This document provides the class schedule and reading assignments for an 18-week British Literature survey course covering Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods. The course is divided into three parts: 1) Romantic Revolutions focusing on poets like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats; 2) The "Two Nations" of Victorian England examining industrialization, art, women's issues through Dickens, the Brownings, and others; and 3) The Modern Condition through works by Yeats, Eliot, Woolf, Achebe and Stoppard. Students will complete two take-home exams, weekly reading questions, and a final project. Class meetings involve lectures, discussions, and presentations of scholarly articles

1. Eng 342: Survey of British Literature II, Spring 2018
Class Schedule
Part One: Romantic Revolutions
Wk. 1 Wednesday,
1/10
Introduction to course
Homework:
“A Summer Evening’s Meditation” Barbauld (D, 43)
“The Eolian Harp” Coleridge (D, 439)
“Ode to the West Wind” P. B. Shelley (D, 791)
“Ode to a Nightingale” Keats (D, 927)
Reading Question: What do these poems imply about the
nature of poetry and the poet?
Friday, 1/13 The Romantic Lyric
Homework:
“Preface to Lyrical Ballads” Wordsworth (D, 292)
Biographia Literaria, ch. 14 Coleridge (D, 491)
Reading Question: Choose 5 statements that seem to
encapsulate WW’s theory of poetry and the imagination
Wk. 2 Mon., 1/15 HOLIDAY – Martin Luther King Jr./Human Rights Day
Wednesday,
1/17
A New Approach to Poetry
Homework:
“Tintern Abbey” by W. Wordsworth (D, 288)
from the Journals D. Wordsworth (D, 402)
from “Observations” W. Gilpin (link on Bblearn)
Reading Question: Is WW’s theory from “The
Preface” enacted in “Tintern Abbey”? How or how not?
Discussion
Starter #1
(Mon. and
Wed. groups)
Friday, 1/19 “Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth
Homework:
The Revolution Controversy, Price, Burke, and Gillray (D,
183)
Prelude, Book 10, W. Wordsworth (D, 391)
Collateral reading: Frankenstein for Week 5
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Wk. 3 Monday,
1/22
The French Revolution
Homework:
“A Vindication of the Rights of Men” Wollstonecraft
(D, 194) (con’t next page)
“Rights of Man” Thomas Paine (D, 199)
D. S. #2

2. 2
Wednesday,
1/24
Wollstonecraft and Paine
Homework:
“Fears in Solitude” & “France: An Ode” Coleridge (Bblearn)
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Friday, 1/26 Coleridge on the French Revolution
Homework:
“A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
Wollstonecraft (D, 208)
Start Reading Frankenstein for Week 5
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Wk. 4 Monday,
1/29
Wollstonecraft on Women
Homework:
“The Rights of Woman” (D 48) and
“Epistle to William Wilberforce” (D 46) Barbauld
D. S. #3
Wednesday,
1/31
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Homework:
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Coleridge
(D, 443)
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Friday, 2/2 “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” S. T. Coleridge
Homework:
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
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Wk. 5 Monday,
2/5
Frankenstein, Volume One, Mary Shelley D. S. #4
Wednesday,
2/7
Frankenstein, Volume Two, Mary Shelley “
Friday, 2/9 Frankenstein, Volume Three, Mary Shelley
Scholarly Article Discussion
Homework:
Take Home Exam #1 on Romanticism
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Part Two: The “Two Nations” of Victorian England
Wk.6 Monday,
2/12
Introduction to Victorian Themes
Homework:
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle (E, 1067) (con’t)
“Industrialism: Progress or Decline?” (E, 1580 – 1606)
Exam #1 Due

