Professor Laura Quinney
Rabb 131 ENG 55B
Office hrs: T 12:30-2 TTh 2-3:20
and by appt. Golding 103
ROMANTICISM AND THE SUPERNATURAL
Books: Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th ed. vol. D (The Romantic Period)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
The two plays (Manfred and Prometheus Unbound) as well as most of the poems are to be found in the Norton Anthology. I will provide handouts (or LATTE posts) of those poems the Norton doesn’t include.
Syllabus:
Jan 14 Introduction
16 Dream poems: Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” and “The Pains of Sleep”:
Blake, “The Angel” (handout)
21 GOTHIC
The Castle of Otranto
23 “ “
28 Northanger Abbey
30 “ “
Feb 4 SUPERNATURAL
Norton, “Ballads and Ballad Revivals”
6 Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
11 Coleridge, “Christabel”
13 Keats, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” “Lamia”
WINTER BREAK
25 Wordsworth, “Simon Lee,” “We Are Seven,” “The Thorn”
27 Wordsworth, “I travelled among unknown men,” “Strange fits of passion
I have known,” “She dwelt among the untrodden ways,” “Three years she
grew,” “A slumber did my spirit seal”
4-5pp. PAPER DUE: Friday 2/28
Mar 4 PROMETHEAN MAN
Byron, Manfred, “Darkness,” “Prometheus” (handout)
6 “ “
11 Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
13 “ “
18 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
20 “ “
25 Films: “Frankenstein” (James Whale, 1931); “Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1994)
27 Blake, “America” (handout)
Film: “Bladerunner” (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Apr 1 TRANSCENDENCE
Wordsworth, excerpts from The Prelude, Books 1-6
3 “ “
FILM SCRIPT DUE: Friday 4/4
8 Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
“The world is too much with us,” “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
10 “ “
PASSOVER BREAK
24 Percy Shelley, “The Triumph of Life”
29 “ “
5-7pp. PAPER DUE: Monday, May 5.
Course Rules:
1) No laptops in class. No iphones, ipads or other electronic devices.
2) No plagiarizing. No cheating.
3) Inform me the first week of class if you have a documented disability.
Course requirements:
1) Class attendance and participation. (20%)
2) One film script (one scene: 6-10pp.) (25%) Due: Friday, April 4.
3) One 4-5pp. paper. (25%) Due: Friday, February 28.
4) One 5-7pp. paper. (30%) Due: Monday, May 5.