January |
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Introductions to Class
Timeline for Romanticism (see Mellor &
Matlak and online
Chronology of Events)
-- over 1200 significant events
Pre-Romantic History - Lecture Notes
Anne Mellor, "Introduction: Romanticism,
Gender & Genre" Romanticism & Gender (handout)
(password protected)
Feminine & Masculine Romanticism
(handout)
Rachel Donadio, "Keeper of the Canon,"
New York Times Book Review (Jan 8 2006)
Harold Bloom's Romantic Reading List from The Western
Canon (discussed in class)
Register for
NASSR Listserv
&
Course Listserv
Recommended
Marilyn Gaull, English Romanticism
(refer when necessary)
Abrams, Glossary of Literary Terms
(refer when necessary)
David Perkins,
"The English Construction
of Romantic Poetry." Is Literary History Possible?
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993.
(online)
Buy Anne Mellor's Romanticism & Gender:
Amazon,
Barnes & Noble,
Powells and
Bookfinder
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February |
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Romantic Beginnings: Beauty, Nature & the Sublime
French Revolution and Rights of Man
(9-12)
Burke, Reflections on Revolution in
France (13), "A Philosophical Enquiry Into . . . the
Sublime" (134)
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of Rights
of Man (20)
Paine, Rights of Man (25)
British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution
(online)
Secondary
►Mellor, Anne. "Domesticating the
Sublime." Romanticism and Gender. NY: Routledge,
1993. 85-106. (password protected)
Day, Aidan. "Gender and the Sublime."
Romanticism. NY: Routledge, 1996. 183-203.
MacCarthy, Fiona. "The First Feminist."
New York Review of Books (Dec 1 2005). 55-58.
Recommended
Gaull, English Romanticism,
Preface (vii), Chp 1: "People During the Romantic Age"
(3), Chp. 5: "Poets and a Gallery of �Sophisters, Economists, and
Calculators�" (109)
"Sublime." Abram's Glossary of Literary Terms
(8th ed.) 316.
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Sublime Rights of the "Other"
Polwhele, "The Unsex�d Females" (42),
"A
Young Lady Playing at Chess" (online)
Barbauld, "The Rights of Woman" (186), Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (181)
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman "To M. Talleyrand" (371)
Godwin, Memoirs (also see contemporary
reactions at back of text)
Hazlitt, "Table Talk" (150)
Secondary
►Elfenbein, Andrew. "Mary Wollstonecraft
and the Sexuality of Genius." The Cambridge Companion
to Mary Wollstonecraft. Ed. Claudia L.
Johnson. Cambridge UP, 2002. 228-245.
►Trott, Nicola. "Sexing the Critic: Mary
Wollstonecraft at the Turn of the Century." 1798, The
Year of the �Lyrical Ballads.� Ed. Richard Cronin. NY:
St. Martin�s, 1998. 32-67.
Mellor, Anne. "A Criticism of Their Own:
Romantic Women Literary Critics." Questioning
Romanticism. Ed. John Beer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995.
29-48.
Curran, Stuart. "Women Readers, Women
Writers." The Cambridge Companion to British
Romanticism. Cambridge UP, 1993. 177-195.
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Education & Sensibility: A Woman�s Place
Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Barbauld, "On Novel-Writing" (171)
Secondary
►Ford, Susan Allen. "�A name more dear�:
Daughters, Fathers and Desire in A Simple Story, the
False Friend and
Mathilda. Re-Visioning
Romanticism. Eds. Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel
Haefner. Philadelphia: U Penn P, 1994. 51-71.
►Sha, Richard C. "'Keeping
Them Out of Harm's Way': Sketching, Female
Accomplishments, and the Shaping of Gender in Britain."
The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism.
Philadelphia: U Penn P, 1998. 73-104.
