The terrain of this subject is shadowed by revolution. We seek to understand how the revolutionary movement of Romanticism was a cultural phenomenon that had its origins in new understandings of what it means to be human, and in turn, bequeathed vital new ways of expressing this humanity. Through reading eighteenth and early nineteenth century writing, we discover how and why the neoclassical or Augustan values of rational order, elegance, elitism and confident knowledge were disrupted and refashioned by the rise of uncertainty, individual crisis, the potential of the imagination, revolutionary democracy and a new urgency in the sense of self.
HD/FL
One session
School of Social Work and Arts
Subject is not available to students who have completed subject LIT108 as it shares similar content.
It is assumed that students will have successfully completed LIT111.
LIT108 Shares similar content
LIT108
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