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Study Details: 1 year (full-time)
The MA in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture explores the dynamic relationship between literary texts (both canonical and non-canonical) and the fascinating period from which they emerged.
The Department of English is an ideal place for the study of nineteenth-century literature. Housed in a Grade II-listed Vicarage designed by John Douglas, in a university founded in 1839 and officially opened by Gladstone in 1842, the Department has long-standing teaching and research strengths in nineteenth-century literature. Members of the Department have particular expertise in the Romantics, the Sensation novel, Robert Browning, Anthony Trollope, Henry James, and nineteenth-century Irish and South African literature, and have published books, chapters and articles on a wide range of authors and topics, including Austen, Shelley, Coleridge, the Brontës, Dickens, Collins, Eliot, Gaskell, Mangan, Carleton, the
The MA comprises five modules:
Applicants require a minimum of a good second class honours degree, or the equivalent, in an appropriate discipline. Admission is subject to written application, references, and evidence of written work. Applicants may be invited for interview.
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Students of the MA will already be successful degree-level graduates of English or related disciplines and may well be taking time out of employment to develop their careers. It is expected that a number of students will go on to register for MPhils and PhDs with an eye to a career in HE.
Nineteenth-Century Literature: The Canon and Beyond – this module focuses on works by both the famous and the more obscure, examining the ways in which authors, whether celebrated or marginalised, interacted with and shaped their culture – and our own. The module offers the opportunity to re-examine writers who may be familiar (such as Scott, Austen, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, the Brontës, Dickens, Tennyson, Eliot, Hardy, James, Wilde), as well as to discover those who are perhaps not so well-known (such as James Clarence Mangan, Sydney Morgan, Frederick Douglass, Edward FitzGerald, Charlotte Smith, Isabella Beeton, Harriet Martineau, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon, John Clare, Marie Corelli, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, H Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner, Michael Field, Jane Francesca Wilde).
Nineteenth-Century Culture – runs alongside Nineteenth-Century Literature: The Canon and Beyond, complementing it by examining key events and cultural preoccupations in social history, empire, war, theology, philosophy, science, technology, art, and politics, immersing students in the atmosphere and debates of the period. Chester is ideally situated for visits to a wide range of locations, museums and galleries rich in nineteenth-century associations and artefacts, such as Dove Cottage and Brantwood in the Lake District, the Brontë Parsonage Museum at Haworth, the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight, the Walker Gallery and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, the Grosvenor Museum in Chester, the Imperial War Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.
Special Option – this module offers students the opportunity to study in more detail an aspect of nineteenth-century literature and culture. Options may focus on, for example, the Gothic, the Sensation novel, Irish literature, American literature, consumerism, the city, travel literature, women’s writing, visual representation, film adaptations of nineteenth-century texts, European realism, race and colonialism, and life-writing.
Research Methods – designed to prepare students for the Dissertation, and will include seminars and lectures on research methodology, the use of nineteenth-century source materials, periodicals, and archives. There will also be workshops in which students will present and discuss the initial research findings they will subsequently develop in the Dissertation.
Dissertation – allows students to pursue their own particular interest in the literature and culture of the period. Students will devise their dissertation proposal during the Research Methods module, and will then work under the guidance of a supervisor, who will provide advice and support in one-to-one tutorials.
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