Course details

Name: ENGL - 346

Title: ENGLISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2024

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will introduce you to the major poets and essayists of the English Romantic tradition—Blake, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Clare, Hazlitt, de Quincey, and others. Most of the texts we will study were produced between 1790 and 1830, an era historian Eric Hobsbawm refers to as “The Age of Revolution.” The literature of this Age was influenced by a period of unprecedented change: amidst political revolution and decades of counterrevolutionary wars; vast economic expansion and imperialism; social turmoil, including movements against the slave trade, the secondary status of women, and the abuse of the working classes; and, lastly, amidst the questioning of cultural tradition and the cultural marketplace itself. We will consider these texts within this context, while also performing close reading.

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

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Poetry)
• Pre-1900 (1c)

Teaching Faculty: Robbins Michael (robbinsm)

Is course canceled: No