ENGL 631 Prof. Hoagwood
Fall 2006 BL 204B
T 6-9 BL 202 <t-hoagwood@tamu.edu>
Syllabus
Course
Description: “Early Nineteenth-Century Literature. British literature and
culture of the early nineteenth century, including English and colonial poetry,
fiction, drama, and essays to be studied in relation to the history of the
period and its visual art, philosophy, political thought, sexual politics, book
arts, and social history” (Texas A&M University Graduate Catalogue).
Texts:
Romanticism: An Anthology. Third edition. Ed. Duncan Wu. Blackwell, 2006.
ISBN 1405120851
Sydney Owenson. The Missionary: An Indian Tale. Broadview Press, 2002.
ISBN 1551112639
Online editions:
Richard Polwhele, Unsex’d Females, 1798 <http://etext.virginia.edu/britpo/unsex/unsex.html>
William Hone, The Political House That Jack Built, 1820 <http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/hone/coverp.htm>
L.E.L.’s “Verses” and THE KEEPSAKE FOR 1829. <http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/lel/index.html>
Mary Darby Robinson, A Letter to the Women of England on the Injustice of Mental
Subordination, 1799. <http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/robinson/cover.htm>
Mary Robinson. Sappho and Phaon <http://etext.virginia.edu/britpo/sappho/sappho.html>
Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott,” “The Palace of Art,” “The Lotos-Eaters”
<http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm>
Online visual art:
John Martin, The Bard
The Keepsake for 1829
Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare
John Hamilton Mortimer, Pale Horse
James Gillray, The King of Brobdingnag, and Gulliver
James Barry, The Phoenix, or the Resurrection of Liberty
William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion
William Holman Hunt, “The Lady of Shalott” (painting)
William Holman Hunt, “Lady of Shalott,” (engraving)
John William Waterhouse, Lady of Shalott
Requirements:
Attendance and participation at each weekly meeting. For excused absences and late work or
make-up work, see Texas A&M University Student Rules <http://student-rules.tamu.edu/>.
Thirteen Short Weekly Papers.
Research paper.
Short Weekly Papers: On each of the evenings when literary works are scheduled for discussion, you should bring a one-page paper (plus documentation) in which, quoting one or more of the works scheduled for discussion, you pose a specific question about the interpretation and meaning of the work. Your question may or may not be about authorial intention: your question may be about the literary, artistic, social, or historical relationships of the work or works about which you write. You may (but are not required to) cite a scholarly or critical study of the work; one frequently useful sort of question contrasts conflicting views of a particular passage, point, or work. Your paper may or may not include an accompanying visual illustration: each illustration should be discussed in the body of your paper, and each should be printed with a caption identifying the artist, title, and date of the work as well as your source for the image. Each illustration should appear on a separate page, affixed to the back of your paper. For the form of your papers, see Documentation, below.
Research Paper: Your research paper should be an essay suitable for submission to one
of the Recommended Periodicals listed below. 10-20pp. plus documentation.
See Documentation, below. Visual illustrations are optional.
Grades:
Short Weekly Papers 50%
Research Paper 50%
Honor Code:
<http://student-rules.tamu.edu/aggiecode.htm>
Services for Students with Disabilities: <http://disability.tamu.edu/>
Documentation:
In all of your writing in this course, you should follow MLA style or Chicago style for all matters of form including documentation. PMLA and many journals use MLA style. Most scholarly books and many journals use Chicago style, for which professional editors use The Chicago Manual of Style, but you will find all you need for your papers in any of the handbooks by Kate Turabian (all of which explain and illustrate Chicago style), in a variety of freshman-English handbooks, and in a number of academic Web sites including our own University Writing Center’s online resource, <http://writingcenter.tamu.edu/content/view/131/74/>, and other sites including <http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChiNotes_1stRef.html>.
8/29: Introduction to the course and materials.
9/5: Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France; Paine, The Rights of Man; Wollstonecraft,
Vindication of the Rights of Men; James Barry, The Phoenix, or the Resurrection of
Liberty, an image available at <www.englit.ed.ac.uk/.../ sm_declaration.htm>; Jacques-
Louis David, Death of Marat, an image available at <http://www.abcgallery.com/D/david/david7.html>
9/12: Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman; and Mary Robinson [attrib.], A Letter
to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination, full text available at
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/robinson/cover.htm>; and Richard Polwhele, Unsex’d
Females, full text available at <http://etext.virginia.edu/britpo/unsex/unsex.html>.
Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon <http://etext.virginia.edu/britpo/sappho/sappho.html>
9/19: William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience and Visions of the Daughters of
Albion. Both available at <http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/>.
Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare <http://www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/classes/ah111/L26/26-25.jpg>.
John Hamilton Mortimer, Death on a Pale Horse
<www.tate.org.uk/.../rooms/room7_works.htm>.
Recommended for this evening’s discussion: selections amongst the emblem
literature available at <http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/catalog.htm>.
9/26: Lyrical Ballads 1798 plus 1800 Preface and Wordsworth’s “Michael”
10/3: Wordsworth, The Prelude (excerpts) and Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight,” France: An Ode.”
10/10: Ann Yearsley, A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade, and Hannah More,
“Slavery: A Poem.” Anna Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. James
Gillray, The King of Brobdingnag, and Gulliver
<http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/gillray/captions/images/90.jpg>.
10/17: Sydney Owenson, The Missionary: An Indian Tale.
10/24: John Martin, The Bard, an image available at <http://www.wga.hu/index1.html>; and
Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 3.
10/31: Shelley, “England in 1819,” “A Mask of Anarchy,” “Ozymandias,” and “Ode to the West
Wind.” William Hone, The Political House That Jack Built, 1820. Full text and
images available at <http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/hone/coverp.htm>.
11/7: Shelley, Prometheus Unbound.
11/14: John Keats, Lamia and Keats’s odes of 1820.
11/21: Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman.
Thanksgiving holiday is November 23.
11/28: L.E.L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “Verses” and “Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans”;
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Stanzas Addressed to Miss Landon, and suggested by her
'Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans'”; Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters” and “The Lady of
Shalott”; William Holman Hunt, “The Lady of Shalott,” an image of a painting available
at <http://faculty.stonehill.edu/geverett/rb/huntlady.jpg>; Hunt, “Lady of Shalott,” image
of an engraving, available at <http://artchive.com/artchive/H/hunt/hunt_shalott.jpg.html>;
John William Waterhouse, Lady of Shalott, image available at <http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=15984>.
12/5: No class meeting; students attend their Thursday classes.
Library Reserve List:
M. H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp
----------, Natural Supernaturalism
Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and Its Background,
1760––1830
Stuart Curran, Poetic Form and British Romanticism
----------, ed. Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism
Paul de Man, The Rhetoric of Romanticism
William Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution
Tim Fulford and Peter Kitson (eds.), Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire,
1780––1830
Terence Hoagwood and Kathryn Ledbetter, “Colour’d Shadows”: Contexts in Publishing,
Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848
Gary Kelly, Women, Writing, and Revolution
Jerome J. McGann, The Romantic Ideology
----------, The Beauty of Inflections
----------, The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Poetic Style
Christopher John Murray, ed. Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era
G. A. Rosso and Daniel P. Watkins, Spirits of Fire
Orrin Wang, Fantastic Modernity
David Worrall, Radical Culture
Recommended Periodicals:
The Wordsworth Circle. The autumn issue includes reviews of new books on Romantic-period
literature.
Keats-Shelley Journal.
Byron Journal.
Studies in Romanticism.
Romanticism on the Net (online)
Romantic Circles (a multitude of scholarly sites, online).
SEL: Studies in English Literature. The autumn issue includes an omnibus review of new books
on nineteenth-century English literature.
Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
European Romantic Review. Includes articles on British and Continental Romanticism.