Literature 2156 - Romantic Literature in English

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Bard College

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Human Rights This course offers a critical introduction to the literature produced in Britain at the time of the Industrial Revolution, French Revolution, and Napoleonic wars. Throughout the course, students question the assumptions built into the problematic term traditionally used to categorize this literature, "Romantic." Students also explorethe extent to which key conflicts in British culture during the period (the founding of the United States, independence movements in the Americas, the development of free trade ideology, and the debates over slavery and colonialism) are still at issue today. Strong emphasis is placed on the historical and social contexts of the works and specific ways in which historical forces and social changes shape the formal features of literary texts. Readings include the works of Blake, Wordsworth, Helen Maria Williams, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, Robert Southey, Coleridge, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats, and Clare.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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