Romantic Women Writers

3 credits · Graduate

Contributes to ongoing feminist reassessments of “English Romanticism” by surveying key genres and forms to which women made notable contributions (the sonnet, the Jacobin & gothic novel, the heroic epistle) and examining the nature of the influence that writers like Wollstonecraft, Smith, Barbauld, Hemans and Baillie had on their contemporaries and are having on current scholarship. FORMATS: Seminar