242 The Romantic Audience
| Course Description | |
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| "The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone, / He cannot choose but hear..." A survey of British romantic poets that emphasizes their wildly various responses to upheavals in printing and marketing practices. Traces how some romantics anxiously try to define their audience, while others find freedom in the unpredictability of address. Lines up fantasies of transmission (such as oral performance, discovered inscription, voyeuristic interception, natural reemergence, supernatural enthrallment, graveside tribute) against actual publication histories. Poets include Blake, Robinson, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tighe, Byron, Caroline Lamb, Keats, Shelley, Clare, Hemans, Landon, and Elizabeth Browning. | |
| Distribution | |
| C | |
| Prerequisites | |
| One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English department. | |
| Day/Time: | M,W — 11:30 - 12:55 |
| Instructor: | Phillipson, Mark L |
| Class Email: | eng242@bowdoin.edu |
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The Romantic Audience Project
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English 242 Reserve List (no items currently on reserve).
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