Introductions: You, Me, British Romanticism & “Taste”

Related Texts
See also Mellor & Matlak introduction, Marilyn Gaull recommended text

Labor Day
No Class Meeting

Presentation Instructions Distributed via email

Sign up for Presentation Day by Friday (9/9), 5pm via email (provide 3 choices)

Metaphors of Taste: The Pleasures of Gustatory Appetite & Literary Aesthetics

• Gigante, “Aesthetics and Appetite: An Introduction,” Chp. 1, Taste

• Josiah Condor, “Reviewers Reviewed” 1811 (pdf)

• Coleridge, “Letter to William Godwin” (Mellor 711)

• “Tastes & Pleasures,” Carolyn Korsmeyer, Romantic Gastronomies

Related Texts
"Taste" (OED)
"Aesthetics" (OED)
"The Humanities and the Aesthetic" blog post re NASSR seminar
Chart: cost of literary materials (from kdh work)
Preliminary Questions on Aesthetics & Taste (from NEH Seminar)
Readings from NEH Seminar on Aesthetics (zip file)
Consider joining the NASSR-Listserv

Weekly Writing posted to Google Groups by 10am

Sublime, Picturesque, Beautiful: Imagination, Pleasure, Desire

• “Aesthetic Theory and Literary Criticism,” (Mellor 125-28)

• Burke, excerpt from A Philosophical Enquiry (Mellor (134-137)

• Gilpin, excerpt from Three Essays (Mellor 138-140)

• Coleridge, from Lecture 13 “On Poesy or Art” (Mellor 756-59)

• Gigante, “The Century of Taste,” Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke,” Chp. 3, Taste

Related Texts
Combe, The Three Tours of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, A Poem (1812 & 1821; satire illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson; images available online & text available in KH office)
Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era (in SJSU library)
Romanticism: An Oxford Guide
"The Life and Death of Dr. Syntax" (BBC)
Dr. Syntax Summarized
More images of Dr. Syntax

Landscape slideshow

Weekly Writing posted to Google Groups by 10am

Travel & Acquiring Taste: The Grand Tour

• Wollstonecraft, from Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (Mellor 420-25)

• Shelley, Mary, from History of a Six Weeks Tour (Mellor 1324-25)

• Shelley, Percy, “Mont Blanc” (Mellor 1063-64)

• Wordsworth, Introduction, Guide to the Lakes (1906) (Google Books)

• Moore, The Fudge Family in Paris (Google Books)

Related Texts

• BBC podcasts about The Grand Tour

• “Italy on the Grand Tour,” Getty Museum Exhibit

• “The Grand Tour,” Norton

• Chard, “Grand and Ghostly Tours: The Topography of Memory” (available via SJSU ProjectMuse; log-in required)

• Forms of Romantic-era Poetry (handout)

Weekly Writing posted to Google Groups by 10am

Presentation
Elizabeth Soares (Wollstonecraft Letters & Shelley Six Weeks)
Melissa Young (Moore)

Growth of the Poets Mind (Traveling towards Aesthetics)

• Wordsworth, The Prelude (Mellor 635-56)

• Gigante, “Digesting Wordsworth,” Chp. 4

Related Texts
Meyenberg & Vincent, “Wordsworth's Route Over the Simplon in 1790: A Reconstruction”
Example of an emblem

Weekly Writing posted to Google Groups by 10am

Presentation
Kate Yount (Wordsworth)
Foday Mattia (Wordsworth)
 

(Wo)Man of Taste: Novels vs. Poetry

• Wollstonecraft, Vindications of the Rights of Woman (Mellor 371-413)

• Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (Mellor 573-81)

• Coleridge, from Biographia Literaria (Mellor 745-55)

• Shelley, Percy, from A Defence of Poetry (Mellor 1167-78)

• Johnson, Rambler No. 4 (pdf)

• Barbauld, from On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing (Mellor 171-180)

Related Texts
Gregory, A Father's Legacy to His Daughers [conduct manual]

Weekly Writing posted to Google Groups by 10am

Presentation
Doll Piccotto (Wollstonecraft)

Special Collections Visit, 4-5pm
5th Floor, King Library

Experimenting with Literary Taste

• Wordsworth & Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798, London)  – read the Advertisement and all poetry, especially “Tintern Abbey” and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

• Jeffrey, a review of Wordsworth's poetry (Mellor 157-158)

Related Texts
Clare, “The Peasant Poet” & “Pastoral Poesy” (Mellor 1251, 1252-53)

Handouts
Final Project Instructions (distributed via email)
Poetry: Wordsworth vs. Shelley
Table of Contents Compared, Lyrical Ballads

Weekly Writing posted to Google Groups by 10am

Presentation
Jill Harper (Lyrical Ballads w/emphasis on "Rime")

Traveling to Learn Aesthetics & Taste

• Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) Vol. I & 1831 Introduction

Related Texts

• Presumption, play based on Frankenstein (1823)

• Frankenstein, An Electronic Edition

• Male/Female Gothic (HO)

• Gothic Timeline (HO)

Weekly Writing posted to Google Groups by 10am

Presentations
Maren Lassner (Shelley)
Amanda Kolstad-Stobaugh (Shelley)

Traveling to Learn Aesthetics & Taste – cont.

• Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) – Vols. II-III

• Wordsworth, “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” (Mellor 571-73)

• Sturgeon, Essays, Moral, Philosophical, and Stomachical (Gusto 79-125)

Related Texts

• Lewis, The Monk

• Radcliffe, Castle Rackrent or A Sicilian Romance

• Scott, Waverley

(No presentations today)

See "Spatial Humanities: Step by Step"

4-6pm
Location Provided during class last week

Since we can't get a computer lab, how about we spend the evening with my collection of rare books
Read my article on literary annuals for prep:
Harris, "Feminizing the Textual Body: Women and their Literary Annuals in Nineteenth-Century Britain." PBSA 99:4 (Dec 2005): 573-622.
and
Introduction, Gothic Short Stories in the Annuals (HO)

Colonial Appetites & Consumerism

Visit from Professor Krishnaswamy (4-5:15)

• Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” (Mellor 729-30)

• DeQuincy, from Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Mellor 848-65)

• Morton, Intro & Chps. 1, The Poetics of Spice (pdf - emailed via Google Groups only due to copyright restrictions)

• Orientalism Handout & readings (from Prof. Krishnaswamy) (pdf & emailed via Google Groups due to copyright restrictions) (added 11/15/11)

Related Texts

• Williams, “Sporting Sketches during a Short Stay in Hindustane”

• Perhaps some theory: Spivak, Bhaba, Deleuze/Guattari?

• Blake, Jerusalem

Weekly Writing posted to Google Groups by 10am

Presentations:
Genevieve Sanvictores (Coleridge & DeQuincey) - 2nd half of class

Consumption

• Charles Lamb, “A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig,” (Gusto 129)

• Kitchiner, from The Cook's Oracle (Gusto 57-70)

• Byron, Don Juan Canto II (Mellor 80-997)

• Gigante, Chp. 5 & 6, Taste

Related Texts
Clare, “Nutting” (Mellor 1249)

Weekly Writing posted to Google Groups by 10am

Presentation
Patricia Pinedo (Byron)
Melissa Young (Lamb)

Modern Man of Taste

• from The Gourmand's Almanac & The Host's Manual, (Gusto 1-55)

• Gigante, Chp. 8, Taste

Weekly Writing posted to Google Groups by 10am

Final Exam Meeting: December 12th, 2:45pm-5pm

Final Projects & Presentations Due