English Literature: Literature and Society: Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian MSc
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Qualification
MSc - Master of Science
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Location
The University of Edinburgh
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
15-SEP-25
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Duration
1 year
Course summary
This masters programme offers an encounter with a range of topics in literary study centred on the literary history of England, Scotland and Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.The core seminar courses (one in each of two semesters) survey the development of literary genres in prose and verse in relation to their intellectual, social and political contexts as these changed from the ‘Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the end of the Victorian period. These are the centuries which see:in the Enlightenment, the invention and elaboration of modern ‘liberal ideas of societyRomantic conceptions of nationality and national historythe challenge to these ideas presented by industrial society and a global Imperial polityThe core courses of this programme will examine the ways in which novels and poems mediated and resisted these and other developments.
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University information
The University of Edinburgh
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University League Table
15th
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Campus address
University of Edinburgh, The University of Edinburgh, Old College, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City Of, EH8 9YL, Scotland
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Subject ranking
9th out of 96
17th out of 91 2
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/ Max 202184 91%8th
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/ Max 10079.0 79%15th
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/ Max 42.87 72%93rd
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/ Max 204180 88%10th
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/ Max 10075.0 75%21st
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/ Max 42.90 73%89th
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/ Max 210176 84%10th
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/ Max 10078.0 78%16th
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