Ma english literature: eighteenth-century literature and romanticism english
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The pathway in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Romanticism investigates the history of genres and authorship, and literature’s connections with philosophy, politics, history, and visual culture.
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Please note for 2019/20 entry:
Our MA English Programmes are currently undergoing a review to ensure the content continues to offer an outstanding teaching and learning experience for our students.
Your programme will offer specially-designed core modules alongside the opportunity to choose from a range of electives in specialist areas.
This MA pathway combines close reading of canonical and non-canonical writers with interdisciplinary study of the broader culture of the 18th and early 19th centuries, examining the history of literature and criticism alongside developments in philosophy, politics, history, and other art forms. We explore the popular culture of the coffee house and tavern, the political world on the street and in parliament, the vocations of women poets and polemicists, polite society and its management of the emotions, epistolary culture, religious dissent, and the metropolitan life of London. We also study the origins and impact of the Romantic movement, poetics and manifestos, generic innovation and experiment, periodical culture, Romantic science and medicine, relations between British and European Romanticism, the French Revolution and its aftershocks, and the literary and artistic culture of the Regency.
The pathway combines specially-designed core and elective modules with the opportunity to select further options from across the whole range of MA modules on offer in the Department of English. You may also opt to take a cognate elective module offered by other Schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and by other Colleges of the University of London.
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Please note for 2019/20 entry
Our MA English Programmes are currently undergoing a review to ensure the content continues to offer an outstanding teaching and learning experience for our students.
Your programme will offer specially-designed core modules alongside the opportunity to choose from a range of electives in specialist areas.
The MA in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Romanticism is currently available for one year full-time study, or two years part-time study.
You will take four assessed modules and two non-assessed research training modules before proceeding to the 15,000-word dissertation.
Assessed modules are taught in weekly two-hour seminars. The research-training modules will involve visits to archives and galleries which may each take up an afternoon. The dissertation is supervised through sessions with a specially designated supervisor. In addition to the timetabled sessions, you will be asked to attend meetings with your adviser and course tutor. You will also need to undertake many hours of independent learning and research in order to progress at the required level. When coursework deadlines are approaching independent learning hours may need to increase significantly.
Full-timeYou will take four assessed modules (two in each semester) and two non-assessed research training modules (one in each semester) before proceeding to the 15,000-word dissertation.
Part-timePart-time students take one assessed module per semester over for semesters. You will also take the two non-assessed research modules in your first two semesters.
You are encouraged to begin work on your dissertation at the end of the first year, and will submit it in August of your second year.
Compulsory modules:- Ideas and Metaphors: 1700-1820
- London Panoramas: Research Culture and the Long Eighteenth Century (non-assessed)
- Resources for Research (non-assessed)
- Dissertation
You choose three modules from a list of options that changes from year to year (one can be from the range of modules offered across the MA English Studies curriculum). In 2017-2018 we hope to offer the following. If members of our specialist research staff win research funding it will mean that their module won’t run, so for that reason this list is indicative only.
- Cultures of Friendship
- Romanticism and Genre
- Selfhood and Enlightenment in the Long Eighteenth Century
You may, subject to availability and the approval of the School, take one of your option modules from across a range offered by other Schools in the Humanities and Social Science Faculty, or from other Colleges of the University of London.
In addition to taught modules, we run a range of research seminars to which all MA students are invited. Some of these are linked to our interdisciplinary Research Centres, such as the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, the Centre for Religion and Literature in English and the Centre for the History of the Emotions. Others are collaborations with other institutions, such as the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar. With visiting speakers from across the world, these seminars are an opportunity to meet other postgraduate students and members of staff and to learn about the latest developments in research.
Ma english literature: eighteenth-century literature and romanticism english