Late Romantics

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course considers the so-called “second-generation” of Romantic writers--a group that conventionally refers to such figures as Byron, Keats, and Shelley--and places later Romanticism within a broader global context. We focus especially on questions of colonialism and imperialism, slavery and abolition, as we think through the ways that Romantic literature reflects and shapes nineteenth-century political life.