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106-423 Romanticism and Modernity

Year 4 English.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Peter Otto.

Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will be familiar with some of the key concepts and motifs in the discourse of romanticism;
• will have a broad understanding of the relation between romanticism and modernity;
• will understand some of the cultural functions of the discourse of romanticism in contemporary culture.

Content:

This subject offers an introduction to romanticism as a paradigmatic discourse of modernity, with particular emphasis on questions of gender, aesthetics and subjectivity. It also examines the role played by the ideology and discourse of romanticism in contemporary culture, through a study of the sublime, sexuality, monstrosity, and 'the aesthetics of murder'.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 6,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Bennett B T and Robinson C E eds The Mary Shelley Reader Oxford UP
• Black J The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture Johns Hopkins UP
• Blake W Complete Poems Penguin
• Burke E A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful Penguin
• De Quincey T 'Murder Considered as a Fine Art' Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings Oxford UP
• Freud S The Ego and the Id Pelican
• Freud S On Sexuality Pelican
• Hazlitt W Selected Writings Penguin
• Lyotard J F The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Malouf D Remembering Babylon Penguin
• Thomas D M The White Hotel Penguin
• Wollstonecraft M Mary and the Wrongs of Woman World's Classics
• Wordsworth W Selected Poems. Film: Branagh K Frankenstein.

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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