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Reading
(page numbers refer to Longman unless otherwise specified)
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3/29
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Course
Introduction
Barbauld, "The Mouse’s Petition to Dr. Priestley" (62-63);
Blake, "The Tyger"
(182-183), "London" (184); Wordsworth, "London 1802" (437-438),
"Three years she grew in sun and shower" (413-414), "A
slumber did my spirit seal" (409), "Old Man Traveling"
(handout); Shelley, "England in 1819" (783)
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4/5
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The
Rights of Man and the French Revolution
"The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy" (104-161)
Blake, The Marriage of
Heaven and Hell (188-201)
Wordsworth, The Prelude,
Books IX and X (475-490)
Hobsbawm, "The French Revolution" (The
Age of Revolution 53-76)
Emsley, "Ideas" (Britain
and the French Revolution 9-20) (online)
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4/12
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The
Rights of Woman and the Revolutionary Spirit
Wollstonecraft, Selections from A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (288-310)
Blake, Visions of the
Daughters of Albion (202-209)
(recommended) Colley, "Womanpower" (Britons
237-281)
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4/19
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War
Godwin, Caleb Williams, or
Things As They Are
Emsley, "War" (Britain
and the French Revolution 53-69) (
online)
Hobsbawm, "War" (The Age
of Revolution 77-98)
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4/26
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The
Revolution in Poetry
Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical
Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798) (LB 47-161)
Wordsworth, "Preface" to Lyrical
Ballads, 1800 and 1802 (LB 286-314)
"Some Contemporary Criticisms" (LB 371-382 with additions
online)
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5/3
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Violence
and Sublimity
"The Sublime, the
Beautiful, and the Picturesque" (34-46)
Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book
XI (492-496), "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" (513-519)
Coleridge, The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner (1817 Version) (567-582)
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5/10
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Conservation and Conservatism
Scott, Marmion (
online)
Wordsworth, selections from "Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty"
(online)
Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred Eleven (68-76)
(recommended) Colley, "Manpower" (Britons
282-319)
First Paper Due
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5/17
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A New World Order
Austen, Persuasion
(recommended)
Colley, "Victories" (Britons
321-363)
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5/24
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The Postwar Sublime
Byron, Manfred (647-683), "[Napoleon Bonaparte]", from Childe
Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto III (687ff), selections from Childe
Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto III (699-707)
Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy,"
"Ode to
the West Wind" (SH)
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5/31
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Revolutionary Closure
Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale" (911-913), "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
(913-915), "Ode to Melancholy" (917-918), "To Autumn" (918-919)
Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
(SH)
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6/7
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Final
Exam 7:30-10:30
Second Paper Due
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