Pending, round two

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LIT 2064   Other Romanticisms

Cole Heinowitz

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10 pm

OLIN 301

ELIT/DIFF

Cross-listed: Victorian Studies It is only in recent decades that studies of Romantic poetry have begun to look beyond the “Big Six”: Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and Byron. Yet between the 1780s and the 1830s, Britain witnessed an explosion of writing by figures generally excluded from the canon, including women, proletarians, people of color, peasants, and those deemed insane. In this course, we will explore the works of this “other” Romantic tradition while taking into account the ways in which political issues and social mores shape a body of literature and mediate its status in the marketplace. We will also question conventional understandings of British Romanticism itself, challenging assumptions about its historical, aesthetic, political, and philosophical characteristics. Readings to include works by George Crabbe, Robert Burns, Anna Barbauld, Mary Prince, John Clare, Thomas Beddoes, Laetitia Elizabeth Landon, Isaac d’Israeli, and William Hazlitt. Some previous exposure to Romantic literature is required.  Class size: 18

things that are bitter:

tonic water (quinine)

the top part of a really large carrot

grapefruit

strong tea

coffee

beer

cough syrup

citrus peel

burnt things

poisonous berries

soap

dark chocolate

cilantro

some olives

that strip that they make you taste in science classes that has PTC on it

turnip

I like some of these things.

Emma and I were talking today and she said vinegar was bitter (nope-def. sour) and then I tried to come up with things that were biter but it seems that she dislikes or hasn't interacted with most of them. no cough syrup, no grapefruit. plus a lot of bitter things have an acidic after taste-like some coffees.