Credit value: 20 credits
Teaching pattern: 10 x 2-hour weekly seminars
Assessment: 1 x 1,000 word critical review; 1 x 3,000 word essay
Module description
Taught in semester 1, this module is the compulsory module for the MA Nineteenth-Century Studies programme. It is a team-taught module, and each seminar is led by an academic from one of the contributing departments. The module is structured around four organising themes: Nation, State and Empire; The Country and the City; Knowledge and Belief; Representing the Nineteenth Century. The module is supported by a series of podcasts, at least one for each theme, which will allow students to visits sites of nineteenth-century interest in London.
Seminar outline
Nations, States and Empire
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Locality and Region
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Nation and Nationalisms
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Empire and Imperialism
The Country and the City
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The Nineteenth-Century City
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The Construction of Urban Knowledge
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Land, landscape and the rural
Knowledge and Belief
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Religion and Secularization
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Science and medicine
Representing the Nineteenth Century
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Writing the nineteenth century
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Picturing the nineteenth century