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Date
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Reading Due |
Related Texts |
Assignment Due |
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Thur 1/24 |
Introductions: You, Me
& TechnoRomanticism
Greensheet: Course
Policies & Schedule of Readings/Assignments
"It's Alive!"
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Introducing the
Book (Video)
Web 2.0: The
Machine is Us/ing Us (Video)
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Tues
1/29 |
Defining Techno +
Romanticism
excerpt (1812)
& The Statesman�s Manual excerpt (1816),
Coleridge (MM 146-48)
"Frankentalk:
Frankenstein in the Popular Press of Today" (FR
402-424)
"Table of Dates"
(FR xxiii-xxxii)
Introduction to
1831 Frankenstein (FR 186-191)
"Frankenstein:
Penetrating the Secrets of Nature," Exhibit at National
Library of Medicine (Online)
Handouts
Assignment:
Timeline: Literary Historical Research |
(Course Reserve)
Youngquist,
"Techno-Prosthetic Romantic Futurism," Romanticism on
the Net (Critical Article)
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Grad Students Only: Sign up for presentation
day |
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Thur 1/31 |
Origins
Castle of Otranto ,
Walpole (pub. 1765) (1-34)
Preface,
Frankenstein (pub 1818) (FR 3-5)
"To Fancy," "On
Being Cautioned," "To the Muse," Smith, Elegiac
Sonnets (MM 228 & 229)
"Three Essays,"
Gilpin (MM 138-40)
Letter V,
Wollstonecraft, Letters (Online)
Note: Last day to drop courses without "W" on
record 2/4 |
"Life and Death of Dr. Syntax," BBC (Article)
Blake, Milton:
A Poem
Strawberry Hill
Images
Gothic Exhibit,
Tate Britain
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Reading Response (print copy to class) |
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Tues 2/5 |
(35-71)
Letters (all),
Frankenstein (FR 5-17)
Advertisement
(Handout) &
Letter I, Wollstonecraft,
Letters (pub. 1796) (Online)
Handouts
Advertisement,
MW
Romantic-Era Poetic Forms
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Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Biography) (Course
Reserve)
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Thur
2/7 |
Digital Session
Familarizing
yourself with Google Docs
Choose
chapters for digital project
(moved to Tues, 2/12)
Annotate
Timeline (see
Web version here)
Review
Character Map
Handouts
Digital Project
Overview Instructions
Note: Last day to add courses & register
late (no exceptions) 2/11 |
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Timeline:
Literary Historical
Research Essay
Reflective Blog
on Google Groups |
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Tues
2/12 |
Castle of
Otranto (72-102)
The Veiled
Picture , Radcliffe
chapbook (read all)
Handout
Assignment:
Delicious Links
1st Page, Mysteries of Udolpho
Optional
Extra Time in Computer Lab
4:30-6:30pm
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Chapbooks
Exhibit
Austen,
Northanger Abbey (Novel)
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Choose
2 chapters/letters for digital project (via email by
Wed, 3pm) |
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Thur
2/14 |
Science & Education
Chps. 1-3,
Vol. 1, Frankenstein (FR 17-36)
The Botanic
Garden excerpt,
Darwin (1789) (MM 109-111)
Vindication of
the Rights of Man
excerpt, Wollstonecraft (1790) (MM 20-24)
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Darwin,
The Temple of Nature (Poem)
Hogarth's "A Rake's Progress"
(discussed in class)
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Reading Response
posted to Google Group Discussion Board
See chapter assignments for all students |
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See Goya's "Dreams & Madness" and
Picasso's "Etchings"
San Jose Museum of Art |
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Tues
2/19 |
Dreams & Mistakes
Chp. 4, Vol.
I, Frankenstein (FR 37-42)
Baby and Child
Care excerpt, Spock
(FR 270-72)
"The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner," Coleridge (comp 1797, pub
1817) (MM 734-43)
"Kubla Khan,"
Coleridge (1816) (MM 729)
"To the Poet
Coleridge," Robinson (1806) (MM 352)
See post from TechnoRomanticism Discussion Board
about listserv discussions about Coleridge
Handout
Freud on Dreams
Note: Enrollment Census Date |
Freud,
The Interpretation of
Dreams, Freud Museum in London
(Psychological Essay)
Modern
References to Xanadu (Online)
"Invocation to Horror," Hannah Cowley (Poem)
(Online)
"Night,"
Chp. 5, Romance of the Forest, Radcliffe
(Novel) 
"Tales of Wonder," Etching by Gilray
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Thur
2/21 |
Digital Session (IS
134)
Collaborate on
class list of web resources
Submit individual
Link assignment
Work on creating
effective design for Frankenstein pages
Handout
Design Requirements for Web Project
Optional Extra Time in Computer Lab
4:30-6:30pm
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Delicious Links List
Reflective Blog
posted to Google Group Discussion Board |
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Tues
2/26 |
Chp. 5, Vol.
I, Frankenstein (FR 42-48)
"Tintern
Abbey," Wordsworth (1798) (MM 571-73)
Chps. 4 & 14,
Biographia Literaria, Coleridge (1817) (MM
748-750)
Handout
Essay:
Explication of
Relevant Poem
Lyrical Ballads Table of Contents
Optional Extra Time in Computer Lab
4:30-6:30pm |
Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
(Essay) (MM)
Wordsworth,
1800 Preface to Lyrical Ballads (Essay) (MM)
Lyrical
Ballads
(Online)
P.B. Shelley, A Defense of Poetry (Essay) (MM)
Behrendt,
"General Introduction" re 1798 Irish Rebellion
(Article)
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Thur 2/28 |
CLASS CANCELLED
Chps. 6 & 7,
Vol I; Chp. 1, Vol. II, Frankenstein (FR
48-69)
An Historical
and Moral View
excerpt, Wollstonecraft (1794) (MM 415-420)
Letter III,
Wollstonecraft, Letters (Online)
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British
Newspaper Coverage of French Revolution
Coleridge &
Southey, Fall of Robespierre
(Play)
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Reading Response
posted to Google Group Discussion Board --
still due today |
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Tues 3/4 |
Readings
Moved from 2/28
Chps. 6 & 7,
Vol I; Chp. 1, Vol. II, Frankenstein (FR
48-69)
An Historical
and Moral View
excerpt, Wollstonecraft (1794) (MM 415-420)
Letter III,
Wollstonecraft, Letters (Online)
Heaven, Hell & the D�mons
Chps. 2-9,
Vol. II, Frankenstein (FR 69-115)
"Prometheus,"
Byron (1816) (MM 920)
"On
Mutability," P.B. Shelley (1816) (Online)
"There is No
Natural Religion, "All Religions Are One" &
The
Marriage of Heaven & Hell excerpts Blake (1788)
(MM 276-77; 287-94)
See also
Blake
Archive for accompanying images (Online)
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British
Newspaper Coverage of French Revolution
Coleridge &
Southey, Fall of Robespierre (Play)
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Thur 3/6 |
Digital Session (IS
134)
Annotate your
chapter with Explication (linking)
Find images of
landscapes and link
Begin linking
to other chapters
Commune with
outside student projects
Heaven, Hell & the D�mons
(reading moved from 3/4
Chps. 2-9,
Vol. II, Frankenstein (FR 69-115)
"Prometheus,"
Byron (1816) (MM 920)
"On
Mutability," P.B. Shelley (1816) (Online)
"There is No
Natural Religion, "All Religions Are One" &
The
Marriage of Heaven & Hell excerpts Blake (1788)
(MM 276-77; 287-94)
See also
Blake
Archive for accompanying images (Online)
Handouts
Essay:
Analysis of
Minor Character
"D�mon," Oxford English Dictionary
Optional Extra Time in Computer Lab
4:30-6:30pm
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Ginsberg,
Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems & Songs
Blake,
Songs of Innocence and Experience
Equino,
Interesting Narrative (Biography)
Posthumous
Poems of Shelley: Mary Shelley�s Fair Copy Book
(Course Reserve)
Literary
Landscapes, British Museum
A Picture of
Britain, Tate Museum
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Explication of
Relevant Poem
(submit
to Turnitin)
Reflective Blog
posted to Google Group Discussion Board |
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Tues
3/11 |
Chp. 1, Vol.
III, Frankenstein (FR 115-122)
History of A
Six Weeks� Tour ,
Shelleys (1817) (MM 1063-64)
Revisit
"Tintern Abbey," Wordsworth
Books 13 & 14,
The Prelude, Wordsworth (pub. 1850) (MM
652-56)
Handout
Essay:
Shelley�s
Manuscript, Letters & Journals
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Smith,
Beachy Head (Poem)
Contents of P.B. Shelley's Notebooks, Bodleian Library
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Thur
3/13 |
Chps. 2-5,
Vol. III, Frankenstein (FR 123-53)
"Eighteen
Hundred and Eleven," Barbauld (1812) (MM 181-85)
Remonstrance
to the French Legislators
excerpt, Coleridge (MM 692-93)
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Images of 19th-Century
London
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Reading Response
posted to Google Group Discussion Board |
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Tues
3/18 |
Chp. 6, Vol.
