English 164: The Young Romantics: Mythmaking, Monstrosity, and Representation
Spring 2013–2014; Wed. 7:00–9:30pm
Office 460-325; phone: 650 725-7080
dgigante@stanford.edu
Required Texts
Percy Shelley, Posthumous Poems, ed. Mary Shelley (9781241433253)
Edward Trelawny, The Last Days of Shelley and Byron (9781108034050)
Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (9781425499433)
Lord Byron, Manfred; Fragment (handout)
John Polidori, The Vampyre (handout)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (9781551110387)
Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1551110768)
Mary Shelley, Lodore (1551110776)
Keats, Lamia (handout)
Charles Brown, Life of Keats (handout)
Week 1 (4/2)
Percy Shelley, Julian and Maddalo
Edward Trelawny, The Last Days of Shelley and Byron, pp. ___.
Week 2 (4/9)
Percy Shelley, Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude (+ Mary Shelley’s notes)
Percy Shelley, The Witch of Atlas
T.J. Hogg, Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, pp. __
Week 3 (4/16)
Byron, Manfred; Darkness
Trelawny, The Last Days of Shelley and Byron, pp. ___.
Week 5 (4/30)
Mary Shelley, Introduction to Frankenstein
Byron, “A Fragment”
John Polidori; The Vampyre
Week 6 (5/7)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Week 7 (5/14)
John Keats, Lamia
Charles Brown, Life of Keats
Percy Shelley, Adonais
Week 8 (5/21)
Mary Shelley, The Last Man, vols. 1 and 2
Week 9 (5/28)
Mary Shelley, The Last Man, vol. 3
Mary Shelley, Lodore, vol. 1
Week 10 (6/4)
Mary Shelley, Lodore, vols. 2 and 3
Final: 15 pp. research paper on one of three topics:
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Aspect of life writing and mythmaking
Monstrous representation
Poets in novels (Mary Shelley’s romans-a-clef)