Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of Surrey
Course Title:
Romantic Literature: 1789-1830
Course Number:
ELI2031
Course Description:
This module will investigate the profound literary innovations that took place in the Romantic period (1789-1830), examining a range of canonical and non-canonical Romantic texts. Each week, the module explores a given form or theme through a selection of representative poets or authors. The literary revolution that we have come to associate with Romanticism will be situated within political revolutionary fervour and backlash in England and France, as well as abolitionist activism, ideologies of love and marriage, and ideas of British nationhood. Romantic ideals such as the power of the imagination and the relationship between self and Nature will be understood in terms of, for example, eighteenth-century treatments of landscape and subjectivity (e.g. the ‘picturesque’ and the ‘sublime’), eighteenth-century sentimentalism, and the rise of the Gothic. Similarly, the ‘big six’ Romantics will be read alongside a range of not-so-canonical poets and authors, in order to appreciate the diversity of literary
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
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