NPTEL : NOC:English Literature of the Romantic Period, 1798-1832 (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Pramod K Nayar


Lecture 1 - Publishing, Literacy and Reading - I

Lecture 2 - Publishing, Literacy and Reading - II Literacy, Reading and the Audience

Lecture 3 - Empire

Lecture 4 - Empire - II

Lecture 5 - Science

Lecture 6 - European Romanticism Sensibility

Lecture 7 - Dissent and Revolution

Lecture 8 - The Debate on Rights

Lecture 9 - Nature and the Environment

Lecture 10 - The Self and Imagination

Lecture 11 - Fiction of the Romantic Period

Lecture 12 - Jane Austen

Lecture 13 - Criticism: Coleridge and Wordsworth

Lecture 14 - The Historical Novel

Lecture 15 - The Gothic Novel

Lecture 16 - Romantic Poetry 1 - William Blake (1757-1827)

Lecture 17 - Romantic Poetry 1 - Romanticism and sentiment - Introduction: Sensibility and Passion

Lecture 18 - Romantic Poetry 1 - Sensibility and Passion

Lecture 19 - Romantic Poetry 2 - William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Lecture 20 - English Romantic Poetry 1:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lecture 21 - Introduction: Nature and the Environment

Lecture 22 - Wordsworth

Lecture 23 - Coleridge

Lecture 24 - Shelley

Lecture 25 - Keats and Byron

Lecture 26 - Romantic Poetry 3 - Aesthetics Introduction: Sublime and Picturesque Aesthetics

Lecture 27 - Romantic Poetry 3 - Visual arts and the Romantics

Lecture 28 - Romantic Poetry 3 - Aesthetics Wordsworth

Lecture 29 - Romantic Poetry 3 - Aesthetics Blake

Lecture 30 - Romantic Poetry 3 - Aesthetics Shelley

Lecture 31 - Romantic Poetry 4 - Politics Introduction Gender and Class

Lecture 32 - Romantic Poetry 4 - Politics: Race, Empire, Tyranny

Lecture 33 - Romantic Poetry 4 - Politics Abolitionist Poetry

Lecture 34 - Romantic Poetry 4 - Politics Wordsworth and Shelley

Lecture 35 - Romantic Poetry 4 - Politics John Clare

Lecture 36 - Romantic Literature - Empire and Orientalism Introduction 1: Romanticism, the Empire and the Other

Lecture 37 - Romantic Literature - Empire and Orientalism Introduction 2: Romanticism, the Empire and the Other

Lecture 38 - Romantic Literature - Empire and Orientalism 3 Prose: Thomas de Quincey

Lecture 39 - Romantic Literature - Empire and Orientalism 4 Byron

Lecture 40 - Romantic Literature - Empire and Orientalism 5 Felicia Hemans