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May 04, 2024
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AREL 804 - British Romantic Extremes3 credits
Several years ago, the Byron Society of America and the Jane Austen Society of North America Greater New York Region sponsored a conference called: “Austen and Byron: Together at Last.” In the spirit of such fantastic union, this course will examine, contrast, and celebrate one writer whose subject has been described as “the autonomy of the gentlewoman” and another whose subject has become an adjective, “the Byronic.” Readings in both figures will address issues including representation of gender and power; local and global contexts in Regency England and post-Congress of Vienna Europe; genres such as narrative and lyric, comic novel and comic epic; the Romantic self and the trouble with love; “two inches of ivory” and seventeen cantos; Mr. Darcy and Manfred; Anne Elliot and Annabella Milbanke; resistance and acceptance; and contemporary critical discourse about the cultural formations called “Romanticism.” The seminar will include selected films of Austen novels and feature the extraordinary Byron Society Collection now housed in the Drew Library.
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