An Introduction to Romantic Literature
A free course on English literature of the Romantic period, including major contexts, themes, trends and criticism.
Description
Register for this free online course on English literature of the Romantic period, which extended from 1798 to 1832, to analyze the various factors, events and political thoughts that influenced the minds of the authors as well as their readers, and thereby shaped the English Romantics. You will learn about the expansion of print and its consequences, including wide-ranging literacy and a greater demand for the publishing of certain kinds of books. You will also learn how the expansion of the British empire introduced the authors to exotic cultures, slavery and the sciences.
This course will help you correlate history, such as the age of ‘sensibility’ (when the quality of being able to appreciate and respond to complex emotional or aesthetic influences was valued) and the French Revolution, with the literature that they influenced. You will be introduced to concepts such as ‘antiquarianism’, ‘individualism’ and ‘psychologism’ (or a ‘tendency to interpret events or arguments in subjective terms, or to exaggerate the relevance of psychological factors’) that emerged as key themes in the literary works of the period. You will also be able to see English poets and authors such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron through the eyes of their critics.
This course will be useful to all those who are interested in English literature or in the Romantic period. Students who wish to pursue a career in English literature and literary criticism will find this course especially valuable. Start now and enrich your knowledge of one of the most interesting periods of English literature and history.
Start Course NowModules
Backgrounds to the English Romantics, 1798-1832
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Backgrounds to the English Romantics - Learning Outcomes
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Publishing, Literacy and Reading
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Literacy, Reading and the Audience
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Empire
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Slavery
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Science
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Backgrounds to the English Romantics - Lesson Summary
Influences on the English Romantics
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Influences on the English Romantics - Learning Outcomes
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European Romanticism Sensibility
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Dissent and Revolution
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The Debate on Rights
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Nature and the Environment
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The Self and Imagination
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Influences on the English Romantics - Lesson Summary
Course assessment
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Identify the different contexts to the study of the English Romantics
- Discuss the Romantics' perception of the role of the author and the audience
- Outline the role of the British empire in the making of the English Romantics
- Analyze the Romantics authors' attitude towards slavery
- Relate the literary creations of the Romantic period to contemporary scientific studies
- Indicate, with examples, the influence of the age of sensibility on the English Romantics
- Discuss the Romantics' attitude towards the French Revolution
- Identify the different discourses of rights that reflected in the writings of the Romantic period
- Describe the general trends in the depiction of Nature and environment by the Romantic writers
- Recognize individualism as the key theme in all English Romantics
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