1a. Describe and focus backgrounds, learning, challenges, issues, potential applications concerning studies in American Romanticism. (7-10 paragraphs)

Jonathon Anderson, Between Gloom and Splendor: Assessments of Identity in American Romantic Literature

Niki Bippen, Defining American Romanticism: The Problems with Labels

Gregory Buchanan, The Complex Duality of Romantic Selfhood

1b. Describe, analyze, and illustrate a term, objective, or combinations from our course as especially helpful for comprehending or extending American Romanticism . . .

Marissa Holland, The Trifecta of the Sublime

Roslynn Kelley, Separate, yet Complete: Examining How the Journey Narrative in American Romanticism Unites the Exterior and Interior Self

Hanna Mak, The Constructed Reality of Correspondence

Lori Wheeler, The American Dream: Isn’t It Romantic?

Marichia Wyatt, Black and White, With Shades of Gray, What’s an Other Anyway?

2a. Highlight and analyze a passage from our course readings—your best textual experience (plus or minus class discussion) in comprehending course contents (terms, themes, objectives)

Heather Minette Schutmaat, The Romantic Features of Walt Whitman’s “There Was a Child Went Forth”

2b. Choose a previously-read literary text, American or otherwise, Romantic or otherwise; apply course terms & themes / objectives; comparisons-contrasts, connects-disconnects, learning outcomes.

Jon Anderson, Incorrigible Romanticism in Thomas Pynchon’s “Entropy”

Roslynn Kelley, A Quest Towards Understanding: A Brief Analysis of The Romantic Journey Narrative as Developed by Walt Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”    

Hanna Mak, The Postmodern Byronic Hero in Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke

Lori Wheeler, My Romance with Edmond Dantès