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English 610 —British Romanticism

Professor
J. Jennifer Jones

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Schedule
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Student Writing

Student Writing Index

Formal Presentations:

Megan Bradley, " Liu’s Vision: Discipline and Picturesque" (October 4, 2005)

Evan P. Schneider, "Poet as Landscape Architect: Confining and Defining Language presented in Paul de Man’s “Intentional Structure of the Romantic Image" (October 18, 2005)

Jessica H. Gray, "Creating Nature" (October 25, 2005)

James Patrick Gorman, "The Pleasure in Defining Wordsworth's Attempt at the Impossible: Hartman's 'Wordsworth, Inscriptions, and Romantic Nature Poetry'" (November 1, 2005)

Beau La Rhee, "An Introduction to Longinus's On the Sublime" (November 15, 2005)

Gretchen Cohenour, "Nature and Burke's Aesthetics of the Sublime and Beautiful" (November 15, 2005)

Kereen M. Welch, "Immanuel Kant: From the Beautiful to the Sublime" (November 15, 2005)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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%)