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Course Proposal Details for - Romanticism: Themes, Genres and Contexts (Course code not
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School
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Summary
This course provides students with a broad, varied and yet detailed
exploration of British Romantic literature by examining a number of its
central themes and contexts: revolution, the ballad, terror and the
sublime, gothic, the ode, history, the east, confession, sensibility and
ecology. Through readings of the poetry, fiction, letters, journals and
essays of the period, the course explores a network of relationships
between key topics, writers, and critical approaches.
Normal Year Taken
Year 3 Undergraduate
Course Level (PG/UG)
UG
Visiting Student
Availability
Available to all students
SCQF Credits
20
Credit Level (SCQF)
SCQF Level 10
Home Subject Area
English Literature
Other Subject Area
Course Organiser
Tim Milnes
Course Secretary
Anne Mason
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Total contact
teaching hours
20
Any costs to be met
by students
Pre-requisites
Students MUST have passed: ( English Literature 1 (ENLI08001) OR
Scottish Literature 1 (ENLI08016)) AND ( English Literature 2 (ENLI08003)
OR Scottish Literature 2 (ENLI08004))
Co-requisites
Prohibited
Combinations
Visting Student Prerequisites
A MINIMUM of 4 college/university level literature courses at grade B or
above (should include no more than one introductory level literature
course). Related courses such as civilisation or other interdisciplinary
classes, Freshman Year Seminars or composition/creative writing
classes/workshops are not considered for admission to this course.
Applicants should also note that, as with other popular courses, meeting
the minimum does NOT guarantee admission. In making admissions
decisions preference will be given to students who achieve above the
minimum requirement with the typical visiting student admitted to this
course having 4 literature classes at grade A.
** as numbers are limited, visiting students should contact the Visiting
Student Office directly for admission to this course **
Keywords
Fee Code (if invoiced
at course level)
Romanticism, revolution, the ballad, terror, the sublime, gothic, the ode,
history, the east, confession, sensibility, ecology
Proposer
Jacqueline Barnhart
Default Mode of
Study
Assessment
Default delivery
period
Semester 2
Marking Scheme to
be employed
Common Marking Scheme - UG Honours Mark/Grade
Taught in Gaidhlig?
No
Course Type
Standard
Special Arrangements
Components of
Assessment
Course Essay 30% (2,500 words); exam 60% (2 hours); class participation
assessment 10%.
Exam Information
Syllabus:
Week 1. Introduction. Romanticism and Revolution. Selections from:
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790);
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1791);
Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France (1790).
Syllabus
Week 2. Terror and the Sublime.
William Blake, America: A Prophecy (1793) and Visions of the Daughters
of Albion (1793);
Selections from: Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin
of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1759).
Week 3. The Ballad.
Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805);
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1802)
(selections).
Week 4. Gothic.
William Beckford, Vathek (1786)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
Week 5. The Ode.
Selections from: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge.
Week 6. History.
Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'England in 1819' (1819)
Week 7. The Orient.
Charles Lamb, 'Old China' (1823)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Kubla Khan' (1816)
Byron, The Giaour (1813)
Week 8. Essay Completion Week.
Week 9. Confession.
James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
(1824)
Week 10. Sensibility.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Week 11. Ecology.
William Wordsworth, 'The Ruined Cottage' (1799)
Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere Journals (1800-03) (selections),
Charlotte Smith, 'Beachy Head' (1807)
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Reading List
Compulsory Primary Texts:
Reading Lists
M.H. Abrams, et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th
ed. (W.W. Norton & Co., 2006)
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, ed. James Kinsley, 2nd ed. (Oxford
University Press, 2004)
William Beckford, Vathek, ed. Thomas Keymer (Oxford University Press,
2013)
William Blake, America: A Prophecy [Literature Online]
Byron, Selected Poems, ed. Susan Wolfson and Peter Manning (Penguin,
1996)
James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner,
ed. Ian Duncan (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, ed. Tony Inglis (Penguin, 1994)
---, The Lay of the Last Minstrel [Literature Online]
Duncan Wu, ed. Romanticism: An Anthology, 4th ed. (Blackwell, 2012)
Recommended Reading:
M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the
Critical Tradition (1953)
---, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic
Literature (1973)
John Barrell, 'The Uses of Dorothy: 'The Language of the Sense' in
'Tintern Abbey,'' Wordsworth: Contemporary Critical Essays, ed. J.
Williams (1993)
Harold Bloom, ed., Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism
(1970)
Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature
and its Background 1760-1830 (1981)
James Chandler, England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the
Case of Romantic Historicism (1998)
---, Wordsworth's Second Nature (1984)
Jerome Christensen, Romanticism at the End of History (2000)
E. J. Clery, The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 (1995)
Stuart Curran, ed., The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism
(1993)
---, Poetic Form and British Romanticism (1990)
Paul de Man, The Rhetoric of Romanticism (New York, 1984)
David Duff, Romanticism and the Uses of Genre (2009)
Ian Duncan, Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2007)
James Engell, 'Coleridge and German Idealism: First Postulates, Final
Causes,' The Coleridge Connection, eds. Richard Gravil and Molly
Lefebure (1990)
Kelvin Everest and Alison Yarrington, eds. Reflections of Revolution:
Images of Romanticism (1993)
Mary Favret and Nicola Watson, eds., At the Limits of Romanticism:
Essays in Cultural, Feminist, and Materialist Criticism (1994)
Karen Fang, 'Empire, Coleridge, and Charles Lamb's Consumer
Imagination,' SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 43.4 (2003):
815-43.
Frances Ferguson, Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the
Aesthetics of Individuation (1992)
Jack Fruchtman, 'The Æsthetics of Terror: Burke's Sublime and Helen
Maria Williams's Vision of Anti-Eden' 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and
Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 6 (2001): 211-31
Geoffrey Hartman, 'Romanticism and Anti-Self-Consciousness,' Beyond
Formalism: Literary Essays 1958-1971 (New Haven, 1970), 298-310.
---, Wordsworth's Poetry 1787-1814 (1964)
Gary Kelly, English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 (1989)
Arthur O. Lovejoy, 'On the Discrimination of Romanticisms,' Publications
of the Modern Languages Association of America 39 (1924): 229-53
Jerome J. McGann, The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation (1983)
Timothy Morton, Shelley and the Revolution in Taste (1994)
Uttara Natarajan, 'The Veil of Familiarity: Romantic Philosophy and the
Familiar Essay,' Studies in Romanticism 42.1 (2003): 27-44
Michael O'Neill, Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem (1997)
Alan Rauch, 'The Monstrous Body of Knowledge in Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein,' Studies in Romanticism, 34.2 (1995): 227-53
Andrew Stauffer, Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (2005)
Raymond Williams, Culture and Society 1780-1950 (1963)
Course description
This course provides third-year students with an opportunity to extend and deepen their knowledge of literatu
sublime, gothic, the ode, history, the east, confession, sensibility and ecology. Students will read a wide variety
attempt to construct a single narrative for the Romantic period, but instead introduces students to a network o
Learning outcomes
1. By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of and critical engagement s
2. By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the relationships b
3. By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of contemporary debates an
4. By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate the ability to deploy a variety of method
5. By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate the ability to reflect constructively on th
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