The aim of the course is to introduce students to French Romanticism and to some subsequent developments in nineteenth-century literature.
Considerable emphasis is placed on the close reading of prose and poetry.
Four essays will be handed in, normally one at the end of Week 6 and one at the end of Week 10 in each of the Autumn and Spring Terms. One of these may be in French. S. Nash, 'Les Contemplations' of Victor Hugo . Notes on a Novelist . F.W.J. Hemmings, Stendhal.