Syllabus

Texts:

Anne Mellor and Richard Matlak, eds., British Literature: 1780-1830

Jane Austen, Persuasion, The Norton Critical Edition, ed. P. M. Spacks

(you must have this edition as I have assigned articles by critics which appear in it)

*All readings are from these two texts unless they are in a handout (HO) which will be distributed in class or available on line (Web HO).

**Each entry below gives you inclusive page numbers. Read all full works that begin on and end on those pages.

Assignments:

1. You will be asked to write for five minutes at the beginning of each class. You will write about general thoughts and impressions, or will respond to a specific question I ask. I will use the essays turned in to take attendance, so if you have not done the readings, turn in a piece of paper with your name on it so that I know you were here.
2. Once a week, you will post an email message to the Class List discussing a particular topic assigned in advance (see "Class Email List Assignments"), or you will be asked to complete a "Web assignment."
3. You will write two short papers or will do a web project which involves turning in the text of your page midway through the semester, and then putting the pages up onto the World Wide Web before class is finished.

Grades:

35% Papers or Web Project

35% Email Messages

30% Class Participation based on attendance, in-class writings, and speaking up in class.

If you are absent more than 6 times, you will be dropped from the class. Attendance is not mandatory beyond that, but it of course affects your class participation grade.

Class Assistants:

Kendra Lacy--lacykl@miamiu.muohio.edu

Erica Lell--lellem@miavx1.muohio.edu

Jenn McLain--mclainjl@miavx1.muohio.edu

Schedule of Readings and Assignments

Week 1: What Are We Doing Here?

Week 1

8/26 Introduction

8/28 Anna Letitia Barbauld, "On Education"

Weeks 2-5: Relations to Nature, relations to humanity

Week 2

9/1 LABOR DAY--No Class

9/2 William Collins, William Wordsworth (HO)

9/3 Meet in Computer Lab

9/5 Barbauld 165-171

Week 3

9/8 Barbauld 181-190 List Group 1

9/10 Coleridge 680-683, 694-98, 711-13 List Group 2

9/12 Coleridge 734-43 List Group 3

Week 4

9/15 Coleridge 721-30; 146-8 LG1

9/17 Dorothy Wordsworth 658, 660-9 LG2

9/19 William Wordsworth, 560-73 LG3

Week 5

9/22 W. Wordsworth 573-85 LG1

9/24 W. Wordsworth 585-92 LG2

9/26 W. Wordsworth 603-5; Cleanth Brooks, "Wordsworth and the Paradox of Imagination" (HO)LG3

Week 6: History of the Romantic Period

Week 6

9/29 Group 1: Short Paper Due / Web Bibliography

W. Wordsworth, 643-51

10/1 Meet in Computer Lab

All Groups Do Web Assignment During Class

10/3 The Revolution Controversy, 9-28

New Ideas about Government (Web Handout)

Weeks 7-9: The Power of Sentiment

Week 7

10/6 Group 2: Short Paper Due / Web Bibliography

Sensibility (Web Handout)

Sensibility 141-5

Barbauld, "Female Education" (HO) LG1

10/8 Hannah More 200- 9

Anne Cromarty Yearsley 263-70 LG2, LG3

10/10 FALL BREAK--No Class

Week 8

10/13 Group 3: Short Paper Due / Web Bibliography

Charlotte Smith 225-230 LG 1

10/15 Smith, 231-44 LG 2

10/17 Joanna Baillie 439-58 LG 3

Week 9

10/20 Baillie, Count Basil, Acts I-II, 459-70 LG 1

10/22 Acts III-V, 470-94

Baillie 494-6, Walter Scott 670-9 LG 2

10/24 CLASS CANCELLED LG 3

Weeks 10-12: Romantic Women

Week 10

10/27 Stereotypical Views of Women (Web HO)

Barbauld 167-8

Mary Wollstonecraft 366-71 LG 1

10/29 Wollstonecraft 371-95 LG 2

10/31 Wollstonecraft 395-413 LG 3

Week 11

11/3 In the Norton Persuasion: Backgrounds 181-7

Jane Austen, Persuasion, 1-28 LG 1

11/5 Norton Persuasion: Backgrounds 191-95

Persuasion 28-49 LG 2

11/7 Norton Persuasion: Backgrounds 208-12

Persuasion 49-79 LG 3

Week 12

11/10 Norton Persuasion: Criticism 217-31

Persuasion 79-107 LG 1

11/12 Norton Persuasion: Criticism 286-307

Persuasion 107-40 LG 2

11/14 Adela Pinch, "Lost in a Book" (HO)

Persuasion 141-68 LG 3

Weeks 13-14: Radical Lyric

Week 13

11/24 Group 1, Paper Due / Web Text

Blake 294-99

11/26 THANKSGIVING VACATION--No Class

11/28 THANKSGIVING VACATION--No Class

Week 14

12/1 Group 2: Paper Due / Web Text

The Romantic Child (slide presentation)

12/3 Meet in Computer Lab

Web Assignment Due in Class

12/5 Blake 277-84

Week 15: Romanticism On Line

Week 15

12/8 Group 3: Paper Due/ Web Text

Class on Making Web Pages--all students must attend

12/10 Jenn McLain--Presentation of Web Page (in Boyd 117)

12/12 Conclusion

Course Evaluations

Final Web Project Due: December 17

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