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Course Description: The primary focus of this course will be writers associated with various facets of Romanticism from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. This semester the class will try to take advantage of the Internet and other learning and teaching aids made possible by computers. Students will be encouraged to explore the literary, artistic, musical, cultural, and historical milieus of the works we shall read and to share their discoveries with the other students in the class through class discussion, email, contributions to the course web page, and short essays.

Course Learning Goals/Objectives: The goals of this course are to broaden and deepen the student's knowledge of Romantic ideas, themes, and images, to introduce the student to the use of the computer in literary exploration, research, and communication, and to improve the student's writing skills.

Attendance and Drop Policy: Attendance in class and class participation are important. It is also extremely important that you read the assigned material before coming to class. I will give reading quizzes, if necessary, as an incentive. If for some reason you cannot continue in the class, please remember to officially drop the course. It is now against University policy for faculty members to drop students.

Course Requirements: In addition to a Midsemester and a Final Examination. These exams will be part Scantron and part essay. In addition to the exams, four (4) out-of-class essays will be required. These essays may deal with any of the works or themes, image patterns, or plot structures revealed in the works. These essays may be submitted electronically. Please be sure to acknowledge and correctly document the primary and any secondary sources you use. Due dates for the explications are

Course Evaluation and Final Grade: The two examinations will count fifty percent, the four essays will count forty percent, and attendance and class participation--both in-class and online--will count 10 percent.

Student Evaluation of Teaching: Toward the end of the semester, I shall ask your opinion on the success of the course by having you complete the Student Evaluation of Teaching Survey.

Americans with Disabilities Act: The University of Texas at Arlington is on record as being committed to both the spirit and the letter of federal equal opportunity legislation; reference Public Law 93112: The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. With the passage of new federal legislation entitled Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA], pursuant to section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act, there is renewed focus on providing this population with the same opportunities enjoyed by all citizens. As a faculty member, I am required by law to provide "reasonable accommodation" to students with disabilities, so as not to discriminate on the basis of that disability. Student responsibility primarily rests with informing faculty at the beginning of the semester and in providing authorized documentation through designated administrative channels.

Academic Dishonesty: It is the philosophy of the University of Texas at Arlington that academic dishonesty is a completely unacceptable mode of conduct and will not be tolerated in any form. All persons involved in academic dishonesty will be disciplined in accordance with University regulations and procedures. Discipline may include suspension or expulsion from the University. "Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts." (Regents' Rules and Regulations, Part One, Chapter VI, Section 3, Subsection 3.2, Subdivision 3.22)

Dates and assignments are tentative.


M Aug 26	Introduction
W Aug 28	Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
F Aug 30	Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
W Sep 4	The Sorrows of Young Werther
F Sep 6	The Sorrows of Young Werther
M Sep 9	Chateaubriand, Prefaces (on webpage);Atala and René
W Sep 11	Atala and René
F Sep 13	Atala and René
M Sep 16	E. T. A. Hoffmann, "Ritter Gluck," "The Golden Pot"
W Sep 18	"The Golden Pot," "The Sandman"
F Sep 20	"Councillor Krespel," "The Mines of Falun"
M Sep23	"The Doubles"; First Essay Due
W Sep 25	Byron, from Childe Harold, The Giaour
F Sep 27	Shorter poems, Lara
M Sep 30	Manfred; from Don Juan
W Oct 2	Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
F Oct 4	Eugene Onegin
M Oct 7	Eugene Onegin
W Oct 9	Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
F Oct 11	A Hero of Our Time
M Oct 14	A Hero of Our Time
W Oct 16	Midsemester Test
F Oct 18	Heine, Some poems
M Oct 21	Hawthorne, "Wakefield," "The Haunted Mind"; Second Essay Due
W Oct 23	"Egotism, or the Bosom-Serpent," "The Birthmark,"
F Oct 25	"Rappaccini's Daughter," "The Artist of the Beautiful"
M Oct 28	Poe, Poems, "William Wilson," "The Sphinx"
W Oct 30	"The Domain of Arnheim," "The Assignation," "The Man of the Crowd"
F Nov 1	"The Fall of the House of Usher," "Ligeia," "Eleonora"
M Nov 4	"Berenice," Morella," "The Oval Portrait," "The Purloined Letter"
W Nov 6	"The Cask of Amontillado," "A Descent into the Maelstrom"
F Nov 8	Nerval, Poems, "The Chimeras"
M Nov 11	"Aurelia"
W Nov 13	"Sylvie," "Octavia"
F Nov 15	Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil
M Nov 18	The Flowers of Evil; Third Essay Due
W Nov 20	The Flowers of Evil
F Nov 22	The Flowers of Evil
M Nov 25	Rimbaud, Poems
W Nov 27	Poems
F Nov 29	Thanksgiving Vacation
M Dec 2	Mallarme and Laforgue, Poems; Fourth Essay Due
W Dec 4	Poems
F Dec 6	Poems
W Dec 9	Final Examination, 11:00-1:30