Date |
Lecture/Discussion |
Reading Due |
Assignment Due |
Thur 8/25 |
Introductions |
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Register for
NASSR Listserv |
Tue 8/30 |
18th Century Literary Legacy |
- General Introduction (1) -- See Lecture Notes
- Baillie, "Lines for a Friend's Album" (496) - See Note
- Images of Technology (In-Class Views)
Handout: How to Make Sense of a Poem & Romantic Poetic Forms
Note: Albums, Pocketbooks & Female Genitalia
Email: Canon Formation - What should be in our anthologies? |
3 Questions
Discuss Hypertext Review, "How to Separate Good Data from Bad" article
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Thur 9/1 |
Romantic Beginnings: The Struggle to Be Heard |
- "French Revolution and Rights of Man" (9-12)
- Burke, Reflections on Revolution in France (13)
- Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Man (20)
- Paine, Rights of Man (25)
Email: Hierarchies - Great Chain of Being |
3 Questions
In-Class Essay: Nature vs. Rights of Man |
Tue 9/6 |
The "Other" Sex: Do Women Have a Voice? |
- Polwhele, "The Unsex'd Females" (42)
- Barbauld, "The Rights of Woman" (186)
- Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: "To M. Talleyrand" (371)
Handout: Hemans & Polwhele (Masculine vs. Feminine) |
3 Questions
Sign up for Recitation |
Thur 9/8 |
Defining Romanticism: Beauty, Nature and the Sublime |
- Burke, "A Philosophical Enquiry" (134)
- Coleridge, "Statesman's Manual" (147)
- Hazlitt, "Lectures on English Poets" & "Table Talk" (149)
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3 Questions
ICE Writing Tips |
Tue 9/13 |
"High" Romanticism: Wordsworth & Coleridge |
- Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (573) & "We Are Seven" (566)
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3 Questions
Give
Turnitin: How To,
Turnitin: Submitting & Password
(in-class only)
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Thur 9/15 |
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- Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads: "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" (571)
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3 Questions
HYPERTEXT REVIEW DUE |
Tue 9/20 |
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Handout:
Lyrical Ballads
Tables of Contents
Email:
"Xanadu" in
Oxford English Dictionary |
3 Questions
Recitations:
(1) Leslie, Lyrical Ballads, "Rime" |
Thur 9/22 |
William Blake: Outside the Romantic Tradition (?) |
- Songs of Innocence: "Introduction" (277), "The Lamb" (278), "The Chimney Sweeper" (279), "Little Black Boy" (278)
- Blake's Accompanying Plates online: The William Blake Archive
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3 Questions
In-Class Essay: Blake's artwork vs. his
text |
Tue 9/27 |
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- Songs of Experience: "Introduction" (299), "The Tyger" (301), "The Chimney Sweeper" (300), "The Sick Rose" (300)
- Blake's Accompanying Plates online: The William Blake Archive
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3 Questions
Recitations:
(1) Emily, Blake, "London"
(2) Amy, Blake, "Human Abstract" |
Thur 9/29 |
Poetic Forms: Borrowing from Pre-Cursors |
- Charlotte Smith, "Partial Muse"
(227), "Unhappy Exile" (227), "To
Fancy" (228), "To the Muse" (229), "Beachy
Head" (244; especially ll672-731)
- Wordsworth, "Scorn Not the Sonnet" (Online only)
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3 Questions
In-Class Essay: Wordsworth vs. Smith |
Tue 10/4 |
Poetic Forms: Women Skirting the Romantic Tradition |
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3 Questions
Recitations:
(1) Elizabeth K., STC, "Ancient Mariner"
(2) Nicole, STC, "Kubla Khan"
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Thur 10/6 |
Images of London & Urban Landscapes |
- Wordsworth, "London" (599)
- Robinson, "A London Summer Morning" (347)
- Shelley, "Sonnet: England in 1819" (1166)
- Blake, "London" (302)
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3 Questions
In-Class Essay
Discuss Mid-Term Exam:
Study Guide
Mid-Term Course Evaluation |
Tue 10/11 |
Hushed Voices: Slavery & the Working Class |
- Cowper, "The Negro's Complaint" (62)
- Equiano, Interesting Narrative (192)
- More, Cheap Repository Tracts (216)
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Images of Race & Working Class
