EGL 221 - Romanticism and Media Studies

Course Units: 1

(Not Offered this Academic Year) (Offered twice every four years) In this course we will examine the ways in which Romantic-era stories become taken up and transformed by media technologies such as photography, hypertext projects, film, and even the World Wide Web. In doing so, we will study Romantic-era imaginative literature (e.g., its fascination with imagination, vision, projection, transcendence, etc.) in the context of developments in a number of disciplines and media forms including photography, film, hypertext, recorded sound, virtual reality, and computer technologies. Romantic authors will likely include: W. Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, M. Shelley, P. B. Shelley, Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron, W. Blake, and J. Keats. Prerequisite(s): EGL 100 or EGL 101 or EGL 102 or a grade of 5 on the AP English Literature or Language test. CC: HUL, HUM