ENGL3019
10 units
3000 level
Course handbook
Description
Imagination, Nature, Freedom: Romantic Literature explores some of the key voices of British and American Romanticism from the 1780s to the 1860s. The course introduces students to Romantic poetry and fiction in relation to its intellectual, philosophical, artistic, cultural, and societal contexts: including revolution, urbanisation, industrialisation, slavery, and empire. It looks at how the Romantic movement - with its rebellion against pure rationalism - redefined ideas about thought, feeling, nature, selfhood, the role of the writer, and the humanitarian impulse which have much to say to our present cultural moment.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 1 - 2024
Replacing course(s)
This course replaces the following course(s): ENGL2004. Students who have successfully completed ENGL2004 are not eligible to enrol in ENGL3019.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Outline the history and contexts of Romanticism.
2. Examine the key formal, thematic, and contextual characteristics of individual literary works.
3. Conduct research independently and express clear and informed arguments.
4. Develop persuasive oral and written responses both individually and in groups.
Content
This course provides detailed insight into a range of works of Romantic Literature. Topics may include:
- Dreams, visions, and reveries
- Romantic childhoods
- Gender and the sublime
- Heroism, individualism, authenticity, and genius
- Romantic travel writing and the Grand Tour
- Nature, spirituality, and ecocriticism
- Inequality and revolution
- Madness, grief, and extreme emotional states
- The occult, the irrational, and the grotesque
- Truth and beauty
Requisite
Students cannot enrol in this course if they have previously successfully completed ENGL2004.
Assumed knowledge
20 units of English at 1000 level.
Assessment items
Written Assignment: Written Assignment
Project: Project
Essay: Essay
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Contact hours
Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan
Seminar-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Course outline
- ENGL3019 - Semester 1, 2024 (Callaghan) (PDF, 207.8 KB)
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