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 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 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 Criticism: A. Classic & B. More recent. NOTE: **Students should be familiar with these works, no matter what their research interests may be. Poetry and Drama Baillie, Joanna. ** A Winter s Day. 1840. ** Address to the Muses. 1790. Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott. 1832. To Mrs. Siddons. 1823. Barbauld, Anna Letitia Aiken. ** A Summer Evening s Meditation ** The Mouse s Petition. 1767. Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. 1812. ** The Rights of Woman. 1773. To Mr. Coleridge Blake, William. **Songs of Innocence and Experience. 1789. **The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. 1793. The Book of Thel. 1789. **Visions of the Daughters of Albion. 1908. The Book of Urizen. 1794. 1
Annotations to Reynolds A Vision of the Last Judgment. 1810. Burns, Robert. ** To a Mouse. 1785. ** Holy Willie s Prayer. 1789. ** The Cotter s Saturday Night. 1795. Epistle to J. Lapraik, an Old Scotch Bard. 1785. Man was made to Mourn. 1784. ** Tam o Shanter. 1791. Song For a That and a That. 1797. Byron, Lord. George Gordon. She Walks in Beauty. 1814. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. 1809. **Childe Harold s Pilgrimage. 1812. Sonnet on Chillon Darkness. 1816. Prometheus. 1816. **Manfred, A Dramatic Poem. 1817. Don Juan. 1824 Clare, John. Helpstone. 1820. On Taste. 1832. ** The Fate of Genius. 1824 ** To the Rural Muse. 1835. The Eternity of Nature ** The Mores. 1831. The Flitting. 1833. Remembrances. 1908. A Vision. 1844. ** An Invite to Eternity. 1920. ** I Am. 1848. ** The Peasant Poet. 1920. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement. 1795. ** The Eolian Harp. 1795. ** This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison. 1797. ** The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 1798. Christabel. 1816. ** Frost at Midnight. 1798. ** Kubla Khan. 1816. ** Dejection: An Ode (both versions) Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni. 1802. To William Wordsworth. 1807. Constancy to an Ideal Object. 1828. Hazlitt, William. On Gusto. 1816. 2
My First Acquaintance with Poets. 1823. Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (Browne). Casabianca. 1826. ** To the Poet Wordsworth. 1834. ** The Bride of the Greek Isle. 1828. Properzia Rossi. 1828. Indian Woman s Death Song. 1828. Woman and Fame. 1829. The Homes of England. 1827. Remembrance of Nature. 1829. Keats, John ** On First Looking into Chapman s Homer. 1816. Sleep and Poetry. 1816. ** On Seeing the Elgin Marbles. 1817. ** La Belle Dame sans Merci. 1819. ** The Eve of St. Agnes. 1820. Hyperion. 1820. ** Ode to Psyche. 1819. ** Ode to a Nightingale. 1819. ** Ode on a Grecian Urn. 1819. ** Ode on Melancholy. 1819. ** Lamia. 1819. ** To Autumn. 1819. The Fall of Hyperion. 1856. Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (L.E.L.) ** Sappho s Song. 1824. ** The Proud Ladye. 1839. Revenge Scale Force, Cumberland. 1837. Fountains Abbey. 1839. ** Felicia Hemans. 1839. Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans. 1835. Scenes in London: Piccadilly. 1839. The Princess Victoria. 1837. The Poet s Lot Moore, Thomas. The Fire Worshippers (Lalla Rookh III, ll. 201-453). 1817. Oh! Blame Not the Bard. 1839. Away with this Pouting. 1825. Robinson, Mary. ** A London Summer Morning. 1804. ** January, 1795 Written Between Dover and Calais, July 1792 The Haunted Beach. 1800. ** Mrs. Robinson to the Poet Coleridge. 1801. Scott, Sir Walter. 3
The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto 6. 1805. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Alastor. 1815. ** Mont Blanc. 1816. ** Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. 1817. Ozymandias. 1818. ** Ode to the West Wind. 1819. Epipsychidion. 1821. **Prometheus Unbound. 1820. ** Julian and Maddalo. 1819. Lines Written Above the Euganean Hills To A Skylark. 1820. The Triumph of Life. 1822. Sonnet: England in 1819. 1819. Smith, Charlotte Turner. Elegiac Sonnets. 1827. ** Beachy Head. 1807. ** The Emigrants. 1793. Southey, Robert. The Widow. 1848. The Idiot. 1848. The Botany Bay Eclogues. 1794. Wordsworth, William. **Lyrical Ballads. 1798. Nutting. 1799. **The Lucy poems. 1801. ** Resolution and Independence. 1807. **The Prelude. 1805. and Book XIV. 1850. ** Ode: Intimations of Immortality. 1807. ** London: 1802 ** The world is too much with us. 1807. The Solitary Reaper. 1807. Fiction Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. 1803. **Emma. 1815. **Sense and Sensibility. 1811. Mansfield Park. 1814. Edgeworth, Maria. Belinda. 1801. **The Absentee. 1812. Godwin, William. **Caleb Williams. 1794. Hamilton, Elizabeth. Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah. 1796. 4
