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1 Ph.D. Examination Reading List British and Irish Romanticism The following is a fundamental reading list for doctoral candidates to use as a guide in preparing for the comprehensive examination in British and Irish Romanticism. Students are expected to be thoroughly familiar with the major works and writers, to have a solid understanding of way these works and writers are situated in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history and culture, to grasp the literary and cultural importance and impact of Romanticism, and to be familiar with the theoretical and critical literature in both books and journals pertinent to Romanticism in general and to their specialty interests in particular. Because the study of British and Irish Romantic literature and culture subdivides into many sub-fields, students are encouraged to work with their committee on studies chair to focus and supplement this list with works pertinent to their line of research. Hence, the following reading list is suggestive rather than definitive; that is, it should provide the basis for individual discussions with the committee on studies about breadth and focus. The list, of course, may be should be supplemented by works aligned with the major emphasis of the students research interests. The list has four sections: Poetry and Drama Fiction Nonfiction Prose Critical Sources NOTE: ** denotes that the item can be selected by the graduate committee for the master s reading list/exam; PhD students should be familiar with these works, no matter what their research interests may be. POETRY and DRAMA Baillie, Joanna. ** A Winter s Day ** Address to the Muses Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott To Mrs. Siddons DeMontfort Barbauld, Anna. ** A Summer s Evening s Meditation ** The Mouse s Petition On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792 ** The Rights of Woman To Mr. Coleridge Blake, William. ** There is No Natural Religion ** All Religions are One **Songs of Innocence and Experience **The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1

2 The Book of Thel **Visions of the Daughters of Albion The Book of Urizen Annotations to Reynolds A Vision of the Last Judgment Burns, Robert. ** To a Mouse The Twa Dogs A Vision ** Holy Willie s Prayer ** The Cotter s Saturday Night Epistle to J. Lapraik, an Old Scotch Bard Man was made to Mourn ** Tam o Shanter Despondency, An Ode Byron, Lord. George Gordon. The Giaour English Bards and Scotch Reviewers **Childe Harold s Pilgrimage Sonnet on Chillon Darkness Prometheus **Manfred, A Dramatic Poem Don Juan (**Book 1) Clare, John. Helpstone On Taste ** The Fate of Genius ** To the Rural Muse The Eternity of Nature ** The Mores The Flitting Remembrances A Vision ** An Invite to Eternity ** I Am ** The Peasant Poet Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Sonnet: To the River Otter Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement ** The Eolian Harp ** This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison ** The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Christabel ** Frost at Midnight ** Kubla Khan 2

3 ** Dejection: An Ode (both versions) Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni To William Wordsworth Constancy to an Ideal Object Hazlitt, William. On Gusto My First Acquaintance with Poets Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (Browne). The Widow of Crescentius ** To the Poet Wordsworth ** The Bride of the Greek Isle Properzia Rossi Indian Woman s Death Song Joan of Arc, in Rheims A Spirit s Return The Two Homes Woman and Fame The Homes of England Remembrance of Nature The Siege of Valencia Inchbald, Elizabeth. Lover s Vows Keats, John ** On First Looking into Chapman s Homer Sleep and Poetry ** On Seeing the Elgin Marbles ** La Belle Dame sans Merci ** The Eve of St. Agnes Hyperion ** Ode to Psyche ** Ode to a Nightingale ** Ode on a Grecian Urn ** Ode on Melancholy ** Lamia ** To Autumn The Fall of Hyperion Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (L.E.L.) ** Sappho s Song ** The Proud Ladye Revenge Scale Force, Cumberland Fountains Abbey ** Felicia Hemans Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans Scenes in London: Piccadilly The Princess Victoria 3