3. 3
Wednesday,
2/14
The Victorian City
Homework:
“Pre-Raphaelitism” section (E 1461)
“The Blessed Damozel” D. G. Rosetti (E 1472)
“In an Artist’s Studio” Christina Rossetti (E 1493)
Friday, 2/16 Pre-Raphaelite Art & Poetry
Homework:
“The Cry of the Children” E. B. Browning (E 1123)
“A Voice From the Factories” Caroline Norton
(handout on Bblearn)
Start Reading Hard Times for Week 8
Wk. 7 Monday,
2/19
HOLIDAY – Presidents' Day
Wednesday,
2/21
Browning and Norton
Homework:
Literature and Science Matthew Arnold (E 1436)
From Science and Culture T. H. Huxley (E 1451)
D.S. #5
(Monday
AND
Wednesday
groups)
Friday, 2/23 Education
Homework:
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
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Wk. 8 Monday,
2/26
Hard Times, Book 1: Sowing, Charles Dickens D. S. #6
Wednesday,
2/28
Hard Times, Book 2: Reaping, Charles Dickens “
Friday, 3/2 Hard Times, Book 3: Garnering, Charles Dickens
Scholarly Article Discussion
Homework:
“The Angel in the House” Coventry Patmore (E 1613)
from Aurora Leigh E. B. Browning (E 1138)
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Wk. 9 Monday,
3/5
Victorian Women
Homework:
“My Last Duchess” Robert Browning (E 1282)
“Jenny” Dante Gabriel Rossetti (E 1478)
D. S. #7
Wednesday,
3/7
Victorian Women
Homework:
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4. 4
The Man Who Would Be King Kipling (E 1853)
“White Man’s Burden” Rudyard Kipling (E 1880)
Friday, 3/9 Voices of Empire
Take Home Exam #2 on Victorian Literature (it will be
distributed in class only – it will NOT be available online or
via e-mail)
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3/12 – 3/16 SPRING RECESS
Part Three: The Modern Condition
Wk. 10 Monday,
3/19
Introduction to Modernism
Homework:
“The Soldier” Rupert Brooke; “Rain” Edward
Thomas; “They” “The Rear-Guard” “Glory of Women”
Siegfried Sassoon; “Break of Day in the Trenches” “Dead
Man’s Dump” Isaac Rosenberg; “Anthem for Doomed
Youth” “Dulce Et Decorum Est” Wilfred Owen;
“Recalling War” Robert Graves (F 2016)
Exam #2 Due
Wednesday,
3/21
Voices of WWI
Homework:
Writing Literary Essays Reading (Bblearn)
Develop three working thesis statements or topics
Friday, 3/23 No Class – Class Cancelled so you may attend “Frankenstein:
Before and After” at WSU. Schedule at
http://rogerwhitson.net/frankenstein/schedule/
Wk. 11 Monday,
3/26
Writing about Literature 3 Thesis
Stmts due
Wednesday,
3/28
No Class: Writing Day
Friday, 3/30 No Class: Writing Day
Homework:
“Easter, 1916” “The Second Coming” “Leda and the
Swan” “Among School Children” Yeats (F 2093)
Wk. 12 Monday,
4/2
William Butler Yeats
Homework:
“The Waste Land” T. S. Eliot (F 2529)
Literary
Analysis due
D. S. #8

5. 5
Wednesday,
4/4
“The Waste Land”
Homework:
Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 3 – 80 (approx.) Virginia Woolf
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Friday, 4/6 Mrs. Dalloway, first half(ish)
Homework:
Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 80 – end
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Wk. 13 Monday,
4/9
Mrs. Dalloway
Homework:
Wed., 4/11 TBA
Homework:
“Old England” “If We Must Die” Claude McKay; “Jamaica
Language” “Colonization in Reverse” Louise Bennett;
[Nation Language] “Calypso” Kamau Brathwaite; “from
Decolonizing the Mind” Ngugi wa Thiong’o; [English is an
Indian Literary Language] Salman Rushdie (F 2718)
Friday, 4/13 Nation and Language
Homework:
Things Fall Apart, Part 1, Chinua Achebe
Wk. 14 Monday,
4/16
Things Fall Apart, Part 1
Homework:
Things Fall Apart, Parts 2 and 3, Chinua Achebe
D. S. #9
Wednesday,
4/18
Things Fall Apart, Parts 2 and 3
Scholarly Article Discussion
Homework:
Arcadia, Act I, Tom Stoppard (F 2879)
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Friday, 4/20 No Class (I’m at a conference. You could spend some time
on your final project…hint,hint.)
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Wk. 15 Monday,
4/23
Arcadia, Act I
Homework:
Arcadia, Act II, Tom Stoppard
D. S. #10
Wednesday,
4/25
Arcadia, Act II “

6. 6
(Wed. & Fri.
groups)
Friday, 4/27 No Class – Work Day
Wk. 16 Mon., 4/30 Sharing of Final Projects
Wed., 5/2 Sharing of Final Projects
Friday, 5/4 Sharing of Final Projects