Objectives: |
The course will provide an introduction to some of the major trends in English Romantic literature. Romanticism will be situated in relation to the socio-political context of the period (1770-1830) and especially in relation to key events like the French Revolution (1789). The six major poets studied will be William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (first generation), George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats (second generation), but we will also consider the role of women authors like Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft in relation to issues such as politics, sensibility, marriage, and women's role. |