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The Romantic Period: (1) The French Revolution and the Spirit of the Age (2) the cult of sensibility and Romantic nature (from the picturesque to the sublime) (3) individualism (4) Gothic romance |
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William Blake. Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; Preface to Lyrical Ballads |
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Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, The Solitary Reaper ; Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Kubla Khan; Jane Austen (student presentation on Pride and Prejudice) |
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Coleridge. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Byron: SHe Walks in Bauty, Child Harold's Pilgrimage, Don Juan. SHelley: A Defence of Poetry, Ozymandias |
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Romantic Poetry and Fiction |
Shelley. Ode to the West Wind; the romantic sublime; Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. 2 student presentation |
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Romantic poetry and prose |
Keats. Letters. Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn. To Autumn. Romantic Prose: Charles Lamb, Old China. |
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Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Charles Lamb, Old China; Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater; the Gothic and “strangeness in beauty” (student presentation on Ann Radcliffe and Gothic Romance) |
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The Victorian Age. Background: Miscellaneous era; (1) industrial progress; Protestantism and Bentham’s philosophy, laissez-faire; (2)class and gender problems; decline of religion and rise of natural and human sciences; the “Condition of England” issue – Carlyle, Auden, Ruskin; the “Woman Question” – separate spheres, virgin and harlot, “New Woman”; Empire and decline; Brief survey of Victorian fiction, poetry, drama and prose; student assignments of major novels and drama |
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.Victorian prose: selections from Carlyle (“Sartor Resartus” “Past and Present”1005, -6, -9, 1022, -24, -27), Ruskin (“The Stones of Venice” 1317, -8, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29), Arnold (“The Function of Criticism” “Culture and Anarchy”1353, 54, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 98, 1402) Victorian Poetry. Tennyson. Ulysses. 4 student presentation on Dickens. Great Expectations |
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Tennyson. In Memoriam. Prose: Ruskin. THe STones of Venice. The Brontes. Mid-Victorian novels. 5 student presentation on Jane Eyre |
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Browning. My Last Duchess. Andrea del Sarto 6 student presentation on Wuthering Heights |
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Arnold. Dover Beach. Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse. The Function of Criticism. CUlture and Anarchy. 7 student presentation on Mill on the Floss. The Woman Question |
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Pre-Raphaelites. Rossetti. The Blessed Damozel. Pater. The Renaissance. Aestheticism. Late Victorians. 8 student presentation on Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Late Victorian poetry. Hopkins. The WIndhover. Late Victorian drama. Wilde and Shaw. 9 student presentation on Mrs. Warren's Profession. popular fiction. |
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