MWF 11:00-11:50 Grainger 16. Dr. Lund (home page)
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature,
Volume II, Seventh Edition. ed. M. H. Abrams et al.;
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (in installments to be provided--do
not
buy a text!)
Course Objectives: An understanding of our cultural heritage as revealed in literature, its movements and traditions.
August 25: Introduction: Brown vs. Board of Education
27: Great Expectations (part 1, 2)
29: William Blake, from Songs of Innocence & Experience
September 1: Labor Day; no class
3: Great Expectations (part 3, 4)
5: William Wordsworth, from Lyrical Ballads
8: Anna Letitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson
10: Great Expectations (part 5)
12: W. Wordsworth, "The Ruined Cottage"
15: Coleridge, "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner"
17: Great Expectations (part 6)
19: Dorothy Wordsworth, from Journals
22: Sir Walter Scott, Heart of the Midlothian
24: Review; Exam part 1: short answer
26: No Class
29: No Class
October 1: Exam part 2; essay
3: Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes"
6: Percy Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind," "English 1819," "Men of England"
8: Great Expectations (parts 7, 8)
10: Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach," Paper Due
* * * Fall Break * * *
15: Great Expectations (parts 9, 10)
17: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Aurora Leigh
20: Tennyson, "The Lady of Shallott," "Ulysses," Songs from The Princess
22: Great Expectations (part 11)
24: Tennyson, from Idylls of the King
27: Robert Browning, the dramatic monologue
29: Great Expectations (parts 12, 13)
31: George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (Volume 1, chapters 1-5)
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
November 3: Elizabeth Gaskell, "Lizzie Leigh"
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Lizzie.html
5: Great Expectations (part 14); and "A Visit to Newgate")
7: George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (Volume 1, chapters 6-10.)
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
10: Exam part 1: short answer
12: Exam part 2: essay
14: Great Expectations (part 15)
17: Wilkie Collins, No Name (installments 1, 2, 3; chapters I-VI)
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
19: Great Expectations (parts 16, 17)
21: Paper Due; Christina Rosetti, lyrics
24: Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (installments 1, 2; chapters 1-8)
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
* * * Thanksgiving * * *
December 1: Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
3: Shaw, cont.
5: Great Expectations (part 18)
9: Final Exam: 8:00-10:30
Course Requirements: read the material listed below for discussion on the dates shown (200 points); write one short critical paper (100 points); write one longer paper including historical and critical sources (150 pints); write two exams on material read and discussed in class (200 points); write an essay final exam on the material of the course (150 pints). 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.