Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
COURSE OUTLINE AND READING LIST
Seminar 1:
Required Reading
Wu, Duncan. “Introduction.” Romanticism: An Anthology. 3rd ed. Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford: Blackwell 2006. xxx-xlii. (book to be distributed)
Casaliggi, Carmen, and Porscha Fermanis, eds. Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History. Routledge, 2016. Intro. and chapt. 1.
Wright, Julia M. “Nation and Empire.” A Handbook of Romanticism Studies. Ed. Joel Faflak and Julia M. Wright. Blackwell, 2012.
Seminar 2: Dialogues of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Romantic Era
Required Reading
Kant, Immanuel. “Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose” [1784]. The Cosmopolitan Reader. Ed. G. W. Brown and David Held. Cambridge: Polity, 2010.
Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism: New Perspectives on the Past. Oxford: Blackwell, 1983.
1-7, 53-62.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Revised edition. London: Verso, 1991. Introduction, chapt. 6
Smith, Anthony D. “Nationalism and Cultural Identity.” National Identity. London: Penguin, 1991. 71-98.
Bhabha, Homi K., ed. Nation and Narration. London: Routledge, 1990. 1-8. 291-322.
Cheah, Pheng, and Bruce Robbins, eds. Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. 20-41, 77-90.
Simpson, David. “The Limits of Cosmopolitanism and the Case for Translation.” European Romantic Review 16.2 (April 2005): 141-152.
Further Reading
Vertovec, Steven, and Robin Cohen, eds. Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context, and Practice. Oxford: OUP, 2002. (esp. pp. 1-22, 137-145) [ELRS]
Hobsbawm, E.J. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: CUP, 1990. 14-100. [AUTH]
Hall, Stuart and Paul Du Gay, eds. Questions of Cultural Identity. London: Thousand Oaks, 1996. [AUTH]
Bhabha, Homi K. “The Third Space.” Identity: Community, Culture, Difference. Ed. Jonathan Rutherford. London: Lawrence and Wishart 1990. 207-221. [ELRS]
Seminar 3: The Construction of Britishness
Required Reading
Colley, Linda. “Britishness and Otherness: An Argument.” Journal of British Studies 31.4 (October 1992): 309-329.
Ross, Marlon B. “Romancing the Nation-State: The Poetics of Romantic Nationalism.” Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. 56-85.
Burke, Edmund. Extracts from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader. Ed. Jon Mee and David Fallon. Blackwell, 2011.
Hazlitt, William. “On Patriotism.—A Fragment." The Collected Works of William Hazlitt. Ed. A.R. Waller and A. Glover. Vol. 1: The Round Table, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays. London: J.M. Dent, 1902.
Further Reading
Armitage, David. The Ideological Origins of the British Empire. Cambridge: CUP, 2000. 1-23, 170-198. [E-learning]
Dawson, P.M.S. “Poetry in an Age of Revolution.” The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1993. [ELRS]
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837. London: Vintage, 1996 (1992). Chapts. 1, 3, 7, 8. [ELRS]
Hastings, Adrian. The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism. Cambridge: CUP, 1997. Chapt. 2. [AUTH]
Fulford, Tim and Peter J. Kitson, eds. Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. [ELRS]
Seminar 4: The Home as World vs. the World as Home: Wordsworth and Byron
Required Reading
Wordsworth, William. From The Prelude, Book VII.
Byron, George Gordon. Beppo. Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works. Ed. Jerome J. McGann. Vol. IV. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980‒1993.
Rutherford, Jonathan. “A Place Called Home: Identity and the Cultural Politics of Difference.” Identity: Community, Culture, Difference. London: Lawrence and Wishart 1990. 9-27.
Makdisi, Saree. “Home Imperial: Wordsworth's London and the Spot of time." Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity. CUP, 1998.
Bone, Drummond J. “Beppo: The Liberation of Fiction.” Byron and the Limits of Fiction. Ed. Bernard Beatty and Vincent Newey. Liverpool: Liverpool U Press, 1988. 97-125.
