ENGL 444 - British Romanticism

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Trinity College

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Vast and icy oceans, fields of daffodils, dark satanic mills-the Romantic period was fraught with contradictions, including country and city, nature and art, beauty and sublimity, revolution and reaction. Authors of the period used their writing to make sense of these and other seemingly irresolvable splits in their world. Coleridge's Kubla Kahn has constructed an ordered pleasure garden atop a sublime ice cave; William Blake suggested the marriage of heaven and hell. This class will examine some of the major poetry, novels and tracts that shaped the period. Sometimes portraits of hearth and home and sometimes tales of violence and horror, these texts demonstrate a psychological complexity and an understanding of literature and authorship that signals modernity. To better understand its historical conditions, we will supplement our readings with visual art and other cultural productions in an attempt to define and understand the period in a way of thinking and writing which we have come to call Romanticism. Authors will include the major Romantic poets (Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth) as well as Smith, Inchbald, Wollstonecraft, Lewis, Austen, and Burke. Critical readings will accompany the primary texts. (Note: English 444 and English 844 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. 1.00 units, Seminar

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1.00

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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