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Reconfiguring Romanticism in the Information Age A Special Session, Modern Language Assoc. Convention Held on Dec. 29, 1996 Sheraton Washington, Washington, D. C. (This page created 9/5/96, last revised 2/26/97.) |
Canon Dreaming (I) |
| The following are examples of online course syllabi in the Romanticism field that either revise the canon or explore the history and theory of canon-making. They are not necessarily associated with this MLA special session. |
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| Ashton Nichols | |
| English Dept. Dickinson C., Penn. |
Wordsworth and Hardy (course that reads across the Romantic/Victorian divide; makes extensive use of technological tools to link classes at Dickinson C., Gettysburg C. and Franklin & Marshall C.) |
| Ron Broglio & Bill Ruegg | |
| English Dept. U. Florida |
Writing About Visionary Selves and Virtual Landscapes (on Romantic and post-Romantic writers, including Blake, W. Wordsworth, Coleridge, M. Shelley, Kerouac, Delillo, Ginsberg; taught in a "networked writing environment" utilizing online pedagogical tools and assignments) | "Designing a New Pedagogical Practice for Romantic Studies" |
| Stuart Curran | |
| English Dept. U. Penn |
English Romanticism: The First Generation |
| Michael Gamer | |
| English Dept. U. Penn |
Romantic Production: Communities of Reaction, Revolution, and Reform (explores "the materials and contexts of the first generation of Romantic Writing, focusing particularly on notions of literary production and how they relate to theories of community. We will pay particularly close attention to the rhetorical traditions and politics of three literary communities central to the period: the Della Cruscans, the circle surrounding radical publisher Joseph Johnson, and the circle surrounding publisher Joseph Cottle of Bristol") |
| William Jewett | |
| English Dept. Yale U. |
Romanticism and Antiromanticism (graduate course; includes units on "A Noncanonical Canon," "Canonizing Criticism: The 19th Century," and "New Romanticisms?") |
| Steven E. Jones | |
| English Dept. Loyola U. Chicago |
Studies in the Romantic Period (On the Web) (course based on online "romantic-period poetry and prose--and some recent criticism and works of scholarship") |
| Alan Liu | |
| English Dept. UC Santa Barbara |
Canon Revision: History, Theory, Practice ("This graduate-level seminar examines the current canon debate in a way that gives students a grasp of the history and theory of canon formation as well as hands-on practice in canon revision . . .The course proceeds simultaneously along two intellectual threads: canon formation, canon institution"; includes many links to literary and other online resources) |
| Laura Mandell | |
| English Dept. Miami U., Ohio |
The Early Romantic Period: 1789-1816 (course making extensive use of The Romantic Chronology, a listserv, and a MOO to expand the canon of Romanticism) |
| Session Organizers: Laura Mandell (Dept. of English, Miami U., Ohio) and Alan Liu (Dept. of English, U. California, Santa Barbara). You can write both of us together at this address. |