Research Methodology and Thesis Writing (Fall, 2006)

 

Wordsworth:

A、Study of Wordsworth as an Individual/Author
1.

The “Degrading Thirst After Outrageous Stimulation”: Wordsworth as Cultural Critic.
2.

Wordsworth amongst the Aristotelians.
3.

Unity Sublime: The Excursion's Social Self.
4.

The Christian Wordsworth, 1798-1805.

5.

The Wordsworths, the Greens, and the Limits of Sympathy.

6.

Wordsworth and the End of the Arts.

7.

Wordsworth's Ear and the Politics of Aesthetic Autonomy.

8.

Wordsworth and Current Memory Research.

9.

Presence and Passage: A Poet's Wordsworth.

10.

Secret(ing) Conversations: Coleridge and Wordsworth.

11.

Wordsworth in America and the nature of democracy.

12.

Nostalgia, the Classics, and the Intimations Ode: Wordworth's Forgotten Education.
 

B、Study of Wordsworthian Motif in His Poetry

 
1.

Generating a National Sublime: Wordsworth's The River Duddon and The Guide

to the Lakes.
2.

Rethinking the Cultural Divide: Walter Pater, Wilkie Collins, and the Legacies of Wordsworthian Aesthetics.
3.

Sacrificial Sites, Place-Keeping, and 'Pre-History' in Wordsworth's 'Michael'
4.

Unrememberable" Sound in Wordsworth's 1799 Prelude.
5.

What Poetry Brings to the Table of Science and Religion.
6.

Wordsworthian Wakefulness.
7.

The Commodification of Time in Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey.'.
8.

The Native and the Fop: Primitivism and Fashion in Romantic Rhetoric.
9.

Wordsworth’s Visionary Imagination: Democracy and War.
10.

Hart Leap Well: A History of the Site in Wordsworth’s Poem
11.

The "poetry of trees" and Wordsworth's New Vision of Pastoral: An Unrecorded Letter.

12.

Fathering the Man: Journalism, Masculinity, and the Wordsworthian Formation of Academic Literary Studies in Victorian England.
13.

Justice and Indeterminacy: Wordsworth's The Borderers and the Trials of the 1790s.
14.

Paratextual Dilemmas: Wordsworth's 'The Brothers' and the Problem of Generic Labelling.
15.

Crisis and Recovery: The Wordsworthian Poetics and Politics.
16.

Wordsworth's London: The imperial monster.

 

C、Some Critical Approaches to Wordsworth’s Literature

 
1.

Wordsworth and Current Memory Research.
2.

Wordsworth institutionalized: the shaping of an educational ideology.
3.

Taking Animals Seriously: William Wordsworth and the Claims of Ecological Romanticism.
4.

Wordsworth and the Psychogenesis of the Sublime.
   

D、Compare and Contrast: Wordsworth and Other Critical Writers

 
1.

The Starring of Loss in Wordsworth and Dickinson.

2.

'Gangs of Kosmos and Prophets En Masse': The Cosmic Poetics of Wordsworth and Whitman.

3.

Wedded in Natural Matrimony: Cosmic Love in Wordsworth and Whitman.
   
  （Wales）