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Schedule
Assignments
Student Writing
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Formal Presentations:
Each seminarian is responsible for “opening” one seminar meeting in the form of an oral presentation. This presentation, which should comprise about half an hour, should be a provocative and lucid means of introducing the text under study to the group. Because the goal is to teach this text, the main argument(s) of the text must be analyzed and outlined carefully. Seminarians are subsequently welcome to offer claims/theses formed during the study of the text and/or bring questions to bear on the text. Seminarians may also implicate other texts from the syllabus into the presentation as long as their relevance is clearly articulated.
After the oral presentation, each seminarian is required to submit a formal written essay of at least five pages to me in both electronic and hard-copy form. This essay is meant to complement the presentation given during class. I will comment on the hard copy, and I will publish the electronic copy to our course web site for each of us to read and meditate in the aftermath of the presentation itself.
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Office & Office Hours
 Flagg Road 124
TH 11-noon; 2:15-3:15pm
Location & Time
Flagg Road 105
T 3:30-6:15pm
Required Texts
John Milton. Paradise Lost (Norton)
Marilyn Butler, ed. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy (Cambridge)
William Godwin. Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (Penguin)
Stephen Gill, ed. William Wordsworth: A Critical Edition of the Major Works (Oxford)
William Wordsworth. The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 (Norton)
H. J. Jackson, ed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Edition of the Major Works (Oxford)
Donald H. Reiman, ed. Shelley's Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton)
Jerome McGann, ed. Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford)
Edward Hirsch, ed. Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats (Random House)
Harold Bloom, ed. Romanticism and Consciousness (Norton)
Course Packet (Rhode Island Book Company)
NOTE: With the exceptions of Caleb Williams and the Course Packet, all materials are available through Reserve at the URI library.
Course Requirements
Class Participation (15%)
Seminar Paper (70%)
Class Opening (15%)
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