ENGLISH 441A / 541A

THE EARLY ROMANTIC PERIOD: 1789-1816
READING ASSIGNMENTS

Plumb, J. H. "The Reception of the French Revolution in England." England in the Eighteenth Century. NY: Penguin, 1963. 155-162. DA 480.P56 1963b

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discourse on the Origin and Foudations of Inequality Among Men. 1755. In Rousseau's Political Writings. Eds. Alan Ritter, Julia Conaway Bondanella. Trans. Julia Conaway Bondanella. NY: Norton, 1988. 34-41. (OR in Selections. Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality. Eds. Roger D. Masters and Christopher Kelly. JC179.R7 1992)

Richardson, Alan. Excerpt from "Women, Education, and the Novel." Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832. NY: Cambridge UP, 1994. 167-185 incl. PR457.R456 1994

Johnson, Claudia. "The Distinction of the Sexes: The Vindications." Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s; Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. PR 858.W6 J64 1995

Richardson, Alan. "Blake, Children's Literature, and Colonialism." Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832. NY: Cambridge UP, 1994. 153-166. PR456.R456 1994

[Day, Thomas.] The Dying Negro, A Poetical Epistle, Supposed to be Written by a Black, (Who lately shot himself on board a vessel in the river Thames;) to his intended Wife. London: W. Flexney, 1773. Courtesy of Jill Campbell, from the Beinecke Library. (OR: a photocopy)

Ellison, Julie. "The Politics of Fancy in the Age of Sensibility." In Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner, eds. Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837. Phila.: U of Penna. P, 1994. 228-55. PR457.R4556 1994

Pascoe, Judith. "Female Botanists and the Poetry of Charlotte Smith." In Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner, eds. Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837. Phila.: U of Penna. P, 1994. 193-209. PR457.R4556 1994

Favret, Mary. "Helen Maria Williams and the Letters of History." Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics, and the Fiction of Letters. NY: Cambridge UP, 1993. 53-95. PR911.F38 1993

Burroughs, Catherine. "English Romantic Women Writers and Theatre Theory: Joanna Baillie's Prefaces to the Plays on the Passions." In Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner, eds. Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837. Phila.: U of Penna. P, 1994. 274-96. PR457.R4556 1994

Abrams, M. H. "Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric." The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism. NY: Norton, 1984. PR457.A2 1984

Selected Poems:

Southey, Robert. "The Widow: Sapphics." 1798.

Canning, George, and John Hookham Frere. "Sapphics: The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder." 1798.

Canning, George and William Gifford. "The Progress of Man. A Didactic Poem in Forty Cantos, with Notes Critical and Explanatory: Chiefly of a Philosophical Tendency." 1798.

Polwhele, Richard. from "The Unsex'd Females." 1798.

Anonymous, "The Age of War." 1798.

In Jerome J. McGann, ed. The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse. NY: Oxford UP, 1993. 132-9. PR1222.N48 1993

Richardson, Alan. Excerpt from "Women, Education, and the Novel." Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832. NY: Cambridge UP, 1994. 185-203 incl. PR457.R456 1994