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AP/EN 4562

Romantic Literature and Visual Culture

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Undated; uploaded June 2026

Topics

  • British Romantic literature and visual arts
  • Illustration, spectacle and optical technologies
  • Ekphrasis and intermedial adaptation
  • Gender, race and sexuality across artistic media

Readings

  • Tentative: Stanley Appelbaum, editor, English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (Dover).
  • Tentative: Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Dover).
  • Tentative: Lord Byron, Manfred (Broadview).
  • Tentative alternatives: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Broadview), or Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Oxford).
  • Assigned film: Belle, directed by Amma Asante (2013).
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