Romanticism

This course will study the literature of the age of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution (1790-1830), a period which produced powerful imaginative works probing the recesses of the psyche and envisioning radical social transformation. The course will explore the era's celebration of emotional expression in lyric poetry, the mysteries of the gothic novel, and the challenges of politically-engaged fiction. Authors to be studied include the poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron, and novelists such as William Godwin, Mary Shelley, and Ann Radcliffe. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.