The Romantic Period, 1785-1830 (Norton Introduction, 3-30)
Week 1, The Rise of Subjectivity – Revolution and the Romantics
- Edmund Burke, From ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ (187-194)
- Thomas Pain, From ‘Rights of Man’ (199-203)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, From ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Men’ (194-199)
- James Gillray’s ‘Caricatures’
- William Blake, ‘London’ (132-33)
- Percy Shelley, ‘England in 1819’ (790)
Week 2, Revolution in Form: Romantic Poetry and the Poet
- William Wordsworth, From ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’ (299-304)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, From ‘Biographia Literari’ (490-491)
- Percy Shelley, From ‘A Defence of Poetry’ (856-69)
Nature, the Ordinary and the Sublime
- William Wordsworth, ‘The Solitary Reaper’ (342), ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey’ (288-92)
Week 3, Beyond Reason
- John Keats, [Negative Capability] (967), [A Poet Has no Identity] (972-974), ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ (930)
The Gothic (584-85)
- Horace Walpole, From ‘The Castle of Otranto’ (586)
- Jane Austen, From ‘Northanger Abbey’, Chapter 5 [Supplement]
Romantic Sensibility
- Jane Austen, From ‘Sense and Sensibility’, Chapter 9 [Supplement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLz2rixwPpA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du9x5TT3rDs)
