Course details

Name: ENGL - 250

Title: TOPICS: BRITISH ROMANTICISM AND ABOLITIONIST POLITICS

Section: 02

Semester: Fall - 2011

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will focus on the writing that shaped, and reflected, England’s transition from a slave-owning and trading culture to one that embraced the abolition of slavery as a moral imperative of national importance. We will work with first-person narratives about slavery, consider the representations of people of color in canonical and underread literature, and study the political writing that addressed the issue of abolition, paying particular attention to writing by British white women who saw their own plight in the horrors of slavery. We will also explore the contours of abolitionist writing from the “sentimental” to the hyper “rational.” Reading will include poetry by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, novels by Amelia Opie and Mary Shelley, slave narratives by Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince, and political treatises by Mary Wollstonecraft and Quobna Ottobah Cugoano. Students will write two essays and complete a research project for the class.

Last updated on 2011-04-02 By Matthew Patricia (matthewp)

Schedule: Tuesday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Genre Study (Poetry)
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• Ethnic Studies (3b)

Teaching Faculty: Matthew Patricia (matthewp)

Is course canceled: No