Comps Reading List
Scott Hagele
I. HISTORICAL PERIOD: 1750-1850, Britain
Historical Period Advisor: Jill Heydt-Stevenson
Primary Sources (40-50 works)
(a). Novels & Prose Fiction
Austen, Jane: Emma; Northanger Abbey; Mansfield Park
Beckford, Thomas: Vathek
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Burney, Fanny: Evelina
Carlyle, Thomas: Sartor Resartus
Dacre, Charlotte: Zofloya
Dickens, Charles: Barnaby Rudge; A Tale of Two Cities; David Copperfield
Edgeworth, Maria: Belinda; Castle Rackrent
Godwin, William: Caleb Williams
Hogg, James: Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Johnson, Samuel: Rasselas
Lamb, Caroline: Glenarvon
Lewis, Matthew: The Monk
Mackenzie, Henry: The Man of Feeling
Maturin, Charles Robert: Melmoth the Wanderer
Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan): The Missionary
Radcliffe, Ann: A Sicilian Romance; The Mysteries of Udolpho; The Italian
Scott, Walter: Waverley; The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
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Smith, Charlotte: Desmond
Sterne, Lawrence: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; A Sentimental Journey
Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
Wollstonecraft, Mary: The Wrongs of Woman; Mary
(b). Drama
Baillie, Joanna: DeMonfort; Count Basil; The Tryal; Orra; Constantine Paleologus
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Remorse; Zapolya
Cowley, Hannah: A Bold Stroke for a Husband; A Day in Turkey
Hemans, Felicia: The Siege of Valencia
Inchbald, Elizabeth: Every One Has His Fault; A Mogul Tale
Lewis, Matthew: The Castle Spectre
Maturin, Charles Robert: Bertram
Peake, Richard Brinsley: Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein
Shelley, Percy: The Cenci; Prometheus Unbound
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley: The School for Scandal
Southey, Robert: Wat Tyler
Wordsworth, William: The Borderers
(c). Poetry
Barbauld, Anna Letitia: "Eighteen-Hundred and Eleven"; “The Rights of Woman”
Blake, William: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Browning, Robert: “Porphyria’s Lover”; “My Last Duchess”; “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”;
“Fra Lippo Lippi”; “Love among the Ruins”
Clare, John: “Child Harold”; “Don Juan A Poem”
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: “France: An Ode”; “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; “Frost at Midnight”;
"This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"; “The Eolian Harp”; “Dejection: An Ode"; "Kubla Khan”; "Christabel"
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Gray, Thomas. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”; “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”
Hemans, Felicia: Records of Woman [selections]; “The Grave of a Poetess”; “The Image in Lava”; “The
Diver”; “Corinne at the Capitol”; “A Spirit’s Return”; “The Dying Improvisatore”
Hunt, Leigh: The Story of Rimini
Keats, John: “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"; Endymion; "Lamia"; “The Eve of St. Agnes”;
“Ode to a Nightingale"; “Ode on a Grecian Urn"; “Ode to Psyche”; “To Autumn"; “Ode on Melancholy”;
“The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream"
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (L.E.L.): Erinna; A History of the Lyre; “Corinne at the Cape of Misena”
Moore, Thomas: Lalla Rookh [“the Veiled Prophet”]; Irish Melodies [selections]
More, Hannah: Cheap Repository Tracts [selections]
Shelley, Percy: Alastor; "Ode to the West Wind"; “To Wordsworth”; “To a Sky-Lark”; “Ozymandias”;
“Mont Blanc”; "The Mask of Anarchy"; “England in 1819”; Adonais; “Julian and Maddolo, A
Conversation”
Smith, Charlotte: Elegiac Sonnets [selections]; Beachy Head
Southey, Robert: Thalaba the Destroyer; The Poet’s Pilgrimage to Waterloo; A Vision of Judgment
Tennyson, Alfred: In Memoriam A.H.H.
