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English 3410-FA: British Romanticism
Course Location: RB 2026
Class Times: 2:30pm–4pm, Tue.,Thu.
Table of Contents
Instructor Information................................................................................................................1
Course Description ....................................................................................................................1
Course Objectives ......................................................................................................................1
Course Resources .....................................................................................................................2
Required Course Texts ..................................................................................................................... 2
Course Website .................................................................................................................................. 2
Assignments and Evaluation ....................................................................................................2
Assignment Policies ........................................................................................................................... 2
Details of Assignments ...................................................................................................................... 3
Participation......................................................................................................................................... 3
Secondary Reading Assignment...................................................................................................... 3
Mid-Term In-Class Test ..................................................................................................................... 3
Research Essay ................................................................................................................................. 3
Final Exam........................................................................................................................................... 3
Course Schedule (subject to change) .....................................................................................3
Marking Standards ............................................................................................................................. 5
Collaboration/Plagiarism Rules ........................................................................................................ 5
Course Policies ..........................................................................................................................5
University Policies .....................................................................................................................6
Instructor Information
 Instructor: Dr. Daniel Hannah
 Office: RB 3039
 Telephone: 343 8663
 Email: [email protected]
 Office Hours: Wed., 10–11am
Course Description
While we will be considering the ‘romantic’ correspondences between these writers, we
will also be looking to chart a wider spectrum of ‘romanticisms’.
Course Objectives
Students who have attended all classes, done all the readings, and completed all the
assessments for this course should be able to:
 read texts of the Romantic period critically, and assess their rhetorical, ideological
and aesthetic strategies.
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 explain how texts of the late Romantic period are produced by, and produce, their
historical and cultural context.
 write well (grammatically correct, clear, effective prose) about late Romantic
literature, and communicate ideas effectively and coherently.
Course Resources
Required Course Texts
Susan Wolfson and Peter Manning, (ed.) The Longman Anthology of British Literature
Vol. 2A. 5th edition. New York: Longman, 2006.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (Broadview)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Broadview)
All texts are available from the university bookstore.
Course Website
 Desire2Learn
Assignments and Evaluation
Assignment
Participation
Due date
Throughout term
Secondary Reading Assignment
September 22nd
15% 2–3 pages
Mid-Term In-Class Test
October 20th
15% 1 hour
Research Essay
November 17th
30% 5–9 pages
Final Exam
TBA
30% 3 hours
Value
Length
10% n/a
Assignment Policies
 All assignments are individual assignments and cannot be completed collaboratively.
 Assignments are due in class on the dates indicated. No late assignments will be
accepted unless an extension has been granted or there are extenuating medical or
other circumstances.
 If you require an extension, you must ask for one BEFORE the due date.
 The final exam must be written on the date scheduled, so do not make travel plans
for the exam period until the exam schedule is posted.
 All assignments must be in MLA format, double spaced, with 1” margins, and in 12
point font.
 Exceptions to these policies are allowed only with a doctor’s note or other appropriate
documentation.
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Details of Assignments
Participation
Participation will be graded on regular attendance in class, preparation for class, and
participation in both small group and larger class discussion.
Secondary Reading Assignment
(2–3 pages, MLA format – due in class February 4th)
Using either the MLA Bibliography or JSTOR, locate an article in a scholarly journal or a
chapter in an edited collection that offers a reading of a poem or more than one poem
from either William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience or William
Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads. Write a review of the article/chapter in which you: (a)
identify the thesis of the article/chapter; (b) provide a brief outline of the structure of its
argument; and (c) identify what you think are the key strengths and/or weaknesses in its
reading of the primary text. Conclude the assignment with a Works Cited page, citing
the article/chapter in correct MLA format (10% of the grade will be decided by the Works
Cited page).
Mid-Term In-Class Test
This one-hour test will be a short answer format with questions that ask you to analyze
texts and parts of texts that we have discussed in the course up to this point. You can
bring your copy of the anthology and Mansfield Park into the test.
Research Essay
Questions for this 5-9 page essay will be distributed at a later date.
Final Exam
Details to be provided at a future date.
Course Schedule (subject to change)
Sep. 6
Introduction to British Romanticism
Placing Romanticism
Sep. 8
William Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience
Sep. 13
Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience
Excerpts from Burke, Kant, and Gilpin in “The Sublime, the Beautiful, and
the Picturesque”
Sep. 15
William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads excerpts from the ‘Preface’ and
selections from Lyrical Ballads (“Expostulation and Reply”; “The Tables
Turned”; “The Thorn”)
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Sep. 20
Wordsworth, selections from Lyrical Ballads (“Nutting”; “Michael”)
Sep. 22
Wordsworth, “Tintern Abbey”; and selection from Dorothy Wordsworth’s
Grasmere Journals.
