English 149 Schedule

Date	Lecture/Discussion	Reading Due	Assignment Due
Thur 8/25	Introductions		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 Top
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)	3 Questions ICE Writing Tips
Tue 9/13	"High" Romanticism: Wordsworth & Coleridge	Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (573) & "We Are Seven" (566)	3 Questions Give Turnitin: How To, Turnitin: Submitting & Password (in-class only) Top
Thur 9/15		Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads: "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" (571)	3 Questions HYPERTEXT REVIEW DUE
Tue 9/20		Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads: "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (735) & "Kubla Khan" (729) Modern References to Xanadu: Rush Lyrics, "Kubla Khan" in Wikipedia, "Xanadu" Movie, Sample songs from "Xanadu" movie, Xanadu Google search Versions of Lyrical Ballads: (1) Lyrical Ballads, Renascence Editions, (2) Lyrical Ballads: A Concordance, (3) Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition 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	3 Questions In-Class Essay: Blake's artwork vs. his text
Tue 9/27		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	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)	3 Questions In-Class Essay: Wordsworth vs. Smith
Tue 10/4	Poetic Forms: Women Skirting the Romantic Tradition	Barbauld, "On a Lady's Writing" (167) Online: Women & Penmanship (RC Poem Web) Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" (729) Robinson, "To the Poet Coleridge" (352)	3 Questions Recitations: (1) Elizabeth K., STC, "Ancient Mariner" (2) Nicole, STC, "Kubla Khan" Top
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)	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) Images of Race & Working Class (PowerPoint from class)	3 Questions Recitations: (1) Philip, Cowper, "Pity"
Thur 10/13	MID-TERM EXAM (Bring exam booklets) See Study Guide Top
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)	3 Questions Recitations: (1) Christina, Cowper, "NC" (2) Unika, STC (3) Diana, STC
Thur 10/20		Wordsworth, "I Wandered" (601) D. Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journals (663-667), "Thoughts on my Sick-Bed" (669) Wollstonecraft, Letters Written (421)	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)	3 Questions Recitations: (1) Raphael, Shelley, "HtIB" (2) Serge, Shelley, "Ozymandias"
Thur 10/27	Later Romantic Writers: Beauty	Shelley, "Ozymandias" (1066) Smith, "Ozymandias" (Online only) Byron, "She Walks in Beauty" (Online only) Hood's Parody (Class Handout only)	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	3 Questions Recitations: (1) Andrea, Keats, "Ode...Urn" (2) Peter, Keats, "To Autumn" Top
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		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"
Thur 11/10		Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Vol. I, Chps. 107 (17-58)	3 Questions
Tue 11/15		Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Vol. II (all) See Branaugh's birth scene	3 Questions
Thur 11/17		Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Vol. III, Chps. 1-6 (103-139) Email: D�mon (from OED)	3 Questions In-Class Essay
Tue 11/22		Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Finish Vol. III Note: Pride & Prejudice, SJ Rep. Theater (11/26-12/30) Student & Group Discounts Post-show discussion w/actors after Matinee	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)	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)	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) Top