Dr. Yoder
English 4341.01     English Romantics: "Children, Idiots and Savages"     Spring 2009
Assignment Schedule

Week 1 (Jan. 13-15)
Introduction
Co-ordinates: Children, Idiots and Savages: Locke, Memory and History; Anti-anthology

Week 2 (Jan. 220-22)
Blake: Songs of Innocence

Week 3 (Jan. 27-29)
Blake: Songs of Experience

Week 4 (Feb. 3-5)
----> Critical Summary 1 Due, Feb. 3
Blake: Reading the complete Songs
The Impact of Different Sequences (See different versions at The William Blake Archive)

Week 5 (Feb. 10-12)
Other Ways of Reading the Songs

Week 6 (Feb. 17-19)
----> Monday Feb. 16: Songs Paper Due by Noon
Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads: Advertisement through "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Week 7 (Feb. 24-26)
WW & STC: Lyrical Ballads: "The Foster-Mother's Tale" through "Lines written at a small distance from my House"

Week 8 (Mar. 3-5)
WW & STC: Lyrical Ballads: "Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman" through "The Mad Mother"

Week 9 (Mar. 10-12)
----> Critical Summary 2 Due, Mar. 10
WW & STC: Lyrical Ballads: "The Idiot Boy" through "The Convict"

Week 10 (Mar. 17-19)
WW & STC: Lyrical Ballads: "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"

Mar. 24-26: SPRING BREAK

Week 11 (Mar. 31-Apr. 2)
----> Tuesday March 31: Lyrical Ballads Paper Due in class
WW & STC: Lyrical Ballads: Reviews of 1st edition; WW's Preface to 2nd edition; STC's remarks from Biographia Literaria (in LB, pp. 469-475)

Week 12 (Apr. 7-9)
Transition: The Figure of Prometheus (Handout)

Week 13 (Apr. 14-16)
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Week 14 (Apr. 21-23)
----> Critical Summary 3 Due, April 21
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Week 15 (Apr. 28-30)
Richard Brinsley Peake, Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (Available here or here)
Thomas Edison's Frankenstein (1910). This page has links to several sites with the 12 minute video.

----> Thursday May 7: Final Paper Due by Noon

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