Important dates 2012-13 autumn term monday 1 October
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Module Requirements
Selected Secondary Texts The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism (CUP, 1993) A Companion to European Romanticism, ed. Michael Ferber (Blackwell, 2005) British Romanticism and Continental Influences, Peter Mortensen (Palgrave, 2004) The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, William St. Clair (CUP, 2004) The Birth of European Romanticism, John Claiborne Isbell (CUP, 1994) Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism, David Aram Kaiser (CUP, 2005) Romanticism in National Context, ed. Roy Porter (CUP, 1988) Imperfect Histories: The elusive past and the legacy of Romantic historicism. Ann Rigney (Cornell UP, 2001) Le romantisme libéral en France, 1815-1830: la représentation souveraine, Corinne Pelta (L’Harmattan, 2001) The young romantics: writers and liaisons, Paris 1827-37, Linda Kelly (Starhaven, 2003) German Aesthetic and literary criticism. The Romantic Ironists and Goethe, ed. Kathleen Wheeler (CUP, 1984) German Romantic Literary Theory, Ernst Behler (CUP, 1993) The Languages of Italy, G. Devoto, (University of Chicago Press, 1978) The Reasonable Romantic: Essays on Alessandro Manzoni, S. Matteo and L. H. Peer (eds), (Peter Lang, 1986) Modern Italian Literature, Ann Hallamore Caesar and Michael Caesar (Polity Press, 2007) Week 1-4: British Romanticism and its Locales Week 1: British Romanticism, 1780-1800: selections from: Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France; Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Men; Charlotte Smith, selections from Elegiac Sonnets; Mary Robinson, ‘Ode to Melancholy’ and ‘Ode to the Nightingale’; William Wordsworth, ‘Tintern Abbey’; S.T. Coleridge, ‘Frost at Midnight’ and ‘This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison’ Week 2: British Romanticism, 1800-1830: Walter Scott, ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’; John Keats, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Ode on Melancholy’; Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman; Lord Byron, Manfred Week 3: India and the East: William Jones, ‘A Hymn to Indra’, ‘A Hymn to Na’ra’yena’, ‘A Hymn to Su’rya’, ‘A Hymn to the Night’, from The Yarjurveda; Letitia Landon, The Zenana: An Eastern Tale; Lord Byron, The Giaour Week 4: Britons and Italy: Percy Shelley, ‘Lines Written among the Euganean Hills, October 1818’; Letitia Landon, The Venetian Bracelet; Lord Byron, from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Canto 4, ‘Venice’ Weeks 5-10: European Romanticisms (all texts provided in translation and tbc) Week 5: Germany I: Frühromantik (Friedrich Schlegel) Week 6: Germany II: Spätromantik (E.T.A.Hoffmann and Heinrich von Kleist) Week 7: France I: De Staël, Germany Week 8: France II: Fantastic Tales, Romanticism and Realism Week 9: Italy I: Manzoni, Fifth of May; Leopardi, Zibaldone, Canti Week 10: Comparative Romanticisms Life-writing since 1900 – Professor Jeremy Treglown Classes will roughly alternate between literary-historical and practical sessions. Where set texts are indicated, all students are expected to read the ones in bold type; those in square brackets will be allocated to one or more students as additional reading on a rotation basis, so that those students can bring extra knowledge / an additional perspective to the discussion. Week
Section A: Bloomsbury
Section B: 21st-Century Approaches
Background reading Leon Edel, Bloomsbury: A House of Lions, 1979 Richard Ellmann, Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations, 1973 Peter France and William St Clair, eds., Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography, 2002 Ian Hamilton, Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography, 1992 Richard Holmes, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, 1996 Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians, 2002 edn. intro. Paul Levy |