III, Frankenstein (FR 153-58)
"A
Mastectomy," Burney (1811) (MM 114-18)
Tim Burton�s
The Corpse Bride (in-class viewing)
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Burney,
The
Wanderer (Novel)
Fuseli,
The
Nightmare (Painting)
"The Bridal
Ornaments," Forget Me Not 1827 (Short
Story)
(Online)
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Thur
3/20 |
Digital Session (IS
134)
Annotate
Character Map with Minor Characters (in Google Docs)
Annotate
findings from Shelley�s MS, Letters & Journal in
your Web Project
Begin linking
to other chapters
Commune with
outside student projects
Find images of
landscapes and link
Handouts:
Oral Presentation:
Adapting
Frankenstein
Essay:
Review of
Frankenstein Reviews
Grad Students only:
Proposal & Final Essay
Optional Extra Time in Computer Lab
4:30-6:30pm |
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Analysis of Minor
Character
(submit
to Turnitin)
Shelley�s MS, Letters
& Journals
Reflective Blog
posted to Google Group Discussion Board |
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Tues 3/25 |
SPRING BREAK
NO CLASS |
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Thur 3/27 |
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Tues 4/1 |
Chps. 7-8,
Vol. III, Frankenstein (FR 158-79)
"Remarks on
Paradise Lost," Hazlitt (1818) (FR 317-19)
Handouts
Oral Presentations:
The Last Man |
Dante,
Inferno
Milton,
Paradise Lost
"Madness,"
Penrose (Poem)
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Review of
Frankenstein Reviews
(submit
to Turnitin)
Grad Students only:
Proposal |
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Thur
4/3 |
Presumption;
or the Fate of Frankenstein ,
Peake (1823) (FR 323-68)
See also
Reviews, Romantic Circles Electronic Edition
(Online)
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The man and the monster! or, The
fate of Frankenstein , Milner (Drama)
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Reading Response
posted to Google Group Discussion Board
Graduate Student (Max) Presentation on Milner Play
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Tues
4/8 |
Digital Session (IS
134)
Present your
Adapting Frankenstein
Annotate with
Frankenstein Reviews
Handout
Essay:
Identifying
Keepsake Authors
Optional
Extra Time in Computer Lab
4:30-6:30pm |
Jackson, Patchwork Girl (1996
Hypertext) (Course Reserve)
"Victor Frankenstein" (Movie)
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Oral Presentation
Essay on Adaptations
Reflective Blog
posted to Google Group Discussion Board |
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Thur 4/10 |
Keepsake for 1829:
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Forget Me Not
Archive
(Annual)
Bijou for 1828
(Annual)
Lost M.
Shelley Story Recovered
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Keepsake Authors Mystery Resolved
(submit
to Turnitin) |
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Tues
4/15 |
The Last Man, Vol. I, Introduction-Chp.
5 |
Haydn�s Music,
inspiration for The Last Man
The Last Man
Hypertext Edition
"The Last Man," Hood (Poem publ 1824)
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Oral Presentations
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Thur
4/17 |
The Last Man, Vol. I, Chps. 6-11 |
Byron, Don Juan, Cantos I &
II (MM)
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Oral Presentations
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Tues
4/22 |
Digital Session (IS
134)
Annotate your
chapter with adaptations
Link to other
chapters
Peer Review of
2 other web projects
Optional Extra Time in Computer Lab
4:30-6:30pm |
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Peer Review of Two
Other Web Projects
posted to Google Group Discussion Board
Reflective Blog
posted to Google Group Discussion Board |
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Thur
4/24 |
The Last Man, Vol. II, Chps. 1-5 |
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Oral Presentations
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Tues 4/29 |
CLASS CANCELLED
-- work on your websites today |
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Oral Presentations
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Thur 5/1 |
Meet in regular
classroom today The Last Man, Vol. II, Chps. 6-9
(moved from 4/29)
Digital Session (IS
134)
Annotate your
chapter with Keepsake Authors
Link to other
chapters
Discuss
Rationale
Optional Extra Time in Computer Lab
4:30-6:30pm
|
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Oral Presentations
(moved from 4/29)
Reflective Blog
posted to Google Group Discussion Board
(cancelled;
8pts gifted to you!) |
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Tues 5/6 |
The Last Man, Vol. III, Chps. 1-5 |
Contemporary Reviews of
The Last
Man
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Oral Presentations
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Thurs 5/8 |
The Last Man, Vol. III, Chps. 6-10 |
Vaughan,
Brian. Y: The Last Man (Graphic Novel)
The Making of
Mary Shelley�s Last Man (Movie)
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Oral Presentations
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See "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" at the San Jose
Repertory Theater, May 10 - June 8
(We could arrange a group
trip?) |
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Tues 5/13 |
Digital Session (IS
134)
Create
Bibliography for entire project
Create Works
Cited for Rationale
Finish linking
to other chapters, character map & timeline
Clean up
design elements
Optional Extra Time in Computer Lab
4:30-6:30pm |
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Reflective Blog
posted to Google Group Discussion Board |
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Final Exam Meeting:
Monday, May 19th, 2:45-5pm
Meet in Clark Hall, Rm. 122
Presentations of
Digital Projects
Potluck
&
Performance in Beethoven Center (4:30pm) |
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