Romantic literature
P Naish
8 points * 2.5 hours per week * First semester * Caulfield
This subject offers a critical and historical study of literature, English and Scottish, written between 1790 and 1830, approximately. It will consider lyric, epic and dramatic poetry (though not plays written for theatrical performance) from Blake to Byron, together with two works of fiction, and one of autobiography, and a selection of the literary criticism written by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley.
Assessment
Participation: 10% * Seminar paper (1500 words): 20% * Short essay (1500 words): 20% * Long essay (3000 words): 50% * Examination: 50% * Students whose written work and participation in tutorials are satisfactory will be excused the examination
Prescribed texts
Abrams M H The Norton anthology of English literature 6th edn, vol. 2, Norton
De Quincey T The confessions of an English opium-eater OUP
Hogg J The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner OUP
Shelley M Frankenstein OUP