CO4024 Performing Early-Modern Sexualities

Academic year

2025 to 2026 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

The Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (SCOTCAT) system allows credits gained in Scotland to be transferred between institutions. The number of credits associated with a module gives an indication of the amount of learning effort required by the learner. European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits are half the value of SCOTCAT credits.

SCQF level

SCQF level 10

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

To be arranged.

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Prof J T Prest

Prof J T Prest
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Module Staff

Team taught

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Module description

Early-modern perceptions of gender and sexuality were based less on a series of binary opposites (man/woman, male/female, masculine/feminine) than on a fluid continuum. The literature of the period demonstrates a particular interest in the performative nature of sexuality and gender, featuring male and female cross-dressers, bisexual clergymen, individuals of indeterminate sex and so on. Primary texts encompassing a variety of cultures and genres by male and female authors will be studied; these might include Veronica Franco's Terze rime, Catalina Erauso's The Lieutenant Nun, The Transvestite Memoirs of the Abb? de Choisy, and John Lyly's Gallathea. Some theory will also be studied, including short excerpts from Butler, Foucault and Laqueur.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

PERMISSION OF THE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE HONOURS ADVISER.

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Written Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1.5 hours and 1 surgery hour.

Scheduled learning hours

27

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

123

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.