Rethinking 19th Century American Literature, 7.5 credits

Academic year 2022/2023

  • Autumn 2022, 50%, Campus

    Start date: 29 August 2022

    End date: 30 October 2022

    Application deadline: 19 April 2022

    Application code: UU-55030 Application

    Language of instruction: English

    Location: Uppsala

    Selection: All qualified applicants will be admitted.

    Registration: 1 August 2022 – 28 August 2022

Entry requirements: 120 credits. English A1, B1 and C1, or 90 credits in a language subject or in literary studies.

Fees:

If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application or tuition fees. Formal exchange students will be exempted from tuition fees, as well as the application fee. Read more about fees.

Application fee: SEK 900

Tuition fee, first semester: SEK 12,500

Tuition fee, total: SEK 12,500

About the course

This course offers forceful strategies for engaging with nineteenth-century American literature. Drawing on cutting-edge approaches and paradigms, it addresses the socio-political transformations of the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of representative literary texts. The course explore how this body of literature reflects on contending definitions of race, gender, empire, the emotions, and nationality.

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Contact

Department of English

Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 L

Box 527, 751 20 Uppsala

Telephone: 018-471 1247 018-471 1245

Email: Info@engelska.uu.se

Study Counsellor

Email: studievagledare@engelska.uu.se

Telephone: +46 18 471 12 47