Further Reading
---. “Questions on Geography.” Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings. Ed. Colin Gordon. New York: Prentice Hall, 1980. [AUTH]
Rutherford, Jonathan, ed. Identity: Community, Culture, Difference. London: Lawrence and Wishart 1990. (Hall’s “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” 222-237) [ELRS]
Kelsall, Malcolm. “The Sense of Place and the Romantic Cosmopolite.” Litteraria Pragensia 3.5 (1993): 28-41. [E-learning]
Massey, Doreen and P. M. Jess, eds. A Place in the World? Places, Cultures and Globalization. The Open University, 1995. [AUTH]
Schoina, Maria. Romantic Anglo-Italians: Configurations of Identity in Byron, the Shelleys, and the Pisan Circle. Routledge, 2009. 99-123. [E-learning]
Seminar 5: Scotland, Ireland, and the Borders of Romanticism
Required Reading
Casaliggi, Carmen, and Porscha Fermanis, eds. Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History. Routledge, 2016. Chapter 4.
Robert Burns, “Tam oʼ Shanter. A Tale” in Romanticism: An Anthology.
Owenson, Sydney, Lady Morgan. The Wild Irish Girl (1806). [any edition will do]
Pittock, Murray. Scottish and Irish Romanticism. Oxford: OUP, 2008. Chapts. 1,6.
Ferris, Ina. The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland. Cambridge: CUP, 2002. Introduction, Chapt. 2
Further Reading
Pittock, Murray G.H. The Invention of Scotland: The Stuart Myth and the Scottish Identity, 1638 to the Present. London: Routledge, 1991. [AUTH]
Miller, Julia Anne. “Acts of Union: Family Violence and National Courtship in Maria Edgeworth’s The Absentee and Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl.” Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities. Tuscaloosa: The Univesity of Alabama Press, 2000. 13-37. [AUTH]
Trumpener, Katie. Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire. Princeton UP, 1997. Intro. and Chapt. 1 [E-learning]
Ferris, Ina. “Narrating Cultural Encounter: Lady Morgan and the Irish National Tale.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 51.3 (1996): 287-303. [E-learning]
Seminar 6: Constructing and Contesting the Empire I: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
Required Reading
Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. 1814 [any edition will do]
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage, 1994. Introduction, Chapt. 1
Ferguson, Moira. “Mansfield Park: Slavery, Colonialism and Gender”. Oxford Literary Review 13 (1991): 118-39.
Said, Edward. “Jane Austen and Empire”. Romanticism: A Critical Reader. Ed. Duncan Wu. London: Blackwell, 1995.
Fraiman, Susan. “Jane Austen and Edward Said: Gender, Culture and Imperialism”. Critical Enquiry 21.4 (Summer 1995): 805-821.
Further Reading
Makdisi, Saree. “Literature, National Identity, and Empire.” The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740-1830. Cambridge: CUP, 2004. 61-79. [E-learning]
Tuite, Clara. Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon. CUP, 2002. [AUTH]
Butler, Marilyn. Jane Austen and the War of Ideas. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. [AUTH]
Seminar 7: Constructing and Contesting the Empire II: Barbauld and Coleridge
Required Reading
Barbauld, Anna Letitia. “Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: A Poem” in Romanticism: An Anthology.
“Review of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: A Poem” [by John Wilson Croker] in The Quarterly Review 7 (June 1812): 309-13.
Coleridge, S.T. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1816 version) in Romanticism: An Anthology.
McKusick, James C. "That Silent Sea: Coleridge, Lee Boo, and the Exploration of the South Pacific." The Wordsworth Circle 24.2 (1993):102-106.
Ebbatson, J.R. “Coleridge's Mariner and the Rights of Man.” Studies in Romanticism (1972)11: 171-206.
Further Reading
Keach, William. “A Regency Prophecy and the End of Anna Barbauld's Career.” Studies in Romanticism 33.4 (Winter 1994): 569-577. [E-learning]
Carey, Brycchan. British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment and Slavery 1760-1807. Palgrave 2005. [ELRS]
Janowitz, Anne. Women Romantic Poets: Anna Barbauld and Mary Robinson. Tavistock, 2004. [AUTH]
Seminar 8: Travel, Tourism, and Exploration
Required Reading
Byron, George Gordon. Childe Harold's Pilrgimage, Canto II and Notes. Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works. Ed. Jerome J. McGann. Vol. II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980‒1993.
Cardinal, Roger. “Romantic Travel.” Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present. London: Routledge, 1997. 135-155.
Makdisi, Saree. Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. Chapt. 6.
Genette, Gerard, and Marie Maclean. “Introduction to the Paratext.” NLH 22.2 (Spring 1991): 261-272.
