ENGL-345

This class focuses on the Romantic age in British literature (roughly 1780 to 1830), a period characterized by political revolutions and changing ideas about the nature of self and the rights of individual men and women. Bounded on one end by the French Revolution, and the other by the Great Reform Act, this period is electric with ideas and aesthetics in works by William Blake, Jane Austen, Mary and P.B. Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats. The focus, theme, and texts for this course may vary.