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ENGL 24022 - Green Romanticism

Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, ENVS)
This course interrogates the relationship between the Romantic poets and the early nineteenth-century landscape, both “natural” and industrial. The course examines the problematic notion of a unified “Romantic” ethos and establishes the divergent sub-groups within the Romantic movement in addition to raising questions about the Romantics’ relationship to the environment. Students will explore how Romantic poetry shaped the history of Western environmentalism, whether contemporary ecocriticism builds on Romantic tropes and themes, and how the relationship between people and the landscape has been structured by the institutions of class, economics, politics, gender, science, and law. [Before 1900] [AH]