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This module offers you the opportunity to study the history of witchcraft in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (the period during which the great majority of prosecutions and executions for that supposed crime took place). On the module you will explore a wide range of topics, including: the nature of popular witch belief in late medieval and early Tudor England; contemporary attitudes towards women and witchcraft; the passage of the first acts of Parliament against witchcraft in 1542 and 1563; the prosecution of witches under Elizabeth I; the appearance of the first ‘witch pamphlets’ in London; the notion of the witch’s ‘familiar’ (or attendant demonic spirit); representations of the witch on the Tudor and Stuart stage; the prosecution of witches under James I and Charles I; the great witch hunt of 1645-47; the decline in witch trials during the later seventeenth century; the passage of the Act of Parliament of 1736 (which directed that prosecutions for witchcraft should cease); and the remarkable persistence of popular witch-belief in the English countryside throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.

This module offers you the opportunity to study the history of witchcraft in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (the period during which the great majority of prosecutions and executions for that supposed crime took place). On the module you will explore a wide range of topics, including: the nature of popular witch belief in late medieval and early Tudor England; contemporary attitudes towards women and witchcraft; the passage of the first acts of Parliament against witchcraft in 1542 and 1563; the prosecution of witches under Elizabeth I; the appearance of the first ‘witch pamphlets’ in London; the notion of the witch’s ‘familiar’ (or attendant demonic spirit); representations of the witch on the Tudor and Stuart stage; the prosecution of witches under James I and Charles I; the great witch hunt of 1645-47; the decline in witch trials during the later seventeenth century; the passage of the Act of Parliament of 1736 (which directed that prosecutions for witchcraft should cease); and the remarkable persistence of popular witch-belief in the English countryside throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.

This module offers you the opportunity to study the history of witchcraft in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (the period during which the great majority of prosecutions and executions for that supposed crime took place). On the module you will explore a wide range of topics, including: the nature of popular witch belief in late medieval and early Tudor England; contemporary attitudes towards women and witchcraft; the passage of the first acts of Parliament against witchcraft in 1542 and 1563; the prosecution of witches under Elizabeth I; the appearance of the first ‘witch pamphlets’ in London; the notion of the witch’s ‘familiar’ (or attendant demonic spirit); representations of the witch on the Tudor and Stuart stage; the prosecution of witches under James I and Charles I; the great witch hunt of 1645-47; the decline in witch trials during the later seventeenth century; the passage of the Act of Parliament of 1736 (which directed that prosecutions for witchcraft should cease); and the remarkable persistence of popular witch-belief in the English countryside throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.

Wittgenstein is the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. He offers a sustained critique of many of the most common assumptions underlying much contemporary philosophy of mind and language. He explores, among other things, the questions of how meaning and rule-following are possible, whether I can know even those things that are normally taken for granted – such as that I have hands – and whether there can be such a thing as a 'private language'. This module aims to introduce you to some of the central ideas in Wittgenstein's philosophical writings.

Wittgenstein is the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. He offers a sustained critique of many of the most common assumptions underlying much contemporary philosophy of mind and language. He explores, among other things, the questions of how meaning and rule-following are possible, whether I can know even those things that are normally taken for granted – such as that I have hands – and whether there can be such a thing as a 'private language'. This module aims to introduce you to some of the central ideas in Wittgenstein's philosophical writings.

Using ‘Women and Hollywood' as its starting point, this module offers three areas of investigation: Hollywood's representation of women; women who make films in Hollywood and outside it; and the female spectators who make up the audiences and fans of Hollywood's women's films.

Using ‘Women and Hollywood' as its starting point, this module offers three areas of investigation: Hollywood's representation of women; women who make films in Hollywood and outside it; and the female spectators who make up the audiences and fans of Hollywood's women's films.

Using ‘Women and Hollywood' as its starting point, this module offers three areas of investigation: Hollywood's representation of women; women who make films in Hollywood and outside it; and the female spectators who make up the audiences and fans of Hollywood's women's films.

The period 1770-1900 was a pivotal time in the history of women’s writing in Britain. Writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë established their place in the literary canon, while their contemporaries struggled against conventions that suggested domestic duties and a literary career could not be reconciled. Women assumed a prominent role in debates that would shape the modern world, and lead to modern feminism. Exploring the formal innovations women made in different genres of writing--and the critical judgements they faced--offers a way into the relation between women’s writing and our enduring understandings of literary significance. Why have some of these writers become (as Brontë aspired to be) 'forever known' while others remain beyond the embrace of the literary establishment known as 'the canon'? Why did some writers openly admit (like Jane Austen) to writing 'for fame', while others hid behind a cloak of anonymity?

On this module you will study fiction, essays, poetry, reviews, travel writing and autobiographical writing by a range of women writers within and on the borders of the canon. Lectures, seminars, and secondary readings will introduce you to theories of canon formation and its evolution over time and will consider how women’s writing reshaped definitions of gender, sexuality, social hierarchy and race, marriage, family, education and nation.

The period 1770-1900 was a pivotal time in the history of women’s writing in Britain. Writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë established their place in the literary canon, while their contemporaries struggled against conventions that suggested domestic duties and a literary career could not be reconciled. Women assumed a prominent role in debates that would shape the modern world, and lead to modern feminism. Exploring the formal innovations women made in different genres of writing--and the critical judgements they faced--offers a way into the relation between women’s writing and our enduring understandings of literary significance. Why have some of these writers become (as Brontë aspired to be) 'forever known' while others remain beyond the embrace of the literary establishment known as 'the canon'? Why did some writers openly admit (like Jane Austen) to writing 'for fame', while others hid behind a cloak of anonymity?

On this module you will study fiction, essays, poetry, reviews, travel writing and autobiographical writing by a range of women writers within and on the borders of the canon. Lectures, seminars, and secondary readings will introduce you to theories of canon formation and its evolution over time and will consider how women’s writing reshaped definitions of gender, sexuality, social hierarchy and race, marriage, family, education and nation.