval Period) B-Course .................................. 49 M.St. in English (1550-1700) B-Course ................................................................................................................ 50 M.St. in English (1700–1830) B-Course ................................................................................................................ 59 M.St. in English (1830–1914) B-Course ................................................................................................................ 64 M.St. in English (1900-present day) B-Course ..................................................................................................... 68 M.St. in World Literatures in English B-Course ...................................................................................................... 73 M.St. in English and American Studies B-Course ................................................................................................... 82 OPTIONAL MODULES and B-COURSES ....................................................................................................................... 90 Practical printing workshop for postgraduate students ....................................................................................... 90 Issues in Editing .............................................................................................................................................................. 90 Latin for beginners (Medievalists and Early Modernists): optional course ...................................................... 93 C-COURSES ......................................................................................................................................................................... 94 Michaelmas Term C-Courses...................................................................................................................................... 94 Devotional Texts and Material Culture c. 1200-1500 ................................................................................... 94 Chaucer before the Tales ......................................................................................................................................... 97 Reading Old English poetry: narrative, genre and style .................................................................................... 97 The New Theatre History: Dramatists, Actors, Repertories, Documents .................................................... 99 Milton and the Philosophers ................................................................................................................................. 109 Shakespeare, History, and Politics ...................................................................................................................... 116 Wordsworth and Coleridge 1797-1817 ......................................................................................................... 128 Prose Fiction of the Late Eighteenth Century ................................................................................................. 132 Reading Visual Satire .............................................................................................................................................. 136 Writing the City, 1820-1920 ............................................................................................................................. 141 The Utopian Imagination, 1800 – 2472 .......................................................................................................... 144 The Body in Victorian Literature, Science and Medicine ............................................................................... 148 M.St. & M.Phil Course Details 2018-19 v1.1 Introduction Page 4 of 246 Fiction in Britain Since 1945: History, time and memory ............................................................................. 154 Humanitarian Fictions ............................................................................................................................................ 160 Contemporary Canadian Literature and the World ........................................................................................ 163 Virginia Woolf: Literary and Cultural Contexts ................................................................................................ 166 The Second Wave of Anglo-American Feminism ............................................................................................ 168 Political Histories of Modern Reading ................................................................................................................ 179 Hilary Term C-Courses .............................................................................................................................................. 181 Old Norse Literature .............................................................................................................................................. 181 The Age of Alfred .................................................................................................................................................... 182 The Pearl Poet ......................................................................................................................................................... 184 Early Modern Biography ........................................................................................................................................ 185 The Forensic Imagination ...................................................................................................................................... 190 Thinking With The Faerie Queene