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Weekly Presentations
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At our first meeting, we will determine a presentation schedule for the
remainder of the quarter. Each week, from the second to the tenth,
presenters (one or two per week) will offer short (ten minute) presentations
on the following assigned topics.
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10/2
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Joseph Addison, from The
Spectator
Frances Ferguson, "The Sublime of Edmund Burke"
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10/9
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Robert Blair, The Grave
Ronald Paulson, "Gothic
Fiction and the French Revolution"
Eve Sedgwick, "Towards the Gothic: Terrorism and
Homosexual Panic" in Between Men: English Literature and
Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press,
1985)
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10/16
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Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Christabel
John Keats, Lamia
Karen Swann,
"Literary Gentlemen and Lovely Ladies"
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10/23
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Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria
Robert Hopkins,
"General Tilney and Affairs of State"
Diane Long Hoeveler,
"Vindicating Northanger Abbey"
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10/30
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Thomas DeQuincey, "On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine
Arts"
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11/6
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John Keats, "On
First Looking Into Chapman's Homer," and "On Seeing the
Elgin Marbles"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
"Frost at Midnight"
Neil Hertz, "On the
Notion of Blockage"
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11/13
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William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
William Wordsworth, "Resolution and Independence"
Christopher Hitt, "Shelley's Unwriting of Mont Blanc"
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11/20
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Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (complete)
John Keats, The Fall of Hyperion
Ellen Brinks, "The Male Romantic Poet as Gothic Subject"
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11/27
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William Blake, America:
A Prophecy
William Blake, Europe:
A Prophecy
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen
Hundred Eleven
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Presenters will examine subjects in greater detail than the rest of the
class and then prepare a short presentation and handout. Some
presentations are historical and/or biographical in nature. Some expand
upon a short reading selection that the entire class will have read, and
so require the presenter to read more extensively in the primary source.
Others focus on reading that the class will not prepare, and so require
the presenter to provide an overview and contextualization of the
text.
Presenters are encouraged to discuss their presentations with me well
in advance of their presentation. (Of course, those volunteering to
present in the first two weeks will benefit from my reciprocal kindness.)
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Annotated Bibliography
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As part of your preparation for the term paper, you will conduct research on
your paper topic and develop an annotated bibliography. Your annotated
bibliography should include an entry for each book, journal article or other
source that you consult during the research process, even if you are sure
that you will not use that source for your paper.
Each entry should be listed using MLA bibliographic format followed by a
short summary and critical evaluation of the source. While there is no
minimum or maximum number of entries, you should aim for more than ten but
no more than fifteen sources. Remember, the annotated bibliography lists all
materials you consult during the research process and not just the sources
you intend to use in your term paper.
The links below provide general information on annotated
bibliographies.
Cornell
Library Guide on Annotated Bibliographies
Purdue's
Online Writing Lab Handout on Annotated Bibliographies
(Note that most online discussions of annotated bibliographies include
both APA and MLA format and that most online examples are in APA format.)
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