Alexander Pope and Eighteenth-Century Contexts
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL4336 | English | 4 | N/A | April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK |
- Code
- ENGL4336
- School
- English
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- N/A
- Semesters
- April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK
Summary
This pod enables students to study the writings of Alexander Pope in the wider literary and historical contexts of the early eighteenth century. Students will explore Pope’s poetry in a range of forms and genres including epistles, essays, mock-classics, pastorals, translations, imitations, satires, and literary commentaries. They will analyse Pope’s contribution to the development of those literary forms, and through a study of his work will reflect on early eighteenth-century literary culture.
Target Students
Students registered on the School of English online masters scheme.
Assessment
- 100% Participation: Student Participation
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
This module comprises an optional component in the following pathways: Applied English, English Literature, and Romantic and Gothic Writing. As such, it contributes in its specific aims to the programme-level coverage of these pathways.Learning Outcomes
Critically discuss and analyse how Alexander Pope’s poetry engages with its literary and social, political, and historical contexts.
Perform close analysis of literary texts, explaining how Pope develops poetical forms and genres.
Contextualise literary forms and genres of the early eighteenth century.
Demonstrate knowledge and skills acquired to the appropriate disciplinary and professional standard.
Assimilate and present subject-specific material in an appropriate format (assessed within the ‘Assessment Portfolio’ 1, 2 or 3).