ENG-305 British Romantic Literature

GER: WR (Writing-Research Intensive) and TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts)
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar
The major writers and some less well-known figures from the period 1790-1830: the poets Blake Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P. B. Shelley, and Keats; the novelists Austen and Scott; the essayists Hazlitt, Lamb, and De Quincey; and others like Mary Shelley, Godwin, and Clare. Introduction to both literary and critical writing of the period as well as to the current critical and theoretical issues, mainly rhetorical and historical, that engagement with these writers entails. 4 credits.