(PowerPoint from class)
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3 Questions
Recitations:
(1) Philip, Cowper, "Pity" |
Thur 10/13 |
MID-TERM EXAM (Bring exam booklets)
See
Study Guide
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Tue 10/18 |
The Growth of Nature |
- Jeffrey, "Review" (157)
- Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (745) & "The
Eolian Harp" (760)
- Online:
The Aeolian Harp images
(Online only)
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3 Questions
Recitations:
(1) Christina, Cowper, "NC"
(2) Unika, STC
(3) Diana, STC |
Thur 10/20 |
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- Wordsworth, "I Wandered" (601)
- D. Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journals (663-667), "Thoughts on my Sick-Bed" (669)
- Wollstonecraft, Letters Written (421)
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3 Questions
In-Class Essay
Discuss
FINAL ESSAY (Download Instructions here) |
Tue 10/25 |
Later Romantic Writers: Poet as Statesmen |
- Shelley, A Defence of Poetry (1167), "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1065)
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3 Questions
Recitations:
(1) Raphael, Shelley, "HtIB"
(2) Serge, Shelley, "Ozymandias" |
Thur 10/27 |
Later Romantic Writers: Beauty |
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3 Questions
In-Class Essay
THESIS STATEMENT DUE (emailed) |
Tue 11/1 |
Late Romantic Writers: Rejecting the Ego |
- Lockhart, "Cockney School" (159)
- Keats, Letters to George & Thomas Keats (1262), Letter to J.H. Reynolds (1263), "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1297), "Ode to a Nightingale" (1296)
Handout:
Shelley, Wordsworth & the Byronic Hero
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3 Questions
Recitations:
(1) Andrea, Keats, "Ode...Urn"
(2) Peter, Keats, "To Autumn"
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Thur 11/3 |
Byronic Hero, Science & the Novel |
- Byron, "Prometheus" (920), Dedication to Don Juan (1047)
Handout:
Hints on Reading Fiction |
3 Questions
In-Class Essay |
Tue 11/8 |
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- Barbauld, "On Novel-Writing" (171)
- Mary Shelley, 1831 Introduction to Frankenstein (169) & Vol. I, Letters I-IV (7-17)
Handout:
Gothic Novel &
Frankenstein |
3 Questions
Recitations:
(1) Jamie, Barbauld "Epistle"
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Thur 11/10 |
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- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein,
Vol. I, Chps. 107 (17-58)
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3 Questions |
Tue 11/15 |
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- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein,
Vol. II (all)
- See Branaugh's birth scene
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3 Questions |
Thur 11/17 |
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- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein,
Vol. III, Chps. 1-6 (103-139)
Email:
D�mon
(from OED) |
3 Questions
In-Class Essay |
Tue 11/22 |
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3 Questions
FIRST DRAFT OF FINAL ESSAY DUE (emailed)
Top |
Thur 11/24 |
Thanksgiving Holiday -- No Class |
Tue 11/29 |
Debunking Masculine Tropes |
- Hemans, "Casabianca" (1227), "Evening Prayer" (1227), "Woman & Fame" (1247), "Brigand Leader & His Wife" (Online only), "Image in Lava" (1242)
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3 Questions
Recitations:
(1) Elizabeth M., Hemans, "Woman & Fame"
(2) Elizabeth F., Hemans, "Image in Lava" |
Thur 12/1 |
The Female Keats and Byron (?) |
- Landon, "The Proud Ladye" (1379), "Felicia Hemans" (1401)
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3 Questions
In-Class Essay Top |
Tue 12/6 |
Wordsworth's Last Word
& the Victorians Enter |
- Wordsworth, The Prelude,
Books 13 & 14 (652)
Handout:
Transition to the Victorians,
Final Exam Study Guide
&
NASSR Unsubscribe
Email:
Where did "grim reaper" come from? |
3 Questions
Recitations:
(1) Eryn, WW, "Stepping Westward"
(2) Leah, WW, "Solitary Reaper" |
Thur 12/8 |
Presentations on Final
Project
Review for Final Exam |
NASSR Posting Due
FINAL DRAFT OF ESSAY DUE (paper copy
only) |
FINAL EXAM
Wed, December 14, 9:45-12pm (Bring exam booklets
& pens)
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