ENG6532 - Literary Period: Classicism and Romanticism

Objectives:

On successful completion of this module students will be able to:

(1) demonstrate detailed knowledge of a range of specified literary texts from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries;
(2) analyse and discuss selected texts in terms of their relation to particular social/cultural debates of the period;
(3) analyse and discuss texts from the period in terms of the relation of content to form and literary genre;
(4) analyse and discuss texts from the period in terms of the opposition Classicism/ Romanticism;
(5) write critically and sensitvely on topics of their choice, drawing on a wide range of reading and showing awareness of critical debate.

Content:

Students will study a range of literary texts from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including: Alexander Pope, ‘Essay on Criticism’; selected poetry and prose of Samuel Johnson; Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews; Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility; Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads; selections from Keats and Shelley; Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Students will analyse these texts in relation to their relevant personal, intellectual, cultural and political contexts; and in terms of the opposition Classicism / Romanticism. They will be encouraged to apply this opposition in their own further reading and critically assess its relevance as an analytical framework.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures
Contact hours 24
Number of groups 1

Seminars
Contact hours 24
Number of groups 2

Assessment: