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Understand how Romantic poets used nature and the imagination to challenge reason, authority and industrial society, and learn to read their work as both personal expression and political intervention.
Learn how Victorian novelists responded to industrial change and social inequality by developing the realist novel as a form for exploring character, conscience and community.
You will understand how women writers of the Romantic and Victorian periods claimed authority in literature despite social constraints, and how their strategies shaped the tradition.