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Research Seminar: Romantic Geographies ENGL 334 Spring 2014 not offered What is the connection between literature and geography? This course will explore the relationship between mapped places and spaces and artistic production. The Romantic period is a particularly vital moment for considering this relation. How are imperial citizens and subjects constituted by the geographical imagination? How does nineteenth-century travel and tourism shape the poetry of writers like Wordsworth and Shelley? How does the geography of the slave trade and other perverse "commodity" flows change how we read the Romantic aesthetics of taste? What is the nature of the battle between rural and urban spaces in a number of Romantic authors? The course will include a structured set of workshops to prepare students to write a 25-page research paper of original scholarship at the close of the semester. Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL Course Format: Seminar Grading Mode: Graded Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None Fulfills a Major Requirement for: None Major Readings: In this course we'll ask these and many other questions as we read primary texts by William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Cowper, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Charles Lamb, Maria Edgeworth, Anna Barbauld, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Hannah More. In addition to these primary sources, we'll read several contemporary articles by scholars working on these questions in the field. Examinations and Assignments: TBA Additional Requirements and/or Comments: This course fulfills the Literary History II requirement and contributes to the British Literature concentration of the English major; it counts as a Research Seminar for the Honors thesis requirement. Drop/Add Enrollment Requests Total Submitted Requests: 0 1st Ranked: 0 2nd Ranked: 0 3rd Ranked: 0 4th Ranked: 0 Unranked: 0

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