Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this module, students will have developed:
- A critical reassessment of women’s artistic labour and production in literary texts
- A familiarity with a range of literary genres and forms from the eighteenth century onwards
- An ability to apply a range of critical and theoretical perspectives including crafts history, thing theory, and new materialisms
- An understanding of the relationships between material history and literary form
- An ability to research and write critically about a focal text, genre, and period from those covered in the course
Indicative Module Content:
Themes and subjects potentially covered in this module include: letter writing; needlework; textile arts; painting; the printed page; the Black garden and quilt; and scientific collecting. Texts studied may include: Lady Susan; Cranford; To the Lighthouse; the Essex Serpent; An Encyclopedia of Gardening; Of One Woman, or So