Description
Class/discussion on how literature reflected the history of England from 1500 to 1870. Using Shakespeare as our departure point—concentrating on how the Italian movement of the Renaissance allowed English authors to focus on the interior workings of the mind and individualism– thereby countering the legacy of feudalism. The Restoration period of 1660, with Dryden and Milton, includes the restoration of the Stuarts and the Romantic period from 1798 to 1870 of Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Jane Austen incorporates the use of imagination and was influenced by the French Revolution.
