English 314: Survey of Romantic Literature
Updated 6 April 2014
Fall semester, 2014 MWF 10:15-11:20 AM
Instructor: Darby Lewes, Professor of English (Office D324)
Office:
(570) 321-4114; Home:
(570) 546-7521
Office hours: MW 11:45-12:30 or by appointment
Email: lewes@lycoming.edu
Course Information
Prerequisite: English 106.
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: Lycoming College provides academic support for
students who officially disclose diagnosed learning, physical and psychological disabilities. If
you have a diagnosed disability and would like to seek accommodations, please contact Jilliane
Bolt-Michewicz, Assistant Dean of Academic Services / Director of the Academic Resource
Center. Dean Bolt-Michewicz will help you arrange for appropriate academic
accommodations. She can be reached by calling
570-321-4050, emailing
michewicz@lycoming.edu, or visiting her office (Academic Resource Center, 3rd Floor of
Snowden Library).
In order to do well in this course, you must
Attend class regularly.
Since class participation will make up a considerable portion of the final grade, students
with more than three undocumented absences will receive deductions from their final
grade: 4 absences, ½ letter grade deduction; 5 absences, 1 full letter deduction; 5 absences,
1 ½ letter grade deduction. Students with six or more undocumented absences will receive
an “F” in the class. Excused (documented) absences must be made up with written
exercises assigned by the professor.
Turn in all assigned work on time.
There are no late papers in this class: only timely papers and “F” papers. Extensions may
be arranged, IN ADVANCE, if the situation warrants.
Expect surprise quizzes.
Grades for these quizzes will be averaged into the class participation grade.
Score an overall average of at least “D-”
on the three examinations and final exam
Grade Distribution
Grade distribution is weighted as follows:
· Two examinations, 40 points each
· Three essays (3-5pp) 40 points each
· Class participation, 40 points
· Twenty response papers, 40 points
· Final exam (cumulative) 60 points
Textbooks
Required:
Bloom and Trilling: Romantic Poetry and Prose (Oxford)
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (Norton) ISBN0-393-96458-2
(Highly) Recommended:
A decent hardcover “college” dictionary for home use (easily the best investment you will
ever make)
A paperback dictionary for the classroom
A good thesaurus
MLA Handbook
Course Outline and Assignments
Week #1 Beginner’s Blake
INTRODUCTION
Course Introduction
Romantic Websites
Wednesday 27 August
READING
Blake: Songs of Innocence
Friday
READING
Blake: Songs of Experience
Monday
25 August
29 August
Week #2 Intermediate Blake and Beyond
Monday
1 September
READING
Book of Thel/Visions
Wednesday
3 September
READING
Marriage of H&H/America
Friday
5 September
IMAGES
Read as much of “Jerusalem” as
you dare; Blake Website
Week #3 Wordsworth
Note: watch “Pandemonium” (get the DVD from Darby) if you haven’t seen it
yet
Monday
8 September
READING
pp. 124-145
Wednesday
10 September READING
pp. 146-168
Friday
12 September READING
168-181
Week #4 Wordsworth—The Prelude
Monday
15 September READING
187-210
Wednesday
17 September READING
211-228
Friday
19 September READING
233—253
Week #5 Coleridge
Monday
22 September READING
“Eolian Harp”; “This Lime Tree
BowerMy Prison”
Wednesday
24 September READING
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner”;
“Kubla Khan”
Friday
26 September READING
“Christobel,” “Frost at Mid”
Week #6 Meetings; Early Romantics exam
Monday
29 September
STUDENT
MEETINGS
Wednesday
1 October
TEST REVIEW TEST REVIEW
Friday
3 October
EXAM
Meetings Essay #1
Exam #1 The Early Romantics
Week #7 “Haunted Summer”
Monday
6 October
FILM
“Haunted Summer”
FILM
“Haunted Summer”
Wednesday 8 October
PAPER 1 DUE
Friday
10 October READING
Byron 285-306
Week #8 Byron
Monday
13 October READING
Don Juan Canto I
Wednesday 15 October READING
Byron 372-397
Friday
Long Weekend
17 October NO CLASS
Week #9 Shelley
Monday
20 October READING
398-415
Wednesday 22 October READING
446-55
Friday
493—504
24 October READING
Week #10 Keats
Monday
27 October
PAPER #2 DUE
Psyche, Nightingale
Wednesday
29 October
READING
Urn, Melancholy
Friday
31 October
STUDENT
MEETINGS
Meetings Essay #2
Week #11 Exam
Monday
3 November
TEST REVIEW Review
Wednesday
5 November
EXAM 2
ESSAY2 DUE
Later Romantics exam: Byron,
Keats, Shelley
Friday
7 November
READING
WW Preface
Week #12 Romantic Prose
Monday
10 November
READING
D. Wordsworth
Wednesday
12 November
READING
Coleridge 645-654
Friday
14 November
READING
Lamb, DeQuincy
Week #13 Romantic Prose
Monday
17 November
READING
Shelley 744-761
Wednesday
19 November
READING
M. Shelley Frankenstein
Friday
21 November
READING
M. Shelley Frankenstein
Week #14 Exam, Thanksgiving
Monday
24 November
MEETINGS
Student meetings—Essay #3
Wednesday
26 November
NO CLASS
THANKSGIVING
Friday
28 November
NO CLASS
THANKSGIVING
Week #15 Evaluations, “Bright Star”
Monday
Wednesday
EVALUATIONS
Class Evaluations
FILM
“Bright Star”
3December FILM
“Bright Star”
1December
TEST REVIEW
Friday
5December
Review
ESSAY#3 DUE
Week #16
Date To Be Announced
FINAL EXAM
3 hour exam, cumulative
Extra stuff
Study Partners
List the name, phone number, and e-mail address for a “study partner” here:
Name ________________________________
phone number _______________________
email address ____________________________.
Just in case you and your partner are absent on the same day, you should get a
second partner as a backup.
Name______________________________________
phone number _________________________
email address_______________________________.
Academic Conduct
You are expected to altogether avoid any sort of academic misconduct. You must
never seek to claim credit for the work or efforts of another without authorization
or citation; you must never use unauthorized materials or fabricated data; you must
never intentionally impede or damage the academic work of others; (or assist other
students in doing so); you must never cheat on an examination; submit a paper or
assignment as your own work when a part or all of the paper or assignment is the
work of another; or submit a paper or assignment that contains ideas or research of
others without appropriately identifying the sources of those ideas.
Classroom Environment
You should be prepared to speak often in class, to participate in class activities
beyond simple note-taking. Classes will be conducted seminar-style, with much
small group discussion and active participation in large group discussion being
expected of each student. I do not merely want bodies in attendance; I expect to
see prepared and thinking students. This means that you will bring the required
materials and complete any assignments due for that particular day. You should
read the assignments listed on the syllabus before class. In addition to doing well
on the exams and the paper, the best way to illustrate that you are an active,
engaged, and interested student is by contributing regularly to class discussions. I do
not want to lecture; I want you to participate actively in creating a learning
environment in the class by constantly challenging each other and supporting each
other’s learning.
Reading
You should expect to do plenty of reading—generally about 30 pages per class. Since
you signed up for this course, I expect you to fulfill the very least of your
responsibilities: complete the readings listed on the syllabus before you come to class-not just by skimming the material but by actively and carefully reading each
assignment. Take notes in the margin and look up unfamiliar words.
Yeah, it sounds pretty grim. But we’ll have fun—I promise.