The module follows on from the Level 4 core module Early Romantic Writing. The focus is on writing of the later Romantic period, between 1800 and 1830. As in the preceding module, study is directed towards literary texts in their relationship to the social and political revolutions and wider cultural contexts of the period. Particular emphasis is placed on the ‘maturing’ of ‘the movement’ since its inception, the changes in political outlook among its associates, the broadening of critical concerns, the greater diversity and accomplishment of literary forms. A selection is set of key texts across the range of later Romantic poetry, such as Wordsworth’s longer poem Prelude, Keats’s and Shelley’s odes, Byron’s shorter poetry; novels, such as Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, M. Shelley’s Frankenstein, Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey; experiments in drama, such as Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, and select criticism, such as Hazlitt’s and Coleridge’s.

Mini Coursework Essay (1000 words) 30% (Learning Outcome: 1-4)
Coursework Essay (2500 words) 70% (Learning Outcome 1, 2, 3)

Key Information Set Data:
100% Coursework

Weekly 1 hour lecture staff-led introduction of texts, contexts and critical concepts,
Weekly 1 hour student and group-led seminar, introduced by group presentations, with applied reading/analytical skills.

Key Information Set Data:
16% scheduled learning and teaching activities
84% guided independent learning

Networked PC
DVD/Video Projection
Library
Internet
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Romanticism. An Anthology, ed. Duncan Wu, 4th edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2012
Companion to Romanticism, ed. Duncan Wu, Oxford: Blackwell 1999
Marilyn Butler Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries. English Literature and its Background 1760-1830, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981
Fiona Stafford, Reading Romantic Poetry, Oxford: Blackwell, 2012
John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination [1930], London: Picador, 1978
Uttara Natarajan (ed.) The Romantic Poets. A Guide to Criticism, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007

1. DIFFERENTIATE UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOCIAL CONTEXT IN SHAPING THE MEANING OF LITERARY TEXTS.
Knowledge & Understanding

2. READ ANALYTICALLY A RANGE OF TEXTS OF THE LATER ROMANTIC PERIOD ACROSS KEY LITERARY GENRES.
Analysis
Learning

3. COMMUNICATE A COHERENT ARGUMENT IN WRITTEN FORM.
Communication

4. REFLECT CRITICALLY ON CRITICAL MATERIAL
Reflection