Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Anglisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BMI-ANGD17-CI6aE.04
- Cím
- Romantikus és viktoriánus irodalom - alapvetések és perspektívák: A kora romantika időszakának női költői
- Tervezett félév
- Tavaszi
- ECTS
- 3
- Nyelv
- Oktatás célja
- It has long been customary to present the romantic period as identical to the work of six great poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats). In the era, however, things looked quite different. Here is an alternative list of the most important authors from the end of the 18th century. The best novels that have been written, since those of Smollet, Richardson, and Fielding, have been produced by women: and their pages have not only been embellished with the interesting events of domestic life, portrayed with all the refinement of sentiment, but with forcible and eloquent, political, theological, and philosophical reasoning. To the genius and labours of some enlightened British women posterity will also be indebted for the purest and best translations from the French and German languages. I need not mention Mrs. Dobson, Mrs. Inchbald, Miss Plumptree, &c. &c. Of the more profound researches in the dead languages, we have many female classicks of the first celebrity: Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Thomas, (late Miss Parkhurst;), Mrs. Francis, the Hon. Mrs. Damer, &c. &c. Of the Drama, the wreath of fame has crowned the brows of Mrs. Cowley, Mrs. Inchbald, Miss Lee, Miss Hannah More, and others of less celebrity. Of Biography, Mrs. Dobson, Mrs. Thickness, Mrs. Piozzi, Mrs. Montagu, Miss Helen Williams, have given specimens highly honourable to their talents. Poetry has unquestionably risen high in British literature from the productions of female pens; for many English women have produced such original and beautiful compositions, that the first critics and scholars of the age have wondered, while they applauded. The above list does not merely testify to the rich diversity of what the period understood by ‘literature’, but also to the fact that women authors of the period could reasonably consider themselves as fully emancipated members of the republic of letters. The aim of the course is to offer a discussion of some of these poems that, after a long period marked by a very selective memory, have, in recent decades, been reintegrated into the canon of romanticism. It aims to do so without isolating their authors from the best-known poets of the era but in constant dialogue with more obviously canonical writers, such as Wordsworth and Coleridge. It also aims to draw attention to some of the most important social issues that women writers advocated for, including the abolition of slavery, the emancipation of dissenters and women, or the importance of the French Revolution.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- The planned syllabus includes 1) Introduction: history, women, romanticism 2) Sonnet cycles and the origins of romanticism a. Charlotte Smith: Elegiac Sonnets b. Mary Robinson: Sappho and Phaon 3) Issues: a. Prophecy: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem b. Abolition: Anna Laetitia Barbauld: ‘Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade’; Mary Robinson, ‘The Storm’ and ‘The Negro Girl’; Hannah More, Slavery, A Poem (1788); Ann Yearsley, ‘Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slavetrade’ c. Revolution: Charlotte Smith, The Emigrants d. Science: Charlotte Smith, from Beachy Head e. The quotidian: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ‘Washing Day’, ‘The Mouse’s Petition’ 4) Interactions: a. Mary Robinson, ‘Ode, Inscribed to the Infant Son of S. T. Coleridge, Esq.’ and ‘Mrs Robinson to the Poet Coleridge”; ST Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ b. Ballads: Charlotte Smith, ‘Lydia’; Mary Robinson, ‘All Alone’, William Wordsworth, ‘The Thorn’ and ‘We are Seven’
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- The students will be graded on the basis of a 5+ page-long academic essay, based on independent research, on any poem by a female romantic poet, a presentation and general in-class contributions.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- A few recommended books include: Robinson, Daniel. The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame. Palgrave, 2011. Barker, Hannah and Elaine Chalus, eds. Women’s History Britain, 1700-1850. An Introduction. Routledge, 2005. Labbe, Jacqueline, ed. Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism. Pickering & Chatto, 2008 Labbe, Jacqueline, ed. Labbe, The History of British Women’s Writing, 1750–1830 Volume Five. Palgrave, 2010. Wu, Duncan, ed. Romantic Women Poets. An Anthology. Blackwell, 1997. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Carey, Brycchan. British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760–1807. Palgrave, 2005. Watkins, Daniel P., Anna Letitia Barbauld and Eighteenth- Century Visionary Poetics. Johns Hopkins UP, 2012. Garnai, Amy. Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s. Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Inchbald. Palgrave, 2009.