Date
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Topic
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Readings/assignments
due
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Biblio.
/ Outside Links
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1. R
1/20
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Course/student intro.; What is romantic? What is
Romanticism? Rights
of Man and Citizen (Fr.) and Declaration
of
Independence (US) |
See
cell below for Mon.'s h.w. (unless otherwise
noted, pg. numbers refer to Longman anthology)
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Unit
I: Romantic Revolutions
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2. M
1/24
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Review; Class meets in DI 179! What is
revolutionary and romantic about
Romanticism? Romantic Art; Map
of Britain; Godwin Circle
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Intro
1-29; W. Blake 112-18; M. Wollstonecraft
227-29; Godwin 91
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James
Gillray; Romantic
Chronology; Blake
Archive
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3. R
1/27
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French
Revolution
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H. M.
Williams 56-66; Burke 67-76
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4. M
1/31
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Review:
French Revolution; VRM; Godwin
and Anarchism
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M.
Wollstonecraft 76-84; Godwin 91-6; Bring 3
discussion
questions to class (will be collected) |
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5. R
2/3
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French
Revolution
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Paine
84-91; Coleridge 582-86 |
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6. M
2/7
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Review;
Proto-Feminism: VRW |
M.
Wollstonecraft 229-54; Bring 3 discussion
questions to class
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Dissenters
on VictorianWeb & 1017)
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7. R
2/10
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The
Woman Question; 277: Blackboard Creative Writing Ex.
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Barbauld,
Polwhele et al. 269 [NEW!] + 272-80; Radcliffe,
More et al 284-301
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Mary
Robinson, A Letter to
the Women in England; Women Romantic-Era
Writers
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8. M
2/14
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Review:
Blackboard; Women & Revolution; Romantic
Theater; Inchbald,
The Massacre
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Inchbald, The
Massacre (online: Acts I-III) |
BWP:
O'Quinn
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9. R
2/17
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Slave
Narratives; Essay 1:
Romantic Revolutionaries assigned; W.
Indies Political Map
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Equiano
(BBC link) & Prince 159-73; |
Haitian
Revolution: Interesting
Facts; American
Slave Narratives; LOC: Born in Slavery
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10. M
2/21
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Essay 1; Songs of Innocence and Experience
[Blake Archive]; E. B.
Browning; Abolitionism; Dr.
Oldfield on BBC |
Prospectus
due; Blake "Little
Black Boy" (121);
"The
Chimney Sweeper" (122); D.
Wordsworth, Clarkson, et al. 198-213 |
British
Abolition Movement; Triangle
Trade
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11. R
2/24
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DI
277: Authorship and Citation; Peer Review; Editing Techniques [Blackboard]
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Draft
of Essay 1: Romantic
Revolutionaries |
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12. M
2/28
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The
World of Romantic Poetry: Pandemonium
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Essay
1: Romantic Revolutionaries due |
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Unit
II: Romantic Poetry
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British Poetry at UVA
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13. R
3/3
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Lyrical
Ballads: Preface; "Simon Lee;" " . . . Tintern Abbey"; "Lucy
Gray"; sign up for Essay Groups |
Wordsworth
336-40; 352-62; 365-67 |
Romantic Circles
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14. M
3/7
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Blackboard
Discussion
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"The
Rime of the Ancient . . . " 526-44 |
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15. R
3/10
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Lyrical
Ballads; "This
Lime-Tree Bower . . . "; "Kubla Khan"; Essay 1 returned |
Coleridge
520-21, 524-26, 545-47
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16. M
3/21
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Library
Tutorial (Room 110 in Sprague Library)
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J.
Fetzer, "Romantic Irony" (Blackboard/online) |
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17. R
3/24
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The
Prelude I, X |
EG
1 due; Wordsworth 388-403, 429-38 |
Romantic
Natural History
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18. M
3/28
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Review; Women
Writers Respond |
EG
2 due; M. Robinson 221-25; Shelley
462-63; D.
Wordsworth 465-69, 478-84; Withdrawal Deadline 3/29 |
The Orlando Project
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19. R
3/31
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"To
one . . . ;" "Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
EG
3 due; Keats 852-54, 856, 882-83, 900-04,
913-15;
Byron 791-92
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Elgin
Marbles controversy (BBC); Romantic Circles
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20. M
4/4
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Bb Peer Review; Citing
Secondary Sources; "Hymn
. . . "; "Mont Blanc"
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EG
4 due; P. B. Shelley 752-60
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Mont
Blanc assignment
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21. R
4/7
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PBS:
"England in 1819"; Defence of Poetry; peer review
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Shelley
761, 801-10; Bring draft of essay
revision to class / Post to Bb
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22. M
4/11
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Byron;
"She
Walks in Beauty" + other in-class poems;
the
Byronic Hero |
Revision
of essay due; Byron
600-02 |
et al.
638-47 |
23. R
4/14
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Don
Juan (from Canto I) Essay returned |
Byron
667-87, 747-51; Bring 3 discussion
questions to
class
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Unit
III: Frankenstein
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24. M
4/18
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Review; Shelley,
1818 and 1831 prefaces of Frankenstein
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MW
Shelley 1-38; 169-73 |
MWS
Chronology
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25. R
4/21
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Shelley,
Frankenstein; PBS on Frankenstein |
MW
Shelley 39-67; 185-86; Optional revision due
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26. M
4/25
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Review; Student Questions; Shelley, Frankenstein
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MW
Shelley 68-101; Bring 3 discussion questions
to class
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27. R
4/28
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Shelley,
Frankenstein; Christopher Small
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MW
Shelley 103-34; 205-08
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28. M
5/2
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Shelley, Frankenstein; Course Concl:
Final Review; Last day to submit material for credit
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MW
Shelley 135-56; Optional/Extra Credit for Participation Grade: Revision
of Essay[s] (incl. orig.) +
Discussion Questions as
Portfolio |
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Finals
Week
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Final:
Frankenstein, Women Writers, and
Romanticism (take-home exam)
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Monday
5/9, 10:45-12:45 in 324 Dickson; no exams accepted after this date
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