1. Eng 342: Survey of British Literature II, Spring 2017
Class Schedule
Part One: Romantic Revolutions
Wk.
1
Wednesday,
1/11
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.,
1/16
HOLIDAY
–
Martin
Luther
King
Jr./Human
Rights
Day
Wednesday,
1/18
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,
1/20
“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
“
Wk.
3
Monday,
1/23
The
French
Revolution
Homework:
“A
Vindication
of
the
Rights
of
Men”
Wollstonecraft
(D,
194)
D.
S.
#2
2. 2
“Rights
of
Man”
Thomas
Paine
(D,
199)
Wednesday,
1/25
Wollstonecraft
and
Paine
Homework:
“Fears
in
Solitude”
&
“France:
An
Ode”
Coleridge
(Bblearn)
“
Friday,
1/27
Coleridge
on
the
French
Revolution
Homework:
“A
Vindication
of
the
Rights
of
Woman”
Wollstonecraft
(D,
208)
Start
Reading
Frankenstein
for
Week
5
“
Wk.
4
Monday,
1/30
Wollstonecraft
on
Women
Homework:
“The
Rights
of
Woman”
(D
48)
and
“Epistle
to
William
Wilberforce”
(D
46)
Barbauld
D.
S.
#3
Wednesday,
2/1
Anna
Letitia
Barbauld
Homework:
“The
Rime
of
the
Ancient
Mariner”
Coleridge
(D,
443)
“
Friday,
2/3
“The
Rime
of
the
Ancient
Mariner”
S.
T.
Coleridge
Homework:
Frankenstein
Mary
Shelley
“
Wk.
5
Monday,
2/6
Frankenstein,
Volume
One,
Mary
Shelley
D.
S.
#4
Wednesday,
2/8
Frankenstein,
Volume
Two,
Mary
Shelley
“
Friday,
2/10
Frankenstein,
Volume
Three,
Mary
Shelley
Scholarly
Article
Discussion
Homework:
Take
Home
Exam
#1
on
Romanticism
“
Part Two: The “Two Nations” of Victorian England
Wk.6
Monday,
2/13
Introduction
to
Victorian
Themes
Homework:
From
Past
and
Present
Thomas
Carlyle
(E,
1067)
(con’t)
Exam
#1
Due
3. 3
“Industrialism:
Progress
or
Decline?”
(E,
1580
–
1606)
Wednesday,
2/15
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,
2/17
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,
2/20
HOLIDAY
–
Presidents'
Day
Wednesday,
2/22
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,
2/24
Education
Homework:
Hard
Times
by
Charles
Dickens
“
Wk.
8
Monday,
2/27
Hard
Times,
Book
1:
Sowing,
Charles
Dickens
D.
S.
#6
Wednesday,
3/1
Hard
Times,
Book
2:
Reaping,
Charles
Dickens
“
Friday,
3/3
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)
“
Wk.
9
Monday,
3/6
Victorian
Women
Homework:
“My
Last
Duchess”
Robert
Browning
(E
1282)
“Jenny”
Dante
Gabriel
Rossetti
(E
1478)
D.
S.
#7
Wednesday,
Victorian
Women
“
4. 4
3/8
Homework:
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)
“
3/13
–
3/17
SPRING
RECESS
Wk.
10
Monday,
3/20
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,
3/22
Voices
of
WWI
Homework:
Writing
Literary
Essays
Reading
(Bblearn)
Develop
three
working
thesis
statements
or
topics
Friday,
3/24
Writing
about
Literature
3
Thesis
Stmts
due
Part Three: The Modern Condition
Wk.
11
Monday,
3/27
No
Class:
Writing
Day
Post
your
progress
(in
Disc.
Starters)
Wednesday,
3/29
No
Class:
Writing
Day
Update
your
progress
Friday,
3/31
No
Class:
Writing
Day
I
will
be
in
my
office
during
class
time
for
voluntary
writing
conferences.
Come
by
if
you
want
to
discuss
your
work.
Homework:
“Easter,
1916”
“The
Second
Coming”
“Leda
and
the
Swan”
“Among
School
Children”
Yeats
(F
2093)
5. 5
Wk.
12
Monday,
4/3
William
Butler
Yeats
Homework:
“The
Waste
Land”
T.
S.
Eliot
(F
2529)
Literary
Analysis
due
D.
S.
#8
Wednesday,
4/5
“The
Waste
Land”
Homework:
Mrs.
Dalloway,
pp.
3
–
80
(approx.)
Virginia
Woolf
“
Friday,
4/7
Mrs.
Dalloway,
first
half(ish)
Homework:
Mrs.
Dalloway,
pp.
80
–
end
“
Wk.
13
Monday,
4/10
Mrs.
Dalloway
Homework:
Modernist
Manifestos
(F
2056
–
58)
F.
S.
Flint
and
Ezra
Pound
(F2064
–
2068)
“Feminist
Manifesto”
Mina
Loy
(F
2077
–
2081)
Wed.,
4/12
Modern
Manifestos
D.S.
on
Manifesto
Reading
(whole
class)
Friday,
4/14
No
Class
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)
Wk.
14
Monday,
4/17
Nation
and
Language
Homework:
Things
Fall
Apart,
Part
1,
Chinua
Achebe
D.
S.
#9
Wednesday,
4/19
Things
Fall
Apart,
Part
1
Homework:
Things
Fall
Apart,
Parts
2
and
3,
Chinua
Achebe
“
Friday,
4/21
Things
Fall
Apart,
Parts
2
and
3
Scholarly
Article
Discussion
Homework:
Arcadia,
Act
I,
Tom
Stoppard
(F
2879)
“
6. 6
Wk.
15
Monday,
4/24
Arcadia,
Act
I
Homework:
Arcadia,
Act
II,
Tom
Stoppard
D.
S.
#10
Wednesday,
4/26
Arcadia,
Act
II
“
(Wed.
&
Fri.
groups)
Friday,
4/28
No
Class
–
Work
Day
Wk.
16
Mon.,
5/1
Sharing
of
Final
Projects
Wed.,
5/3
Sharing
of
Final
Projects
Friday,
5/5
Sharing
of
Final
Projects
