English 339 - The British Romantics Fall

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Albion College

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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or permission of instructor. Studies in the Romantic Period (from 1789 to roughly 1830) in Britain. Involves considerable study of the works of the major six poets of the period (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats) as well as many other writers increasingly gaining scholarly attention (including Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas de Quincey, Mary Shelley, John Clare and Felicia Hemans). Examines the Romantic questioning of traditional notions about God, sex, the imagination, the family, the rights of women and of the working classes, the natural world, science, slavery and aesthetics. Offered in alternate years. Jordan.

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1.00

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www.albion.edu

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(517) 629-1000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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