Midterm Assignment

Topic: Describe an aspect of American Romanticism by interpreting three or more texts in terms of a course objective.

Katie Breaux, "Desire, Loss, and the Language in Between"

Ron Burton, "The Gothic Other"

Ayme Christian, "The Intertwined Vines of Sensuous Desire and Moral Loss in American Romanticism"

Larry Finn, "Crossroads: American Romanticism’s Mixture of the Spiritual and Material"

Christine Ford, "Pleasure and Pain in the Sublime"

Kristin Hamon, "The Sublime: An Individualistic or Communal Moment?"

Kate Hebert, "The Individual, America, and Nature"

Cory Owen, "The Marriage of Death and the American Gothic: A Study on Poe"

Tanya Stanley, "Experiencing the Sublime: A Checked Familiarity"

Donny Wankan, "Remodeling Doorways: The Sublime in Romantic and Modern Poetry"