2009-10 MM Romantic, Gothic, Modern: Literature and Culture around 1800, Mo 16-18

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  • Time: Monday 16-18
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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

Coleridge: Romantic Imagination and Romantic Aesthetics: Biographia Literaria (esp. character. XII and XIV), “Kubla Khan” (1816).

09.11.09

Coleridge, ‘The Ancient Mariner’ (1798 and 1816), 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.