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war and romanticism                                               csulosangeles
    british literature 1793-1815                english 510

Schedule

 

Reading (page numbers refer to Longman unless otherwise specified)

War Poetry

3/31

CAMPUS CLOSED: Cesar Chavez Holiday

 

4/7

“The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy” (56-112)
Robinson, The Natural Daughter
Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book IX
Hobsbawm, “The French Revolution” (The Age of Revolution 53-76)
Emsley, “Ideas” (Britain and the French Revolution 9-20) 

1793  

4/14

Wollstonecraft, “Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (227-249, 255-257)
Robinson, Letter to the Women of England
Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (148-154)
Barbauld, “The Rights of Woman” (273)
Southey, “To Mary Wollstonecraft” (273)
Polwhele, from The Unsex’d Female (275-280)
(recommended) Colley, “Womanpower” (Britons 237-281)

1794-1795

4/21

“The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade” (159-213)
Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience (118-135)
Burke, Opening Address at Hastings Trial (handout)
Barbauld, “Epistle to William Wilberforce” (handout)
Edgeworth, “The Grateful Negro” (handout) (click here for missing pages!)
Emsley, “War” (Britain and the French Revolution 53-69) (handout)
Hobsbawm, “War” (The Age of Revolution 77-98)

1796-1798  

4/28

Wordsworth, “The Ruined Cottage,” “[The Discharged Soldier]”
Wordsworth, “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth 595-615)
Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (see Lyrical Ballads handout with Table of Contents)
Contemporary Reviews (handout)
Hobsbawm, “Industrial Revolution” (The Age of Revolution 27-52)

1799-1802  

 

5/5

Barbauld, selected poems and “Sins of Government” (handout)
Coleridge, “France: An Ode, “Fears in Solitude” (handout)
Coleridge, “Jacobinism,” “Once a Jacobin” (582-586)
Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book X
(recommended) Colley, “Manpower” (Britons 282-319)

1803-1804

5/12

Wordsworth, selections from Poems in Two Volumes (Wordsworth 250-322) (Table of Contents from original Poems in Two Volumes)
Moore, selections from Irish Melodies (handout)
Hemans, selections from The Domestic Affections (handout)

1805-1808

5/19

Scott, Marmion
Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred Eleven (37-45)

1809-1812

5/23

Annotated Bibliography Due (drop off in my dept mailbox or by email)  

5/26

Austen, Persuasion

Wordsworth, "Thanksgiving Ode" (handout)

 1813-1815 

6/2

Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (handout)

Byron, “Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte,”  “Prometheus,” “Darkness” (handout)

(recommended) Colley, “Victories” (Britons 321-363)  

 

6/9

Final Exam 7:30-10:00

Term Paper Due

 

war and romanticism                                               csulosangeles
    british literature 1793-1815                english 510