9/26

Course Introduction
Barbauld, “The Mouse’s Petition to Dr. Priestley” (63-65)
Smith, “Written in the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex” (86)
Blake, “London” (179)
Wordsworth, “Old Man Travelling” (handout)
Shelley, “England in 1819” (824)

10/3

“The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy” (92-149)
Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (183-196)
Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book IX (489-495)
Hobsbawm, “The French Revolution” (The Age of Revolution 53-76)
Emsley, “Ideas” (Britain and the French Revolution 9-20) (online)

1793

10/10

Wollstonecraft, Selections from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (279-303)
Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (197-204)
(recommended) Colley, “Womanpower” (Britons 237-281)

1794-1795

10/17

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)

1796-1798

10/24

Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798) (47-161)
Wordsworth, “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads, 1800 and 1802 (286-314)
“Some Contemporary Criticisms” (371-382 with additions online)

1799-1802

10/31

Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred Eleven (69-77) and “Sins of Government” (online)
Coleridge, “France: An Ode, “Fears in Solitude” (online)
Coleridge, “Jacobinism,” “Once a Jacobin Always a Jacobin” (online)
Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book X (495-504)
(recommended) Colley, “Manpower” (Britons 282-319)  

1803-1804

11/7

Marisela Norte event

First Paper Due

1805-1808

11/14

Scott, Marmion  

Wordsworth, selections from “Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty” (online)
Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book VI
Byron, “[Napoleon Bonaparte],” from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto III (699-701)
Byron, selections from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto III (711-719)
Byron, “Prometheus” (698-699)

1809-1812

11/21

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

1813-1815

11/28

Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (online)

12/5

Final Exam 7:30-10:30  

Second Paper Due