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Date
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Topic |
Reading Due |
Assignment Due |
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Mon 8/29 |
Introductions: You,
Me, British Romanticism & �Taste� |
Readings Brainstorming &
Introduction to the Romantic period
Related Texts
See also Mellor & Matlak
introduction, Marilyn Gaull recommended text |
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Mon 9/5 |
Labor Day
No Class Meeting
Presentation Instructions Distributed via email |
Accept Google Groups invitation
for Weekly Postings
Sign up for
Presentation Day by Friday (9/9), 5pm via email (provide
3 choices) |
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Mon
9/12 |
Metaphors of Taste:
The Pleasures of Gustatory Appetite & Literary
Aesthetics
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Gigante, �Aesthetics and
Appetite: An Introduction,� Chp. 1, Taste
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Josiah Condor,
�Reviewers Reviewed� 1811 (pdf)
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Coleridge,
�Letter to William Godwin� (Mellor 711)
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�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 |
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Mon 9/19 |
Sublime, Picturesque,
Beautiful: Imagination, Pleasure, Desire
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�Aesthetic Theory and Literary
Criticism,� (Mellor 125-28)
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Burke, excerpt from
A Philosophical Enquiry (Mellor (134-137)
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Gilpin, excerpt from
Three Essays (Mellor 138-140)
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Coleridge, from
Lecture 13 �On Poesy or Art� (Mellor 756-59)
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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
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Mon 9/26 |
Travel & Acquiring
Taste: The Grand Tour
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Wollstonecraft, from
Letters Written
During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and
Denmark
(Mellor 420-25)
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Shelley, Mary, from
History of a Six
Weeks Tour
(Mellor 1324-25)
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Shelley, Percy,
�Mont Blanc� (Mellor 1063-64)
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Wordsworth,
Introduction,
Guide to the
Lakes
(1906) (Google Books)
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Moore,
The Fudge Family
in Paris
(Google Books)
Related Texts
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Weekly Writing
posted to Google Groups by 10am
Presentation
Elizabeth Soares (Wollstonecraft
Letters &
Shelley Six Weeks)
Melissa Young (Moore) |
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Mon 10/3 |
Growth of the Poets Mind
(Traveling towards Aesthetics)
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Wordsworth,
The Prelude
(Mellor 635-56)
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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)
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Mon 10/10 |
(Wo)Man of
Taste: Novels vs. Poetry
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Wollstonecraft,
Vindications of
the Rights of Woman
(Mellor 371-413)
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Wordsworth, Preface to
Lyrical Ballads
(Mellor 573-81)
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Coleridge, from
Biographia
Literaria
(Mellor 745-55)
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Shelley, Percy, from
A Defence of
Poetry
(Mellor 1167-78)
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Johnson,
Rambler
No. 4
(pdf)
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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) |
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Mon 10/17 |
Special
Collections Visit, 4-5pm
5th Floor, King Library |
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Mon 10/24 |
Experimenting with
Literary Taste
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Wordsworth & Coleridge,
Lyrical Ballads
(1798, London) � read the Advertisement and all
poetry, especially �Tintern Abbey� and �Rime of the
Ancient Mariner�
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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") |
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Mon 10/31 |
Traveling to Learn
Aesthetics & Taste
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Related Texts
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Weekly Writing
posted to Google Groups by 10am
Presentations
Maren Lassner (Shelley)
Amanda Kolstad-Stobaugh (Shelley) |
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Mon 11/7 |
Traveling to Learn
Aesthetics & Taste � cont.
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Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) � Vols. II-III
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Wordsworth, �Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern
Abbey� (Mellor 571-73)
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Sturgeon, Essays, Moral, Philosophical, and
Stomachical (Gusto 79-125)
Related Texts
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Final Project Proposal
(email by
12pm today) (No
presentations today) |
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Mon 11/14 |
Mapping Project: Travel
Guides/Narratives in Google Maps
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) |
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Mon 11/21 |
Colonial Appetites &
Consumerism
Visit from Professor
Krishnaswamy (4-5:15)
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Coleridge, �Kubla Khan�
(Mellor 729-30)
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DeQuincy,
from
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
(Mellor 848-65)
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Morton,
Intro & Chps. 1,
The Poetics of Spice
(pdf - emailed via Google Groups only due to
copyright restrictions)
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Orientalism Handout & readings (from Prof. Krishnaswamy) (pdf
& emailed via Google Groups due to copyright
restrictions)
(added 11/15/11)
Related Texts
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Weekly Writing
posted to Google Groups by 10am
Presentations:
Genevieve
Sanvictores (Coleridge & DeQuincey) - 2nd half of
class |
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Mon 11/28 |
Consumption
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Charles Lamb, �A
Dissertation Upon Roast Pig,� (Gusto
129)
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Kitchiner, from
The Cook's Oracle
(Gusto
57-70)
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Byron,
Don Juan Canto
II (Mellor 80-997)
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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) |
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Mon 12/5 |
Modern Man of Taste
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Weekly Writing
posted to Google Groups by 10am |
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Final Exam Meeting:
December 12th, 2:45pm-5pm
Final Projects & Presentations Due |
