English 470
The Romantic Period
Industrial Romanticism
Steven
Jones
Spring 1999
Crown 339
SOME USEFUL WEBSITES:
Tom Standage
article (in FEED) on Babbage
The Science Museum
(London)
Victorian
Economics (The Victorian Web)
Romantic
Chronology
Romantic Circles
Voice of the Shuttle
READINGS, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED
[unless otherwise noted, readings are in anthology,
Romanticism, ed. Duncan Wu]
Patrick O'Brien and Roland Quinault, eds. The Industrial Revolution and British
Society (Cambridge UP, 1993)
[anon.] from General Ludd's Triumph
William Blake, The
William Blake Archive
Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
Robert Burns, "For
a' That and a' That"; "To a
Mountain Daisy";
"To A
Mouse"; "To the Weaver's Gin ye Go"
Lord Byron, letter;
parliamentary speech,
"Song for the Luddites", "Ode to
the Framers of the Frame Bill," "Prometheus," "Darkness," Don
Juan (Dedication)
John Clare, The
Village Minstrel and other poems--esp.: "The Village
Minstrel,""After
Reading in a letter..." [pt. 3], "Song: 'Swamps of wild rush-beds'" [pt.
4], "Langley Bush" [pt. 5], "May-Day" [pt. 6], "Helpstone Green" [pt. 8],
"The Cress Gatherer" [pt. 9]; "The Mores";
from "June"
Mary Collier, "A Woman's Labour"
cf. Duck in parallel texts
George Crabbe, The
Village, I
Charles Dickens, Hard Times (Broadview edition)
Stephen Duck, "The Thresher's Labour"
cf. Collier in parallel texts
Ebenezer Elliott, from Corn Law Rhymes,
from Poetical
Works (in LION: "Hymn written for the printers of Sheffield,""The
Fatal Birth,""Prologue to The Corn-Law Rhymes,""The Home of Taste,""Song:
Free
Trade, like religion,""Verses on the opening of the Sheffield and
Rotherham Railway,""Lines on...Sheffield Mechanics' first
exhibition,""Steam
in the Desert,""British Rural Cottages,""Adam Smith in 1766,""Epigram:
Free trade means,""Epigram: What is a Communist?","Artisan's Outdoor
Hymn")
Oliver Goldsmith,
"The
Deserted Village"
Felicia Hemans,
"The
Homes of England"
John Keats, "To one
who has been long in city pent"; "Robin
Hood"; "To
Autumn"; Ode
on a Grecian Urn"; "The Fall of Hyperion"
"Life of the Industrial Worker in the 19th
Century" (various excerpts)
Robert Owen, "Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing
System"
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein (Broadview edition,
and cf.
SGML version at U.Va.)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "England in 1819"; "Song to the Men of England"; The Mask of
Anarchy, Prometheus Unbound
Jonathan Swift,
"On Stephen Duck"
G. Taylor, "Distress of the Poor"
John Thelwall, "The Old Peasant"
E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class
Arnold Toynbee, from "Lectures
on the Industrial Revolution"
Dorothy Wordsworth, selections from Journals
William Wordsworth, "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, 3 Sept. 1802,""The
Female Vagrant," "Michael,
A Pastoral Poem", "We Are
Seven", "Nutting",
"The
Last of the Flock", "Lines
Written in Early Spring", "The
World is Too Much With Us", "Repentance:
a Pastoral Ballad", "Steamboats,
Viaducts, and Railways", "On
the Projected . . . Railway"
SCHEDULE OF READINGS
Jan. 19
Introductory discussion: The "Industrial Revolution" and the "Romantic
Movement" (Blake and Burns)
Jan. 26
O'Brien and Quinault, chapts. 1-3;
Stephen Duck; Mary Collier; Jonathan Swift
Feb. 2
Oliver Goldsmith;
George Crabbe
Feb. 9
William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, etc. (see links above);
E.P. Thompson, chapter 7
Feb. 16
William Blake, Songs of Innocence & of Experience; E.P. Thompson,
chapter 2
Feb. 23
John Keats; John Clare; Robert Burns; Felicia Hemans
Mar. 2
E.P. Thompson, chapter 14 (concentrate on pp. 521-602);
O'Brien and Quinault
(Stevenson, chapter 10)); Kirkpatrick Sale, esp. chpts. 1, 2, 10 (on
reserve)
3/9-3/14 Spring break
Mar. 16
Byron; anon., "General Ludd's Triumph;" Robert Owen; E.P. Thompson, pp.
779-90; G. Taylor
Mar. 23
No class
Mar. 30
O'Brien and Quinault (Quinault); Percy Bysshe Shelley; Ebenezer Elliott
Apr. 6
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; Or, the Modern
Prometheus
Apr. 13
Charles Dickens, Hard Times; Life of the Industrial Worker
(excerpts)
Apr. 20
Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
Apr. 27
(continued, TBA)
REQUIREMENTS
1. One or two 10-15 minute class presentation(s).
2. Final project--either a
20-page
critical essay or (with approval) a portion of a collaborative
hypertext.