ENH2310

Romantic literature

(ART)

K Hart

8 points + 2.5 hours per week + First semester + Clayton

Synopsis: This subject works in two directions: firstly, it aims at a thorough iknowledge of a range of literary works written between 1790 and 1830, including the literary and cultural criticism written by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelly and Keats. Inworks of imaginative literature it studies the ideas of imagination and of literature exploring the romantics notions of organic form and originality of nature and of natural genius, of innocence, moral evolution and the construction of the self, of religious consciousness and the recovery of paradise, and of the role of imagination in social revolution.

Assessment: Seminar participation: 10% + Report (1500 words): 20% + Essay (1500 words): 20% + Essay (3000 words): 50% + Optional examination: 50%