Landcape and the Social Imaginary: Romantic Landscape and Cyberspace
ENGL 236 - Fall 2004, Alan Liu
Required Print Works
William Wordsworth: The Major Works, ed.
Stephen Gill (Oxford UP, 2000)
William Wordsworth, The Prelude, 1799, 1805,
1850, ed. Jonathan Wordsworth, et al. (Norton,
1979)
Harold Bloom, ed., Romanticism and Consciousness:
Essays in Criticism (Norton, 1970)
Sue Thomas, Hello World: Travels in Virtuality (Raw
Nerve Books, 2004)
Course Reader (available at Alternative Copy shop)
Note: read The
Prelude in the Norton edition (our standard
text of the poem for this class is the 1805 version)
Required Online Works (see
links listed in context on the Schedule page)
Course Image Gallery
There is an online
picture gallery for the course. Access to the
images requires the class password for locked resources
(to be supplied in class by the instructor).
Course Online Forum
http://english.ucsb.edu/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi
?ubb=forum;f=12
This is a threaded Web discussion forum (powered by Ultimate Bulletin Board
[UBB]). The forum is unmoderated but private (read/write restricted to
the instructor and students in the class). To join the forum, please go
to the site and register as a member of the UC Santa Barbara English Department
server's instance of UBB. Then notify the instructor and he will add you
to the permitted users list of the class forum. Use one of the "testing" threads
of the forum as a safe space in which to experiment.
Harold Osborne, ed., The Oxford Companion
to Art (Oxford Univ. Press, 1970)
John Barrell, The Dark Side of the Landscape:
The Rural Poor in English Painting, 1730-1840 (Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1980)
Marcel Röthlisberger, Claude Lorrain:
The Paintings, 2 vols. (Yale Univ. Press,
1961) (Arts Library: ND553.G4 R6)
John Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of
Thomas Gainsborough: A Critical Text and
Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. (Cornell
Univ. Press, 1982)
David H. Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape
of Reaction (Tate Gallery, 1982)
Aesthetic Theory
"The Grand Style" in 18th-Century
British Aesthetics
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Discourses
on Art, ed. Robert R. Wark (1959;
rpt. Yale Univ. Press, 1975)
The Picturesque
Stephen Copley and Peter Garside, ed., The
Politics of the Picturesque: Literature,
Landscape and Aesthetics Since 1770 (Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1994)
Malcolm Andrews, The Search for the
Picturesque (Stanford Univ. Press,
1989)
The Sublime
Samuel Holt Monk, The Sublime: A Study
of Critical Theories in XVIII-Century England (MLA,
1935)
Neil Hertz, "The Notion of Blockage
in the Literature of the Sublime," in
hisThe End of the Line: Essays on Psychoanalysis
and the Sublime (Columbia Univ. Press,
1985)
Frances Ferguson, Solitude and the Sublime:
Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation (Routledge,
1992)
Jean-François Lyotard, "The
Interest of the Sublime," in Jean-François
Courtine, et. al., Of the Sublime: Presence
in Question, trans. Jeffrey S. Librett
(State Univ. of New York Press, 1993)