Further Reading
Buzard, James. “The Grand Tour and after (1660-1840).” The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing. Cambridge: CUP, 2002. [E-learning]
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. London: Routledge, 1992. Chapt. 1 [E-learning]
Saglia, Diego. “Romantic Heterotopographies: Travel Writing and Writing the Self.” Marble Wilderness: Motivi e relazioni di viaggio di Inglesi in Italia. A cura di mauro Pala. Cagliari: CUEC Editrice, 2002. [E-learning]
Coole, Julia. “ ' Who shall now lead?' The Politics of Paratexts in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos I-II.” Romanticism 24.2 (2018): 148-157. [E-learning]
Seminar 9: Orientalism and the East
Required Reading
Beckford, William. Vathek (1786).
Said, Edward. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. 1978. London: Penguin, 1995. (extracts)
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994. Chapt. 3
Saglia, Diego. “William Beckford’s ‘Sparks of Orientalism’ and the Material-Discursive Orient of British Romanticism.” Textual Practice 16.1 (2002): 75‒92.
Further Reading
Ning, Wang. “Orientalism versus Occidentalism.” New Literary History 28.1 (1997): 57‒67. [AUTH]
Lowe, Lisa. “Discourse and Heterogeneity: Situating Orientalism.” Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. 1‒29. [AUTH]
Makdisi, Saree. Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. Chapt. 1, 5. [E-learning]
Leask, Nigel. British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire. Cambridge: CUP, 2005. [ELRS]
Fulford, Tim and Peter J. Kitson, eds. Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. 1-47. [ELRS]
Seminar 10: Romantic Hellenism/Philhellenism I
Required Reading
Keats, John. “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” in The Norton Anthology of English Lit. 9th ed.
Shelley, P.B. Hellas. A Lyrical Drama. Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works. Ed. Zachary Leader and Michael O’Neill. Oxford: OUP, 2003.
Kipperman, Mark. “History and Ideality: The Politics of Shelley's 'Hellas'.” Studies in
Romanticism 30. 2 (Summer 1991): 147-168.
Webb, Timothy. “Romantic Hellenism.” The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Ed. Stuart Curran. Cambridge: CUP, 1993. 148-176.
Esterhammer, Angela. “Translating the Elgin Marbles: Byron, Hemans, Keats.” The Wordsworth Circle XL.1 (Winter 2009): 29-36.
Further Reading
Leontis, Artemis. Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995. Intoduction, chapts. 1,2. [AUTH]
Wallace, Jennifer. Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997. [AUTH]
Seminar 11: Romantic Hellenism/Philhellenism II
Required Reading
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. "Euphrasia: A Tale of Greece" (1839) in Mary Shelley: Collected Tales and Stories. Ed. Charles E. Robinson. Johns Hopkins UP, 1976.
Byron, George Gordon. Don Juan (Extract from Canto III). Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works. Ed. Jerome J. McGann. Vol. V. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980‒1993.
Tyler, Tony. “Byron’s Greek Freedom in ‘The Isles of Greece’ Lyric.” The Byron Journal 31 (2003): 66-71. (study pack B)
Schoina, Maria. “Empire Politics and Feminine Civilisation in Mary Shelley’s ‘Euphrasia: A Tale of Greece.’ ” Anglo-American Perceptions of Hellenism. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007. 42‒54.
Further Reading
Γoυργουρής, Στάθης. “Οριενταλισμός, Νεοελληνισμός και η παγκόσμια υφή του σύγχρονου πολιτισμού.” Πλανόδιον 16, Γ (Ιούνιος 1992): 364-401. [E-learning]
Seminar 12: “Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!”
Required Reading
Byron, George Gordon. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth. Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works. Ed. Jerome J. McGann. Vol. II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980‒1993.
Luzzi, Joseph. “Italy without Italians: Literary Origins of a Romantic Myth.” MLN 117 (2002): 48‒83.
Bone, Drummond. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage IV, Don Juan and Beppo.” The Cambridge Companion to Byron. Ed. Drummond Bone. Cambridge: CUP, 2004.151-170.
Beatty, Bernand. “Byron and the Paradoxes of Nationalism.” Literature and Nationalism. Ed. Vincent Newey and Ann Thompson. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1991. 152-162.
Further Reading
Kelsall, Malcolm. “ ‘Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee ...’ Byron’s Venice and Oriental Empire.” Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830. Ed. Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. 243-260. [ELRS]
O’Connor, Maura. The Romance of Italy and the English Political Imagination. London: Macmillan, 1998. Chapt. 2 [E-learning]
Seminar 13: Conclusions