Romantic Poetry 4: Politics Wordsworth and Shelley
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Politics Introduction Gender & Class
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Romantic Poetry 4: Politics John Clare
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Romantic Literature: Empire and Orientalism Introduction 1: Romanticism, the Empire and the Other
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Romantic Literature: Empire and Orientalism Introduction 2: Romanticism, the Empire and the Other
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Romantic Literature: Empire and Orientalism 3 Prose: Thomas de Quincey
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Romantic Literature: Empire and Orientalism 5 Felicia Hemans
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Romantic Literature: Empire and Orientalism 4 Byron
Description:
Course abstract: This is intended as a survey of one of the most significant periods in English literature, the Romantic Age. It provides the socio-cultural backgrounds, key features of the poetry and fiction and an introduction to some of the key poets and poems from the period. In addition it also offers a brief account of the principal aesthetic theories that informed the poetry, and an introduction to the visual arts of the period.
ABOUT INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Pramod K Nayar teaches at the Dept of English, the University of Hyderabad. Among his most recent books are Bhopal's Ecological Gothic (Lexington, 2017), Human Rights and Literature (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017), The Extreme in Contemporary Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017). He is the editor of English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (Orient BlackSwan, 2013).Forthcoming is Brand Postcolonial: The 'Third World' Text and the Global (de Gruyter)
English Literature of the Romantic Period, 1798-1832