Texts:

• The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II. Seventh Edition.
• Wollstonecraft, Mary and Maria and
• Shelley, Matilda
• Norton Topics on Line: The Romantic Period <http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/nto/romanfrm.htm>

Class Schedule:

"One impulse from a vernal wood:" The Romantics and 'Nature'

Week of: February 7	Norton, 1-23
February 14	Wordsworth, 219-228, 251-285 Dorothy Wordsworth, 383-400 Blake, 35-39, 43-59 JOURNAL DUE February 17

"The Bones of the Dead:" Politics and Imagination

Week of: February 21	Norton, 117-163 Blake, 72-91 Wordsworth, 238-251, 303-383
February 28	Coleridge, 439-441, 467-492 Keats, 823-826, 834-844, 849-854, 886-903
March 6	Shelley, 727-729, 789-802 DeQuincey, 547-551 JOURNAL DUE March 9

"A bright deformity on high:" Romantic Transgression

Week of: March 13	Norton Topics on Line: Literary Gothicism Coleridge, 422-438
March 20	Byron, 551-621 DeQuincey, 529-543
March 27	SPRING BREAK
April 3	Shelley, 769-786 JOURNAL DUE April 6

"Alas, the love of women:" Women and the Romantics

Week of: April 10	Ellis, 1721-1723 Landon, 1034-1042 Barbauld, 27-29 Wollstonecraft, 163-192 Wollstonecraft, Mary and Maria Coleridge, 441-456
April 17	Keats, 845-847, 856-872 Byron, 621-689, 695-696 Mary Shelley, 903-1034 (Frankenstein)
April 24	Shelley, Frankenstein and Matilda
May 1	Romantic Painting Norton Topics on Line: "Tintern Abbey", Tourism and Romantic Landscape
May 8	Romantic Architecture FINAL JOURNAL DUE MAY 11

Participants in this class are required to attend all classes, take an active part in discussion, and hand in assigned work on time. Late papers will be penalized.

Four journal papers, each 5 to 6 pages in length, will be required.

The journal papers will respond to and assess the readings in that unit.