Module code: ESH6079
Credits: 30.0
Semester: SEM2
Contact: Prof David Duff
The 1790s was a turbulent decade in which literature, politics, and science interacted in unprecedented ways. Romantic innovations in poetry coincided with a cult of Gothic horror, remarkable discoveries in science, and an explosive pamphlet war unleashed by the French Revolution. This module explores the distinctive culture of the revolutionary decade, studying poems, novels, and plays by for example Samuel Coleridge, William Blake, Charlotte Smith, `Monk¿ Lewis and other writers alongside Jacobin and anti-Jacobin polemics, political cartoons, and experiments with `laughing gas¿ in the laboratories of the poet-chemist Humphry Davy.
Connected course(s): UDF DATA
Assessment: 85.0% Coursework, 15.0% Practical
Level: 6