Hays, Mary. Memoirs of Emma Courtney. 1796. Hogg, James. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. 1824. Owenson, Sydney, Lady Morgan. The Wild Irish Girl. 1806. The Missionary. 1811. Radcliffe, Ann. The Mysteries of Udolpho. 1794. **The Italian. 1797. Scott, Sir Walter Waverley, or Tis Sixty Years Since. 1814. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft **Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. 1818. Matilda. 1820. Smith, Charlotte. The Old Manor House. 1793. Wollstonecraft, Mary **Mary. A Fiction. 1788. Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman. 1798. Nonfiction Prose Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. Baillie, Joanna. Introductory Discourse to Plays on the Passions. 1798. Burke, Edmund **A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. 1757. Reflections on the Revolution in France. 1790. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia Literaria (**Books 1, 13, 14, 15, 18 & 22). 1817. DeQuincey, Thomas. **Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 1821. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth. 1823. Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power. 1848. Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. 1789. Hazlitt, William. On Gusto. 1816. On Genius and Common Sense. 1822. ** My First Acquaintance with Poets. 1823. Keats, John. **Selected Letters To J. H. Reynolds (April 17, 1817) 5
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) To Richard Woodhouse (October 27,1818) To George and Georgiana Keats (March 19 & April 21, 1819) Lamb, Charles. On the Tragedies of Shakespeare. 1811. ** A Dissertation upon Roast Pig. 1888. Dream-Children: A Reverie. 1822. The Superannuated Man. 1823. Lamb, Mary. ** On Needlework. 1814. Prince, Mary. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. 1831. Robinson, Mary. A Letter to the Women of England. 1799. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. ** A Defence of Poetry. 1821. Williams, Helen Maria. Letters from France. 1792. Williams, Helen Maria. Letters written in France in the summer of 1790 Wollstonecraft, Mary. **Vindication of the Rights of Women. 1792. **Maria. 1798. Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. 1796. Wordsworth, Dorothy. **The Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals. 1803 Wordsworth, William. **Preface to Lyrical Ballads. 1800. Essay, Supplementary to the Preface. 1815. Criticism PhD 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. Students should consult with their committee chair and committee members to create a list of those texts that best suit their prospective research and teaching interests. Each reading list must include at least five books from each of the following categories of critical works on British and Irish Romanticism. A. Classic criticism of Romanticism Aarsleff, Hans. The Study of Language in England, 1780-1860. 1976. Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp. 1953.. Natural Supernaturalism. 1973. 6
Babbit, Irving. Rousseau and Romanticism. 1919. Bate, Walter Jackson. From Classic to Romantic. 1946. The Burden of the Past and the English Poet. 1970. Bloom, Harold. The Visionary Company. 1961., ed. Romanticism and Consciousness. 1970. De Man, Paul. The Rhetoric of Romanticism. 1984.. Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism. 1993. Erdman, David. Blake: Prophet Against Empire. 1954. Frye, Northrop. Fearful Symmetry. 1969. Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. 1979. Hartman, Geoffrey. Wordsworth s Poetry, 1787-1814. 1964. McGann, Jerome. The Romantic Ideology. 1991. Peckham, Morse. The Triumph of Romanticism. 1970. Praz, Mario. The Romantic Agony. 2nd ed. Trans. Angus Davidson. 1970. Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society 1780-1850. 1958.. The Country and the City. 1973. B. More recent criticism of Romanticism Bate, Jonathan. Romantic Ecology. 1991. Butler, Marilyn. Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries. 1981. Carlson, Julie. In the Theatre of Romanticism. 2007. Chandler, James. England in 1819. 1998. Chase, Cynthia, ed. Romanticism. 1992. Christensen, Jerome. Romanticism at the End of History. 2000. Cox, Jeffrey. Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School. 2004. Craciun, Adriana. British Women Writers and the French Revolution. 2005. Curran, Stuart. Poetic Form and British Romanticism. 1986. Favret, Mary. Romantic Correspondence. 1993. Ferris, Nina. The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland. 2009. Fulford, Tim. Landscape, Liberty and Authority. 1996. Gamer, Michael. Romanticism and the Gothic. 2006. Hofkosh, Sonya. Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author. 2006. Kaiser, David Aram. Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism. 1999. Keen, Paul. Crisis of Literature in the 1790s. 1999. Klancher, John. The Making of English Reading Audiences. 1987. Makdisi, Saree. Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity. 1998. Mee, John. Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation. 2005. Mellor, Anne K. English Romantic Irony. 1980.. Romanticism and Gender. 1993. Newlyn, Lucy. Reading, Writing, and Romanticism. 2003. Pyle, Forrest. The Ideology of Imagination. 1995. Rajan, Tilottama & Julia Wright, eds. Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre. 1998. Roe, Nicholas. Keats and History. 1995. Rudd, Andrew. Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830. 2011. Simpson, David. Romanticism, Nationalism, and the Revolt Against Theory. 1993. 7
St. Clair, William. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. 2004. Thomas, Helen. Romanticism and Slave Narratives. 2000. Wohlgemut, Esther. Romantic Cosmopolitanism. 2009. Wolfson. Susan J. Formal Charges. 1997.. Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. 2006. Last Updated December 2013 8