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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