Recommended
A Dictionary of Sensibility
(online)
Music from an Inchbald play (online)
Anonymous Review of A Simple Story
in The Analytical Review (May 1791) (online)
Abrams on "Sensibility" (291) & "Sentimentalism" (293)
Student Presentations:
1) Lisa Kim, Ford article with A Simple Story:
Discussion Questions
&
Annotated Bibliographic Entry
2) Jane Kim, Sha article with A Simple Story:
Discussion Questions &
Annotated Bibliographic Entry
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"High" Romanticism: Wordsworth
& Coleridge
Hazlitt, "Lectures on English Poets" (149)
Table of Contents from Lyrical Ballads
(handout)
Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical
Ballads (573), "We Are Seven" (566), Lyrical
Ballads, "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" (571) "Song"
(582), "Lucy Gray" (583), "The World is Too Much with
Us" (596)
Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, "Rime of the Ancient
Mariner" (735),
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
song by Iron Maiden (requires
media player)
Versions of Lyrical
Ballads (online): (1)
Lyrical Ballads, Renascence Editions,
(2)
Lyrical Ballads: A Concordance, (3)
Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition
Robinson, Sappho & Phaon (320)
Secondary
►Mellor, Anne. "Gender
in Masculine Romanticism." Romanticism and Gender.
NY: Routledge, 1993.
17-30.
(buy a copy of this book before today;
or see library reserve)
►Hoagwood, Terence and Kathryn Ledbetter.
"Scholarly Fantasy and Material Reality in Mary
Robinson�s Sappho and Phaon." �Coloured Shadows�:
Contexts in Publishing, Printing and Reading
Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. NY:
Palgrave, 2005.
19-31.
Ross, Marlon B. "Romantic Quest and
Conquest: Troping Masculine Power in the Crisis of
Poetic Identity." Romanticism and Feminism. Ed. Anne Mellor.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988. 26-51.
Sonmez, M. J-M. "Archaisms in �The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner." Cardiff Corvey 9 (Dec
2002).
Recommended
Gaull, English Romanticism, Chp.
11: "The Poetry of Life" (289)
Abrams, Romantic definition within Neoclassicism (185) &
"Blank Verse" (25)
Student Presentations:
1) Katie, Ross article, "Lines Written a Few Miles
Above Tintern Abbey":
Discussion questions &
Annotated Bibliographic Entry
2) Paul, Sonmez article with "Rime":
Discussion questions &
Annotated Bibliographic Entry
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March |
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Landscape:
Pastoral vs. Urban
Wollstonecraft, Letters Written:
Advertisement, Letters 1-5 (online)
W. Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a
Cloud" (601), "London" (599)
D. Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journals
(663-667), "Thoughts on my Sick-Bed" (669)
Robinson, "The Haunted Beach" (323), "A
London Summer Morning" (347)
P. Shelley, "Sonnet: England in 1819"
(1166)
Blake, "London" (302)
Smith, Beachy Head (244;
especially ll672-731)
Literary Landscapes
(online)
A Picture of Britain,
a Tate Museum exhibit of
landscape artists from over 300 years
London Index
images of 19th-Century London
(online)
Secondary
►Neighbors, Beth Ann. "The Frustrated
Landscapes of Charlotte Smith & William Wordsworth."
Prometheus Unplugged?
Woof, Pamela. "Dorothy Wordsworth:
Story-teller." The Wordsworth Circle 34:2 (Spring
2003). 103-110.
Heinzelman, Kurt. "The Cult of
Domesticity: Dorothy and William Wordsworth at
Grasmere." Romanticism and Feminism. Ed. Anne Mellor.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988. 52-78.
Student Presentations:
1) Chris, Neighbors article with Charlotte Smith:
Discussion questions &
Annotated Bibliographic Entry
2) Tara, Woof article with Dorothy
Wordsworth:
Discussion questions &
Annotated
Bibliographic Entry
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William Blake:
Outside the
Romantic Tradition(?)
