gothic romanticism: research led teaching presentation

Research-led Teaching

Romanticism

Tom Duggett

PhD on Wordsworth and the Gothic

Cultural studies approach to Romanticism

Pamphlets Periodicals Prints Spectacles Education Manuals

Selected Journal Publications• ‘Celtic Night and Gothic Grandeur in Salisbury

Plain’, Romanticism, 13:2 (2007)• ‘Wordsworth’s Gothic Politics’, The Review of English

Studies, 58 (2007)• ‘A Poet and an Englishman’, The Wordsworth Circle,

38:4 (2007)

Book: Gothic Romanticism: Architecture, Politics, and Literary Form (Palgrave 2010)

Key Concept:‘Gothic cultural enterprise’

Key Texts: Salisbury Plain (1794)The Prelude (1805)The Convention of Cintra (1809)The Excursion (1814)

Key Themes: •Revolution •War•Education

Example Teaching Output #1

Lecture & SeminarRomanticism & War

Texts:Scott, Marmion (1808)

ContextsWordsworth, Convention of Cintra (1809)Coleridge, Letters on the Spaniards (1809)Southey, Roderick, Last of the Goths (1814)

Themes:War & ImaginationWar & National IdentityWar & Myth

Spanish-patriots attacking the French-Banditti – loyal Britons lending a liftby James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey, 15 August 1808

…sounds like history in the land of romance

Example Teaching Output #2

Lecture & Seminar Two-Part Prelude (1799) & Education

Context:Edgeworth, Practical Education (1798)Bell, Experiment in Education (1798)

Themes:Education and ReligionEducation and ClassEducation and Gender

Context 1: Maria Edgeworth, Practical Education (1798)

• Freethinking experiment • Reciprocity• ‘Children judge and invent better in proportion to their

knowledge’

Context 2: Rev. Andrew Bell, Experiment in Education (1798)

• Church of England rote-learning • Efficiency (1 teacher to 10,000 pupils)• ‘An Intellectual Steam Engine’

A ‘favoured being’

The ‘ministry more palpable’ of Nature

Summary

•Research supports teaching outcome of wide and deep grasp of British Romanticism

•Cultural Study of Romantic Period supports teaching across the curriculum

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