ENGLISH ROMANTICISM: LITERATURE AND POLITICS (1780-1830)

Use of multimedia, power point presentations, exploration of various online databases and digital projects: Romantic Circles: http://www.rc.umd.edu The William Blake archive: http://blakearhive.org Voice of the Shuttle: http://vos.ucsb.edu (general humanities site) “The English Romantic Page”: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2750 International Byron Society: http://www.internationalbyronsociety.org (Byron’s life and works) British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832: http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/

Assessment is based on an brief critical essay with limited bibliography (30% of the final grade) and on a final examination with a combination of two short essay questions on taught materials plus an essay question on a previously untaught text (70% of the final grade). The essay is assessed on the basis of organisation, argumentation, quality of expression in English and skills of analysis and synthesis in interpreting the movement of English Romanticism and its social-political dimension. The final examination is assessed on the basis of factual knowledge and familiarity with the required readings, in addition to the above criteria. There are also optional oral presentations. Students are responsible for a fifteen-minute presentation so as to initiate discussion (e.g. introduce the class to a poet and to the historical context of his/her work, discuss an aspect of a poem, analyse a critical source etc. Students will also have to produce a handout to facilitate class discussion). Prior consultation with the instructor is necessary. Successful completion of this task will result in an extra mark on the students’ overall grade. The criteria are made known to the students at the beginning of the course.

Romanticism, ed. Duncan Wu, Blackwell, 3rd Edition Φωτοτυπημένο και σκαναρισμένο υλικό (δείτε τις δευτερεύουσες πηγές στο παρακάτω αναλυτικό πρόγραμμα) Αναλυτικό πρόγραμμα της ύλης του μαθήματος: i) Romanticism and Transcendence / Perceptions of Nature / Language and the New Poetic / Imagination Percy Bysshe Shelley,“Mont Blanc” (1075-79 & Journal-Letter 1073-74); “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (1071-1073) William Wordsworth,“Intimations of Immortality” (538-542) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Eolian Harp” (601-605) Wasserman, Earl R. “Power and the Cycle of Mutability: Mont Blanc,” “Intellectual Beauty and the Self: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.” Shelley: A Critical Reading. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971. Trilling, Lionel. “The Immortality Ode.” The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1976. BACKGROUND READING: Kitson, Peter J. “Introduction.” Coleridge, Keats and Shelley. Ed. Peter J. Kitson. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1996. Diffey, T.J. “The Roots of the Imagination: The Philosophical Context,” and Stephen Prickett “Romantic Literature.” The Romantics. Ed. Stephen Prickett. London: Methuen, 1981. Wu, Duncan. “Introduction.” Romanticism: An Anthology. xxx-xlii. ii) Romanticism and Revolution The Revolution Controversy and the “Spirit of the Age”: Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft. Norton, 148-167. William Godwin, from Political Justice (153-154) William Wordsworth, Books 10 and 11 of The Prelude. Norton, 371-378. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Epistle to William Wilberforce (38-41) John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1397-1400) Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (1091-1149) Scrivener, Michael. “Literature and Politics.” The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740-1830. Ed. Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee. Cambridge: CUP, 2004. Dawson, P.M.S. “Poetry in an Age of Revolution.” The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1993. Duff, David. “From Revolution to Romanticism: The Historical Context to 1800.” A Companion to Romanticism. Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Vendler, Helen. “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” The Odes of Keats. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. O’Neill, Michael. “Prometheus Unbound.” A Companion to Romanticism. Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. iii) Romanticism and Gender Anna Laetitia Barbauld, “On a Lady’s Writing” (corpus) Mary Robinson, “A London Summer Morning” (cf. Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge” [534‒35]) William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (217-223) Keats, Lamia (1403-1419) Mellor, Anne. “Introduction: Romanticism, Gender and Genre.” Romanticism and Gender. New York: Routledge, 1993. Cox, Jeffrey N. “Lamia, Isabella, and The Eve of St. Agnes.” The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan Wolfson. Cambridge: CUP, 2001. Mellor, Anne. “Keats and the Complexities of Gender.” The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan Wolfson. Cambridge: CUP, 2001. Extract from David Erdman, Blake: Prophet against Empire (1954). The Romantic Poets. Ed. Uttara Natarajan. MA: Blackwell, 2007. iv) Romanticism and Empire George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Giaour (corpus) Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor (1053-1071) Fulford, Tim, and Peter J. Kitson, eds. Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. pp. 1-47. Butler, Marilyn. “The Orientalism of Byron’s Giaour.” Byron and the Limits of Fiction. Ed. Bernard Beatty and Vincent Newey. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 1988. Wasserman, Earl R. “The Poetry of Skepticism: Alastor” Shelley: A Critical Reading. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971. Αshcroft, Bill, and Pal Ahluwalia. Edward Said: The Paradox of Identity. London: Routledge, 1999. v) Romanticism and Identity George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Don Juan, Dedication and Canto I (933-987) William Wordsworth, The Prelude I, (VI, XI). Norton 322-338. Felicia Hemans, from Records of Woman (1249-1306) John Clare, (1223) William Hazlitt, “My First Acquaintance with Poets” (771-784) George Gordon, Lord Byron, “To the Po. 2 June 1819” (1036-1037) Stabler, Jane. “Don Juan.” A Companion to Romanticism. Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Roberts, Adam. “Records of Woman.” A Companion to Romanticism. Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Benedict, Barbara M. “Readers, Writers, Reviewers, and the Professionalization of Literature.” The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740-1830. Ed. Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee. Cambridge: CUP, 2004. vi) Romanticism and the Gothic Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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