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
(294), The Book of Thel (284)
Songs of Innocence:
"Introduction" (277), "The Lamb" (278), "The Chimney
Sweeper" (279), "Little Black Boy" (278)
Songs of Experience: "Introduction"
(299), "The Tyger" (301), "The Chimney Sweeper" (300),
"The Sick Rose" (300), "Infant Sorrow" (303)
The Blake Archive (see all accompanying plates here online)
Holy Soul Jelly Roll by Allen Ginsberg (listen
in-class; on
course reserve)
Secondary
►Mellor, Anne and John Bender.
"Liberating the Sister Arts: The Revolution of Blake�s
�Infant Sorrow.�" ELH 50:2 (Summer 1983).
297-319.
Goslee, Nancy Moore. "Slavery and Sexual
Character: Questioning the Master Trope in Blake's
Visions of the Daughters of Albion." ELH
57:1 (Spring 1990).
101-128.
Recommended
Gaull, English Romanticism, Chp.
7: "Inventing the Past" (175), Chp. 12: "Painting and
the Other Visual Arts" (322)
Recently found (2001) Blake watercolors (NYT
2/16/06):
Image 1 &
Image 2 -- on sale at Sotheby's!!!
Fuseli's "The Nightmare" (1782) painting
, NYTimes article --
similar to Blake's Gothicism
Gothic Exhibition at the Tate Britain (until May 1,
2006)
Fuseli Article from the Tate Exhibition Catalog
Portrait of William Blake
from the National Portrait
Gallery, London
Blake Exhibit at the Tate Britain Museum
William Blake Online,
a learning exhibit by the Tate
Britain Museum
Student Presentations:
1) Julie Meloni, Goslee article with Blake's
Visions:
Discussion questions &
Annotated
Bibliographic Entry
2) Meghan Kirkpatrick, Mellor/Bender article
with Blake's "Infant Sorrow":
Discussion
questions &
Annotated Bibliographic Entry
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Poetic Forms:
Women Skirting the
Romantic Tradition
Charlotte Smith, "Partial Muse" (227),
"Unhappy Exile" (227), "To Fancy" (228), "To the Muse"
(229)
W. Wordsworth, "Scorn Not the Sonnet"
(online)
Barbauld, "On a Lady's Writing" (167),
"Washing-Day" (187),
Women & Penmanship (RC Poem
Web)
Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" (729),
"Xanadu" in
Oxford English Dictionary
Modern
References to Xanadu (online):
Rush
Lyrics, "Kubla
Khan" in Wikipedia,
"Xanadu" Movie,
Sample songs from "Xanadu" movie,
Xanadu Google search,
Xanadu Gallery
Robinson, "To the Poet Coleridge" (352)
Landon, "The Enchanted Island" (Handout)
Secondary
►Mellor, Anne K. "Were Women Writers
�Romantics�?" Modern Language Quarterly 62:4 (Dec
2001). 393-405.
►Curran, Stuart. "The I Altered."
Romanticism and Feminism. Ed. Anne Mellor.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988. 185-207.
Romantic-Era Poetic Forms (Handout)
Recommended
Abrams on "Sonnet" (299)
Student Presentations:
1) Jennifer, Mellor article, Barbauld's "Washing
Day":
Discussion questions &
Annotated Bibliographic Entry
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Paper Proposals
/ First Drafts &Annotated Bibliography
Due (Email)
No Class Meeting |
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Spring Break � No Meeting |
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April |
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Hushed Voices: Slavery & the Working
Class
Maria Edgeworth, Belinda
Cowper, "The Negro's Complaint" (62)
Equiano, An Interesting Narrative
(192)
More, Cheap Repository Tracts
(216)
Images of Race & Working Class
(PowerPoint in class)
Secondary
►Greenfield, Susan C. "�Abroad and at
Home�: Sexual Ambiguity, Miscegenation, and Colonial
Boundaries in Edgeworth�s Belinda." PMLA
112:2 (March 1997). 214.228.
