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Romantic Literature
Email course leader:
julian.lovelock@buckingham.ac.uk
One term: 15 units
This course provides a stimulating introduction to the literature written in the UK between 1770 and 1832, the heyday of the European Romantic movement. It is part 2 of a 2-term course (Restoration & Augustan Literature precedes) which functions as an introduction to the literature written during the Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1832). On the Romantic Literature course we aim to provide you with broad knowledge of authors and texts from a distinct period of cultural and aesthetic development. You’ll be introduced to a range of poetry, critical prose and imaginative fiction produced in this period, as well as critical writings. The course will show you how to relate those texts to an appropriate range of historical, artistic and literary values, and we’ll encourage you to develop the ability to think, speak and write critically about these texts.
Assessment
The course is assessed by a term-paper of 2,500 words (50%), and an examination (50%).
Set texts
- Wu, D., Romanticism: An anthology (3rd revised ed., Oxford: Blackwell, 2005). ISBN: 978-1-4051-2085-2.
- William Blake, Selected Poetry (including Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and a selection of other titles).
- William Wordsworth, Selected Poetry (including his contributions to, and two Prefaces to, Lyrical Ballads).
- Samuel T. Coleridge, Selected Poetry (including the supernatural poems and his contributions to Lyrical Ballads).
- John Keats, Poetical Works (ed. H.W. Garrod, Oxford: OUP, 1956) or Selected Poems (ed. Elizabeth Cook, Oxford: OUP, 1998).
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Major Works (ed. Z. Leader & M. O'Neill, Oxford: OUP, 2003).
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (ed. Johann M. Smith, Boston: Bedford Books, 1992).
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.