4 The Poet s Lot Moore, Thomas. The Fire Worshippers (Lalla Rookh III, ll ) Oh! Blame Not the Bard Away with this Pouting Robinson, Mary. ** A London Summer Morning ** January, 1795 Written Between Dover and Calais, July 1792 The Haunted Beach ** Mrs. Robinson to the Poet Coleridge Scott, Sir Walter. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto 6 Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Alastor ** Mont Blanc ** Hymn to Intellectual Beauty ** Ode to the West Wind Epipsychidion **Prometheus Unbound ** Julian and Maddalo Lines Written Above the Euganean Hills The Sensitive Plant The Cloud To A Skylark The Triumph of Life Sonnet: England in 1819 Smith, Charlotte Turner. **Elegiac Sonnets ** Beachy Head ** The Emigrants Southey, Robert. The Widow The Idiot The Botany Bay Eclogues Tighe, Mary. Psyche, or the Legend of Love ** Address to My Harp To Death Written at Scarborough Williams, Helen Maria. Letters written in France in the summer of 1790 ** A Farewell, for Two Years, to England ** To Sensibility Wordsworth, William. **Lyrical Ballads 4

5 **The Lucy poems Michael, A Pastoral Poem ** The Ruined Cottage The Old Cumberland Beggar ** Resolution and Independence **The Prelude ** Ode: Intimations of Immortality ** London: 1802 ** The world is too much with us Ode to Duty Home at Grasmere The Excursion, Book I FICTION Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey **Emma **Sense and Sensibility Mansfield Park Dacre, Charlotte. Zofloya, or the Moor Earle, William. Obi, or the History of Three-Fingered Jack Edgeworth, Maria Castle Rackrent **The Absentee Ferrier, Susan. Marriage Godwin, William **Caleb Williams Hamilton, Elizabeth. Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah Hays, Mary. Memoirs of Emma Courtney Hogg, James The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Owensen, Sydney, Lady Morgan. The Wild Irish Girl The Missionary Radcliffe, Ann The Mysteries of Udolpho **The Italian Scott, Sir Walter Waverley, or Tis Sixty Years Since Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft **Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus 5

6 Matilda Smith, Charlotte. The Old Manor House Wollstonecraft, Mary **Mary. A Fiction Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman NONFICTION PROSE Baillie, Joanna. Introductory Discourse to Plays on the Passions Blake, William. **Letter to Dr. Trusler (August 23, 1799) **Letter to Thomas Butts (November 22, 1802) Burke, Edmund. **A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Reflections on the Revolution in France Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Conciones ad Populum (Introductory Address) ** The Character of Hamlet ** Mechanic and Organic Form Poetry is Ideal ** Symbol and Allegory On Radicals and Republicans On Sensibility Biographia Literaria (*Books 1, 13, 14, 15, 18 & 22) DeQuincey, Thomas. ** Confessions of an English Opium-Eater On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Gilpin, William Three Essays on the Picturesque Godwin, William Political Justice Hazlitt, William. On Gusto On Genius and Common Sense ** My First Acquaintance with. Poets Keats, John. **Selected Letters To J.H. Reynolds (April 17, 1817) To Benjamin Bailey (November 22, 1817) To George & Tom Keats (December 27, 1817) To J.H. Reynolds (February 3, 1818) To J.H. Reynolds (May 3, 1818) 6

7 To Richard Woodhouse (October 27,1818) To George and Georgiana Keats (March 19 & April 21, 1819) Lamb, Charles. On the Tragedies of Shakespeare ** A Dissertation upon Roast Pig On Some of the Old Actors On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century Lamb, Mary. ** On Needlework Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man Peacock, Thomas Love. The Four Ages of Poetry Prince, Mary. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Reynolds, Joshua. Discourses on Art Robinson, Mary. A Letter to the Women of England Shelley, Percy Bysshe. ** A Defence of Poetry On Life On Love Williams, Helen Maria. Letters from France Wollstonecraft, Mary. Thoughts on the Education of Daughters **A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wordsworth, Dorothy. **The Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals Wordsworth, William. **Preface to Lyrical Ballads Essay, Supplementary to the Preface CRITICAL SOURCES Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. New York: Oxford UP, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature. New York: W. W. Norton, De Man, Paul. The Rhetoric of Romanticism. New York: Columbia UP, Frye, Northrop. A Study of English Romanticism. New York: Random House, Marilyn Butler. Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries-English Literature and its Background, New York: Oxford UP, Hartman, Geoffrey. The Fate of Reading and Other Essays. Chicago: U of Chicago P, Hoeveler, Diane Long. Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from 7

