Romanticism in Literature (ENGL2025)
Information valid for Semester 2, 2013
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
School
English, Media, ArtHist
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Delivery mode
Internal
Class contact
1L, 1.5T
Prerequisite
#4 Arts courses
Recommended prerequisite
The gateway course ENGL1800 (Literary Classics: Texts and Traditions) is highly recommended, along with either ENGL1500 (Contemporary Literature: Reading and Writing) or ENGL1100 (Introduction to Australian Literature).
Restricted
Course offering may be cancelled unless a minimum of 20 students enrol.
Course coordinator
Dr. E. Parisot.
Assessment methods
Tutorial attendance, close reading exercise, two research essays
Study Abroad
This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.
Current course offerings
| Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
| Semester 2, 2013 | St Lucia | Internal | Profile unavailable |
Please Note: Course profiles marked as not available may still be in development.
Course description
The artistic and philosophical movement known as Romanticism arose in the context of the revolutions in France, America and other parts of the worlds, and was situated in ambivalent relation to the main intellectual currents of the Enlightenment. Many of the writers of this period saw themselves as part of a utopian transformation of humanity, while others agonised over the potential for radical destabilisation that new concepts of the rights of individuals had ushered in. This course examines a selection of British Romantic writers in the context of these momentous developments; texts studies may include poetry and prose by William Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, William Blake and John Keats. NOTE: Course offering may be cancelled unless a minimum of 20 students enrol.
Archived offerings
| Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
| Semester 1, 2011 | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
| Semester 1, 2010 | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
| Semester 1, 2009 | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
