Emphasizing Romantic-era writing as a site where history, consciousness and nature converge in a generative contest, this course will provide a survey and overview of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literary culture. Our readings will include works in several genres by the following writers: Rousseau, Schiller, Kant, Hegel, and Heine; Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and Malthus; Goethe, Blake, Charlotte Smith, the Wordsworths, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, Clare, Sydney Owensen and Jane Austen. Readings will also include a range of classic and recent critical and theoretical writings about Romanticism.