8 Charlotte Smith to the Brontës. University Park, PA: Penn State UP, Hofkosh, Sonia. Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Lokke, Kari. Tracing Women s Romanticism: Gender, History and Transcendence. New York: Routledge, McGann, Jerome. The Romantic Ideology. Chicago: U of Chicago P, Makdisi, Saree. Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Mellor, Anne K. English Romantic Irony. Boston: Harvard UP, Romanticism and Gender. London: Routledge, Rajan, Tilottama. The Supplement Of Reading: Figures Of Understanding In Romantic Theory And Practice. Ithaca: Cornell UP, Siskin, Clifford. The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, St. Clair, William. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. New York: Oxford UP, Wolfson. Susan J. Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. Stanford: Stanford UP, Ph.D. students will be expected to demonstrate familiarity with the critical tradition as well as with the most recent critical discourse including articles and books pertaining to British romanticism in general, as well as with the criticism and theory that pertains to their particular areas of focus. Several collections of essays may serve to introduce students to some of the current critical, historical and theoretical issues. These include, but are not limited to the following: Bainbridge, Simon. Romanticism: A Sourcebook. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Beer, John, ed. Questioning Romanticism. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, Bialostosky, Don H. and Lawrence W. Needham, eds. Rhetorical Traditions and British Romantic Literature. Bloomington: U of Illinois P, Bloom, Harold, ed. Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism. New York: W. W. Norton, Burroughs, Catherine, ed. Women in British Romantic Theatr e: Drama, Performance, and Society, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Chandler, James and Kevin Gilmartin. Romantic Metropolis: The Urban Scene of British Culture, New York: Cambridge UP, Chase, Cynthia, ed. Romanticism. New York: Addison-Wesley, Curran, Stuart. The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism. Cambridge UP, Eaves, Morris and Michael Fischer, ed. Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, Elam, Helen Rigueiro and Frances Ferguson, eds. The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, Favret, Mary and Nicola J. Watson. At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural. Feminist, and Materialist Criticism. Bloomington: U of Indiana P, Feldman, Paula and Theresa M Kelley, ed. Romantic Women Writers-Voices and 8

9 Countervoices. Boston: U of New England P, Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery New York: Routledge, Johnston, Kenneth, et al. Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory. Bloomington: U of Indiana P, Kroeber, Karl and Gene W. Ruoff, ed. Romantic Poetry: Recent Revisionary Criticism. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, Maxwell, Richard and Katie Trumpener, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Mellor, Anne, ed. Romanticism and Feminism. Bloomington: U of Indiana P, Peer, Larry and Diane Hoeveler, eds. Romanticism: Comparative Discourses. Burlington,VT: Ashgate, Pfau, Thomas, ed. Rhetorical and Cultural Dissolution in Romanticism. Chapel Hill: Duke UP Roe, Nicholas. Romanticism: An Oxford Guide. New York: Oxford UP, Thomas, Helen. Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Wilson, Carol Shiner and Joel Haefner, eds. Re-visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, Wu, Duncan, ed. Romanticism: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, A Companion to Romanticism. Oxford: Blackwell,

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ENGLISH DEPARTMENT PHD COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION READING LIST BRITISH AND IRISH ROMANTICISM

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ENGLISH DEPARTMENT PHD COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION READING LIST BRITISH AND IRISH ROMANTICISM The following is a fundamental reading list for doctoral candidates to use as a guide