NEH Summer Seminar:   Genre, Dialogue, and Community in British Romanticism
      University of Nebraska; Lincoln, NE
      13 June - 22 July 2005
      Director:   Stephen C. Behrendt

Pre-Seminar Readings for Participants:

I will provide copies of the following items to each of you who is selected for the seminar, so that you can read them in advance as the basis for discussion at our early sessions. I am including both "modern" materials and materials from the Romantic period, to help establish twin perspectives upon the subject matter. Because many of you are likely to be coming to the seminar not long after completing your regular teaching duties, I have kept the reading selections to what I believe is a reasonable and manageable number and length. The point is less to try to cover everything in advance than to create some "common ground" from which our discussions may proceed.

In addition to the materials listed below, I will provide each of you with a complete catalogue of the English-language segment of the Corvey Collection; you may find this a very helpful resource to have in advance when it comes to planning your research project.

Selections for advance reading:

Recent texts:

Stephen C. Behrendt, "Remapping the Landscape: The Romantic Literary Community Revisited." Comparative Romanticisms: Power, Gender, Subjectivity. Eds. Larry H. Peer and Diane Long Hoeveler. Rochester: Camden House, 1998, pp. 11-32.
Anne K. Mellor. Romanticism and Gender. New York: Routledge, 1994. selections.
Nanora Sweet, "The New Monthly Magazine and the Liberalism of the 1820s." Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture. Ed. Kim Wheatley. London: Frank Cass, 2003, pp. 147-62.

Romantic-era texts:

Anna Letitia Barbauld, "On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing," from The British Novelists (1810)
William Hazlitt. "On the Living Poets." from Lectures on the English Poets. (1818), pp. 283-331.
Hugh Murray, Morality of Fiction; or, An Inquiry into the Tendency of Fictitious Narratives, with Observations on Some of the Most Eminent (1805). selections.
"What is Poetry?" The Investigator 3 (1821): 54-70.
"Poetry; How Affected by Genius and art." Ladies' Monthly Museum. ns 14 (1821): 263-66; ns15-16 (1822): 34-47, 92-95, 151-53, 269-74.
"Lectures on Poetry, the Substance of Which were delivered at the Royal Institution, by T. Campbell." New Monthly Magazine (1821-26). selections.