Overview
Description
Problems in the prose and verse of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in England.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Terms
spring
Restrictions
Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 8 credits
Learning Outcomes
- analyze literary texts in their historical, critical, and theoretical contexts.
- engage with and apply critical and theoretical debates to the course’s primary texts.
- produce writing of a professional quality that makes a contribution to the critical conversation.
- identify the features of selected late-eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literary genres.
- articulate the critical premises about some part of Romantic literature and culture, and to assess the legitimacy of those premises when tested against a significant body of primary works.
- articulate the traditions informing Romantic culture and the influences of Romantic writers and works on later culture.