2009-10 MM Romantic, Gothic, Modern: Literature and Culture around 1800, Mo 16-18
- Time: Monday 16-18
- Venue
Contents
Course Description
19.10.09
Introduction. Technicalities. -- Three concepts and their connection: Modernity, Romanticism, Gothic
26.10.09
Established Views in Literary History: Romanticism Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads. (1802)
02.11.09
09.11.09
Coleridge, ‘The Ancient Mariner’ (1798 and 1817), Coleridge on the Supernatural.
16.11.09
Political Romanticism: William Blake, “London”; P. B. Shelley “England in 1819”.
23.11.09
Established Views in Literary History: Gothic Ann Radcliffe “On the Supernatural” (1826); The Typical Genre Features of Gothic Fiction as Found in The Monk (Sedgwick and others).
30.11.09
Lewis, The Monk: Plot Structure, Narrative Perspectives.
07.12.09
Lewis, The Monk: “The Dark Side of What?”: Passion, Repression, Violence. The Monk and the Contemporary Debate
14.12.09
A first resumé of tensions and debates: Gothic and romantic, and the relation of both towards ‘modernity’
04.01.10
William Godwin, Caleb Williams 1: The (plot) structure of CW; CW as a Critique of the English Social System and the Character and Development of Mr. Falkland
11.01.10
William Godwin, Caleb Williams II Narrative Techniques, Caleb’s character and his changing perspective on Falkland. The alternative ending.
18.01.10
CW , The Monk, and the Public Debate as a Gothic, a Romantic or a Modern text. – Constructing Different Readings.
25.01.10
Course Evaluation. – Final Discussion.
01.02.10
Feedback on Course Evaluation. –Presentation and Student Discussion of Term Paper Projects.