There will be FIVE on-site classes. ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY and our visits have been pre-booked. Absences will be counted as 1.5 missed classes and an extra assignment will be required to make up for any legitimate absences. 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 during the lunch hour break to get to and from sites, one class in the regular schedule has been cancelled. See schedule below for details.
WEEK 1
Tues. Jan. 20
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 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. 22
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. 27
Goethe's Italian Journey Read Part 1 for today (Tuesday)
Required reading is the two sections on Rome for our classes, but please feel free to read the entire book.
Thurs. Jan. 29
Goethe's Italian Journey Read Part 3 Second Roman Visit
WEEK 3
Tues. Feb. 3 Italy and the Female Gothic
Ann Radcliffe The Italian Read Volume 1. Please read the prefatory story that introduces the novel, carefully.
Thurs. Feb. 5
FIRST FIELD TRIP: Casa di Goethe Via del Corso 18 Meet there at 12 pm for our scheduled tour in English (lasts one hour; Entry to the museum is 4 euros per person, including a private and free guided tour in English)
WEEK 4
Tues. Feb. 10
Read: Ann Radcliffe The Italian (Volume 1 continued and Volume 2)
Thurs. Feb. 12 JOURNALS DUE TODAY
Read: Radcliffe The Italian (Volume 2 and 3)
Aesthetic and psychological categories: The Sublime and the Picturesque Background Reading: The concept of the Sublime on the Victorian Websitehttp://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 5
Tues. Feb. 17
Read: Germaine de Stael Corinne; or Italy Book 1-8 and Selections See Moodle
Thurs. Feb. 19 SECOND FIELD TRIP: Capitoline Museum Meet at 12pm The Capitoline is an important and large museum and at 12 euros a ticket, it 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 6
Tues. Feb. 24 FIRST ESSAY DUE
Read: Madame de Stael's Corinne; or Italy Selections see Moodle
Thurs. Feb. 26 The Romantics in Italy
Read: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Cenci
http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/Online/www.english.upenn.edu/jlynch/Frank/PShelley/cencitp.html
WEEK 7
March 3
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
March 5 NO CLASS cancelled in lieu of field trips
WEEK 8
Tues. March 10
Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (Chapters 1-16)
Thurs. March 12
Read: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun (Chapters 17-35)
WEEK 9
Tues. March 17
Hawthorne The Marble Faun (to end)
Thurs. March 19
THIRD FIELD TRIP: The Palazzo Barberini at 12 pm (cost 7 euros for non-EU, less for EU citizens under 25). 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 10
Tues. March 24
Read: Excerpts from Dickens’s Pictures from Italy, including chapters entitled: Italian Dream, Rome, and A Rapid Diorama: e-text available on Project Gutenberg
Thurs. March 26
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
WEEK 11
Tues. March 31
Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad
Thurs. April 2 JOURNALS ARE DUE IN TODAY
FOURTH FIELD TRIP: Keats Shelley House Meet at the Museum on the Spanish Steps at 12 pm for a scheduled tour (cost 5 euros).
WEEK 12 April 6-10 SPRING BREAK
WEEK 13
Tues. April 14
Henry James Daisy Miller Chapters 1-3
Thurs. April 16
Read: Henry James’s Daisy Miller Chapters 4-end
WEEK 14
Tues. April 21
E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread Chapters 1-4
Thurs. April 23
SECOND ESSAY DUE
Read: E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread Chapters 5-6
WEEK 15
Tues. April 28
E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread Chapters 7-end
Thurs. April 30
Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever" available on the internet
Thursday April 24 FIFTH FIELD TRIP - Protestant Cemetery (Piramide). Donation required. Meet at Keats's graveside at 12 pm.