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Humanities and Social Science
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Module Offerings
5127ENGL-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. Develop students’ knowledge of a range of theoretical debates on gender;
2. Provide students with the ability to interrogate the relationships between gender and genre across a range of literary periods.
3. Enable students to evaluate literature’s role in the development of the gendered politics and practices of British society and culture.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Identify, understand, and discuss key concepts of gender and queer theory;
2.
Use these concepts to analyse the gender politics of literary and cultural texts in relation to production, form, and content;
3.
Understand the historical development of literary and cultural representations of gender.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Set texts may include but are not limited to:
Christina Rosetti, Goblin Market (1863)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1928)
John Fowles, The Collector (1963)
Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop (1967)
Hanif Kureishi, My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet (1998)
Andrew McMillan, Physical (2015) and Playtime (2019)
Selected contextual pieces of feminist theory, gender theory, and queer theory.
Module Overview:
This module will develop your understanding of the relationships between gender, sexuality, and literature. Building on the feminist theory you will encounter in your first year, you will explore literature’s role in the developments of the sexual politics and gender norms of Western society and culture since the nineteenth century and up to the present day.
This module will develop your understanding of the relationships between gender, sexuality, and literature. Building on the feminist theory you will encounter in your first year, you will explore literature’s role in the developments of the sexual politics and gender norms of Western society and culture since the nineteenth century and up to the present day.
Additional Information:This module develops students’ understanding of the relationship between gender and literature. Building on the key concepts of feminist theory students have encountered in the previous academic year, Gender Trouble introduces the more complex, key concepts, debates, and developments in gender and queer theory and uses them as a lens through which students can analyse the gendered politics of literary texts and genres. In doing so, the module enables students to explore literature’s role in the developments of the gendered politics and practices of Western society and culture through a range of literary periods.