Romanticism

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This course focuses on the literature of the age of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution (1790-1830), a period which produced powerful imaginative works probing the recesses of the psyche and envisioning radical social transformation. The course will explore the era’s celebration of emotionalexpression in lyric poetry, the mysteries of the gothic novel, and the challenges of politically engaged fiction. Authors to be studied include the poets Blake, Barbauld, Robinson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron, and novelists such as William Godwin, Mary Shelley, and Ann Radcliffe.