All of the following can be found in the Volumes A Norton Anthology of American Literature and B, 8th Edition unless otherwise stated: Term 1: Columbus, De Las Casas, Puritan writers and Enlightenment texts such as The Declaration of Independence Whitman, Song of Myself Thoreau, (first two chapters, and chapter on Ponds’ and Walden ‘The ‘Spring’) Dickinson, all the selection of her and letters in the Norton Emerson, ‘Self-Reliance’ Term 2: Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Poe, A selection of short stories and poems including Fall of the House of Usher’, ‘The Wilson’ and Man of the Crowd’ ‘Willliam ‘The Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself Jacobs, (Norton only has extracts; find and read the full Incidents in the Life of a Girl book, any edition) Twain, (not in the Norton, use any edition) Huckleberry Finn James, (not in the Norton, use any edition) The Turn of the Screw Melville, the Scrivener’ and Cereno’ ‘Bartleby, ‘Benito Davis, Life in the Iron Mills Vacation Reading: Students should begin their reading with The Declaration of and the introductions to the Norton Anthology Volumes A and B. Independence For further information, please see Dr Tony Sharpe County Main B97 ENGL 207: British Romanticism Course Aims and Objectives: This course is divided into key areas across the two terms: Revolution; The Self; Politics and Poetics; and the Gothic. We will by examining revolutionary writing of the Romantic period, including the poetry of Anna Barbauld, William Blake, and William Wordsworth, and the prose of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and Mary Wollstonecraft. We will then consider ideas of the self in the poetry of Charlotte Smith and Letitia Landon, Lord Byron’s and the labouring-class Manfred, writing of John Clare. We also examine the relationship between politics and poetics for the second-generation poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, and then, the slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, and the orientalism of S. T. Coleridge and Thomas de Quincey. Finally, the course will turn its attention to the popular literary movement of which ‘Gothic’
All of the following can be found in the Norton Anthology of American Literature Volumes A and B, 8th Edition unless otherwise stated: Term 1: Columbus, De Las Casas, Puritan writers and Enlightenment texts such as The Declaration of Independence Whitman, Song of Myself Thoreau, Walden (first two chapters, and chapter on ‘The Ponds’ and ‘Spring’) Dickinson, all the selection of her and letters in the Norton Emerson, ‘Self-Reliance’ Term 2: Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Poe, A selection of short stories and poems including ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, ‘Willliam Wilson’ and ‘The Man of the Crowd’ Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Girl (Norton only has extracts; find and read the full book, any edition) Twain, Huckleberry Finn (not in the Norton, use any edition) James, The Turn of the Screw (not in the Norton, use any edition) Melville, ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’ and ‘Benito Cereno’ Davis, Life in the Iron Mills Vacation Reading: Students should begin their reading with The Declaration of Independence and the introductions to the Norton Anthology Volumes A and B. For further information, please see Dr Tony Sharpe County Main B97 ENGL 207: British Romanticism Course Aims and Objectives: This course is divided into key areas across the two terms: Revolution; The Self; Politics and Poetics; and the Gothic. We will by examining revolutionary writing of the Romantic period, including the poetry of Anna Barbauld, William Blake, and William Wordsworth, and the prose of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and Mary Wollstonecraft. We will then consider ideas of the self in the poetry of Charlotte Smith and Letitia Landon, Lord Byron’s Manfred, and the labouring-class writing of John Clare. We also examine the relationship between politics and poetics for the second-generation poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, and then, the slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, and the orientalism of S. T. Coleridge and Thomas de Quincey. Finally, the course will turn its attention to the popular literary movement of ‘Gothic’ which
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