The Romantic Period

After completing this course you will have:

• gained a broad knowledge of Romantic literature.
• learned to consider literary texts in light of historical and intellectual background.
• developed your critical reading and writing skills.

The course assumes a good proficiency in written and oral English.

Students at UiO must apply for courses in StudentWeb.

International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

Students who are admitted to study programmes or individual courses at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for by registering a study plan in StudentWeb.

Only students admitted to the course may take part in instruction and tuition and sit for the examination.

The examination in this course is not available for external candidates. Only students admitted to the course may sit for the examination.

Seminar, two hours per week for 14 weeks, 28 hours in all.

Students must turn in an essay of 5 standard pages on a given topic. Students will receive written feedback provided they hand in the first draft within a given deadline.

Attendance is an obligatory class requirement (80%). Additional absences must be justified by documentation to the exam adviser.

You can usually resit an exam, but the conditions depend on whether you had a valid reason for absence from the regular exam. Read more about resitting an exam.

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

The results will be found on the StudentWeb within three weeks after the exam.

You may request an explanation of your grades, and you may also appeal against your grades or make a complaint about formal examination errors. Read more about explanations and appeals.

Evaluation

Feedback from our students is essential if we are to provide the best possible education. As a student at the University of Oslo you will be asked to participate in various types of evaluation of our courses. Every time a course is given, we ask students to participate in mid-term evaluations, and periodically we ask them to participate in periodic evaluation of the course.

Reports from periodic evaluations (in Norwegian)

Overlapping courses

This course overlaps with ENG4344 - The Romantic Period.

Texts in

• * Romanticism: An Anthology, ed. Duncan Wu, 4th edn (Blackwell, 2012)
• * Robin Jarvis, The Romantic Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context 1780—1830 (Longman, 2004)
• Texts marked with * are texts for purchase.

• William Blake (1757—1827),
  • ‘The Lamb’,‘The Tyger’,‘London’,‘The Sick Rose’
• Robert Burns (1759—96),
  • ‘Tam O’Shanter. A Tale’,‘To a Mouse, on Turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785’
• William Wordsworth (1770—1850),
  • ‘Resolution and Independence’;‘The world is too much with us’;‘London 1802’‘My heart leaps up’;The Prelude 1799
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834),
  • ‘Kubla Khan’;‘To Wordsworth’; from Biographia Literaria (selection in Wu, ed., Romanticism: An Anthology)
• * From Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, ed. Michael Mason, 2^nd edn (Longman, 2007; texts based on 1805 edition):
  • Wordsworth: Advertisement (1798);Preface (1802);‘Goody Blake and Harry Gill’;‘The Idiot Boy’;‘The Thorn’;‘Lines (Written a few miles above Tintern Abbey)’;‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’;‘Michael. A Pastoral’
• Coleridge:
  • ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’
• George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788—18

If you have a disability or a health problem that entails significant inconvenience in an examination situation, you may be considered for special examination arrangements. Mothers who are breastfeeding may apply for extra time to complete the exam.

A student may sit this exam up to 3 times. If a student wishes to withdraw from the exam, s/he must do so in StudentWeb at least two weeks prior to the first day of the exam. Failure to do so will be counted as one of the three opportunities to sit the exam.