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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

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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

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)


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)


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

authors 56

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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



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



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

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Religio

us?

Educa

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Trav

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Scient

ific w

riting

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On hi

story

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On ar

t?

On ae

sthet

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Philos

ophi

cal?

Biogra

phica

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utob

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phica

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Econo

mic?

Hymns

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Condu

ct b

ooks

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Jour

nalis

m?

Liter

ary C

ritici

sm?

Revie

ws?

Essay

s?

Other

(plea

se sp

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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?


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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


Question 40

If you use author websites in your teaching,

which ones do you use


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Blake Archive

Wordsworth Variorum Archive


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


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Question 43

On this module do you teach any literature from: Wales


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Question 44

On this module do you teach any literature from: United States


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Question 45

On this module do you teach any literature from: Mainland Europe


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Question 46

On this module do you teach any literature from: anywhere else other than England.


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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)

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?



Question 49

Would you consider your module to be

interdisciplinary.

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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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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

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