In Gender Trouble, Judith Butler posed the following questions: 'Does sex have a history' Does each sex have a different history, or histories? Is there a history of how the […]
Students taking this course will explore the ways in which Restoration literature depicts sex, desire and love. They will analyse relationships between literary texts and the political, theological and philosophical […]
This course aims to explore the presentations of seduction and sedition in the literature of the Restoration period in order to consider the ways in which ideas of sexuality were […]
This course picks up the strands of the semester 1 course on 'Enlightenment and Romanticism' - the romantic subject, the nation, gender and class hierarchies - and takes them forward […]
This course focuses on narrative science fiction, allowing students to explore the ways in which texts construct stories, present and explore ideas, and engage with today's world. An influential critical […]
This course provides a survey of key Arab feminist texts produced by writers, thinkers, and activists during the 20th and 21st centuries. As this is a language-based course, these texts […]
This course will introduce students to some of the key texts and critical debates within postcolonial studies, ranging from the colonial fiction of E.M. Forster and Rudyard Kipling to contemporary […]
Modern ideas of 'Victorian values' depend upon clichés and distortions of Victorian ideas of love: reverence for the nuclear family combined with prudishness and prurience; marriage plots, covered table-legs and […]
This course will introduce students to the various ways in which cities around the world have been imagined, experienced and represented, enabling students to explore the inter-relationship between modernity and […]
This course focuses on the body in the Middle Ages as a site where different discourses were played out, a symbolic space that could be figured as either whole and […]
This course examines print media and visual culture in modern China (1880-1949), as well as the ways in which they interacted with political, social and cultural transformations. Late Qing and […]
This is the semester 2 core course for MSc Literature and Modernity and is only available for students on that programme. This course examines topics in contemporary literary and critical […]
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