ENGL 431

Spring 2015 All Classes

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Topics in British Romantic Lit

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Focused study of British literature between roughly 1785 and 1832. Authors may include Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron, Austen and others.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 431 class schedule data for spring 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32164	Lecture-Discussion	1G	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	127 English Building	Wood, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Green Romanticism Section Info: Topic Section 1G: Green Romanticism The extraordinary literary outpouring of the Romantic period (1780-1830) co-incided with the beginnings of our modern industrialized system?an economic and infrastructural ?new world? of fossil fuels, global trade, urbanization, and rapid growth. Writers such as Wordsworth, the Shelleys, Austen, and Byron also witnessed the emergence of the modern climate and earth sciences, which introduced controversial concepts of environmental change and deep time. The reactions of Romantic writers to this scientific revolution, and to the changing economic world system around 1800, were complex and ambivalent: they embraced elements of our carbon-based modernity, while at the same time eulogizing a lost connection with organic processes and the pre-industrial past. This course re-examines a wide range of Romantic-era authors often mistaken for idealistic celebrants of nature, with a view to understanding their crucial role in the creation of modern ecological discourse, and as eloquent first witnesses to the accelerated human re-engineering of the planet scientists now designate the Anthropocene. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	32161	Lecture-Discussion	1U	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	127 English Building	Wood, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Green Romanticism Section Info: Topic Section 1U: Green Romanticism The extraordinary literary outpouring of the Romantic period (1780-1830) co-incided with the beginnings of our modern industrialized system?an economic and infrastructural ?new world? of fossil fuels, global trade, urbanization, and rapid growth. Writers such as Wordsworth, the Shelleys, Austen, and Byron also witnessed the emergence of the modern climate and earth sciences, which introduced controversial concepts of environmental change and deep time. The reactions of Romantic writers to this scientific revolution, and to the changing economic world system around 1800, were complex and ambivalent: they embraced elements of our carbon-based modernity, while at the same time eulogizing a lost connection with organic processes and the pre-industrial past. This course re-examines a wide range of Romantic-era authors often mistaken for idealistic celebrants of nature, with a view to understanding their crucial role in the creation of modern ecological discourse, and as eloquent first witnesses to the accelerated human re-engineering of the planet scientists now designate the Anthropocene. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.