Unit information: Romanticism, History and Politics in 2012/13

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Unit name Romanticism, History and Politics
Unit code ENGLM3010
Credit points 20
Level of study M/7
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
Unit director Emeritus Professor. Punter
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

School/department Department of English
Faculty Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

The unit will introduce students to primary and theoretical texts addressing central questions about political contexts of writing in the Romantic period. Issues that may be studied include: war, trials and imprisonment, censorship, poverty and charity, the city, gender politics, the politics of the gothic, women&�s writing of the period, revolution. Like other parts of this programme, this unit will be structured so as to combine the investigation of these wider issues with sharply focused readings of a wide range of canonical and less well-known texts and authors.