EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England

Academic year

2025 to 2026 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

2.00 - 4.00 pm Monday

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

Module coordinator

Dr M C Augustine

Dr M C Augustine
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Module Staff

Dr Matthew Augustine

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Module description

This module introduces students to an exciting range of texts from the seventeenth century with an emphasis on the social networks within which seventeenth-century English literature was written and read. Those networks are loosely defined in terms of patronage, coteries, and politics. Authors to be studied may include John Donne, Ben Jonson, Aemilia Lanyer, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Lord Rochester, Aphra Behn, and John Bunyan. We will read works in verse and prose. (Group B)

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS EN2003 AND PASS EN2004

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 50%, Written Examination = 50%

Re-assessment

exam = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 seminar (X10 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

20

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

Guided independent study hours

280

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

Intended learning outcomes

  • Familiarity with representative works of seventeenth-century literature in verse and prose.
  • Practical understanding of networks, speech-act theory, and contextual methods of literary and historical analysis.
  • Increased fluency and sophistication in the conception, organization, and writing of critical essays on literature of the past.