Women Poets of the English Civil War
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL4423 | English | 4 | N/A | April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK |
- Code
- ENGL4423
- School
- English
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- N/A
- Semesters
- April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK
Summary
In seventeenth-century England, only ten percent of women were literate, and less than one percent of texts published were written by women. As a result, scholars have tended to view women’s writing of this period as its own category, distinct from dominant cultural trends. This pod will challenge that approach, exploring how five poets — Lucy Hutchinson, Katherine Philips, Margaret Cavendish, Hester Pulter, and Anne Bradstreet — interacted with fellow writers and with contemporary politics, religion, and science. In the process, it will argue that their work deserves and rewards attention as much as that of their male peers.
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, and English Literature. As such, it contributes in its specific aims to the programme-level coverage of these pathways.Learning Outcomes
- Critically discuss trends in the poetry of the English civil war period.
- Demonstrate understanding of the key political, religious, philosophical, and scientific debates that shaped the period’s literature.
- Show a critical analytical understanding of the period’s texts, by both male and female authors.
- 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).
Conveners
- Dr Stephen Watkins