Examines British literature and culture during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Topics may include war and revolution, tourism and the picturesque, genius and imagination, the Gothic, Romanic orientalism and literature and the environment. Writers covered may include Smith, Blake, Wollstonecraft, the Wordsworths, Scott, Coleridge, Austen, de Quincey, Byron, the Shelleys, Hemans and Keats.