Literature in the Age of Romanticism

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: 6 credits from ENGL at the 2000 level; or permission of the Department This course examines British writing from 1780 to 1810, a period of profound cultural transformation under the impact of the American, French, and Industrial Revolutions. Romanticism was one response to this context, and the course will explore representative examples from the poetry of Blake, Smith, Coleridge, and William Wordsworth. Other genres to be studied will include the Gothic novel, the Jacobin novel, diaries, and epistolary essays. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours) (Exclusion: ENGL 3451 Literature in the Age of Revolution)