FACULTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE M.St. & M.Phil. Course Details 2021-22 Contents Contents .......................................................................................................................................................... 2 Note on teaching with Covid-19 ....................................................................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................... 5 Course convenors ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Post-doc mentors ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Course-outline ............................................................................................................................................ 5 A-Course: Literature, Contexts and Approaches ......................................................................................... 6 B-Course: Research Skills ............................................................................................................................ 6 C-Course: Special Options ........................................................................................................................... 7 Dissertation ................................................................................................................................................ 7 M.Phil. in English Studies (Medieval Period) .............................................................................................. 8 A-COURSES ...................................................................................................................................................... 9 M.St. in English (650-1550) A-Course .......................................................................................................... 9 M.St. in English (1550-1700) A-Course ...................................................................................................... 12 M.St. in English (1700-1830) A-Course ...................................................................................................... 19 M.St. in English (1830-1914) A-Course ...................................................................................................... 24 M.St. in English Literature (1900-Present) A-Course ................................................................................. 30 M.St. in World Literatures in English A-Course ......................................................................................... 33 M.St. in English and American Studies A-Course ...................................................................................... 36 B-COURSES .................................................................................................................................................... 40 Overview .................................................................................................................................................. 40 M.St. in English (650-1550) and the M.Phil. in English (Medieval Period) B-Course .................................. 41 M.St. in English (1550-1700) B-Course ...................................................................................................... 44 M.St. in English (1700–1830) B-Course ..................................................................................................... 48 M.St. in English (1830–1914) B-Course ..................................................................................................... 54 M.St. in English (1900-present) B-Course .................................................................................................. 59 M.St. in World Literatures in English B-Course ......................................................................................... 64 M.St. in English and American Studies B-Course ....................................................................................... 66 C-COURSES .................................................................................................................................................... 71 Michaelmas Term C-Courses .......................................................................................................................... 71 After the Conquest: Reinventing fiction and history ................................................................................. 71 The Age of Alfred ...................................................................................................................................... 72 Contemplative Worlds, 700-1450 ............................................................................................................. 74 Andrewes and Donne: Performing Religious Discourse ............................................................................ 79 Slow Reading Spenser .............................................................................................................................. 88 Twelfth Night ........................................................................................................................................... 92 Place and Nature Writing 1750-Present Day ............................................................................................. 95 Writing Illness .......................................................................................................................................... 97 Pluralism and the Imagination: from Romanticism to Modernism ........................................................... 99 Literary London, 1820-1920 .................................................................................................................... 101 Citizens of Nowhere: Literary Cosmopolitanism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century .......................... 104 Senses of humour: Wordsworth to Ashbery ........................................................................................... 108 Sea Voyages, Literature and Modernity.................................................................................................. 111 Virginia Woolf: Literary, Cultural and Historical Contexts ....................................................................... 115 British Literature and Culture 1940-1970 ................................................................................................ 117 Prison Writing and the Literary World .................................................................................................... 121 Literatures of Empire and Nation 1880-1935 .......................................................................................... 123 Introduction Page 3 of 241 American Renaissances .......................................................................................................................... 127 Henry James and his Literary Legacies .................................................................................................... 134 On Being (and Not Being) a Person: The Function of Literary Character ................................................. 144 Hilary Term C-Courses .................................................................................................................................. 148 Old Norse Literature ............................................................................................................................... 148 Old English poetry: Cynewulf and the Cynewulf canon ........................................................................... 150 Wycliffite and Related Literatures: Dissidence, Literary Theory and Intellectual History in Late-Medieval England .................................................................................................................................................. 153 Ideas of Literature in the Fifteenth Century ............................................................................................ 165 Of Essays: Origins and Afterlives ............................................................................................................ 170 Imagining Early Modern Lives ................................................................................................................. 176 Utopian Writing from More to Hume ..................................................................................................... 180 English Representation of India 1770-1903 ............................................................................................ 182 Historical Self-consciousness and the Experience of Historical Change, 1700-1830 ................................ 193 British Literature and Slavery: 1711-1833 ............................................................................................... 195 The Philosophical Poem ......................................................................................................................... 199 Victorian & Edwardian Drama, 1850-1914 .............................................................................................. 202 Victorian Futures .................................................................................................................................... 208 Contemporary poetry by the book ........................................................................................................