ENGLISH LITERATURE - ROMANTICISM

PhD QUESTIONAIRE

  1. Historical and intellectual prerequisites of the Romantic movement: the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the anti-rationalist revolt in philosophy.

2. The transition to Romanticism: W.Blake.

3. W. Wordsworth. The Romantic definition of poetry, the poet and the creative process in the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. Nature and imagination in Wordsworth’s sonnets, and longer poems.

4. S.T. Coleridge as critic, philosopher and poet. Biographia Literaria. Demonic and conversational poems.

5. P.B.Shelley. The quest for the ideal in reality, art and nature. Political radicalism and atheism in the early works. Shelley’s vision inPrometheus Unboundand the mature lyrical works. Epistemological and moral skepticism in the later works: Epipsychidion, Hellas and The Triumph of Life.

6. J. Keats. The English Renaissance tradition in the early works. Imagination, truth and beauty in Endymion and the major odes. The reassessment of reality and imaginative experience in the later works: The Fall of Hyperion, Lamia,La Belle Dame Sans Merci etc.

7. Byron. The Romantic rebel in the Turkish Tales and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Themoral and epistemological quest in Manfredand Cain. Major satires: Don Juan

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

  1. Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, New York: Oxford University Press, 1953.
  2. Abrams, M.H. Natural Supernaturalism. Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature, New York: W.W. Norton and Co, 1971.
  3. Bloom, Harold, ed. Romanticism and Consciousness. Essays in Criticism, New York: W.W. Norton and Co, 1970.
  4. Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination, London: Oxford University Press, 1950.
  5. Butler, Marylin. Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries. English Literature and its Background 1760-1830. Oxford University Press, 1981.
  6. Chandler, James and McLane, Maureen N., ed. The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  7. Day, Aidan. Romanticism. New York: Routledge, 1996.
  8. De Man, Paul.Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism. London: Methuen, 1983.
  9. Frye, Northrop, Fearful Symmetry. A Study of William Blake. Boston: Beacon, 1947.
  10. Hamilton, Paul Coleridge's Poetics, Oxford, Blackwell, 1983.
  11. Jacobus, Mary.Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
  12. Kaiser, D.A. Romanticism, Aestehtics, and Nationalism. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  13. Kompridis, Nikolas, ed. Pholosophical Romanticism. Routledge, 2006.
  14. McGann, Jerome. The Romantic Ideology. A Critical Investigation, University of Chicago Press, 1983.
  15. Praz, Mario,Romantic Agony. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
  16. Roe, Nicholas.Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Rradical Years. Oxford University Press, 1988.
  17. Stefanova, Julia. European Romanticism:
  18. Stefanova, Julia, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the Rise of EcocentricConsciousness. In Dialogues: American Studies in an International Context. Printing House Zombori, 2002
  19. Stefanova, Julia. Blake, Swedenborg and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Sofia University Press, under press
  20. Stefanova, Julia The Use of Myth in Keats’ Lamia, Sofia University Press, under press
  21. Terziev, Lubomir. The Gap in Biographia Literaria, in Spaces, Gaps, Borders. Sofia: Sofia University Press, 2006.
  22. Терзиев, Любомир.Предговор към „Лирически балади”. София: Алтера, 2010.

Histories:

  1. Mincoff, Marko A History of English Literature, volume 2. Sofia:Naouka I Izkoustvo, 1976.
  2. Carter, Ronald & McRae, John. The Routledge History of Literature in English. London: Routledge, 1997.

Internet sources:

http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/

http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/

http://ethnicity.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2738

http://mason.gmu.edu/~ayadav/historical%20outline/overview.htm