ENGL 240 - 19th Century British Romance

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Trinity College

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Description:

This course will examine the modes of romance and romanticism within 19th-century British literature. We will look at the popular forms of poetry, the novel, and the essay in order to examine gothic, fantastic, and psychologically interior elements that in Victorian literature sometimes work beyond a so-called "realistic"-exterior, that is, an explainable, socio-economically circumscribed kind of writing. We will look at characters that may not fit into our current notions about Victorian "respectability"; we will discuss the gothic and romantic structures that shape their sensibilities and subjectivities; and we will examine the relation between the visible and invisible, the canny and uncanny, and the tangible as well as the ghostly. Readings will include works by Jean Jacques Rousseau, William Wordsworth, G. G. Lord Byron, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Bront , Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Alfred Tennyson. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contex 1.00 units, Lecture

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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