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*the successful participant will have acquired a thorough analytical knowledge of the important topics and issues in post-seventeenth-century European literature focusing on landscape; *s/he will be able to apply literary and historical analytical methods on the texts, and will be able to analyse the relevant texts using recent analytical approaches such as the ecocritical.
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This course will take the student into a varied, vivid world of European literary texts which focus on landscape, from the seventeenth century onwards. How a sense of place informs both prose and poetry, and how landscape is in turn transformed by the shaping imagination of the writer, shall be in focus. Topics to be discussed include the pastoral, the georgic, the sublime, and the relationship between literature and the visual arts. Analytical approaches such as ecocriticism and materialist criticism shall be used to discuss the texts. Authors we shall read include Marvell, Rousseau, Wordsworth, and Woolf. There will be a substantial focus on texts belonging to the European Romantic period.
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