Mellor, Anne. "The Rational Woman."
Romanticism and Gender. NY: Routledge, 1993. (use
your copy of the text)
Mellor, Anne. "�Am I Not a Woman, and a
Sister?� Slavery, Romanticism and Gender."
Romanticism, Race and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834. Eds. Alan
Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh. Bloomington: Indiana UP,
1996. (311-329).
Recommended
Gaull, English Romanticism, Chp.
3: "Children�s Literature and Education" (50)
Writing Tips:
What is an effective topic (content) and a good
proposal (writing)? See an
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Becoming More than "Nature"
Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
(745) & "The Eolian Harp" (760),
The
Aeolian Harp images (online)
W. Wordsworth,
"The Ruined Cottage" (Romantic
Audience Project online); revisit "Preface to
Lyrical Ballads"
Landon, "Erinna" (1381)
P. Shelley, A Defence of Poetry
(1167), "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1065), "Ozymandias"
(1066),
Shelley, Wordsworth & the Byronic Hero
(online)
Smith, "Ozymandias" (online)
Recommended
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Keats & Landon in Concert
Lockhart, "Cockney School" (159)
Keats, Letters to George & Thomas Keats
(1262), Letter to J.H. Reynolds (1263), "Ode on a
Grecian Urn" (1297),
New Yorker Cartoon
(online), "Ode to a Nightingale" (1296), "La Belle Dame
Sans Merci" (1278)
Landon, "The Proud Ladye" (1379), "I
Wrote My Name Upon the Sand" (online),
revisit "The Enchanted
Island" (online)
Secondary
►Wolfson, Susan. "Keats and the Manhood
of the Poet." European Romantic Review 6 (Summer
1995). 1-37.
►Mellor, Anne. "Ideological
Cross-Dressing: John Keats/Emily Bront�." Romanticism
and Gender. NY: Routledge, 1993. 171-208. (use your copy
of the text)
Swann, Karen. "Harassing the Muse."
Romanticism and Feminism. Ed. Anne Mellor.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988. 81-92.
Recommended
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Fetishizing Beauty in Popular Culture
British
Literary Annuals: Forget Me Not,
Keepsake, Fisher�s Drawing Room Scrapbook, Literary
Souvenir, Comic Annual
(review actual texts in class)
American Literary Annuals: The Token,
The Atlantic Souvenir
Polwhele, "A Young Lady Playing at
Chess" (online) -- revisit
Hemans,
"The Mother and Child" (online)
"A
Most Beautiful Engraving" (online)
Forget Me Not Archive (Poetess
Archive online) -- poke around
Bijou for 1828 (Poetess Archive online)
-- poke around
Keepsake for 1829
(Romantic
Circles online) -- poke around
Note:
Albums, Pocketbooks & Female Genitalia
Secondary
►Harris, Katherine D. "Feminizing the
Textual Body: Women and their Literary Annuals in
Nineteenth-Century Britain."
PBSA 99:4 (Dec. 2005). 573-622.
►Definitions
of "literary annual," "giftbook" and "album." The
Poetess Archive
►Mellor, Anne. "Exhausting the
Beautiful." Romanticism and Gender. NY: Routledge,
1993. 107-143. (use your copy of the text)
►Hoagwood, Terence and Kathryn Ledbetter.
"Scandal as Commodity and the �Calumniated Woman.�"
�Coloured Shadows�: Contexts in Publishing,
Printing and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women
Writers. NY: Palgrave, 2005. 47-73.
Reiss, Daniel. "Landon and the Dawn of
Post-English Romanticism." Studies in English
Literature 1500-1900 36:4 (Autumn 1996).
807-827.
Tucker, Herbert F. "House Arrest: the
Domestication of English Poetry in the 1820s." New
Literary History 25:3 (Summer 1994). 521-548.
