Wednesday, October 2nd
Midterm Examination
Literary Terms for English 4460 (Created 9/24)
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Monday, October 7th
Charlotte Smith, Emmeline (Volume I)
We’ll also be returning to Smith’s poetry, so please review the assigned sonnets and bring the course packet to class.
Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1789
Wednesday, October 9th
Charlotte Smith, Emmeline (Volume II)
Presentations:
Mary Linwood (1755-1845), Allison Williams
Sarah Siddons (1755-1831), Alex Cross
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Monday, October 14th
Charlotte Smith, Emmeline (Volumes III)
Presentation:
Mary Collier Presentation, Rachel Ritchie
The Woman’s Labour; an Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck; In Answer to his late Poem, called The Thresher’s Labour]
I will be happy to read thesis statements/paragraphs for your first essay if you submit them to me sometime today.
Wednesday, October 16th
Emmeline (Volume IV)
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Monday, October 21st
Read about the Bluestocking Circle
Bluestocking Corpus link (for class discussion)
Link to Hannah More’s The Bas Bleu (for class discussion)
Re-read Collier’s Epistle . . (see above). Link to Duck’s poem (for class discussion).
Elizabeth Hands, A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant Maid, please print and bring to class
Link to Internet Archive Volume (for class discussion)
Other Hands poetry for class discussion
Ann Yearsley, “On Mrs. Montagu” and “To the Same; On Her Accusing the Author of Flattery“, please print and bring to class
Presentations:
Elizabeth Hands (bap. 1746, d. 1815), Theresa Connolly
Ann Yearsley (bap. 1753-1806), Haley Jacobsen
Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800), Marco Lopez
Wednesday, October 23rd
Amelia Opie, “The Negro Boy’s Tale” and “Ode on the Present Times. 27th January 1795“. Both poems appeared under Opie’s name in Poems (1802), although both had appeared earlier.
Title page and illustrated frontispiece to the 1824 edition of “The Negro Boy’s Tale”
Mary Robinson, “The Savage of Aveyron” and “January, 1795“. Both
Ann Battan Cristall, “A Fragment: The Blind Man” and “Written When the Mind was Oppressed“
Presentations:
Mary Robinson, (1756/?1758-1800), Bekah Martin
Anne Batten Cristall (bap. 1769, d. 1848), Carol Wise
Amelia Opie (1769-1853), Olivia Sprott
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First Essay due by Friday, October 25th
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Monday, October 28th
Mary Wollstonecraft, painted by John Opie, 1797
Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Fiction
Wollstonecraft, from Thoughts on the Education on Daughters (Wollstonecraft 289-293)
Presentations:
Catharine Macaulay (1731-1791), Eliza Sarazua
Susanna Rowson (bap. 1762, d. 1824), Mackenzie Wells
Wednesday, October 30th
Wollstonecraft, Selections from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, (Course Pack)
“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners — time to restore to them their lost dignity — and make them, as a part of the human species, labor by reforming themselves to reform the world” (Chapter III)
“Would men but generously snap our chains, and be content with rational fellowship instead of slavish obedience, they would find us more observant daughters, more affectionate sisters, more faithful wives, more reasonable mothers — in a word, better citizens” (From Chapter IX)
Presentation: