1. 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) the role of poet and imagination (4) individualism (5) Gothic romance
2. William Blake. Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud;
3. William Wordsworth. Tintern Abbey, The Solitary Reaper. Samuel Coleridge. Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria.
4. Samuel Coleridge. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Jane Austen (1 student presentation on Pride and Prejudice)
5. George Byron. She Walks in Beauty, Child Harold's Pilgrimage, Don Juan. Mary Shelley (2 student presentation on Frankenstein)
6. Percy Bysshe Shelley. A Defence of Poetry; Ozymandias; Ode to the West Wind; the romantic sublime; Walter Scott and historical romance (3 student presentation on Ivanhoe)
7. John Keats, Letters, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn; Romantic Prose: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman;
8. Romantic Prose: Charles Lamb, Old China; Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater; the Gothic and “strangeness in beauty” (4 student presentation on Ann Radcliffe and Gothic Romance)
9. Mid-term exam
10. 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
11. Victorian prose: Carlyle (“Sartor Resartus” “Past and Present”1005, -6, -9, 1022, -24, -27); read “The Condition of England Issue” 1556; 1237, 38. Tennyson “Ulysses;” 5 student presentation on Dickens (5 student presentation on Dickens’s Great Expectations)
12. Victorian poetry: Tennyson (“In Memoriam” (stanzas 6, 7, 22, 27, 50, 55); Prose: Ruskin (“The Stones of Venice” 1317, -8, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29); early Victorian novels (Thackeray);
13. Victorian poetry: Browning (“My Last Duchess”, “Andrea del Sarto”); the Brontes; mid-Victorian novels; 6 student presentation on Jane Eyre
14. Pre-Raphaelites (Rossetti, “The Blessed Damozel”); 7 student presentation on Wuthering Heights
15. Victorian poetry: Arnold “(“Dover Beach”, “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse”); Arnold (“The Function of Criticism” “Culture and Anarchy”1353, 54, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 98, 1402). student presentation on George Eliot ( 8 student presentation on Mill on the Floss) 2; read “The Woman Question” 1581
16. Pater (“The Renaissance” 1638-1644) and Aestheticism; “Late Victorians” 1635. Oscar Wilde (9 student presentation on The Picture of Dorian Gray)
17. Late Victorian poetry (Hopkins, “The Windhover”)
Late Victorian drama. Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw (10 student presentation on Mrs. Warren’s Profession); popular fiction (Robert L. Stevenson)(women’s sensation novel)
18. Final
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