16. Are there specific texts / authors / genres / areas that are not sufficiently dealt with
by any single anthology?
No -16
Yes (please specify): 52
1. We offer lectures on Visual Romanticism.
2. As above, although the third edition of Wu's anthology has expanded its coverage in
this area.
3. Revolution debate - requires separate anthology (too expensive as core text)
4. Novels, obviously. And plays, apart from such psychodramas as Prometheus
Unbound and Manfred.
5. Novels various aspects of popular culture
6. The Oxford course allows for enormaous individual choice, so there is no single
anthology that could provide all the students with the texts needed for their various
choices. They are also encouraged to read widely for whichever writers or topics they
choose to study, so complete works or extensive selections are usually more
satisfactory, though this means using library copies as well as owning texts.
7. Longer poems - esp. epics, annotated romances; biographical writings - eg. Cottle's
Early Recollections
8. Romantic Parody
9. Women writers in general
10. women writers
11. All anthologies have a particular slant and lack something that one wants, whether it
is a full version of the Prelude, some particular poems, and so on. Many anthologies
however are now extremely comprehensive and inclusive in terms of gender and
genre.
12. John Wolcot [I am currently working on an edition]; John Scott, from A Visit to Paris
(1815).
13. Until Wu's anthology, it was hard to find adequate coverage of women poets.
14. John Clare
15. But I confine myself to texts in the anthology
16. Duncan Wu's anthology is an excellent resource for teaching Romantic poetry and
the Romantic essay, but for Romantic-period fiction and other prose genres there is
no alternative to requiring students to obtain additional texts unless one is prepared
to teach only excerpts (which I am not).
17. There is generally not enough suitable contextual material in anthologies, although
Paul Keen's recent Revolutions in Romantic Literature: An Anthology of Print
Culture,1780-1832, from Broadview Press, comes close to meeting my requirements
18. 1805 Prelude Women writers Burns
19. Women's poetry in general is not well-covered in the Wu anthology, and I would also
like to see more drama. The novels will always be additional, but one or two plays
might be welcome.
20. Somatopias
21. The Cox & Gamer anthology is good but not perfect. I am suggesting a different,
smaller, anthology of drama to Broadview.
22. Wordsworth's *The Borderers*, for those who become interested in the 1790s.
Coleridge's Shakespeare lectures, in a student-friendly form.
23. Not enough selections from Burke's Philosophical Inquiry - more on Burke's definition
of the sublime would be useful.
24. N/A
25. European Romantic texts (although there is a good anthology edited by Michael
Ferber of European Romantic poetry)
26. Fiction; critical theory
27. Political material like that dealt with in this module is not really covered by any
anthology
28. There is a good anthology edited by Marcus Wood called "The Poetry of Slavery."
This, however, is too expensive for the students to buy, and only includes poetry - not
prose.
29. There is one anthology on this subject called "Literature and Science in the
Nineteenth Century," ed. Otis (OUP), but this does not cover the Romantics
sufficiently - instead, it concentrates on the Victorians
30. The Gothic; travel writing; the literature of sensibility
31. Prose, travel-writing, writing from outside UK.
32. (Speaking only of the McGann volume): no Prelude, very poor John Clare selection,
relatively limited provision of female poetry
33. Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey
34. We teach novels on this module (Austen, Shelley) which are not, by and large, fully
reprinted in anthologies.
35. See question 15. While Wu includes sections from Burke, Paine, and Wollstonecraft,
they are not the excerpts that I like to teach.
36. Too many to mention: for example, literature and science, literary forgery, popular
literature of the period
37. well, probably, but the Wu is ok for most stuff
38. Any anthology only allows an introductory study of any author / issue. Any thing more
than this very quickly requires supplementary material
39. Especially drama. (I'm a bit surprised Wu hasn't expanded more in this area for the
new 3rd edn.)
40. Almost everyone would answer "yes" since there are always things that one wishes
were included. No anthology can capture all the options and possibilities.
41. The Norton anthology is good for poetry, but weak on novels and very selective on
political writing.
42. Wu is short on prose fiction and drama. Generally good on poetry and criticism /
philosophy / journalism -- or at least fine for a level 2 course.
43. I would like to find a convenient collection of travel literature for the period which gave
students some sense of this kind of material.
44. longer verse narratives, especially epics and romances - women poets are still not
sufficiently adn diversely represented
45. Labouring-class poets
46. Many novels and prose works cannot (for obvious reasons) be included in an
anthology. I also insist that students read complete works and not extracts.
47. Romantic Orientalism
48. Anti-slavery, Orientalism, Women Poets (in the Wu 2nd edition, have not yet used
3rd); Gothic writing
49. ecocriticism
50. Longer poems, non-canonical male and female poets, conservative writers
51. Too many to specify. An anthology can only ever be the ground base of study.
52. I prefer to teach Romanticism as both literature and civilisation/history, and from that
perspective one could have wanted a wider spectrum of texts crucial to the period.