TermOne:Romanticisms
Week
1:Introduction
2:Periodization
3:Prosody’sOutsiders
4:ProphetsandOutsiders:Early
WordsworthandColeridge
5:TheProphetasInsider:LateWordsworth
6:RomanticPlantsandAnimals
7:Instructor’sChoice(Meeuwissections:
Byron,DonJuan)
8:WorldRomanticism
SecondaryReading
BenLerner,“Auto-Tune”
Poetry
Pope,“EssayonMan,”Epistle1;William
Wordsworth,“WeAreSeven”;Arthur
Symons,“WhiteHeliotrope”
MasonandHerapath,PartI:Arnold,
Blake,TheMarriageofHeavenandHell;
Langbaum,Reynolds
Shelley,“Englandin1819”;Clare,“The
Badger”;Keats,“OdeonaGrecianUrn”
Fussell,“TheNatureofMetre”;Masonand
AnnaBarbauld,“ASummerEvening’s
Herapath,PartIV:Coleridge
Meditation,”“ToaLittleInvisibleBeingWho
isExpectedSoontobeVisible”;Coleridge,
“TheRimeoftheAncientMariner”
MasonandHerapath,SectionII:Shelley,Mill; WilliamWordsworth,“SimonLee,”“WeAre
SectionVI,Wordsworth
Seven,”“TinternAbbey”;“FrostatMidnight”
Wordsworth,Prelude:1805PreludeI,II,XII
Perkins,“Introduction,”Romanticismand
ErasmusDarwin,TheBotanicGarden,1-174;
AnimalsRights;
WilliamBlake,“TheTyger”;PercyShelley,
“ToaSky-Lark”;AnnaBarbauld,“The
Caterpillar”;JohnClare,“TheNightingale’s
Nest”;JohnKeats,“Ode:toaNightingale”
LordByron,DonJuan,BooksI-II
ReadingsTBD
9:RomanticismandClass
MasonandHerapath,PartIII:Armstrong,
Sanders,Bevis
10:RomanticTime
Derrida,“AnInterviewwithJacques
CharlotteSmith,“BeachyHead”;Byron,“The
Giaour”;FeliciaHemans,“TheIndian
Woman’sDeath-Song”
JohnClare,“ThePeasantPoet”;Anna
Barbauld,“TheRightsofWoman”;John
Keats,Endymion
Coleridge,“FearsinSolitude,”“ThePainsof
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Derrida”;FromAlainBadiou,BeingandEvent Sleep”;JohnKeats,“TheEveofSt.Agnes”;
Shelley,“Ozymandias”;Wordsworth,Prelude
12(“SpotsofTime”);Shelley,“Ozymandias”
TermTwo:Victorianisms-ism
1:VictorianBelatednessandFramedness
MasonandHerapath,PartI:Campbel,
Cohen;SectionIX,Beer
2:VictorianPresentism
MasonandHerapath,PartIII:Leighton,
Gibson
3:Frame-breaking:MassEmotions
MasonandHerapathPartVI:Keble,
Armstrong,Potkay
4:Instructor’sChoice(Meeuwissections:
PoetryandSystemsTheory)
5:InMemoriam
6:MadhouseCells:DramaticMonologues
(Berlant,NationalFantasy;Reddy,
NavigationofFeeling)
MasonandHerapath,PartV:Cronin
7:FemalePoetics
8:PoetryandReligion
AlfredTennyson,Maud;MatthewArnold,
“DoverBeach,”“TheScholarGypsy”;
Tennyson,“InMemoriam”
ElizabethBarrettBrowning,“TheRunaway
SlaveatPilgrim’sPoint,”“TheCryofthe
Children”;AmyLevy,“IntheMileEndRoad,”
“Magdalen”;RudyardKipling,“If,”
“Recessional,”“TheWhiteMan’sBurden”
AlfredTennyson,“TheKraken”;Matthew
Arnold,“TheBuriedLife”;ArthurSymons,
“WhiteHeliotrope”
TBD
Alfred,LordTennyson,“InMemoriam”
AugustaWebster,“Medea”;Robert
Browning,“BishopBloughram’sApology”;
FeliciaHemans,“ProperziaRossi”
LetitiaLandon,“Revenge”;FeliciaHemans,
“TheIndianWoman’sDeathSong”;Christina
Rossetti,‘ABirthday’;‘Winter:MySecret’;
‘Cobwebs’;‘DeadbeforeDeath’;'InAn
Artist'sStudio';'Uphill';‘TheWorld’;
MasonandHerapath,PartVI:Rossetti,Miller Hopkins,“TheWreckoftheDeutschland”;
Rossetti,“ABetterResurrection”
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9:PoetryandConsumerCulture
10:DecadenceandQueerPoetics
Marxreadings:fromtheGermanIdeology
andGrundrisse
MasonandHerapath,PartVIII:Ellis,Bristow,
Prins
ChristinaRossetti,“GoblinMarket”;Hopkins,
“God’sGrandeur”
FrancisThompson,'TheHoundofHeaven';
OscarWilde,‘ImpressionduMatin';'The
Harlot'sHouse';ErnestDowson,'Cynara';
AlgernonSwinburne,“Anactoria,”
“Hermaphroditus,”“Fragoletta”
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