23. Do you teach thematically?
No - 14
Yes - (please specify main themes) 57
1. sensibility, politics, reason & energy, the sublime, gothic, retreat to nature, alienation,
imagination, pessimism, the cult of the south, doppelgangers
2. Sublime Sensibility Literature and Revolution Orientalism/Gothic
3. It varies depending on authors, but might include female education, the self, the
review culture, country and city, childhood, the Sublime and the Beautiful, the French
Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, Prometheus, Switzerland, the Four Nations,
Romantic aesthetics, Travel and Tourism, ancient poetry, religion, Hellenism,
orientalism.
4. Place (nationalism, national identity, literary schools); politics; history
5. Major themes are covered, including nature, childhood, imagination, memory,
idealism, scepticism, subjectivity, and fragments (ruins).
6. Individual and Society; Imagination; Nature and the Sublime; Character and
Subjectivity; The Gothic; Women in Romanticism; Nationalism and Empire; The
Cockney School; Locality and Community; Waterloo and After; Romanticism
Debunked
7. Self, World, Journey
8. The coterie
9. imagination, self, aesthetics, revolution, gender, sexuality, Prometheanism,
spirituality/belief
10. Not really, but do cover main Romantic trends (e.g. revolution, imagination,
autobiography, etc.)
11. This module explores ways in which Romanticism and specific Romantic Period texts
respond to and contest the pressures created by mass culture, technology, and new
readerships. It examines ‘Romanticism’ as an emerging corpus of authors and texts,
and considers canonical Romantic writers (e.g. Wordsworth and Shelley) as well as
writers associated with popular genres like satire (Hone, Moore, Wolcot), travel
writing (Eaton, Scott) and the pastoral (Bloomfield; Clare).
12. There are simply too many specified in the module guidebook for me to list them in
this space. However, I'd be happy to forward this guide by surface mail if given an
appropriate address.
13. nature, politics
14. the self; power; revolution; nature and the sublime
15. Outline of course is to use texts to illustrate large thematic concerns: industrialisation,
responses to FR, contemp. politics etc.
16. Imagination; creativity; political views; nature; satire; position of women;
autobiography; sublime & beautiful; 'Cockney School'; philosophy
17. revolution and war, nature and self-consciousness, gender and sexuality
18. Imagination, Poverty, Radicalism, Orientalism, Gender
19. Nature, Imagination, Politics, History, Genre, Romantic Theory, Primitivism,
Philosophy
20. City vs. country; (non-)respresentations of sexual acts; sex in/-ing the imagination;
public vs. private spaces; disguise and make-up; sex and politics; British vs. the
foreign
21. Up to a point. Ideas such as: closet drama, genre, censorship, audience, spectacle,
performance practices, role of music in drama, the changing political background,
relationship between male and females as performers and as writers, all of these
come out.
22. Varies.
23. vvv
24. At different times, tutors have organised seminars on 1790s' political dissourse;
slavery and abolition; Romantic Hellenism; London; the country and the city;
orientalism, etc
25. As highlighted in Wu's anthology
26. Revolution, counter-revolution, vivisection, heroes and hero-worship, racism, sexism,
anti-semitism
27. Slavery and the slave-trade, historical contexts, theoretical contexts, Romantics and
slavery, Music and slavery, race and colonialism, slave narratives, etc.
28. Romantics and Science, Romantics and the Mind, Darwin and evolution,
Utilitarianism, Geometry and mathematics, etc.
29. The imagination; travel; the self; religion; models of female and male conduct; history
30. Not sure whether you take gender issues to be thematic or theoretical, but my
teaching involves both approaches. Students give presentations, so themes vary, but
include relation of author's sex to genre chosen.
31. Revolution Gothic Natural world Orientalism Aesthetics
32. Nature, Imagination, Gothic, Desire
33. key areas of Romantic aesthetics i.e. ideas of genius and originality, sublime and
beautiful etc but specifically how these are influenced by the political and literary
environment of the time (i.e. the historical element)
34. Romanticism, negative capability, ecology, nature, science, imagination, revolution,
politics
35. Nature, Selfhood, Politics
36. Representations of revolution, gender roles and rights, travel and landscape, and the
writer in society.
37. Bodies, space, etc
38. Nature & Transcendental; Language, Culture, Feeling; Gothic; Ideology, Tyranny;
Poetry & Gender; Solitude & Sublime; Women & Writing; Poetry, Politics, Class;
Romanticism & Slavery
39. we pay attention to developng themes and tropes of the novel of sensibility, the
Gothic, realism, the romance
40. Romantic ideas about the imagination; Romantic ideas about poetry's qualities, aims,
uses, potentialities; Romantic literary theories versus Romantic literary practices
41. 'revolution' provides a linking theme
42. There is a series of seminars to get the course underway and introduce students to a
wider range of materials and themes for their independent projects. But because of
the emphasis on research, and the key part these units play in progression within and
from level 2, the seminars break down at a certain point into tutorial work, with each
student supported by peers working in related areas, as well as by staff. For
examples of the themes curently taught, see the course schedule at the end of this
questionnaire.
43. sub-units devoted to themes like family, politics, humor, etc.
44. Revolution - political and aesthetic
45. E.g. [be able to] 'Explore and question the concept pf "revolution" as a condition of
Romantic writing' is one of the stated learning outcomes for this unit.
46. See above
47. The move from the picturesque to Romanticism - The influence of Gothic on verse
narrative, such as romance - The rise of domestic ideology in women's poetry
48. Nature & the Transcendental Language, Culture & Feeling The Gothic Ideology,
Tyranny & Emancipation Poetry & Gender Solitude & the Sublime Women & Writing
Poetry, Politics & Class Romanticism & Slavery
49. It varies - autobiography, sublime and beautiful, visual arts, Shakespeare and
development of lit crit, gothic, forms of sympathy and radical sentiment, women's
writing...
50. Travel, missionary and commerical activities, governance, sexuality and gender etc.
51. Gothic, Sublime, Sensibility, Gender (Women's Writing); Slavery; Orientalism; Satire
and the City; Self and Autobiography; Nature
52. Natural world/ecology
53. Nature, revolution, language, philsophical concepts - the sublime, poition and role of
women.
54. The primary focus of the module is historical, though a number of themes (individual
vs. society, nature, art and creativity, etc.) obviously run through the module as a
subtext, reappearing during the study of several of the set texts.
55. Too many to mention, surely. And each teacher is free to fix the major themes of his
her seminars themselves.
56. Revolution; Childhood; the Pastoral; the Sublime.
57. 1. Politics/political philosophy; 2. religious life; 3) Artist, genius and hero; 4) Nature &
landscape; 5) Visions of somewhere else: Past and Distant; 6) Beyond the Pale:
Outcasts, Dreams and Drugs; 7) British Travellers in Norway; + the two novels
separately.