EN5116
Women, Writing and Gender 2: Victorian to Contemporary
2017-2018
20
10
SCQF level 11
2
Academic year(s): 2017-2018
SCOTCAT credits : 20
ECTS credits : 10
Level : SCQF level 11
Semester: 2
Planned timetable:
This module continues the chronological survey of debates surrounding women, writing and gender begun by EN5115. The module examines continuity and change in constructions of gender across the period 1800 to the present. Students will be introduced to key critical readings of nineteenth-century women's writing before moving on to consider the emergence of the 'new woman' at the fin de siècle. In the twentieth century the module will consider the work of modernist writers alongside 'middlebrow' and popular fictions. Finally students will examine a range of contemporary writers whose rewriting of history and myth engages with current debates in gender theory.
Pre-requisite(s): Before taking this module you must pass EN5115
Weekly contact: 1 seminar
As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100%
Re-assessment: One new submission equivalent in length and nature to the failed piece of coursework. The piece submitted for reassessment must be entirely new work.