Romantic/Victorian Studies

Revised programme available from 2009/10

Directors: Dr Susan Manly (sm32@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Sara Lodge (sjl15@st-andrews.ac.uk)

Other teachers: Professor Robert Crawford, Dr Tom Jones, Dr Christopher MacLachlan, Phillip Mallett, Professor Nicholas Roe, Dr Jane Stabler, Dr Emma Sutton

Entrance Requirements: a good degree with Honours from a UK university or its equivalent

Programme Duration: one year

Aim of programme: to explore Romanticism and Victorian-period literature through the study of literary culture from the 1760s to 1900. Students examine the various conceptions and dimensions of British Romantic-period and Victorian literature and culture, and Romantic and Victorian criticism and theory, up to the present. The study of various ideologies, such as the idea of childhood and discourses of emancipation in the Romantic period in relation to literary culture, and debates about gender, colonialism, Gothic and aestheticism in the Victorian period, is part of this programme. The course also offers an opportunity to study northern and Scottish print culture from the 1760s to the late nineteenth century, taking a panoramic view of the Romantic and post-Romantic imagination from the mid eighteenth century to the late Victorian period.

Programme: 120 credits made up of EN5201 Romantic Studies, EN5202 Victorian Studies, EN5203 Northern Romantics, Northern Victorians and EN5100 Literary Research: Skills and Resources.  The MLitt concludes with students writing a dissertation on 15,000 words on an agreed topic.