Novel excerpts:
- Ann Radcliffe, excerpt from The Romance of the Forest (1791)*
- Matthew Lewis, excerpt from The Monk (1796)*
Novels:
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
Poetry:
- Anna Letitia Barbauld, ‘The Rights of Woman’ (ca. 1792-95) *
- William Wordsworth, excerpts from ‘Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’ (1802)*
- ---. ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey’ (1798)*
- ---. Excerpt from The Prelude (book 1, lines 351-451) (1805)*
- Mary Robinson, ‘The Poor Singing Dame’ (1800)*
- Charlotte Smith, ‘The Swallow’ (1807)*
- William Blake, ‘The Lamb’ (1789)*
- ---. ‘The Tyger’ (1794)*
- ---. ‘London’ (1794)*
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ (1797-98, published 1816)*
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Adonais’ (1821) *
- John Keats, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (1819)*
- ---. ‘This living hand, now warm and capable’ (1819)*
Essays/life writing:
- Edmund Burke, excerpt from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) *
- Mary Wollstonecraft, excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) *
- ---. excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) *
- Thomas Paine, excerpt from Rights of Man (1791) *
- Anne Lister, excerpts from diaries (1806-1840)
What to buy
- The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2 (Norton, 2012, 9th edition)
- Robin Jarvis, The Romantic Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1789-1830 (Longman, 2004)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (1818)
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1798-9, published 1817)
Syllabus texts to be found in the Norton Anthology are starred. Texts not starred or listed on the ‘to buy’ list (in this case, only the Anne Lister text) will be provided as PDFs on Fronter.