The unit is designed to introduce students to the development of the Dark or Satanic Hero and the Femme Fatal in a range of major English texts selected to illustrate the tremendous impact and popularity of these powerful figures in the Romantic Period. Writers such as Marlow, Milton, Lewis and Byron created powerful and seductive heroes who advocate radical individualism, self-sufficiency and ambition, but who leave their associates isolated, gloomy and dissatisfied by their revolt against God, government and society. Special attention will be given to the gendered representation of evil and the relationship between the Satanic Heroes in the nineteenth century and the survival and... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Patrick Spedding
Prerequisites: A first-year sequence in Literary Studies, English or Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
