Module Identifier | EN32520 | |||||||||||
Module Title | GENDER AND ROMANTICISM | |||||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | |||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Richard J Marggraf-Turley | |||||||||||
Semester | Semester 1 | |||||||||||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours Seminar. 10 x 2 hour seminar workshops | ||||||||||
Assessment |
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1. Introductiory Session:
General discussion of module and basic issues raised by the study of literature of the Romantic period.
A. Gender and Social Change (2 seminars)
2: A Woman Alone
Text: Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987).
3: Free Love?
Texts: William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of the Rights of Woman (included with A Short Residence); Mary Hays, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
B. Feminine Genres and their Detractors (4 seminars)
4: Sensibility and the Fictionalization of Feminism
Texts: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary and Maria in Mary Wollstonecraft Mary and Maria and Mary Shelley Mathilda (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985).
5: Anti-Sensibility
Text: Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985).
6: Women and the Gothic
Text: Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
7: Mocking the Gothic
Text: Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985).
C. Male Romanticism (3 seminars)
8: Recasting Masculinity
Texts: Byron Don Juan or some other poem; Coleridge, `Christabel?, `Fears in Solitude?, `This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison?, `To William Wordsworth? and extracts from the Notebooks.
9: Negative Capabilities
Texts: John Keats: The Complete Poems, ed. John Barnard, 3rd edn (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997): `Ode to Psyche?, `Ode on Melancholy?, `Ode on Indolence?, `Lamia? and `La Belle Dame Sans Merci?; and extracts from the Letters (provided); Shelley, `Adonais?.
10: Masculinity Unbound?
Texts: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994); and Matilda in Mary Wollstonecraft Mary and Maria; Mary Shelley, Mathilda, ed. Janet Todd (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985).
This module is at CQFW Level 6