Topics in Romanticism II - De Quincey and Addiction
- ENGL 200
- ENGL 290
- A minimum GPA of 2.3 in 9.0 units of ENGL
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Selected Poetry
- Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
- Charles Baudelaire, On Wine and Hashish
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
In modern society the main cause of drug addiction…is a literary tradition of romantic claptrap, started by Coleridge and De Quincey, and continued without serious interruption ever since’, declares Theodore Dalrymple in Romancing Opiates (2006). This course explores the origins of addiction in the poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the autobiographical essays of Thomas De Quincey, the prose ruminations of Charles Baudelaire, and the terror fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson.
**This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
91ÖÆƬ³§ Repeatable Courses
With repeatable courses, the course number (e.g., ENGL 466) is repeatable, but the topic is not. You can take as many topics as you like under the same course number, but you can only take each individual topic once.
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Assessments
Grade Components
- participation (20%)
- seven unannounced quizzes (20%)
- midterm exam (20%)
- final exam (40%)
**Subject to change**