Romanticism (1776

ENGL21521 Romanticism (1776 - 1832) 20 Semester 1 Undergraduate Level 2 Alan Rawes Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Middle part of Bachelors ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 10.0 In this course, we'll read a range of literature by writers from the British Romantic period (c1776-1832) – an age of political, social, environmental and aesthetic revolution. In a period marked by rapid industrialisation at home, and overshadowed by the practices and legacies of slavery and empire internationally, writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, Lord Byron, Mary Prince, Jane Austen, Felicia Hemans and P. B. Shelley were negotiating what it meant to live and write in a rapidly changing world. Underpinned by issues arising from the American and French Revolutions, the Napoleonic Wars, nascent environmentalisms, social uprisings and political oppression, lectures and seminars will ask how and why Romanticism continues to echo into our own time. Key themes will include gender, the imagination, nationhood and national identity, internationalism, empire, class, nature, revolution (political, social and literary), sexuality and sexual transgression.  In this course, we'll read a range of literature by writers from the British Romantic period (c1776-1832) – an age of political, social, environmental and aesthetic revolution. In a period marked by rapid industrialisation at home, and overshadowed by the practices and legacies of slavery and empire internationally, writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, Lord Byron, Mary Prince, Jane Austen, Felicia Hemans and P. B. Shelley were negotiating what it meant to live and write in a rapidly changing world. Underpinned by issues arising from the American and French Revolutions, the Napoleonic Wars, nascent environmentalisms, social uprisings and political oppression, lectures and seminars will ask how and why Romanticism continues to echo into our own time. Key themes will include gender, the imagination, nationhood and national identity, internationalism, empire, class, nature, revolution (political, social and literary), sexuality and sexual transgression.  <ul> <li style="margin-left:8px">to introduce students to a number of key texts and authors from the Romantic Period;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">to introduce students to the historical events and trends that powerfully influenced those writers, and to the ways in which Romantic-period literature responds to these contemporary events;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">to introduce students to the central political, philosophical, ideological and aesthetic concerns of Romantic-period literature;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">to help students to appreciate, and understand, Romanticism’s creation of new, and development of old, literary forms in search of new ways of deploying literature as a response to, and engagement with, the period’s concerns and conflicts;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">to enable students to examine, analyse and critically engage with Romantic-period texts with confidence, accuracy and sophistication;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">to introduce students to important critical debates that have surrounded the literature of the Romantic-period in general, as well as individual Romantic-period texts and authors in particular, and to enable students to critically engage with these debates.</li></ul> By the end of this course students will be able to:<ul> <li style="margin-left:8px">demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a number of key texts and authors from the Romantic Period;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">show a knowledge and understanding of the historical events and trends that influenced these texts and writers, and of the ways in which Romantic-period writers responded to contemporary events;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">evidence an understanding of the ways in which Romanticism created, adapted and deployed a range of literary forms to suit the concerns and conflicts of its period and its culture;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the central political, philosophical, ideological and aesthetic concerns of Romantic-period literature.</li></ul> By the end of this course students will be able to: <ul> <li style="margin-left:8px">offer sophisticated readings of individual Romantic-period texts, and persuasive interpretations of the period’s literature more generally;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">appreciate, and understand, Romanticism’s creation of new, and development of old, literary forms;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">demonstrate a capacity to examine, analyse and intellectually engage with Romantic-period texts with confidence, accuracy and sophistication;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">evidence a knowledge of, and an ability to critically engage with, some of critical debates that have surrounded the literature of the Romantic-period in general, and individual Romantic-period texts and authors in particular.</li></ul> By the end of this course students will be able to: <ul> <li style="margin-left:8px">understand, interpret and contextualise a range of Romantic-period texts and writers;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">construct coherent and persuasive arguments, both orally and on paper, about individual Romantic-period texts and Romantic-period literature more generally;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">negotiate, understand and critically engage with a number of critical debates about Romantic-period literature;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">conduct effective contextual research into the history, writers and literature of the Romantic period.</li></ul>  By the end of this course students will be able to:<ul> <li style="margin-left:8px">work both independently and with others towards a greater understanding of unfamiliar written materials;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">read, analyse and discuss written texts with knowledge, insight and confidence;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">conduct effective independent research;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">analyse, process and present complex ideas in coherent and persuasive ways, both orally and on paper;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">offer original, sustained interpretations of historical and literary materials in an ordered, lucid and focused way;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">effectively adapt and utilise a body of knowledge in response to specific tasks and requirements;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">demonstrate good oral and written communication skills;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">demonstrate good time-management skills.</li></ul> Other By the end of this course students will be able to: synthesise and evaluate complex arguments present information in a lucid and engaging manner work effectively as a member of a group organise time effectively in pursuit of specific goals 1 Written exam 50% 2 Written assignment (inc essay) 50% <ul> <li> Written feedback on essays and exams</li> <li> Additional one-to-one feedback (during consultation hour or by making an appointment)</li> </ul> N Please contact the course unit director to confirm specific texts for next year.  <ul> <li style="margin-left:8px">poetry by William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">Lord Byron, Manfred;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">P. B. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound;</li> <li style="margin-left:8px">selected poems by Felicia Hemans.</li></ul>  Lectures 22 Seminars 11 0 167