Required Texts (available at MSVU Bookstore):

Anne K. Mellor and Richard E. Matlak, eds., British Literature 1780-1830 (Harcourt)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Broadview)

Evaluation

Short Essay (5-7 pp; due February 10): 20%
Teaching Stint (see handout): 10%

Electronic Conference/In-Class Participation: 15%
Long Essay (10-15 pp; due April 7): 30%
Final Exam: 25%

As is always the case at this university, correct use of language is one of the criteria included in the evaluation of all written assignments.

"Students are reminded that the University regulations on Plagiarism and Cheating will be strictly enforced. These regulations are posted on departmental bulletin boards and information may also be available from your professor." (Senate, March 1986)

Syllabus

Jan. 6 Listening to Ozymandias

11 Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To a Skylark" and selections from A Defense of Poetry

13 Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind," "Mont Blanc"

18/20 Shelley, The Cenci

25/27 Mary Shelley, Mathilda

Feb 1/3/8/10 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

15/17 Thomas De Quincey, from Confessions of an English Opium Eater

22/24 READING WEEK: NO CLASSES

March 1 John Keats, “Ode to Psyche”,“Ode on Melancholy”; Letters: to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817; to George and Tom Keats, 21, 27 Dec. 1817; to Richard Woodhouse, 27 Oct. 1818

3 Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”,

8 Keats, Eve of St. Agnes

10 Keats, Lamia

15 Keats, Hyperion: A Fragment

17 Keats, The Fall of Hyperion

22 George Gordon, Lord Byron, Manfred

14 Byron, Manfred, John Polidori, "The Vampyre" (handout)

29 Byron, Don Juan, “Dedication” and Canto I

31 Byron, Don Juan Canto II

April 5 Byron, Don Juan Canto III

7 Byron, Don Juan Canto IV, Exam Review