ENGL 312 - English Literature of the Romantic Movement

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University of Richmond

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Focus on major British authors of the early 19th century with some attention to European currents and backgrounds. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: Along with the Renaissance, the Romantic era represents one of the two great intellectual watersheds of Western culture. The industrial revolution, political upheavals in Europe and America, the founding of democracies and the growth of capitalism, secular assaults on religion, liberal humanism and new conceptions of the individual, all made for a tempestuous era of paradigm shifts across the spectrum. In the realm of aesthetics, literary models underwent their most dramatic transformations since antiquity. We study some of the intellectual and cultural underpinnings behind Romanticism and examine some of the movement's early manifestations in France and Germany, before turning to the study of British Romanticism proper. Figures to be studied include Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Goethe, Blake, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Shelley.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.richmond.edu

Phone Number:

(804) 289-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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