ENGL 90308 - Romanticism and Culture Wars: Lakers, Scots, and Cockneys

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This seminar will grapple with the major dispute about how to read and value the literature of the romantic era by moving away from the old stereotype of the solitary genius to focus, instead, on circles of writers positioned in relation to and often against one another as they fought to establish the cultural functions of literature during the turbulent upheavals of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars: the "Lake School," the Scots group gathered around Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and the "Cockney School" assembled around The Examiner in London. Our approach to the ways these groups waged culture wars over the relationship between literature and politics will take guidance from historical and theoretical works about the politics of the romantic era by such figures as E.P. Thompson, Raymond Williams, Jerome McGann, Marilyn Butler, Nicholas Roe, and David Chandler.

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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