Recommended
Gaull, English Romanticism, "The
Literary Marketplace," Chp. 2 (12)
March, Rosemary. "The Page Affair: Lady Caroline Lamb's
Literary Cross-Dressing." CARO: Lady Caroline Lamb
Website. Ed. Paul Douglass. [on commonplace books]
Student Presentations:
1) Dawn Nelson, Mellor article with "A
Most Beautiful Engraving" & an online annual:
Discussion questions &
Annotated Bibliographic Entry
2) Jordan Klebig, Tucker article, online annuals:
Discussion questions &
Annotated Bibliographic Entry
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May |
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Evaluating Beauty & British-ness
Byron, "She Walks in Beauty" (online),
"Prometheus" (920), Dedication to Don Juan
(1047), Don Juan
Cantos I-IV, IX, XIII (each begins on
the following pages: 954, 980, 999, 1010, 1018, 1022),
Byronic Images
(online), Byron's melodies
"She Walks in Beauty" (listen online),
Hood's Comic Annual Parody
(online)
Hemans, "Casabianca" (1227), "Evening
Prayer" (1227 �
see accompanying image online
from 1826 Forget Me Not), "Woman &
Fame" (1247), "Brigand Leader & His Wife" & image
(online), Records of Woman (1828 � all poems),
The Sceptic: A Hemans Byron Dialogue (poke
around this Romantic
Circles online edition)
Landon, "Felicia Hemans" (1401)
Secondary
►Wolfson, Susan J. "�Their She
Condition�: Cross-Dressing and the Politics of Gender in
Don Juan." ELH 54:3 (Autumn 1987).
585-617.
Ross, Marlon. "Records of Women:
Inscribing Feminine Desire in the Poetics of Affection."
The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of
Women�s Poetry. NY: Oxford, 1989. 267-316.
►Wolfson, Susan. "�Domestic Affections�
and �the spear of Minerva�: Felicia Hemans and the
Dilemma of Gender." Re-Visioning Romanticism. Eds. Carol
Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner. Philadelphia: U Penn P,
1994. 128-166.
Barton, Anne. "The Romantic Survivor."
New York Review of Books. (Dec 15, 2005).
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5/7 (Sun) 2-6pm Garden Party
Tor House, (near) Big
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Class Cancelled |
Who Gets the Last Word?
Mary Shelley, The Last Man
Romantic Circles
Electronic Edition (online) -- poke around
Contemporary Reviews of The Last Man
(online)
Haydn�s Music, inspiration for The
Last Man (online)
Secondary
Albright, Richard S. "'In the mean time,
what did Perdita?': Rhythms and Reversals in Mary
Shelley's The Last Man." Romanticism On the Net
13 (February 1999).
►Scheutz, Julie. "Mary Shelly' s The
Last Man: Monstrous Worlds, Domestic Communities,
and Masculine Romantic Ideology." Prometheus
Unplugged?
►Eberle-Sinatra, Michael. "Gender,
Authorship and Male Domination: Mary Shelley�s Limited
Freedom in
Frankenstein and The Last Man.
Mary Shelley�s Fictions: From Frankenstein to Falkner.
Ed. Michael Eberle-Sinatra. NY: St. Martin�s
Press/Palgrave, 2000. 95-108.
Crook, Nora. Review of The Last Man
Broadview Edition. Romanticism on the Net 11
(August 1998).
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(Final Exam 5:15-7:30pm)
Final Essay Due
NASSR Post Due
Circulate Abstracts
Movies about the Romantics or Romantic Era (handout)
-- shall we watch one?
Pop Culture References to Romantic Literature
(Romantic Circles online)
Fictional Representations of Romantics & Romanticism
(Romantic Circles online)
Transition to the Victorians
(handout)
Panel: Connecting the Romantics -- Pre & Post
Speakers: Prof. Andy Fleck (Milton as
Precursor) & Prof. Alan Soldofsky (Beat Poets as Modern
Inheritors)
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