SNRSCH3242 - ENG 3241- English Romanticism

Course Description

Students who declare a major in English beginning in Fall 2017 will be required to take two elective courses in early literature. This course is designated as a pre-1900 literature course The British Romantic period was a time of revolution. Most obviously, the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions significantly shifted the lives and beliefs of people around the world. But there were also social, economic, and scientific revolutions: the beginning of a global marketplace, the explosion of print culture, the abolitionist movement, the women’s movement, the workers’ movement, and a climate crisis. In this course, we will consider how writers in the period understood the role of literature in the face of so much change. We will not be working from an anthology, and rather than standard midterms and finals, all course assignments