Topics in Romanticism II (Winter 2026)
- ENGL 200
- ENGL 290
N/A
one-way Exclusions
- Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Penguin, 2003 (or any scholarly edition)
- Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Penguin, 2018 (or any scholarly edition of the 1818 version of the novel)
- Wu, Duncan, editor. Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology. Wiley-Blackwell, 1997
Other readings will be provided.
ENGL 441: Romantic Women Writers
British Romanticism is often defined in terms of a poetics of nature, emotion, imagination, the individual, and revolution. Seen through the lens of the women writers of the time, however, a slightly different view emerges. This course begins with a consideration of Romanticisms, plural. It then explores the work of poets such as Hannah More, Ann Yearsley, Phillis Wheatley, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eleanor Anne Porden, and Felicia Hemans, and contextualises Mary Wollstonecraft鈥檚 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Jane Austen鈥檚 Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Mary Shelley鈥檚 Frankenstein (1818) within this cultural history. We will discuss abolitionism, sensibility, female sexuality, women鈥檚 rights, science and gender, and domestic womanhood, as well as women writers鈥 attitudes to conventionally 鈥淩omantic鈥 concepts.
This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
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With repeatable courses, the course number (e.g., ENGL 466) is repeatable, but the topic is not. You can take as many topics as you like under the same course number, but you can only take each individual topic once.
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