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Well, today I purchased my first two grad school books! Both are for one of my compulsory courses. And for the first time since high school I once again have summer homework.

Since it was requested, here's a list of the books I know for sure that I'll be reading:

1st half-session:
for Theory of the Novel (1st of 3 compulsory courses) I'll be reading:

• Dorothy J. Hale, ed., The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991)
• Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (London: Vintage, 2006)
• and a large amount of supplemental articles from an extensive list of suggested titles.

for Reading the Nation (1st of 2 elective courses) - the list of books hasn't been made available (possibly because it isn't finalized yet?)

2nd half-session:
for Investigating Literature (2nd of 3 compulsory courses) - there are no set texts, however the short essays and articles will be handed out week by week.

for Romanticism and Genre (2nd of 2 elective courses) I'll be reading:

• Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
• Lord Byron, Don Juan
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’, ‘The Ancient Mariner’, Biographia Literaria
• William Hazlitt, ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’ and other essays
• Charles Lamb, ‘Imperfect Sympathies’ and other essays
• John Keats, the two versions of Hyperion and other poems
• Thomas Love Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry
• Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (extracts)
• Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance
• Friedrich Schiller, On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry
• August Wilhelm Schelgel, Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature (extracts)
• Friedrich Schlegel, Dialogue on Poetry (extracts)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
• William Wordsworth, ‘Tintern Abbey’, The Prelude (1805)