Prof. Stuart Curran, 313 BH; x8-7355; 732-0531;
Office Hours: M-W 1:00-2:30
English 552
British Writers: 1801-1830
Tuesday: 12-3; 319 BH
12 January:
Introduction; Irish harping (Dermody, Moore, Owenson handouts); Edgeworth,
Castle Rackrent.
19 January:
Scott, Marmion; Wordsworth, The White Doe of Rylstone;
Southey, The Curse of Kehama.
6 January:
Scott, Waverley.
2 February:
Shelley, Queen Mab; "Alastor"; Keats, "Sleep and Poetry,"
Endymion.
9 February:
Austen, Persuasion; Edgeworth, Ennui.
16 February:
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, "Prometheus,"
"Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte."
23 February:
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus;
Shelley, "Mont Blanc"; Byron, Manfred.
2 March:
Shelley, "Lines Written among the Euganean Hills," "Julian
and Maddalo," The Cenci; Hunt-Hazlitt dramatic criticism.
16 March:
Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, "Ode to the West Wind," "Ode to
Liberty," "Mask of Anarchy."
-- {1st paper due}
23 March:
Keats, Odes, "Eve of St. Agnes," "Hyperion," "The Fall of
Hyperion."
30 March:
Jane Taylor, "Poetry and Reality," "Recreation," "A Pair,"
"Philip";--George Crabbe, from The Borough ("Peter Grimes");--
John Clare, from Poems Descriptive of Real Life and Scenery
("Summer Evening," "Summer Morning," "Crazy Nell";--Thomas Love Peacock,
"The Four Ages of Poetry";--Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry."
6 April:
Shelley, "The Triumph of Life"; James Hogg, Private Memoirs and
Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
13 April:
Byron, Don Juan.
20 April:
Mary Shelley, Valperga (1824);--Felicia Hemans, Records of
Woman (1828);--Alfred Tennyson, from Poems of Two Brothers
(1827), from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830).
-- {2nd paper due}
Requirements: two 10-page papers (undergraduates, submatriculants, and
first-year graduate students); one 20+ page paper (advanced graduate
students).
Texts by Austen, Byron, Edgeworth, Hogg, Keats, Scott (Waverley),
and the Shelleys: Penn Book Center; others supplied in photoduplicate or
(e.g. 1/21 texts; Peacock, "Four Ages") to be found in the library.
Supplementary text: Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism
(1992), ed. Stuart Curran.