COURSE SCHEDULE Spring 2011
There will be FOUR Friday on-site classes (Jan. 27, Feb. 10, March 2 and April 20th). ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY and our visits have been pre-booked. Payment is required in advance of the visit. Total cost for all of the field trips is 24 euros. Please do NOT plan trips away for these Fridays. In lieu of these required field trips, 6 classes in the regular schedule have been cancelled. See schedule below for details.
WEEK 1
Tues. Jan. 17
Introduction to the Course and Requirements
The Grand Tour - An Introduction
We will go through the virtual tour of Italy and the Grand Tour constructed by the 2001 exhibition at the Getty Museum in class.
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/grand_tour/
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. 19
The Grand Tour continued: The Anti-Italy Travellers Tobias Smollett Selections from Travels through France and Italy (1766) 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. 24
Read: Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey (Project Gutenberg or any other free ebook edition)
Thurs. Jan. 26
Read: Goethe Italian Journey Part One (especially the section on Rome) Required reading is the two sections on Rome in the book, but please feel free to read the entire book.
Fri. Jan. 27 FIRST FIELD TRIP
Read: Italian Journey Part Three: Second Roman Visit
FIRST FIELD TRIP: Casa di Goethe Via del Corso 18 Meet there at 10:30 (Cost: 3 euros and free scheduled guided tour in English).
WEEK 3
Tues. Jan. 31: Italy and the Female Gothic
Read: Ann Radcliffe The Italian (Volume 1). Please read carefully, the prefatory story that introduces the novel.
Thurs. Feb. 2
Submit Journal Entries to Date for Assessment
Read: 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
WEEK 4
Tues. Feb. 7
Read: The Italian (Volume 3)
Thursday Feb. 9 Class cancelled in lieu of field trips. (Begin reading Corinne)
Friday Feb. 10 SECOND FIELD TRIP
Read: Madame de Stael's Corinne; or Italy Books 1-8
Meet at the Capitoline Museum at 10:00. The Capitoline is a huge museum and at 10 euros a ticket is worth savouring. 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 Pinoteca to view the Cumean Sibyl. After that we will visit the sculpture gallery to view the Marble Faun and the Dying Gladiator.
WEEK 5
Tues. Feb. 14
Read: Madame de Stael's Corinne; or Italy Books 9-16
Thurs. Feb. 16
Read: Corinne (Books 17-20)
WEEK 6 The Romantics in Italy
FIRST ESSAY DUE THIS WEEK
Tues. Feb. 21 First Essay Due
Read: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Cenci
http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/Online/www.english.upenn.edu/jlynch/Frank/PShelley/cencitp.html
Thursday Feb. 23 Class cancelled in lieu of field trips.
WEEK 7
Tues. Feb. 28
Read: Keats’s “Happy is England” and Byron’s Beppo
http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-Bp48.htm
(Not required reading, but you may want to look at “Childe Harolde Canto 4” 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
Thursday March 1 Class cancelled in lieu of field trips. Begin reading Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun.
Friday March 2 THIRD FIELD TRIP This is our most extensive field trip and should take us until lunchtime to complete. We will visit three sites. Meet at the Palazzo Barberini at 9:30 am. Cost is 5 euros to be paid in advance. Following our visit there, we will walk to the famous "bone church’: the Church of L'Immocolata Concezione, Via Vittorio Veneto 27 (Metro Barberini or Bus to Piazza Barberini). Cost is free but a donation is recommended. After that we will walk to the Keats Shelley House on the Spanish Steps where we will be given a talk. Cost is 4 euros to be paid in advance of visit.
WEEK 8
Tues. March 6
Read: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun (Chapters 1-16)
Thurs. March 8
Read: The Marble Faun (Chapters 17-35)
WEEK 9
Tues. March 13 No class in lieu of field trips.
SUBMIT JOURNALS FOR GRADING BEFORE THE BREAK
Thurs. March 15
Read: The Marble Faun (Chapters 36-end)
WEEK 10 MARCH BREAK 19-23 Read ahead over the break
Week 11
Tues. March 27
Read: Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad (Chapters 17-31 and Conclusion on Italy).
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. March 29
Read: Excerpts from Dickens’s Pictures from Italy, including chapters entitled: Italian Dream, Rome, and A Rapid Diorama: e-text available on Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/picit10h.htm
WEEK 12
Tues. April 3
Read: Henry James’s Daisy Miller
Thurs. April 5 No class in lieu of field trips.
WEEK 13
Tues. April 10
Read: Henry James’s Daisy Miller
Thurs. April 12
Read: E. M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread (Chapters 1-3)
WEEK 14 SECOND ESSAY DUE TUESDAY
Tues. April 17 SECOND ESSAY DUE
Read: E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread (Chapters 4-6)
Thurs. April 19
E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread (Chapters7-end)
Friday April 20 FINAL FIELD TRIP Meet at the Protestant Cemetary (Piramide) at 10:30 am. Donation of 2 euros recommended to be paid to me in advance of visit.
WEEK 15
Tues. April 24
Read: Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever” http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/whartonromanfever.html OR http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/ewharton/bl-ewhar-roman.htm
Summing up
Thurs. April 26 No class in lieu of field trips
SUBMIT JOURNAL FOR FINAL GRADE
Note: No journal will be accepted after the last day of class.