Spring, 2001	Professor Olmsted
English 220 -01: TuTh, 1:30-2:45, King 237 -02: TuTh, 3:00-4:15, King 237	Rice 108, (440) 775-8582 Office hours: TuTh 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. & by appt
	e-mail: John.Olmsted@oberlin.edu

British Romantic Literature

Texts:

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Romantic Period, Vol. 2A. Seventh Edition.

Wollstonecraft, Mary and Maria and

Shelley, Matilda

Norton Topics on Line: The Romantic Period: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/nto/romanfrm.htm

The Voice of the Shuttle: Romantics: http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-rom.html

Class Schedule:

Week of:

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

February 5	Norton, 1-23
February 12	Wordsworth, 219-228, 251-285 Dorothy Wordsworth, 383-400 Blake, 35-39, 43-59

"The Bones of the Dead:" Politics and Imagination

February 19	Norton, 117-163 Blake, 72-91 Wordsworth, 238-251, 303-383 JOURNAL DUE February 20
February 26	Coleridge, 439-441, 467-492 Keats, 823-826, 834-844, 849-854, 886-903
March 5	Shelley, 727-729, 789-802 DeQuincey, 547-551 JOURNAL DUE March 8

"A bright deformity on high:" Romantic Transgression

March 12	Norton Topics on Line: Literary Gothicism Coleridge, 422-438
March 19	Byron, 551-621
March 26	SPRING BREAK
April 2	DeQuincey, 529-543 Shelley, 769-786 JOURNAL DUE April 5

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

April 9	Barbauld, 27-29 Wollstonecraft, 163-192 Wollstonecraft, Mary and Maria Coleridge, 441-456
April 16	Keats, 845-847, 856-872 Byron, 621-689, 695-696 Mary Shelley, 903-1034 (Frankenstein)
April 23	Shelley, Frankenstein and Matilda In class exam April 26
April 30	Romantic Painting Norton Topics on Line: "Tintern Abbey", Tourism and Romantic Landscape
May 7	Romantic Architecture
MAY 10	FINAL JOURNAL DUE

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 or 6 pages in length, will be required.

The journal papers will respond to and assess the readings in that unit. All papers should be delivered in printed form only.