* on Reserve at Sprague Library under ENLT
536 (limit one day)
Additional texts available online and on Canvas:
Date |
Class Activities |
Homework Assignment |
T 1/21 |
Course + student intro.; Canvas; Timeline; What is Romanticism? Romantic Art; Ex.: Blake; French Revolution; Women Warriors in Romantic Drama; videos: Coppola's Marie Antoinette, The Scarlet Pimpernel | Read T. Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (1776); Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789); Gouges, Rights of Woman and Citizen (1791; online); Time Line of the French Revolution by Marxists.org; and Marie Antoinette: the Last Queen of France (optional) |
Unit I:
PRE-ROMANTICISM |
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T 1/28 |
Last week's material; PP signup; Nature v. Society, the Noble Savage, & Politics in + Your Ques. about Rousseau's Discourse; Scholarship on Rousseau; Your RQ on Rousseau | Read Rousseau, Discourse; read one or more of the following: Moran or Saccarelli (under Files > Rousseau's Discourse); Discussion Forum Rousseau: Post one or more questions about today's reading online, and answer a question if you like (optional). |
T 2/4 |
Review: Rousseau in Context; Siddons; Goethe, Werther; & Irony; Sensibility | Read Goethe, Werther; Position Paper #1: Werther due--read Fetzer, one or more of the articles on Werther (Bennett, Schiffman, Siebers, and/or Sondrup), and write a position paper that clarifies your position on a scholastic debate. Cf. Hill. See Final Position Paper Portfolio above for full assignment description. |
Unit II: EUROPEAN
ROMANTIC POETRY |
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T 2/11 |
Review: Research Questions on Rousseau & Werther; What is the Romantic Movement? Hugo's "Preface to Cromwell"; Romantic Irony and Nature in Chénier, Lamartine, and Goethe; Fr. Rom.; Myth, Nature, and Religion in Goethe, Hölderlin, and Nerval | Read Chénier, "When the somber slaughterhouse . . ," Lamartine "The Village Bell" (70-81 in French Poetry); from German Poems: Goethe: "Little Rose on the Heath" (4) + alt. trans. of "Heidenröslein; Nerval, "Delfica" (95-7 in Applebaum, French Poetry); from Applebaum, German Poetry: Goethe: "Elf King" (17-9) + alt. trans. of "Erlkönig"; Hölderlin: "Hyperion's Song of Destiny," "When I was a boy," "Halfway through Life" (55-9) + alt. trans. of Hölderlin; Hugo, "Preface to Cromwell; "& read one or more of the following: Jakobson, Kneller, and/or Strauss (see Ferber); Discussion Forum Romantic Poetry: Post one or more questions about today's reading online, and answer a question if you like (optional) |
T 2/18 |
Review: The Subject in Hölderlin; Dead/Deadly Women in Droste-Hülshoff, Hugo, Musset, Novalis, Heine, and Goethe; Research Questions? | Read Hugo 89-93 and Musset, "On a Dead Woman" (99-103 in Applebaum, French Poetry); from German Poems: Goethe, "The Fisherman" (12-5); Heine: "I don't know . . . "(141-43), "Morphine" (146); alt. trans. H. Heine, "Ich weiß nicht . . . " (141-43) and "Morphine;" Schiller: "The Girl from a Strange Land" (39) & "Longing" (43-5); J. v. Eichendorff, "The Happy Wanderer" (109), "Longing" (111), & "The Hermit" (113); A. v. Droste-Hülshoff, "The Boy on the Moor" (127-29) and "In the Moss" (131-33) + alt. trans. of "Im Moose"; & Novalis: "Must the morning . . . " (61-3), "I am journeying over" (63); Position Paper #2: Romantic Poetry due (please write a position paper that clarifies your position on a scholastic debate on one of today's poems only), by drawing on the work of Blackmore (see Ferber), Feuerlicht, Helfer, Rosa, and/or Saul |
