Assignment Topic for I MA Students on 'The Romantic Age'

The literature of the British Romantic Age, according to Adeline Johns-Putra, has been shaped by a number of forces.

Give a critical overview of the Romantic Age with special reference to any five of the following critical concepts and topics that shaped the literature of the Romantic Age.

·         Canon (Canonizing Forces)

·         Class (Class Barriers)

·         Gender (the canonical Romantic poets are all men!?)

·         Nature (one of the central preoccupations of Romantic Poetry)

·         Imagination (The positive energy of the imagination)

·         Orientalism (How the Orient exerted a considerable allure over Romantic literature)

·         Revolution (The age of Romanticism as an Age of Revolution)

·         Science (the Romantic Age has sometimes been called ‘the second scientific revolution’)

·         Slavery (Debates around the question of slavery and slave trade)

·         The Sublime (as ‘sense super-sensible’ that had the grandeur and magnitude to inspire transcendence of mind).

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