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Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume II, Seventh Edition. ed. M. H. Abrams et al.
Course Objectives: An understanding of our cultural heritage as revealed in literature, its movements and traditions.
January 13: Introduction:
Expectations
15: "An Imaginative Woman" and
"The Three Strangers" from Thomas Hardy's Wessex Tales (online)
http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext02/westl10.txt
17: Blake, Songs of Innocence
and Experience
20: William Wordsworth, Lyrical
Ballads (but not the "Preface")
22: "The Withered Arm" and "Interlopers
at the Knap" from Thomas Hardy's Wessex Tales (online)
24: Wordsworth, "The Ruined Cottage"
27: Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals
29: "Fellow Townsmen" from Thomas
Hardy's Wessex Tales (online)
31: Coleridge, "Christabel" and
"Kubla Khan"
February 3: Byron, Cantos
1 and 2 from Don Juan
5: "The Distracted Preacher"
from Thomas Hardy's Wessex Tales (online)
7: Percy Shelley, "Ode to the
West Wind" "Men of England" "To a Skylark" "Mont Blanc"
10: Mary Shelley, Volume I of
Frankenstein
12: Exam, Part I
14: Exam, Part II
17: No Class; Presidents'
Day
19: Keats, "Lamia" "Ode on a
Grecian Urn"
21: Scott, from Heart of the
Midlothian
24: Tennyson, "Ulysses," "Locksley
Hall," "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
26: Robert Browning, "My Last
Duchess" "Childe Roland"
28: No Class; Reading
Day; Paper # 1 Due
March 3:
George Eliot, Chapters 1-5, Volume One, Middlemarch (online)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/EliMidd.html(online)
5: Charles Dickens
7: Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
from Aurora Leigh
* * * Spring Break * * *
17: Chapters 6-12,
Volume One, Middlemarch (online)
19: Matthew Arnold,
"Dover Beach," "The Scholar Gypsy"
22: Elizabeth Gaskell
24: Christina Rosetti
26: Carlyle, from
The
French Revolution and Past and Present
28: Poems in
Progress: Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats
31: Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapters I-III
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-etexts.html
April 2:
Exam II
4: Wives
and Daughters, video
7: William
Morris
9: Victorian
Light Verse
11: Kipling,
"The Man Who Would be King"
14: Gerald
Manly Hopkins
16: Michael
Field
18:
Paper # 2 Due
21: Wilde,
The
Importance of Being Earnest Act I
23: The
Importance of Being Earnest Acts II-III
24: Review
30: Final Exam: 11:30-2:00
Course Requirements: read in advance the material listed below
for discussion on the dates shown (200 points); write one short critical
paper (100 points); write one paper including historical and critical sources
(100 points); write two essay exams on material read and discussed in class
(200 points); write an essay final exam on the material of the course (200
points). Unannounced quizzes will be given to determine if
the reading is being done on time; the average of these quizzes is worth
200 points. You should save all returned written work from the course
for one semester. Grading scale: 90%=A; 80%=B; 70%=C; 60%=D;
less than 60%=F.
Attendance Policy: The attendance policy for this course is the
same as the college policy in the College Catalog and the Student Handbook.
Unexcused absences for more than 10% of classes may lower a final grade
one letter. Absence, excused and/or unexcused, from more than 25% of classes
may be an automatic F in the course.
Honor Code: Students are expected to abide by the college Honor
Code.
Inclement Weather: If the college closes for inclement weather,
students should continue work as outlined above.
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