SECONDARY READING ASSIGNMENT DUE IN CLASS, SEPTEMBER 22 ND
Sep. 27
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Eolian Harp”; “This Lime-Tree Bower My
Prison”; “Frost at Midnight”; John Clare, “The Lament of Swordy-Well.”
Sep. 29
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Oct. 4
NO CLASS
Oct. 6
Austen, Mansfield Park
OCTOBER 10–14: FALL READING WEEK
Oct. 18
Austen, Mansfield Park
Oct. 20
MID-TERM IN-CLASS TEST
Visions and Nightmares
Oct. 27
Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”; Thomas De Quincey, excerpts from Confessions
of an English Opium-Eater
George Gordon Byron, “Darkness” and Manfred
Nov. 1
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Nov. 3
Shelley, Frankenstein
Oct. 25
FINAL DATE FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM COURSE IS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Nov. 8
Shelley, Frankenstein
Nov. 10
John Keats, “Eve of St Agnes”
Romantic Forms
Nov. 15
The Sonnet
Charlotte Smith, “Far on the sands”; “On being cautioned …”
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William Wordsworth, “The world is too much with us.”
Shelley, “Ozymandias”
Nov. 17
The Ode
Wordsworth, “Ode to Intimations of Immortality”
Coleridge, “Dejection: An Ode”
RESEARCH ESSAY DUE IN CLASS NOVEMBER 17TH
Nov. 22
Shelley, “The Defence of Poetry”, “Ode to the West Wind”
Nov. 24
Keats, Letters and “Ode to a Nightingale”
Nov. 29
Ekphrasis
Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; Hemans, “Properzia Rossi”
Dec. 1
Exam Review
Marking Standards
All assignments will be marked in accordance with the English Department Marking
Standards1. If any of your assignments have different marking standards, they should
also be indicated here.
Collaboration/Plagiarism Rules
Include the section on plagiarism and academic misconduct from the English
Department Marking Guidelines. You should also be clear on any specific course rules
or policies regarding collaboration on graded academic exercises.
Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of someone else's words and/or ideas. Not
acknowledging your debt to the ideas of a secondary source, failing to use quotation
marks when you are quoting directly, buying essays from essay banks, copying another
student's work, or working together on an individual assignment, all constitute
plagiarism. Resubmitting material you've submitted to another course is also academic
dishonesty. All plagiarized work (in whole or in part) and other forms of academic
dishonesty will be reported to the Dean, who is responsible for judging academic
misconduct and imposing penalties. The minimum penalty for academic misconduct is a
0 on the assignment in question. It might also be subject to more severe academic
penalties. See the Code of Student Behaviour2.
Course Policies
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https://www.lakeheadu.ca/academics/departments/english/marking-standards
https://www.lakeheadu.ca/faculty-and-staff/policies/student-related/code-of-student-behaviour-anddisciplinary-procedures
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Please keep in mind that proper class participation includes appropriate interactions
between students and appropriate behavior in the classroom. Please refrain from
speaking when others are speaking. Sexist, homophobic, and/or racist comments
or behavior will not be tolerated.
While I will distribute powerpoint presentations after classes through desire2learn,
these will not substitute for your own notetaking – these powerpoint displays will
make little sense unless you have attended the class and not every class will have a
powerpoint presentation. Taking detailed notes will serve you well during exam time.
Students are expected to complete ALL assigned readings prior to class.
All assignments must be handed in, in class, on the due date, and must follow the
“Guidelines for Written Work” appended to this syllabus. No late assignments will be
accepted except in extenuating medical or other circumstances. Emailed or faxed
papers will not be accepted.
Keep a copy of all written work – accidents happen, and essays and assignments
can go missing. It is the student’s responsibility to have a backup ready should this
occur.
University Policies
 Students in this course are expected to conform to the Code of Student Behaviour3.
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Accommodations: Lakehead University is committed to achieving full accessibility
for persons with disabilities in accordance with the terms of the Ontario Human
Rights Code4. Part of this commitment includes arranging academic
accommodations for students with disabilities to ensure they have an equitable
opportunity to participate in all of their academic activities. If you think you may need
accommodations, you are strongly encouraged to contact Student Accessibility
Services (SAS)5 and register as early as possible.
This course outline is available online through the English Department homepage
and the Desire2Learn6 site for the course.
https://www.lakeheadu.ca/faculty-and-staff/policies/student-related/code-of-student-behaviour-anddisciplinary-procedures
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http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/ontario-human-rights-code
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http://studentaccessibility.lakeheadu.ca
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https://mycourselink.lakeheadu.ca/