Related Material for Romanticism (1 Viewer)

[mary_winchester]

Hi so I've begun the HSC Extension 1 course and have studied the movie Bright Star and Frankenstein. I was wondering if anyone could suggest some related material for these two texts. Anything would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You

 

[Maresa]

Hi mary_winchester,

I've just begun the HSC Extension 1 course this term and am studying Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication Of the Rights Of Woman, Shelley's Frankenstein and some Coleridge poems. Just as a suggestion, perhaps Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?

All the best with your studies!

 

[duck4]

My prescribed texts are Coleridge's poems, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Frankenstein. I have to choose four pieces of related material, what do you think about 'Darkness' by Lord Byron to go with Frankenstein?

I have a list of possible related material here, any feedback would be appreciated, I haven't checked whether some are accessible or good, I haven't really looked at many of them:

Non-fiction:
A discourse on the sciences and the arts (Rousseau, 1750)
Discourse on the origin of inequality (Rousseau, 1755)
Common Sense (Thomas Paine, 1776)
Confessions (Rousseau, 1787-1789)
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature (August Wilhelm von Schlegel)
Notes on the writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds (William Blake, 1809)
The Necessity of Atheism (Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1811)
A Defence of Poetry (Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821)

Novels:
The New Heloise (Rousseau, 1761)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte, 1847)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) ?

Artworks:
Albion Rose (Blake, 1780)
Yard with Lunatics (Francisco Goya, 1794)
Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (J. M. W. Turner, 1812)
Liberty Leading the People (Eugene Delacroix, 1830)

Poetry:
The Chimney Sweeper (Blake, 1789)
Visions of the Daughters of the Albion (Blake, 1793)
America: A Prophecy (Blake, 1793)
London (Blake, 1794)
A Little Boy Lost (Blake, 1794)
The Female Vagrant (Wordsworth, 1798)
Bits of The Prelude (Wordsworth, 1805)
Milton and or Preface to Milton (Blake, 1808)
Childe Harold's Pilgramage (Lord Byron, 1812)
Notes of Queen Mab (Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813)
To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1814)
Endymion (Keats, 1818)
England in 1819 (Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819)
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream (Keats, 1819)
Ode to a Nightingale (Keats, 1819)
La Belle Sans de Merci (Keats, 1819)
To Autumn (Keats, 1819)
Ode on a Grecian Urn (Keats, 1820)
Adonais (Shelley, 1821)
The Village Minstrel (John Clare, 1821)
Remembrances (John Clare, 1832-1837)
The Raven and other poems (Edgar Allan Poe)

Plays:
Presumption, or The Fate of Frankenstein (Richard Brinsley Peakes, 1822)

 

[duck4]

I've decided on:
Common Sense, Thomas Paine
London, William Blake
Snowstorm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, J. M. W. Turner
Darkness, Lord Byron

I'm worried that they all verge on the dark or the political, without much on nature or eternity.
Thoughts?

 

[duck4]

Thanks a tonne for that!