Wordsworth, William: “Simon Lee”; “Nutting”; “The Thorn”; “Michael”; "Lines Composed a Few Miles
Above Tintern Abbey"; "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"; "Resolution and Independence"; “Prospectus”
to The Recluse; The Excursion [Books I & IV]; Thanksgiving Ode; The Prelude (1805)
(d). Memoirs, Essays, & Prose
Baillie, Joanna: “Introductory Discourse”
Burke, Edmund: Reflections on the Revolution in France
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Biographia Literaria
De Quincey, Thomas: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater; Suspiria de Profundis
Equiano, Olauduh: The Interesting Narrative of Olauduh Equiano
Hazlitt, William: My First Acquaintance with Poets; The Spirit of the Age [selections on “Wordsworth”,
“Byron”, “Coleridge”]
More, Hannah: Village Politics
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Paine, Thomas, The Rights of Man, Part I
Shelley, Percy: "A Defence of Poetry"
Trelawney, John: Recollections of Byron, Shelley, and the Author [chapters on Byron]
Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Wordsworth, William: “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads
Secondary Sources (10-15 monographs or equivalent in articles)
1. Abrams, M.H. Natural Supernaturalism
2-3. Bloom, Harold, ed. Romanticism and Consciousness; The Visionary Company: A Reading of English
Romantic Poetry
4. Butler, Marilyn. Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background 17601830
5. Chandler, James. England in 1819
6. Cox, Jeffrey. Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School
7. Curran, Stuart. Form and British Romanticism
8. Gaull, Marilyn. English Romanticism: The Human Context
9. McGann, Jerome. The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation
10. Keymer, Thomas, and Jon Mee, eds. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740-1830
11. Mellor, Anne. Romanticism and Gender
12. Roe, Nicholas, ed. Romanticism: An Oxford Guide
13. St. Clair, William. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------II. MAJOR AUTHOR: GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
Author Advisor: Jeffrey N. Cox
(a). Longer Poems
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Cantos I and II
Waltz
The Giaour
The Bride of Abydos
The Corsair
Lara
Parasina
The Siege of Corinth
The Lament of Tasso
The Prisoner of Chillon
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Canto III
Mazeppa
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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Canto IV
Beppo
The Blues
Don Juan
The Vision of Judgment
The Island
The Age of Bronze
(b). Shorter Poems
The Complete Poetical Works. Eds. Jerome J. McGann and Barry Weller. 7 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 19801993. [selections]
(c). Drama
Manfred
Marino Faliero
Sardanapalus
The Two Foscari
Cain
Heaven and Earth
Werner; or The Inheritance
The Deformed Transformed
(d). Prose
The Complete Miscellaneous Prose. Ed. Andrew Nicholson. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991. [Selections]
Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 12 vols. London: John Murray, 1973-1982.
[selections]
Secondary Sources: 15-20 Books or Equivalent in Articles
1. Byron: Augustan and Romantic. Ed. Andrew Rutherford. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
2. The Cambridge Companion to Byron. Ed. Drummond Bone. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.
3. Cheeke, Stephen. Byron and Place. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003.
4. Christensen, Jerome. Lord Byron’s Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society. Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins UP, 1993.
5. Elfenbein, Andrew. Byron and the Victorians. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
6. Elledge, W. Paul. Byron and the Dynamics of Metaphor. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 1968.
7. Franklin, Caroline. Byron’s Heroines. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992.
8. Gleckner, Robert F. Byron and the Ruins of Paradise. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1967.
9. Graham, Peter. Don Juan and Regency England. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1990.
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10. Joseph, M.K. Byron the Poet. London: V. Gollancz, 1964.
11. Kelsall, Malcolm. Byron’s Politics. Harvester, 1987.
12. Langley Moore, Doris. Lord Byron: Accounts Rendered. London: John Murray, 1974.
13. MacCarthy, Fiona. Byron, Life and Legend. London: John Murray, 2002.
14. Manning, Peter J. Byron and His Fictions. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1978.
15-16. Marchand, Leslie A. Byron: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1957.
