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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title Romanticism
Module Code EL308 (ITS) / LIT1037 (Banner)
Faculty Humanities & Social Sciences School English
Module Co-ordinatorMichael Hinds
Module TeachersJames Shanahan, Kit Fryatt, Sharon Murphy
NFQ level 8 Credit Rating 5
Pre-requisite Not Available
Co-requisite Not Available
Compatibles Not Available
Incompatibles Not Available
Coursework Only
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.

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.



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Assessment Feedback0.5Discussion of class test and essay result with lecturer
Lecture24Lectures/discussions on prescribed texts
Independent Study100.5No Description
Total Workload: 125

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

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Romantic Poetry
Students 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 Aesthetic

The Rights of Women
• Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Hannah More

The Gothic and its Critics

The Romantic Child
William Blake

Romantic Childhood
Worsdworth

Poesy and Fantasy
Keats

Anarchy in the U.K
Shelley

Romantic Celebrity
Byron

Mad Science
Frankenstein

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment100% Examination Weight0%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
PortfolioStudents will submit a portfolio consisting of responses to three different assessment questions. One relates to a comparative analysis of two Romantic poets, one asks for a conceptual reflection on Romanticism and asks that the student relate that to a cultural object, and the last asks for reflection through prose fiction upon Romantic heroism.100%n/a
Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories:
Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module.
Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module.
Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1
Indicative Reading List

  • M.H. Abrams,: 1958, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and Critical Tradition, Norton, New York,
  • Marilyn Butler: 1991, Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background, 1796-1830, Oxford,
  • Marilyn Butler (ed): 0, ed.), Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controvers, Cambridge,
  • Pamela Clemit (ed): 0, The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s, Cambridge,
  • Iain McCalman: 0, An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age British Culture, 1776-1832,
  • Duncan Wu: 0, Romanticism: An Anthology,
Other Resources

None

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