Studying at York
Popular Romanticism - CES00006M
Module will run
| Occurrence | Teaching period |
|---|---|
| A | Semester 2 2024-25 |
Module aims
- to introduce students to the rise of popular and especially popular radical politics
- to explore literary responses to the growth of popular reading audiences, in the context of the expansion of the infrastructure for mass culture (publishing, transport, commerce, consumption)
- to introduce students to the skills and techniques of interdisciplinary research
Module learning outcomes
Subject content
- student should acquire an overall sense of the varieties of radical expression in print
- an awareness of the varieties of literature aimed for consumption by 'the people'
- an understanding of some of the implications of wider audiences for the development of literary forms
- an understanding of the sensational impact of Radcliffe, Scott, Byron and others.
Academic and graduate skills
- the research skills to elucidate texts in relation to changing notions of the popular
- some grasp of the range of print cultures in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Britain
Indicative assessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 100 |
Special assessment rules
None
Indicative reassessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 100 |
Module feedback
Written feedback, given in Week 5 for original assessment, and within two weeks of submission for re-assessed work
Indicative reading
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age, ed. Iain McCalman et. al.
William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience, ed. Andrew Lincoln. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, ed. Eric Foner. Penguin Classics, 1985
Hannah More, Tales for the Common People and Other Cheap Repository Tracts, ed. Claire McDonald Shaw. Trent Editions, 2002
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1800, ed. Michael Gamer and Dahlia Porter. Broadview, 2008
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, ed. Bonamy Dobree and Terry Castle. Oxford Worlds Classics, 2008
Mary Robinson, Selected Poems, ed. Judith Pascoe.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Selected Writings, ed. Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess.
Lord Byron: The Major Works, ed. Jerome McGann. Oxford Worlds Classics, 2008.
Kevin Gilmartin, Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1996) and Writing against Revolution: Literary Conservatism in Britain, 1790-1832 (Cambridge, 2007), James Chandler and Kevin Gilmartin, eds, Romantic Metropolis: The Urban Scene of British Culture, 1780-1840 (Cambridge, 2005).