ATS2422 Romanticism and reason in the long eighteenth century
Faculty of Arts
ATS2422 Romanticism and reason in the long eighteenth century is a level 2, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts, offered in 2020 in Semester 2 at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Semester 2
- Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ATS2422
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
- ATS3487The shadow of reason: Irrational literature in the eighteenth century
After ATS2422
No unit lists ATS2422 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prerequisite: Twelve credit points of first-year Arts units, including at least one gateway unit in Literary studies.
Overview
This unit explores the revolution in thought that commenced in the eighteenth century and developed in the early nineteenth century, a movement that changed the course of literature. Texts both inform and are shaped by the debates of their age. New kinds of literature emerge. Innovative works embody and represent dialogues that were central to their historical contexts: dialogues between irrationality and reason, emotion and restraint, the familiar and the new, and Gothic and pastoral modes. In this unit students will study a range of innovative texts which connected literature with history, philosophy, and the visual arts. As modern readers, we can choose to encounter such texts aesthetically or as a means of gaining insight into the past. Depending on staff availability, this unit will primarily focus on either the rise of the Romantic aesthetic in literature, or on the concerns of the Romantic movement at its maturity
Offerings in 2020
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Clayton | On campus |
Assessment
- Short Essay20%
- Comparative Essay30%
- Major Essay50%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
discuss the new ways of thinking about literature, the rational and the irrational, history and philosophy, civilisation and nature, that are articulated by authors on the syllabus;
- 2
locate and recognise, contextualise, analyse, critique and formulate hypotheses about, a range of long eighteenth-century texts;
- 3
apply a close textual analysis to at least three works on the syllabus;
- 4
apply skills in the areas of literary research, textual analysis and interpretation;
- 5
communicate arguments effectively both orally and in writing
Workload and teaching
- Seminars12 hours
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Learning resources
Required resources
Booklist to purchase or borrow from library here
Where it fits
ATS2422 is part of 2 areas of study in the 2020 handbook.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Chris Murray
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Chris Murray
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS2422?
ATS2422 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ATS2422 offered?
In 2020, ATS2422 runs in Semester 2 at Clayton.
How much work is ATS2422?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does ATS2422 have an exam?
No. ATS2422 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.
Which majors and minors include ATS2422?
ATS2422 is part of Literary studies.