UPGPPK-30-2: Romanticism Unbound
Reading List 2011-2012
Duncan Wu (ed.), Romanticism: An Anthology, 3rd edn (Blackwell). ISBN 9781405120852.
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, ed.
Richard Holmes (Penguin Classics), ISBN 978-0140432695.
William Godwin, Caleb Williams, ed. Maurice Hindle (Penguin), ISBN 9780141441238.
Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility, ed. Ros Ballaster (Penguin), ISBN 9780141439662.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 text), ed. Marilyn Butler (OUP World’s Classics),
ISBN 978-0199537150.
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The Duncan Wu anthology includes full texts of all the key poems by William Blake, S. T.
Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Hannah More, Anna Barbauld, Percy Shelley, John Keats, and
Lord Byron that you will be studying on this module, plus a wide range of texts by other authors
that would complement the required reading, and detailed notes.
Detailed advice on which poems you need to read by each poet will be contained in the Module
Handbook.
Poems by John Clare, not included in the anthology, and Hannah More’s Village Politics, will be
available as electronic texts on Blackboard.
The editions of Sense and Sensibility and Frankenstein indicated above have been chosen for a
combination of reasons including price, easy availability, and the quality of editorial matter.
Although there are other good editions on the market, seminars work best when all students have
the same edition and time is not wasted locating the same passage in several different texts. Please
note that Frankenstein exists in two quite different versions, the first published version of 1818
and the much revised version of 1831. Modern editions of both texts are in circulation. We have
chosen to study the 1818 version, and it will cause a lot of confusion if some students come to
seminars with copies of the 1831 text.
RJ
July 2011