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Teaching Romanticism
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As part of the conference organised in conjunction with the English Subject Centre on ‘Teaching Romanticism’, which took place in London 17–18 March 2006, Romanticists across the UK were asked to fill in a questionnaire about the way that they taught Romanticism in their institution.
Question 1
• Name– Response – not available in this presentation
Question 2
• Email Address– Response – not available in this presentation
Question 3
• Institution name– Response
Question 4
• Are you happy to have any comment you make on this questionnaire attributed to you personally when the results of the questionnaire are published and discussed?– Response – not available in this presentation
Question 5
• Please confirm that a Romanticism module is taught in your institution – Response – not available in this presentation
Question 6
• Title of Romanticism module– Response
Level of Module
9, 11%
44, 55%
23, 28%
5, 6%
Level One (first year undergraduate)
Level Two (second yearundergraduate)
Level Three (third yearundergraduate)
MA Level (taught postgraduate)
Question 7
Approximate number of students
17, 21%
28, 34%
18, 23%
6, 8%
4, 5%
7, 9%
1–20
20–50
50–100
100–150
150–200
200+
Question 8
How is the module taught?
58, 36%
68, 41%
27, 17%
10, 6%
Lectures
Seminars
Tutorials
Other (please specify)
Question 9
Is the module team taught?
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Is the module team taught? No Yes (please give details of team teaching)
Question 10
Is it compulsory for students to take this module
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Yes
No
Question 11
• Do you expect your students to have completed any other module before they begin this one? (i.e. are there any pre-requisites?)– Response
• No= 40• Yes= 38 Please specify
Question 12
Do you ask the students to use an anthology for the module?
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No - no anthology requested Yes - Duncan Wu’s Romanticism: AnAnthology
Yes - The Norton Anthology of EnglishLiterature (vol 2)
Other (please specify)
Other Please specify
Question 13
• Are there any other core/set texts used on the module?– No =20– Yes =55 Please Specify
Question 14
If you do use an anthology of Romantic literature is it sufficient for your needs?
12, 20%
13, 21%36, 59%
Yes
No
No I supplement the anthology with handouts and/orelectronic resources (please specify)
Question 15
• Are there specific texts / authors / genres / areas that are not sufficiently dealt with by any single anthology?– No -16– Yes - 52 Please Specify
Question 16
• Are all the texts you wish to look at currently in print?– Yes - 44– No – 29 - please list any texts you have
trouble obtaining List
Question 17
Would you consider that primarily, you teach the module:
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Historically? Thematically? With attention to the form or genreof the texts studied?
Theoretically Using another approach?(please specify)
Other Please specify
Question 18
Do you in practice use a combination of these approaches in your teaching?
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Yes No
Question 19
Do you teach historically? If so which historical period is covered?
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1775–1830 1780–1820 Another period? (please specify)
Other Please specify
Question 20
• Is the module linked to other period modules?– No – 36– Yes – 36 - Please Specify
Question 21
Do you pay attention to the Biography of
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Yes No
Question 22
• Do you teach thematically?– No - 14– Yes - 57 - Please specify main themes
Question 23
Do you teach with the attention to the form or genre of the texts studied? If so, which genres are covered? (You may tick as many boxes as apply.)
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Drama
Novels
Short Stories
Poetry
Non-fiction
Historical novel
Gothic Novel
Sonnet
Autobiography
Ode
Ballad
Closet drama
Other (please specify)
Other Please specify
Question 24
Do you teach theoretically? If so, which are the main theoretical approaches used?
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New Historicism
Post-colonialism
Post-structuralism
Queer Theory
Feminism
Cultural Studies
Deconstruction
Formalism
Marxism
Hermeneutics
Psychoanalysis
Reader-response Theory
Structuralism
Other (please specify)
Other Please specify
Question 25
• Or, do you teach using another approach?– No - 38– Yes – 18 - please specify
Question 26
Please indicate how much attention is given to each of the following ‘big six’ authors.
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Blake
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Byron
P. B. Shelley
Keats
Not taught
Dedicate one seminar or lecture to the work of
Consider one poem or short extract of
Mention briefly
Question 27
• Do you teach any plays (including closet drama) on the module?– Response
Question 28
• Please indicate how much attention is given to each of the following authors.– Response
Question 29
• Are there authors not mentioned in this list (see Question 29) whom you teach?– No – 26– Yes– 42 - Please Specify
Question 30
Do you teach any non-fictional Romantic- period texts on the module?
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Yes No
Question 31
Could these be categorised as (You may tick as many boxes as apply)
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Politic
al?
Religio
us?
Educa
tiona
l?
Trav
el writ
ing?
Scient
ific w
riting
?
On hi
story
?
