Module Code - Title:

EH4013 - SENSIBILITY AND ROMANTICISM

Year Last Offered:

2018/9

Hours Per Week:

Lecture

2

Lab

0

Tutorial

1

Other

0

Private

7

Credits

6

Grading Type:

N

Prerequisite Modules:

Rationale and Purpose of the Module:

This module provides students with a survey of English literature of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a period in which literature was involved with, and inspired by, revolutionary political activity.

Syllabus:

Inspired and subsequently alarmed by French and American revolutions, the writers of this period grappled with issues of race, slavery, gender, democracy, and republicanism. The module will begin with examples of the anxious introspection which characterises the poetry of sensibility; from this point forward is traced a shift from a negative and trivialising concept of æthe romanticÆ towards the more complex Romantic cults of Nature and Imagination.

Learning Outcomes:

Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)

By the end of this module, students should be able to: * Identify key developments in the history of English literature in the Romantic period * Describe key formal features of the literature of the Romantic period * Compare and contrast competing ideologies within Romanticism, particularly in relation to debates about liberty, slavery and the rights of the individual * Discuss Romanticism from different perspectives * Learn to read, respond to and understand a range of forms in Romantic literature * Develop a sense of the relations between literature, history, history of art and music as it emerges in their reading of Romantic texts * Discuss and write about the literature of the period, drawing on a range of critical material in a way that enhances their own readings.

Affective (Attitudes and Values)

N/A

Psychomotor (Physical Skills)

N/A

How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:

Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):

Prime Texts:

Duncan Wu (1998) Romanticism: an anthology , Blackwell

Jane Austen () Sense and Sensibility ,

Mary Shelley () Frankenstein ,

Other Relevant Texts:

Todd, Janet (1986) Sensibility: an Introduction , Routledge

Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:

Semester - Year to be First Offered:

Autumn

Module Leader:

christina.morin@ul.ie