LT924-7-AU-CO:
Georgian and Romantic Literature and Drama
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2024/25
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Autumn
Postgraduate: Level 7
Inactive
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 13 December 2024
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04 October 2018
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This 10-week module is dedicated to the study of key areas of eighteenth-century and Romantic drama and literature. The module is designed to include the study of materials in the Albert Sloman Library's Special Collections, and also original buildings from the period such as the Theatre Royal at Bury St Edmunds. By studying both in situ and in classroom students will master the cultural, historical and social contexts, and the theories, relevant to the study of eighteenth-century literature and drama at an advanced level of complexity.
The literature seminars on poetry and prose fiction taken by Dr Susan Oliver will expose students to important research methodologies and techniques such as working with facsimiles and special editions. They will engage with a range of interdisciplinary approaches (including visuality and literature, and environmental studies and literature). In this way the students will acquire important research skills and in depth understanding of the texts under consideration.
The seminars on drama taken by Dr Patricia Gillies will look at Georgian theatre in all its variety and vitality, from John Gay's satirical and ground-breaking comedy The Beggar's Opera, in 1728, to the mid-century sentimental comedies of Frances Sheridan; to the Gothic melodrama and spectacle of Blue-beard, from the revolutionary 1790s; concluding with Jerrold's spirited nautical melodrama Black-Ey'd Susan (1829). We will visit the original Georgian theatre at Bury St Edmunds (the Theatre Royal, the UK's only surviving Regency theatre) and consider how architecture affected the nature and content of drama, as well as the ways in which it reflected Georgian society. We will look at themes of Orientalism; censorship; revolution; and satire versus sentiment. We will also explore interactions between the novel and drama, by examining the work of novelist-playwright Frances Sheridan, and by looking at Elizabeth Inchbald's controversial revolutionary drama Lovers' Vows (1798), which is the play acted in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park.
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Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
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Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Susan Oliver, email: soliver@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Patricia Gillies and Dr Susan Oliver
LiFTS General Office - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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Of 20 hours, 20 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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