Module Specifications..
Current Academic Year 2023 - 2024
Please note that this information is subject to change.
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Description This course aims to introduce students to literary works of the nineteenth-century by exploring predominately British and American works of fiction, poetry and drama of the period. This module will contextualize selective writers and works in terms of the historical and social context from which they emerged, and explore what they reveal about the anxieties and aspirations of the nineteenth century – from Romanticism to Victorianism. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Communicate a familiarity with the contexts and conventions of English Romantic poetry. 2. Analyse elements of Romantic (and pre- and post- Romantic) style. 3. Communicate the Romantic conception of poetry as found in the writings of the prescribed poets, and the ways in which the Romantic conception of poetry differed from that held in previous eras. 4. Explore the Romantic notion of the imagination as defined in the works of the prescribed poets. 5. Discuss the idea of a 'crisis lyric'. 6. Analyse the ways in which critical writing and imaginative writing intersect in the romantic period, and assess the continuing impact of Romanticism on the discipline of English Studies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Romantic PoetryStudents will read selections from the work of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, John Keats, George Gordon Lord Byron, and P.B. Shelley.• The Revolutionary Debate and The Rights of Man: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine •The Democratisation of Literature and the Romantic AestheticThe Rights of Women• Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Hannah MoreThe Gothic and its CriticsThe Romantic ChildWilliam BlakeRomantic ChildhoodWorsdworthPoesy and FantasyKeatsAnarchy in the U.KShelleyRomantic CelebrityByronMad ScienceFrankenstein | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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