——. Byron: A Portrait. New York: Knopf, 1970.
17. Martin, Philip W. Byron: A Poet Before His Public. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982.
18-20. McGann, Jerome J. Byron and Romanticism. Ed. James Soderholm. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
2002.
——. Don Juan in Context. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1976.
——. Fiery Dust: Byron’s Poetic Development. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1968.
21. Palgrave Advances in Byron Studies. Ed. Jane Stabler. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
22. Rutherford, Andrew. Byron: A Critical Study. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1961.
23. Stabler, Jane. Byron, Poetics and History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
24. Thorslev, Peter L. The Byronic Hero: Types and Prototypes. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1962.
25. Vail, Jeffery. The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron & Thomas Moore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
UP, 2001.
26. West, Paul. Byron and the Spoiler’s Art. London: Chatto and Windus, 1960.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------III. TOPIC: MEMORY, FORGETTING, AND HISTORY
Topic Advisor: Sue Zemka
25-30 Works, Primary or Secondary
Primary Works
Barbauld, Anna Letitia. The Uses of History
Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution [selections]; On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
[selections]
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Freud, Sigmund. “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through”
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1st volume]
Godwin, William. “Romance and History”
Hegel, G.W.F. Philosophy of History
Macaulay, Catharine. A History of England from the Accession of James I to the Elevation of the House
of Hanover [selections]
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. History of England [selections] & “History”
Marx, Karl. The German Ideology & The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Nietzsche, Frederick. On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
Ruskin, John. The Seven Lamps of Architecture [the Sixth Lamp: Memory]
Vico, Giambattista. The New Science
Volney, Constantin Francois. Ruins [selections]
Secondary Works
Bann, Stephen. The Clothing of Clio: A Study of the Representation of History in Nineteenth-Century
Britain and France. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984.
——. The Inventions of History: Essays on the Representation of the Past. Manchester: Manchester UP,
1990.
——. Romanticism and the Rise of History. New York: Twayne, 1995
Benjamin, Walter. “Theses on the Philosophy of History”
Bloch, Marc. The Historian’s Craft. New York: Knopf, 1963.
Collingwood, R.G. The Idea of History. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1946.
Cubitt, Geoffrey. History and Memory. Manchester: Mancester UP, 2007.
De Certeau, Michel. The Writing of History. New York: Columbia UP, 1988.
Fabian, Johannes. Memory Against Culture: Arguments and Reminders. Durham, Duke UP, 2007.
Ferguson, Frances. “Romantic Memory.” Studies in Romanticism 35 (1996): 508-33.
Foucault, Michel. Archaeology of Knowledge; “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History”
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Halbwachs, Maurice. Collective Memory
Hutton, Patrick H. History as an Art of Memory. Hanover: UP of New England, 1993.
Klein, Kerwin Lee. “On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse.” Representations 69 (2000):
127-50.
Le Goff, Jacques. History and Memory. New York: Columbia UP, 1992.
Lowenthal, David. The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.
Lukacs, Georg. The Historical Novel. New York: Humanities Press, 1965.
Megill, Allan. “History, Memory, Identity.” History of the Human Sciences 11:3 (1998): 37-62.
Nora, Pierre. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire.” Representations 26 (1989).
Ricouer, Paul. “Memory, Forgetting, History”
Said, Edward W. Beginnings: Intention and Method. New York: Basic Books, 1975.
Schama, Simon. Landscape and Memory. New York: Knopf, 1995.
Semmel, Stuart. “Reading the Tangible Past: British Tourism, Collecting, and Memory after Waterloo.”
Representations 69 (2000): 9-37.
Terdiman, Richard. Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.
Trumpener, Katie. “Memories Carved in Granite: Great War Memorials and Everyday Life.” PMLA 115
(2000): 1096-1103.
Weinrich, Harald. Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting. Trans. Steven Rendall. Ithaca: Cornell UP,
2004.
White, Hayden. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins UP, 1973.
Yates, Frances A. The Art of Memory. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1966.
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