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Course description

The artistic and philosophical movement known as Romanticism arose in the context of the revolutions in France, America and other parts of the worlds, and was situated in ambivalent relation to the main intellectual currents of the Enlightenment. Many of the writers of this period saw themselves as part of a utopian transformation of humanity, while others agonised over the potential for radical destabilisation that new concepts of the rights of individuals had ushered in. This course examines a selection of British Romantic writers in the context of these momentous developments; texts studies may include poetry and prose by William Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, William Blake and John Keats. NOTE: Course offering may be cancelled unless a minimum of 20 students enrol.