images of the Orient recurring in these texts. It will help the students to assess how inadequately the concepts of an Oriental Renaissance or of Orientalism as ideology can be used to describe and explain a literary phenomenon which connected German idealism, revolutionary Romanticism and Orientalism as an academic practice.
16. Victorian Women Poets Eng/UG/O16 This course will focus on the female poetic voices of the Victorian period, an age largely dominated by the male poets. The question of the female writer’s role / position in society, the tension between the private domestic sentiments
and the larger public concerns, the contemporary responses and modern critical reassessments these issues will frame a discussion of the works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti,
Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, among others.
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