Unit III: DRAMA IN
TRANSLATION |
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T 2/25 |
Sheridan's Pizarro (1799, a
translation of August von Kotzebue's Die Spanier in Peru,
1796) |
Read Sheridan, Pizarro; Position Paper #3: Pizarro due after forming a position on the scholastic debate represented by Carlson, Couture, McPherson, and/or Van Kooy |
Unit IV:
ROMANTICISM & NATURAL PHILOSOPHY (Naturphilosophie) |
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T 3/4 |
The Uncanny, Androids, and Puppets in the
Romantic Imagination |
Read E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Sandman, Freud, "The Uncanny," and Kleist, "The Puppet Theater" (p. 25 in pdf, 411 in text); Position Paper #4: Hoffmann and/or Kleist due, creating a clear position on a scholastic issue by reading about Hoffmann (Bresnick, Castein, Jennings, Tatar, or Todd), Kleist (Theisen, Wells; see Kleist folder in Files), and/or both (McIntyre [Hoffmann folder], Wilson [Kleist folder]) |
T 3/18 |
Faust I | Read Goethe 9-119 (245/"Prologue in Heaven" through - 4220/thr. "Walpurgis"), 126-35 (4000/Dreary Day - 4615/first few lines of Faust II, "Charming Landscape") |
T 3/25 |
Faust II, Acts I-III |
Read Goethe 142-46 (4890-5060/Imp. Res.), 170-79 (5970/end of Spac. Hall + Pleasance - 6305/Dark Gallery), 182-86 (6380-6565/Hall), 194-213 (Laboratory) + 219-258 (6820-7490 - 9125/Palace); & Hamlin, "Faust in Performance"; Discussion Forum Faust: Post one or more questions about today's reading online, and answer a question if you like (optional) |
T 4/1 |
end of Faust II |
Position Paper #5: Faust due; Read Goethe 259-71 (9130/Courtyard - 9575) + 275-85 (9695-10035/end of Act III), & 313-344 (11045-12110/all of Act V); & use Brown, Hoezel, Molnar, or any of the essays at the back of the book to construct a position on a scholastic debate |
T 4/8 |
Authorship in Frankenstein |
Read Shelley (ALL) P. B. Shelley, preface to 1818 edition of Frankenstein (5-6); Mary Shelley, introduction to 1831 edition of Frankenstein (165-169); Charles Robinson, "Texts in Search of an Editor" (198-204); Anne Mellor, "Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach" (204-211); & if you can find an original position on any debate between Bewelll, Marshall, Reese, and/or Wylie, you could write a Position Paper on Frankenstein/as a Wild Card (substitute for any of the previous Position Papers as your 4th or 5th Position Paper, but you will not have the benefit of instructor feedback, unless you can pick it up on campus on Thursday). Everyone: Read at least one critical essay on Frankenstein (Bewelll, Marshall, Reese, and/or Wylie) |
T 4/15 |
Discussion of Portfolios; Library Research Methods | Position Paper Portfolio due |
T 4/22 |
Kleist, "The Chilean Earthquake;" Discussion of Annotated Bibliographies, Research Methods | Read Kleist, "The Chilean Earthquake" (scroll down to pg. 18 in pdf, 312 in text for short story) and Rousseau's Letter to Voltaire (online); Annotated Bibliography due |
T 4/29 |
Peer Review session | Drafts of Final Essay due |
T 5/6 |
NO CLASS! |
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T 5/13 |
Final Essay due by 7:30pm online |
Batley, Edward. “Werther's Final Act of Alienation: Goethe, Lessing, and Jerusalem on the Poetry and Truth of Suicide.” The Modern Language Review 87.4 (Oct. 1992): 868-78.
Bennett, B. "Goethe's Werther: Double Perspective and the Game of Life." GLQ 53.1 (Jan. 1980): 64-81.Brown, Jane K. Goethe's Faust: The German Tragedy. Cornell
University Press, 1986. Print.
Kneller, John W. “Nerval and Rousseau.” PMLA 68.1 (1953): 150-169. Print.