These are the primary texts we’ll be studying this term. A list of books to buy for this course can be found at the bottom of this page.
Non-fiction
- Edmund Burke, excerpt from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) *
- Mary Wollstonecraft, excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) *
- ---, excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) *
- Thomas Paine, excerpt from Rights of Man (1791) *
- Anne Lister, excerpts from diaries (1806-1840)
Poetry
- Anna Letitia Barbauld, ‘The Rights of Woman’ (ca. 1792-95) *
- William Wordsworth, excerpts from ‘Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’ (1802) *
- ---. ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey’ (1798) *
- ---. Excerpt from The Prelude (book 1, lines 351-451) (1805) *
- Mary Robinson, ‘The Poor Singing Dame’ (1800) *
- Charlotte Smith, ‘The Swallow’ (1807) *
- William Blake, ‘The Lamb’ (1789)*
- ---, ‘The Tyger’ (1794)*
- ---, ‘London’ (1794) *
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ (1797-98, published 1816) *
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Adonais’ (1821) *
- John Keats, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (1819)*
- ---, ‘This living hand, now warm and capable’ (1819) *
Novels and novel excerpts
- Ann Radcliffe, excerpt from The Romance of the Forest (1791) *
- Matthew Lewis, excerpt from The Monk (1796) *
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (1818)
- Jane Austen, Persuasion (1816, published 1818)
What to buy
- The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2 (Norton, 2012, 9th edition)
- Robin Jarvis, The Romantic Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1789-1830 (Longman, 2004)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (1818)
- Jane Austen, Persuasion (1816, published 1818)
Syllabus texts to be found in the Norton Anthology are starred. Texts not starred or listed on the ‘to buy’ list (in this case, only the Anne Lister text) will be provided as PDFs on Fronter.