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Apr 30, 2024
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AREL 807 - British Romantic Extremes: Byron & the Shelleys3 credits
Lady Caroline Lamb first glimpsed Lord Byron and wrote, “Mad-bad-and dangerous to know.” In various ways Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Godwin Shelley explore the boundaries of reason, morality and revolution. This seminar charts the extremes in the biographies and inter-textual debated of three British writers of the early 19th Century (roughly) who took Romanticism to its limits in life and art. Promethean rebellion, political radicalism, sexual and gender border-crossing, defending poetry, infusing the Gothic with the apocalyptic, and dying with/without a cause converge in these legendary writers of personal, political, and artistic transformation. Works read include: Byron’s Manfred, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, and Don Juan; Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Mont Blanc,” Prometheus Unbound, and A Defense of Poetry; and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Mathilda.
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