Latest Module Specifications
Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026
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Description The module opens in the mid-seventeenth century with a unit called ‘An Incendiary Age.’ The warfare that ravages the three kingdoms of England, Ireland and Scotland finds expression as various as celebrations of Cromwell, attacks on censorship, and John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost. The period in which John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress, an allegory of Christian life, also witnessed the sexual revelry and scepticism of Restoration poetry and drama. The eighteenth century was a golden age of prose, including Swift’s satirical suggestion that the Irish could sustain themselves by eating the babies of impoverished families, the refined feeling of ‘the rise of the novel,’ and the birth of Gothic fiction. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. 1DCDFAD2-DD74-0001-50D9-1E801B3017F2 2. Discuss the importance of the effect of political events on literary texts of the Restoration and eighteenth century 5. 1 6. 1DCDFAD2-E487-0001-4747-1E401DCB1165 7. Analyse non-fictional prose literary works 10. 2 11. 1DCDFAD2-E9D7-0001-4595-7C5116031D02 12. Explain the role of satire in the Restoration and eighteenth century 15. 3 16. 1DCDFAD2-EF7C-0001-786D-46208A003A00 17. Interpret early English novels 20. 4 21. 1DCDFAD2-F548-0001-30E8-7C9010005300 22. Explain the importance of representations of rural life in Restoration and eighteenth-century England 25. 5 26. 1DF15521-AC28-0001-9EC9-1DB0DDE0193D 27. Collaborate with other students to successfully complete academic and practical tasks. 30. 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Unit 1: Introduction: An Incendiary Age Unit 2: Loss and Renewal: Pastoral Poems by John Milton Unit 3: Civil War to Interregnum: Engagement in the Public Sphere and the 'Country House' Poem Unit 4: Seventeenth-Century Political Prose: John Milton's Areopagitica Unit 5: Loss and Renewal in John Milton's Paradise Lost Unit 6: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress: An Allegory of the Christian Life Unit 7: Restoration to Revolution (1): Debauch and Disability Unit 8: Restoration to Revolution (2) Restored Wit: The Poetry of John Dryden Unit 9: Restoration beyond Revolution: William Congreve's The Way of the World Unit 10: Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock Unit 11: Creativity and Gender: Pope, Finch, Barber Unit 12: Travel Writing and the Letter in the Eighteenth Century: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Unit 13: Daniel Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) Unit 14: Jonathan Swift and Ireland Unit 15: 'Rise of the Novel' (1): Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) Unit 16: Rise of the Novel (2): Henry Fielding and the 'Pamela Controversy' Unit 17: 'The Rise of the Novel'? Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy Unit 18: Sentimental Fiction: Henry Mackenzie's Man of Feeling Unit 19: Journey Narratives: Tobias Smollet's Expedition of Humphry Clinker Unit 20: The Country and the City: Goldsmith and Crabbe Unit 21: Gothic Fiction: Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and Beyond Unit 22: Review | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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