Reason, Imagination, Revolution: Literature and Culture from Pope to Austen - ENGX370
This unit introduces students to writings that track the trajectories of formal, philosophical and culture change in British literary culture between 1710 and 1825. It examines how Reason is idealised and critiqued by writers associated with the Enlightenment, such as Pope, Swift, Haywood and Johnson, and how it is situated in relation to Imagination and developed into the Romanticism of Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge. The unit also explores how those conceptual exchanges feed into the revolutionary fervour of the 1790s and provokes the responses of Austen, Shelley, Byron and Keats, who along with their Romantic forebears, set the cultural bases for British literature into the nineteenth century.
| When Offered: | 2019 - Next offered in 2019 |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Geoffrey Payne, Dr Ryan Twomey |
| Prerequisites: |
(ENGX120 or ENG110) and two ENGX units at 200 level or above |
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| NCCW(s): | ENGL370 |
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| Unit Type: | OUA |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of English Faculty of Arts |
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