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English 130 - Winter, 2019
British Romantic Literature
Class Information
Instructor:
Simpson, David
CRN:
54903
Time:
MW 2:10-3:30
Location:
230 Wellman
Description
A survey of British Romantic literature, 1780-1830. We will spend much of our time reading the poetry of the period (Blake, Wordsworth, Clare, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley etc), but we will also be discussing novels by Jane Austen and Ann Radcliffe. Issues to be explored include (but are not limited to) images of childhood and ideas of innocence, responses to Milton, representations of the natural world, and responses to political change and global conflict.
A course reader will be available at the copy shop; the two novels will be at the bookstore.
This will be a computer-free classroom.
Grading
Midterm (15%) and final (25%) exam; midterm (15%) and final (30%) papers; quizzes during class time (15%)
Texts
Northanger Abbey
, Jane Austen
A Sicilian Romance
, Ann Radcliffe