Expatriate Writers in Rome: 1800 to Present
ENGL 288E/388E, 3 credits

Tentative Course Itinerary

Day 1 (Saturday) Arrive at Hotel Giotto Flavia
1730-1900 First class meeting
Day 2 (Sunday) The grand tour
0830-1000 Visit to Coliseum, Forum, Palatine
Bring readings by Smollett, Byron, James
1100-1300 Continue grand tour
1300-1400 Lunch and discussion
1400-1600 Continue grand tour
Return to classroom at hotel
1700-1800 Review day’s walk and readings
Day 3 (Monday) The Romantics in Italy
0845 Meet at Spanish Steps
0900-1030 Visit and lecture at Keats-Shelley House
1045-1230 Visit and lecture at Caffe Greco
1230-1400 Working lunch at Baths of Caracalla
1400-1800 Visit to Protestant Cemetery
1800-1900 Review major themes of the day
Day 4 (Tuesday) 19th century Americans in Italy
0900-945 Quiz 1 - The Romantics
1000-1230 Fuller, Twain, Hawthorne
1230-1330 Lunch
1330-1530 The Marble Faun (Hawthorne)
1530-1730 Walk to Capuchini church and cemetery
Day 5 (Wednesday) 19th century literary and artistic Rome
0845 Meet at the Palazzo Barberini
0845-1045 Visit and readings at Palazzo Barberini
1045-1200 Walk from Piazza Barberini to Pincian Hill with James’s Daisy Miller
1200-1300 Working lunch with student discussion of Daisy Miller
1300-1800 Work on quiz 3 and prepare for literary salon
1800-2000 Literary salon on Capitoline Hill
Day 6 (Thursday) A modern view of Rome
0900-1300 Work on upper-level projects, quiz 2 review, and continue quiz 3
1300-1415 Lunch
1415-1500 Quiz 2 -The Marble Faun
1500-1600 Wharton’s Roman Fever
1600-1800 Wharton’s Roman Fever
Day 7 (Friday) Review of major themes
0900-1100 Student led review of major themes
1130-1300 Upper level presentations or paper outlines
1300-1600 Finish quiz 3; study for final exam
1600 Free time
Day 8 (Saturday)
0900-1230 Final exam
Check out by noon

Last updated: 6 October 2011