ENGL 220 - Romantic Literature

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR

An interdisciplinary study of ‘romanticism’ in England and Scotland between 1789 and 1832, treating works by poets, essay writers, novelists, painters and urban architects. Among works to be considered will be poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, and Byron, essays by Burke, De Quincey, Coleridge, and Hazlitt, and fiction by Mary Shelley. Painters to be considered will include Girtin, Constable, and Turner. We will investigate the Prince Regent’s attempts, working with John Nash and others, to transform London into an imperial city. Nature of Text. British, 1700-1900. Enrollment Limit: 30.
Instructor: J. Olmsted
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English.”