課程介紹
This course provides an overview of criticism and debates about nineteenth-century poetry and poetics. It introduces a wide variety of topics and approaches while surveying some of the key texts and major poets across the Victorian period.
教科書:
Textbooks:
Primary Sources

Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna (1852)
---.Preface to the First Edition of Poems (1853)
Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
Amy Levy, A Minor Poet and other Verse. Levy (1884)
Michael Field, Sight and Song (1892)

The Poems of Tennyson in Three Volumes, ed. Christopher Ricks (Berkley: University of California Press, 1987)
Robert Browning's Poetry: Authoratiative Texts, Criticism, ed. James F. Loucks and Andrew M. Stauffer (New York: Norton, 2007)
Algernon Charles Swinburne: 21st-Century Oxford Authors, ed. Francis O’Gorman (Oxford: OUP, 2017)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (Oxford: OUP, 2008) (Oxford World Classics)
Decadent Poetry: from Wilde to Naidu, ed. Lisa Rodensky (London: Penguin, 2006)
In Memoriam, ed. Erik Gray (London: Norton, 2004)
Augusta Webster: Portraits and Other Poems, ed. Christine Sutphin (2000)

Secondary Sources
Robert Langbaum, The Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition (Chicago: CUP, 1985)
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry, ed. Matthew Bevis (Oxford: OUP, 2013)
Angela Leighton, Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992)
Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Criticism and Debates, ed. Jonathan Herapath and Emma Mason (New York: Routledge, 2016)
Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (London: Routledge, 1993)
Caley Ehnes, Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical (Edinburgh: EUP,2019)
Joseph Phelan, The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
John Holmes, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence: Sexuality, Belief and the Self (Aldershot: Ashgate 2005)
Joseph Bristow, The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (2000)
Linda K. Hughes, The Manyfacèd Glass: Tennyson's Dramatic Monologues (1988) and The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010), and The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry (2019)
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
教學進度:

Week 1 (3 March): Introduction
Week 2 (10 March): Victorian Poetry: Past, Present and Future
Critical Essay: Kathy Alexis Psomiades’'The Lady of Shallot and the Critical Fortunes of Victorian Poetry' (2000)

Linda Hughes’ The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (pp. 1-39)

Week 3 (17 March): Approaches to Victorian Poetry: Genre, Gender and Politics
Read at least one of the following key texts:
 

Politics and Genre:
Isobel Armstrong’s ‘What kind of Criticism?’ from Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics
and Politics (1993), Matthew Bevis’ ‘Introduction: Literary Persuasions’ from The Art of Eloquence (2007)
Gender and Genre:
Angela Leighton’s ‘Introduction’ to Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart (1992),
Marion Thain’s ‘What kind of a Critical Category is Women’s Poetry’ (2003)

Week 4 (24 March): Prof. Esther Hu’s Lecture:

“Christina Rossetti and Victorian Nature: Poetry, Theology, Ecology in the Nineteenth Century” (2:10-2:40)

Primary Texts: Christina Rossetti’s St. Peter poems

Esther Hu’s ‘Christina Rossetti, John Keble, and the Divine Gaze’ in Victorian Poetry (2008)

 

Week 5 (31 March): Holiday

Week 6 (7 April): The Dramatic Monologue by Men

Primary Texts: Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ (1842) and ‘Fra Lipp Lippi’ (1855)

 

Herbert Tucker’s ‘Dramatic Monologue and the Overhearing of Lyric’ (1985), in Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism,

Week 7 (14 April) The Dramatic Monologue by Men

Primary Text: Alfred Tennyson’s ‘St. Simeon Stylites’ and 'Ulysses'

 

Linda K. Hughes’ ‘The Tennysonian Dramatic Monologue’, Chapter 1, pp. 1-27, from The Manyfacèd Glass (1987),

Justin Sider’s ‘Dramatic Monologue, Public Address, and the Ends of Character’ (2016)

 

Week 8 (21 April): The Dramatic Monologue by Women
Primary Text: Augusta Webster’s ‘Medea’ and ‘A Castaway’ or Amy Levy’s ‘Medea’
Secondary Texts: Cornelia Pearsall's ‘The Dramatic Monologue’ (2000),
Glennis Byron’s ‘Rethinking the dramatic monologue’ (2003)

 

Week 9: (28 April)

Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam
Read at least one of the following secondary texts:
Jeff Nunokawa’s ‘In Memoriam and the extinction of the homosocial’ (1991), Sarah Rose Cole’s ‘The Recovery of Male Friendship: ‘Male Love and Friendship in In Memoriam’ (2012)

Proposal (due by 3 May).

 

Week 10 (5 May): EBB
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Auroa Leigh (1856)

BARBARA CHARLESWORTH GELPI's The vocation of the women Poet

 

Week 11 (12 May): Victorian War Poetry
Augusta Webster’s ‘Coming Home’ and “No News from the War’


Week 12 (19 May): Aesthetic and Decadent Poetry
Michael Field’s Sight and Song (1892)
Linda Hughes’ “Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper): Sight and Song and Significant Form

 

 

Week 13 (26 May): Prof. Linda K. Hughes’ Lecture:

“Race, Cultures, and Poetic Tradition at the Margins of Victoria’s Empire: Amy Levy and Behramji Malabari”

 

Week 14 (2 June): Fallen Women
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘Jenny’ and ‘Augusta Webster’s ‘A Castaway’

 

Week 15 (9 June):

: Transnational Poetics
Augusta Webster’s Yu-Pe-Ya’s Lute (1874)
Read at least one of the following secondary texts:
Emily Harrington’s ‘Augusta Webster: Time and the Lyric Ideal’ (2013), Lee O’Brien’s ‘A “Strange Second Flowering” and the “Second Heart”: Reimagined Modes of Aestheticism and Romanticism in Augusta Webster’s Yu-Pe-Ya’s Lute’ (2017)

Week 16 (16 June)

Conference Presentation 

 

Week 17 (23 June): Deadline for the Final Term Paper
Evaluation
Grades
10% Oral Presentations (Two Oral Presentations)
5 % Conference Presentation
15% attendance and participation

20% Research Journal (Including your annotations, critiques of the primary and secondary texts)
50% Research Paper (a paper of 3000-3500 words to be submitted by the end of the semester)

Key Due Dates:
Week 9 Proposal (3 May)
Week 13 First Draft (31 May)
Week 17 Final Draft (16 June)

Your paper will be graded by the following criteria
A. Articulate a clear argument/position
B. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the topic
C. Demonstrate subject knowledge in a logical structure
D. Contain relevant and sufficient support for claim(s) or point(s) made.
E. Offer adequate analysis of the primary texts.
F. Appropriate use of citations for quotes and materials consulted
G. Clarity of Writing (Grammar, Sentence Structure, Punctuation and Style)

You should type and submit your assignments electronically on time. There is a 10
point penalty for each day late. Any homework that is copied from another source
will receive a ‘0’.
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