EN966. Course Outline
Term 2. Wednesdays 11-1.
Week One: The Revolution Controversy. Price, Burke, and Paine (extracts).
From Jon Mee and David Fallon (eds) Romanticism and Revolution (Blackwell,
2011).
Week Two, Jan 18: The Revolution Controversy. Wollstonecraft and Godwin (extracts).
Fallon and Mee cont.
Week Three, Jan 25: The Jacobin Novel (with Dr. Georgina Green)
One from Godwin, Caleb Williams, OR Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney
Week Four, Feb 1: The Popular Radical Movement
Extracts from ‘Citizen’ Lee, Poems, from Charles Pigott, A Political Dictionary,
Extracts from Spence Pig’s Meat and Eaton, Politics for the People, Thelwall’s, The
Tribune and the LCS’s Moral and Political Magazine. These are short poems or 2-3
page essays. ECCO.
Week 5, Feb 8: no seminar
Week Six, Feb 15: The Literature Police?
Extracts from publications of Association of Liberty and Property against
Republicans and Levellers; Hannah More’s Village Politics.
All two to three pages on ECCO. Peter Pindar’s poetry. Gillray caricatures available
online.
Week Seven, Feb 22: John Thelwall’s poetry and prose
Extracts from Thelwall’s The Peripatetic (1793), Poems written in Close
Confinement (1795). ECCO. Coleridge, ‘This Lime Tree Bower my Prison’
Week Eight, Feb 29: Thelwall, Coleridge, and Wordsworth
Coleridge, ‘Fears in Solitude’, ‘Frost at Midnight’;
Wordsworth, ‘Old Man Travelling’, ‘Tintern Abbey’ ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads;
Thelwall, ‘Lines written at Bridgwater.’ Etc
Week Nine: no seminar but IAS visiting fellow will be giving a graduate workshop on
public culture and the 1790s on the afternoon of Friday, March 9.
Week Ten, March 14: Anti-jacobin Novels
One from H. J. Pye, The Aristocrat (1797), Isaac D’Israeli, Vaurien (1797), Sophia
King, Waldorf (1798), or George Walker, The Vagabond (1799) in Anti-Jacobin
Novels, gen ed W. M. Verhoeven (also available on ECCO and Walker is available in a
Broadview paperback)
Term 3. Wednesdays 11-1
Week 1, April 25: Retrospections I
One from Maria Edgworth, Belinda (1801), Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife
(1808), Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811).
Week 2, May 2: Retrospections II
Hazlitt essays: ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’, ‘Mr Godwin’, ‘Mr Coleridge’,
‘Mr Wordsworth’, ‘Coffee-House Politicians’, ‘What is the People?’, ‘The Spirit of
Controversy’, ‘Of Court Influence’, ‘review of Robert Owen’s New view of Society’.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.