English 931: Symposium in Romantic Literature
British
Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Fall 2001
Stephen C. Behrendt
319 Andrews; 472-1806
office: 12-2 M and by appointment
sbehrendt1@unl.edu
TEXTS:
British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology. Ed. Paula R. Feldman. 1997. We will select other texts from on-line resources (especially the British Women Romantic Poets project at UC, Davis) and from local archives (like UNL's Corvey collection). Plan also to read widely and eclectically in criticism and theory, especially feminist theory and reception theory, and in period criticism and biography.Tentative Schedule
Canonicity, periodicity, recovery of neglected writers, and the emerging new Romantic literary landscape
Texts, electronic texts, annotated editions, and Romantics scholarship
Sep 3 Labor Day holiday -
no session
Sep 10 Anthologies and the inscription
of women's literary history in the Romantic period and in subsequent critical
and scholarly discourse
Sep 17 Special session with Paula
Feldman:
Scholarly editing, Romantics scholarship, and the recovery and reassessment of British women writers of the Romantic period
Sep 24
Oct 1
Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827)
Anna Seward (1742-1809)
Oct 8
Oct 15 Mary Darby Robinson (1758-1800)Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
Susanna Blamire (1747-1794)
Oct 22 Fall Break - no session
Oct 29 Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)Nov 5
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
Isabella Lickbarrow (1784-1847)
Nov 12
Nov19 Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)Amelia Alderson Opie (1769-1853)
Elizabeth Moody (d. 1814)
Janet Little (1759-1813)
Nov 26
Letitia Elizabeth Landon [L. E. L.] (1802-1838)
Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
Dec 3 Tentative Conclusions
Dec 10 The (New) Direction(s) of Romantics Studies