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Early Romantic Literature

01  TTH6  CAC  25651 GALPERIN   MU-212

We will concentrate chiefly on the works of three British poets: William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.  We will also read one Gothic novel by Matthew Lewis and one novel by Jane Austen.  Although traditionally regarded as a revolutionary literature, romantic writing as the course will attempt to make clear, is often a site of competing ideologies and may be best described as a literature in the “age of revolution.”  Thus we will attend throughout the course to the complexity of romanticism as a movement that defies easy categorization.

Attendance is required; students who miss more than three classes without an appropriate explanation will be penalized one whole grade.  Additional missed classes will result in a further penalty of a half grade per class missed.  Students who miss 7 or more classes will automatically fail the course.

Means of Evaluation: Written work and class participation.  One midterm essay, one research paper (15 pages).