British Romanticism

Fall 2009 ENGL 0600E S01

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Instructor: William Keach

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Course Description

Readings in British Romantic writing, canonical and noncanonical, emphasizing how historical and political change, philosophical disposition, and subjective consciousness become articulated in verse and prose. Literary representations of and responses to the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the struggle against black slavery. Blake, Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Equiano, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Byron, Keats, Clare.