On ar
t?
On ae
sthet
ic th
eorie
s?
Philos
ophi
cal?
Biogra
phica
l or a
utob
iogra
phica
l?
Econo
mic?
Hymns
?
Condu
ct b
ooks
?
Jour
nalis
m?
Liter
ary C
ritici
sm?
Revie
ws?
Essay
s?
Other
(plea
se sp
ecify
)
Question 32
My teaching on this module has been influenced very much by my research
Further comments
22, 33%
32, 48%
13, 19%
Strongly agree
Agree
Strongly Disagree
Question 33
I have tailored the module to reflect my research interests.
Further comments
8, 13%
28, 44%
27, 43%
Strongly agree
Agree
Strongly Disagree
Question 34
I think it is unnecessary for teaching to be influenced by an individual’s research.
Further Comments
4, 7%
33, 57%
21, 36%
Strongly agree
Agree
Strongly Disagree
Question 35
I think it is inappropriate for teaching to be influenced by an individual’s research.
Further Comments
3, 5%
6, 9%
56, 86%
Strongly agree
Agree
Strongly Disagree
Question 36
I think it is impractical for teaching to be
influenced by an individual’s research.
Further Comments
0, 0%
11, 19%
48, 81%
Strongly agree
Agree
Strongly Disagree
Question 37
I regard my research as too specialised/difficult for
it to play a role in my teaching
Further Comments
1, 2%
10, 17%
49, 81%
Strongly agree
Agree
Strongly Disagree
Question 38
Students expect their tutor’s research to
feature in the module they are taught.
Further Comments
4, 7%
33, 55%
23, 38%
Strongly agree
Agree
Strongly Disagree
Question 39
Do you use any electronic resources in your
teaching?
Other (please specify)
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Corvey Project
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online(ECCO)
Project Gutenberg
Romantic Circles
NINES
Romanticism on the Net
Chadwyck Healey Literature Online (LION)
Times Digital Archive
Literature Compass
Author websites
Other (please specify)
Question 40
If you use author websites in your teaching,
which ones do you use
Other (please specify)
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Blake Archive
Wordsworth Variorum Archive
Other (please specify)
Question 41
On this module do you teach any literature
from: Scotland
Yes (please specify)
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No Yes (please specify)
Question 42
On this module do you teach any literature from: Ireland
Yes (please specify)
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No Yes (please specify)
Question 43
On this module do you teach any literature from: Wales
Yes (please specify)
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No Yes (please specify)
Question 44
On this module do you teach any literature from: United States
Yes (please specify)
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No Yes (please specify)
Question 45
On this module do you teach any literature from: Mainland Europe
Yes (please specify)
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No Yes (please specify)
Question 46
On this module do you teach any literature from: anywhere else other than England.
Yes (please specify)
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No Yes (please specify)
Question 47
Do you think that you cover the following themes/ideas in your module?
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Orientalism
Slavery
Empire
The Gothic
The Sublime
The Enlightenment
The Imagination
Romanticism (as a concept)
Gender
Sexuality
Nature
The Self
Education
Revolution
War
Environment
Other (please specify)
Other (please Specify)
Question 48
Does you module extend beyond the period usually defined as Romantic (i.e. before1770 after 1830)
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No
Into the sixteenth century
Into the seventeenth century?
Into the eighteenth century?
nto the nineteenth century?
Into the twentieth century?
Other (please specify)
Other (please specify)
Question 49
Would you consider your module to be
interdisciplinary.
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No Yes (please specify)
Question 50
• Is there anything about your module that you think is particularly noteworthy / unusual / new that you would like to tell us about?– Responses
Question 51
Are there any particular ways in which you feel the module could be improved, recognising that improvement may be beyond your means or control?
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No Yes (please specify)
Yes (please specify)
Question 52
How is the module assessed? (You may tick as many
boxes as apply.)
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By essay -Notwritten under
exam conditions
By essay -Written under
exam conditions
By exam Unseen exam Seen or pre-released exam
Open bookexam
Dissertation Oralpresentation
Oralcontributions in
class
By other means(please specify)
By other means (please specify)
Question 53
• If you offer an undergraduate dissertation module in your department, could you estimate what percentage of students taking the dissertation choose to write on literature of the Romantic period?– Response was an average of around 9%
Question 54
• Do you have any PhD students writing on Romantic topics? If so, approximately how many?– Approx total of 63 PhD students identified
writing on Romantic topics nationally
Question 55
• If you are happy to send a list of the lecture or seminar topics covered on the module, or any other information about it, this can be pasted into this text box. – Response not available
Question 56
• If you have any further comments that you would like to add on the subjects covered by this questionnaire, please add them here
– Responses
Question 57