The 1790s: The Revolutionary Decade

3 credits · Graduate

This class focuses on the discourse of the 1790s, a turbulent transitional period in which vigorous debates about the rights of man and the wrongs of woman, the politics of class and race, reshaped literature even as they rocked the foundations of English society. Reading a range of canonical and non-canonical Romantic writers in their contemporary contexts, students will gain new insight into the origins of romanticism, as well as gaining a new perspective on current debates about the politics of literature. FORMATS: Seminar