The Romantic Imagination

Undergraduate

This course explores the ways that British Romantic Period authors turned to the imagination as a tool for revolutionary and counterrevolutionary innovations and perceptions. The influence and impact of this antidote to enlightenment reason will be surveyed through the works of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Matthew Lewis, Lord Byron and others. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1483-1493 or ENGL 1413 plus ENGL 1423 with a minimum grade of C-. Antirequisite(s): Credit can be obtained for only one of ENGL 2386 or ENGL 2353-2363 (combined).