ENGL 44301 - Romanticism

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

ENG 20490 Romanticism at UCD; This course will introduce students to the Romantic period of literature, which falls approximately between the French Revolution (1789) and the ascent of Victoria to the British throne (1837). The Romantic period was one of peculiar eventfulness. Great changes and possibilities opened with the fall of the Bourbons in France, only to give way to suspicion and paranoia with the advent of the French Terror and the Napoleonic wars. As the increasingly conservative Edmund Burke wrote in his Reflections on the Revolution, 'everything seems out of nature in this strange chaos of levity and ferocity, and of all sorts of crimes jumbled together with all sorts of follies.' This was a period full of tumult and excitement, something that makes itself felt in much of the texts that we will read. Romantic writers are still among the best-known today, and include writers such as William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Walter Scott. In addition to the more famous poets and novelists, we will explore the writings of relatively new additions to the Romantic canon, including both male and female writers. We will also consider a variety of genres from the Gothic novel to the nature poem. Common concepts, ideas and themes cross textual boundaries in this period, and we will be examining how both radical and conservative writers dealt with the great changes that this period saw.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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