Romanticism
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Overview
Subject area
ENG
Catalog Number
4300
Course Title
Romanticism
Department(s)
Description
This course focuses on the literature of the age of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution (1790-1830), a period which produced powerful imaginative works probing the recesses of the psyche and envisioning radical social transformation. The course will explore the era’s celebration of emotionalexpression in lyric poetry, the mysteries of the gothic novel, and the challenges of politically engaged fiction. Authors to be studied include the poets Blake, Barbauld, Robinson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron, and novelists such as William Godwin, Mary Shelley, and Ann Radcliffe.
Typically Offered
Fall, Spring, Summer
Academic Career
Undergraduate
Liberal Arts
Yes
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
3
Requisites
022807