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AH4190 Romanticism and Visuality 1780 - 1830

Academic year

2026 to 2027 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Module coordinator

Dr S O'Rourke

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Module Staff

Dr S O'Rourke

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Module description

This module examines European romanticism and its relation to a broader field of visual practices. We will explore stylistic transformations in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century art and consider how romantic artists responded to a rapidly modernising 'visual culture'. Each unit will examine the work of one artist and ask: what kind of optical technologies and visual media were in use in this period? How was the category of 'the visual' being treated in fields like science and philosophy? What consequences did this have for artistic production? We will study the work of, among others, Anne-Louis Girodet, Francisco Goya, Caspar David Friedrich and J.M.W. Turner. In this module, students will think critically about how vision itself might have a history and what this would mean for artistic representation.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS AH2002 AND PASS AH2001

Assessment pattern

100% continuous assessment: 60% research essay (3000 words), 10% participation, 30% take-home paper (2000 words)

Re-assessment

1 x Written Assignment to be agreed by the Board of Examiners

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1-hour lecture (x 11 weeks), 2-hour tutorial (x 11 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

30

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

270

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.