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Apr 16, 2026
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Goucher College 2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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ENG 257 - Romanticism (3 Cr.) (GEN. ED. #4 and #9)
Topic for 2011-12: The Religion of Love and Beauty in English Literature and Art from Keats to Wilde. This course will consider the ways in which 19th Century writers and artists tried to fill the vacuum created by the dying of God and the rise of modern pessimism and agnosticism with a radical emphasis on romantic love, and beauty in life and art, as the central values of human life now restored to the brevity and passion of the pagan tradition, with its emphasis on seizing the day. In addition to Romantics like Shelley, Keats, and Byron, we’ll consider such Victorians as Dante and Christina Rossetti, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of painters and writers, the sadomasochistic “decadence” of Swinburne and Aubrey Beardsley, the Aestheticism of Pater and Wilde, and the rise of femme fatales, as well as a Victorian homoerotic culture increasingly centered on the worship of sexual and aesthetic beauty. Prerequisite: ENG 212 or sophomore standing. Spring semester. Alternate years. White.
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