Romanticism: nature and the city
BT BW BB BS DT GA PA BC BP BDT BJ BY
Bryan Coleborne
Subject value of 1.0 (6 points) * Second semester * 3 hours per week (2-hour lecture, 1-hour seminar) * Gippsland/Distance * Prerequisites: GSC1401 and GSC1402 or equivalent
The works prescribed for study comprise a selection of the major verse of the period, from Wordsworth to Arnold, and three works of prose, including two novels which have been chosen in order to illustrate the contrasts in contemporary experience. The selection of texts will serve to illustrate central themes of the nineteenth century, and particularly to encourage analysis of the awareness of the natural world and the experience of urbanisation. The literature will be placed in its broad social and cultural context and attention will be directed to the emergence of new forms of creative expression.
Assessment
Minor essay A (1250 words): 25% * Minor essay B (1250 words): 25% * Major essay (2500 words): 50%
Prescribed texts
De Quincey T Confessions of an English opium eater ed. A Hayter, Penguin, 1988
Dickens C Hard times ed. D Craig, Penguin, 1970
Eliot G The mill on the Floss ed. A Byatt, Penguin, 1981
Bloom H and Trilling L (eds.) Romantic poetry and prose, OUP, 1973
Trilling L and Bloom H (eds.) Victorian prose and poetry, OUP, 1973