ENG 327-01 - The Romantics (Fall)

4 credits (Fall)

Literature of Excess: Gothicism and Romanticism. This course will examine ways intersections between two literary movements that are usually treated separately: the rise of the gothic novel and the development of British Romanticism. Primary readings will include orks of gothic fiction by authors such as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and James Hogg, as well as works by major Romantic writers such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, John Keats, and Lord Byron. Assignments will include responses, a midterm paper, an annotated bibliography, and a research paper.

Prerequisite: ENG 224.
Instructor: Simpson

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