British Romanticism, 1789-1837

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During the age of revolutions, the literary movement we know as Romanticism played a crucial role in representing and shaping the major cultural shifts of the times. With special attention to poetry, the course may consider works by Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Hemans, Keats, Shelley, Smith, and Wordsworth alongside fiction and prose by Austen, Burke, Edgeworth, Hazlitt, Paine, and Scott, with an eye to defining and interrogating the meanings of Romanticism. CAS-B-LIT.