There are five on-site classes in this course and attendance is mandatory. Absences will be counted as a missed class. Payment is required for some of our visits, but the fees can vary depending on Museum approvals for free entry. When fees are required, students should pay for the trip in advance of the visit. The fees for all 5 on-site visits are not expected to exceed 20 euros and might be as little as 10 euros or free. Confirmation on costs should be available by the first week of the semester.
"The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, p. 147.
WEEK 1 The Grand Tour - An Introduction
Tues. Jan. 16
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
Thurs. Jan. 18 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. 23
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.
Thurs. Jan. 25
Goethe's Italian Journey Read Part 1 and Part 3
WEEK 3 Transformations continued
Tues. Jan. 30
Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian Volume 1
Please read the prefatory story that introduces the novel and Volume 1
Thurs. Feb. 1
FIRST FIELD TRIP: Casa di Goethe Via del Corso 18 Meet there at 1:15 pm for our scheduled tour in English (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: Sublime and Picturesque
Tues. Feb. 6
Read: Ann Radcliffe The Italian Volume 2
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. 8
Read: Ann Radcliffe The Italian Volume 3
WEEK 5 The Novel of National Character
Tues. Feb. 13
Read: Germaine de Stael Corinne; or Italy Book 1-8, 14, 19
Thurs. Feb. 15
Read: Germaine de Stael Corinne; or Italy Book 1-8, 14, 19
Friday Feb. 16 Makeup day for April 25th
SECOND FIELD TRIP: Capitoline Museum: Meet at 1:15 pm outside the ticket office. Come with your Student ID and appropriate change for the tickets, if we have to pay. PLEASE purchase the Museum of Rome card (5 euros) to get free or reduced entry to many of Rome's museums, including the Capitoline. 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.
WEEK 6
Tues. Feb. 20 FIRST ESSAY DUE
Lord Byron
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. 22
Percy Byssche Shelley The Cenci
WEEK 7 Spring Break February 26-March 1
WEEK 8
The Romantics In and Out of Italy
Tues. March 5
Keats “Happy is England” and Selections from Samuel Rogers's poem Italy: A Poem with illustrations from JMW Turner (editions from 1830 onward)
Thurs. March 7
THIRD FIELD TRIP: Keats Shelley House: Meet at the Museum on the Spanish Steps at 1:15 pm for a scheduled tour (cost is 6 euros).
WEEK 9 Innocence Abroad: American Travellers in Europe
Tues. March 12
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun (Chapters 1-16)
Thurs. March 14
Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (Chapters 17-35)
WEEK 10
Tues. March 19
Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (to end)
Thurs. March 21
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
Victorian Travellers, New Technologies and the Reinvention of Travel
Tues. March 26
Compare Charles Dickens's account of his ascent of Vesuvius with that of Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad
Read: Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad (Chapter 17-31 and Conclusion)
Thurs. March 28
Read: Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad (Chapter 17-31 and Conclusion)
WEEK 12 Gilded Age Travellers, The New Woman and more "Innocents" abroad?
Tues. April 2
Henry James, Daisy Miller Chapter 1-3
Thurs. April 4
FOURTH FIELD TRIP: The Palazzo Barberini at 1:15 pm (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).
WEEK 13 New Woman Travellers, Mediterranean Paganisms and the Modern Imagination
Tues. April 9
Henry James Daisy Miller Chapter 4-end
Thurs. April 11 SECOND ESSAY DUE
E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread Chapters 1-2
WEEK 14
Tues. April 16 All submissions for the reading journal are due in today
Read: E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread Chapters 3-4
Thurs. April 18
Read: E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread Chapters 5-end
WEEK 15
Tues. April 23
Read Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever" available on the internet
FIFTH FIELD TRIP - Protestant Cemetery (Piramide). Donation required. Meet at Keats's graveside at 1:15pm