There will be FIVE on-site classes. ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY and our visits have been pre-booked. Absences will be counted as a missed class. An extra assignment will be required to make up for any legitimate absences due to documented illness. Personal trips planned do NOT count as a legitimate excuse for absences.
Payment for our field trips is required in advance of the visit. In lieu of these required field trips and the extra time required to attend, one class in the regular schedule has been cancelled on April 23rd. See schedule below for details.
WEEK 1 The Grand Tour - An Introduction
Tues. Jan. 22
Introduction to the Course and Requirements
We will go through the virtual tour of Italy and the Grand Tour constructed from the 2001 exhibition at the Getty Museum.
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/grand_tour/
http://museum.oglethorpe.edu/GrandTour.htm
http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/18century/topic_4/tour.htm
Review: Three views of the Grand Tour in Norton Anthology
http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/18century/topic_4/tour.htm
Thurs. Jan. 24 The Grand Tour continued: The Anti-Italy (or Splenetic) Travellers
Tobias Smollett, Selections from Travels through France and Italy (1766). Do a google search to find an e-text version like http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/_Texts/Smollett/Travels/25.html
Read Letters 29 - 35 (letters on Rome and final letter in which he sums up the effect of his travels).
WEEK 2 Pre-Revolution Travellers and the European Artists Abroad
Tues. Jan. 29
Goethe's Italian Journey Read Part 1
Required reading is the two sections on Rome for our classes, but please feel free to read the entire book.
11:45-12:45pm Introduction to Storymapping (with librarian Eleonora Moccia)
Thurs. Jan. 31
Goethe's Italian Journey Read Part 1 and Part 3
WEEK 3 Transformations continued
Tues. Feb. 5 DUE Today: First entries for your journal due (diagnostic assessment)
Goethe’s Italian Journey Read Part 3 Second Roman Visit
Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
Please read the prefatory story that introduces the novel and Volume 1
Thurs. Feb. 7
FIRST FIELD TRIP: Casa di Goethe Via del Corso 18 Meet there at 11:45 pm for our scheduled tour in English at 12pm (lasts one hour; Entry to the museum is 5 euros per person, including a private and free guided tour in English).
WEEK 4 Italy and the Female Gothic
Tues. Feb. 12
Read: Ann Radcliffe The Italian Volume 1
Aesthetic and psychological categories: The Sublime and the Picturesque Background Reading: The concept of the Sublime on the Victorian Website http://www.victorianweb.org/philosophy/sublime/sublimeov.html
Edmund Burke excerpts from essay on the Sublime http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/topic_1/burke.htm
Gilpin on ideas of the Picturesque for Romantics http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/topic%5F1/riverwye.htm
Thurs. Feb. 14 Due in: First Experiments with Storymapping
Read: Ann Radcliffe The Italian Volume 2
WEEK 5 Gothic continued and introduction to the Novel of National Character
Tues. Feb. 19
Read: Ann Radcliffe The Italian Volume 3
Read: Germaine de Stael Corinne; or Italy Book 1-8, 14, 19
Thurs. Feb. 21
Read: Germaine de Stael Corinne; or Italy Book 1-8, 14, 19
SECOND FIELD TRIP: Capitoline Museum: Meet at 11:45 pm outside the ticket office. Come with your Student ID and appropriate change for the tickets, if we have to pay. The Capitoline is an important and large museum and depending on the approval, can cost 15 euros. Plan to spend some time here on your own after we see the things relevant to our reading for the course, as it is well worth it. We will meet at the Ticket Office and will proceed to the Pinacoteca to view the Cumean Sibyl. After that we will visit the sculpture gallery to view the Marble Faun and the Dying Gladiator.
Fri. Feb. 22 FIRST ESSAY DUE
Stael continued, and Workshop on Storymapping refresher
WEEK 6 The Romantics in Italy
Tues. Feb. 26
Read: Germaine de Stael Corinne; or Italy Book 1-8, 14, 19
Byron’s Childe Harolde’s Pilgrimage Canto IV especially stanzas cxxviii-cxxxi; cxxxviii-cxlv) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/chpl10h.htm
Timeline: http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/mschronology/chrono.html#1822
and
Beppo http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-Bp48.htm
Thurs. Feb. 28
Read: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Cenci
http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/Online/www.english.upenn.edu/jlynch/Frank/PShelley/cencitp.html
Keats’s “Happy is England”
WEEK 7
March 5
Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (Chapters 1-16)
March 7
THIRD FIELD TRIP: Keats Shelley House: Meet at the Museum on the Spanish Steps at 11:45 pm for a scheduled tour (cost is 6 euros).
WEEK 8 SPRING BREAK
WEEK 9 Innocence Abroad: American Travellers in Europe
Tues. March 19
Read: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun (Chapters 17-35)
Thurs. March 21
Read: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun (Finish novel)
WEEK 10 Victorian Travellers, New Technologies, and the Reinvention of Travel and its Narratives
Tues. March 26
FOURTH FIELD TRIP: The Palazzo Barberini at 11:45 (cost 7 euros for non-EU, less for EU citizens under 25, though we may be approval for free entry). For those who have time, we can follow our visit to the Palazzo Barberini with a visit to the Bone Church or the Church of L'Immacolata Concezione, Via Vittorio Veneto 27 (Metro Barberini or Bus to Piazza Barberini).
Thurs. March 28
Charles Dickens Pictures from Italy
Read: Excerpts from Dickens’s Pictures from Italy, including chapters entitled: Italian Dream, Rome, and A Rapid Diorama: e-text available on Project Gutenberg
WEEK 11 Gilded Age Travellers and Modern Pilgrims
Tues. April 2 American Sublime
Read: Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad (Chapter 17-31 and Conclusion)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/TwaInno.html
Hypertext of map of Twain’s journey http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/innocent/iamaphp.html
Thurs. April 4 Going Native and the New Woman Traveller
Henry James Daisy Miller Chapters 1-3
WEEK 12
Tues. April 9 JOURNALS DUE TODAY
Read: Henry James’s Daisy Miller Chapters 4-end
Thurs. April 11 Mediterranean “Paganism” and the Modern Imagination
E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread Chapters 1-2
WEEK 13
Tues. April 16
Read: E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread Chapters 3-4
Thurs. April 18 SECOND ESSAY DUE
Read: E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread Chapters 5-end
WEEK 14
No classes (Makeup class Fri. Feb. 22 and one class cancelled because of field trips)
WEEK 15
Tues. April 30 Group Storymap presentations involving curated selections from your group's reading journals
Thurs. May 2
Read Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever" available on the internet
FIFTH FIELD TRIP - Protestant Cemetery (Piramide). Two euro donation required. Meet at Keats's graveside at 11:45 pm.
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