English 326 - Romantic Epistemologies

'In this seminar, we will examine Romantic poetry's unique contemplation of the problems of perception, cognition, and epistemology. We will investigate how male and female writers explored various theories of knowledge through their play with the figures of the idiot or savage, drug culture, and new technologies surrounding the Gothic genre and the virtual imagination. Authors including Wordsworth, Robinson, Coleridge, DeQuincey, and Keats will be read alongside philosophers such as Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, scientists John Galt and J. G. Spurzheim, and accounts of pre-cinematic entertainment such as the magic lantern and the phantasmagoria.'

This course is open to Juniors and Seniors. Prereq: 8 credits in department beyond English 101