ENGL 345 Romanticism

This course examines selected British and American writing from the Romantic Period of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It considers how literature cultivated a Romantic spirit emphasizing the individual, the imagination, and the natural world. The course may include essays from American Transcendentalists, slave narratives by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, Gothic fiction by Mary Shelly and Edgar Allan Poe, and poetry from William Wordsworth, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman. This course falls in the Questions of Literature in History category.