Spring, 2002	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: Tuesday & Thursday, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. & by appt
	e-mail: John.Olmsted@oberlin.edu

British Romantic Literature

Text:

The course has two aims:

Class Schedule:

Week of

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

February 4 Norton, 1-23

February 11 Wordsworth, 219-228, 251-270

Dorothy Wordsworth, 383-397

Blake, 35-39, 43-59

"The Bones of the Dead:" Politics and Imagination

February 18 Norton, 117-137

Blake, 72-91

Wordsworth, 238-251, 303-383

JOURNAL DUE February 21

February 25 Coleridge, 439-441, 467-483, 488-492

Keats, 823-826, 834-844, 849-854, 886-903

Meeting February 28 in Mudd 443 with

Jessica Grim, Reference Librarian

March 4 Shelley, 727-729, 789-802

DeQuincey, 547-551

JOURNAL DUE March 7

"A bright deformity on high:" Romantic Transgression

March 11 Coleridge, 422-438

Byron, 551-621

March 18 Research Skills Project

March 25 SPRING BREAK

April 1 DeQuincey, 529-543

Shelley, 769-786

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

April 8 Barbauld, 27-29

Wollstonecraft, 163-192

Coleridge, 441-456

JOURNAL AND RESEARCH PROJECT DUE April 11

April 15 Keats, 845-847, 856-872

Byron, 621-689, 695-696

Mary Shelley, 903-1034 (Frankenstein)

April 22 Shelley, Frankenstein

April 29 Romantic Painting

May 6 Romantic Architecture

FINAL PAPER DUE MAY 9

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

Three journal papers, each 5 to 6 pages in length, a research skills project and a 10 to 12 page final paper will be required.

The papers will respond to and assess the readings in that unit and will require that you seek out primary and secondary materials from college libraries, the college art museum, and from the World Wide Web. All papers should be delivered in printed form only.

Sources for Research in the Library Collection

The best place to start any search is the Oberlin College Library Web Site http://www.oberlin.edu/library/ where you can find out more about general internet research tools.

The “Selected Bibliographies” in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2A, The Romantic Period, pages A23 to A33, provide accurate and up-to-date citations of books and journal articles which treat British Romanticism. The bibliography begins with suggested general readings on English history and literature, then provides an introduction to the most important printed reference works for the study of English literature. Next, general introductions to literary criticism and theory are cited, followed by specific bibliographies of the Romantic period and studies which trace the political, social and intellectual background. Following this you will find entries on each of the major figures we will study together listing the best scholarly editions and a selection of the most important books and articles on each writer’s work.

Also included in appendices to The Romantic Period (pages A51 to A77) are articles on British money, a time line, and a useful introduction to poetic forms and literary terminology.