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


Aug 27 Introduction, resources, issues:

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

Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
Susanna Blamire (1747-1794)

Oct 15    Mary Darby Robinson (1758-1800)

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

Amelia Alderson Opie (1769-1853)
Elizabeth Moody (d. 1814)
Janet Little (1759-1813)

Nov19    Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)

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