ENGL 362 - British Survey 2
Fall 2001, MWF 10:30 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Schedule of Classes | Papers | Web Resources | Bulletin Board
Professor Westman
108 Denison Hall; x2-2171
westmank@ksu.edu
Office Hours: M, W 9-10 a.m. and by app' t.
Required Texts:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2, 7th ed.
Stoppard, Arcadia
Class Pack I: Readings from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol.1, 7th ed.
Class Pack II: Readings from Selected Authors
(Note: Class Packs are available from the A&S Copy Center in Eisenhower Hall.)
Course Objectives:
A survey of representative British authors since the late 17th century. We will consider their works in terms of form and the historical context of their cultural production, exploring the often contested relationship between life and art. Our goal is twofold: familiarity with a canon of British literature and further practice in literary analysis and interpretation. Success in this course depends upon careful reading and participation in our discussions.
Requirements and General Expectations:
Readings: You are expected to complete each reading assignment before coming to class. You are further expected to think carefully about what you read and to make notes in your book prior to each class meeting. Bring the appropriate book or class pack to class each day and additionally mark passages that we discuss; this process will help you understand, remember, and review.
Class Participation and Attendance: Although this class may be large, you will be asked to participate regularly in class discussions and in collaborative learning groups. Your attendance is therefore important. You will not be penalized for your first three absences; thereafter, further absences jeopardize your final course grade. Excessive unexcused absences (six or more) may result in failure of the course. While I appreciate your offering explanations for absences, the only way to excuse an absence is to provide me with an official letter from your dean or advisor. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to find out from another class member any announcements or assignments.
Quizzes: Occasional short (10 minute) quizzes consisting of identifications and interpretive questions will help you improve your close reading skills and to evaluate your comprehension of the material. Quizzes are noted on the syllabus; I also reserve the right to administer further quizzes as necessary, or change a quiz into a take-home close reading response. Quizzes will be graded on a scale of 1 to 5 points: 5=A, 4=B, 3=C, 2=D, 1=F. At the end of the semester, I will average the results to determine your final quiz grade. (I will drop the lowest quiz grade before averaging.) Should you be absent on the day of a quiz, you will receive a zero, unless the absence is excused.
Papers: You will write two short papers. The papers are due at the time the class meets. Late papers will be penalized one full grade (i.e., B to C) for each day late. More information about these two papers follows the schedule of classes below. Note: The University's Honor Code obliges you to cite the source of any idea that is not your own. If you quote, paraphrase, or use another's ideas, you must give credit to the person whose ideas you are using. Otherwise, you have plagiarized. If you have any questions, please ask. If you do plagiarize, you will fail this course.
Electronic Bulletin Board: Beginning the first week of class, I'll establish an electronic bulletin board for our class. Each week, each student is required to post at least one paragraph-length comment about the materials we're studying in class. I will monitor these discussions and assess a grade (at the end of the semester) based on the thoughtfulness of your comments, their ability to foster discussion among your classmates, and their responsiveness both to our readings and to your classmates' comments in class and on the list. Your postings do not need to be long; however, they need to be substantive: they must be long enough to convey clearly the problem you are taking up and your point of view, connecting your comment to others' comments, as appropriate. I will offer models of helpful comments early in the semester. Your grade for these postings will become part of your class participation grade.
Examinations: You will have a midterm and a cumulative final exam. A missed exam counts as a zero; no make-up exams will be offered without a dean's excuse.
Conferences: There are no mandatory conferences for this course. I encourage you, however, to stop by during office hours, particularly before an assignment is due, or if you have any questions or concerns about the course or the readings. You can always reach me by email to make an appointment if my office hours are not convenient for you.
Grading:
Paper #1 10%
Paper #2 10%
Quizzes 15%
Class Participation 20%

In-class 10%

Postings 10%
Midterm Exam 20%
Final Exam 25%
Schedule of Classes (Subject to change)
[Unless otherwise indicated by CP for class pack, readings are found in a required book.]

The Restoration and the 18th Century (1660-1785)
August
M 20
W 22
F 24
Introduction: Condition of England in Life and Art, c.1700
&1xbet online games login ;The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century&1xbet online games login ; (CPI:
2045-70); Alexander Pope (CPI: 2505-8): &1xbet online games login ;An Essay on
Criticism,&1xbet online games login ; Part 1 (CPI: 2509-13)
Pope, from &1xbet online games login ;An Essay on Man&1xbet online games login ; (CPI: 2554-62); Jonathan
Swift (CPI: 2298-9), &1xbet online games login ;A Description of a City Shower&1xbet online games login ;(CPI:
2300-1) Quiz
M 27
W 29
F 31
&1xbet online games login ;Debating Women&1xbet online games login ; (CPI: 2584-85): Jonathan Swift, &1xbet online games login ;The
Lady's Dressing Room&1xbet online games login ; (CPI: 2585-88); Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu (CPI: 2579-80), &1xbet online games login ;The Reasons That
Induced Dr. Swift to Write a Poem Called the Lady's
Dressing Room&1xbet online games login ; (2588-90)
John Wilmot (CPI: 2162), &1xbet online games login ;The Disabled Debauchee&1xbet online games login ; (CPI:
2162-3) and &1xbet online games login ;The Imperfect Engagement&1xbet online games login ; (CPI: 2163-5);
Aphra Behn (CPI: 2165-7), &1xbet online games login ;The Disappointment&1xbet online games login ; (CPI:
2167-70)
Restoration Drama: &1xbet online games login ;Drama and Theater in the Late
Seventeenth Century &1xbet online games login ; (CPII: 266-70); from The London
Stage (xliv-xlix); from The Public Image of the Actor
(CPII: 24-5); Behn, from The Lucky Chance (CPII: 249-52,
259-68, 376-7); George Farquhar, from The Beaux'
Stratagem (CPII: 25-31, 90-3, 106-11, 126-31)
September
M 3
W 5
F 7
Labor Day - No Class
Samuel Johnson (CPI: 2660-2), from A Dictionary of the
English Language (CPI: 2719-25); &1xbet online games login ;Landscape and Power&1xbet online games login ;
(CPII: 2857-58): Selections from Pope, Walpole, and Burke
(CPII: 2872-82) Quiz
&1xbet online games login ;Landscape and Power,&1xbet online games login ; continued.

The Romantic Period (1785-1830)
M 10
W 12
F 14
&1xbet online games login ;The Romantic Period&1xbet online games login ; (1-23); William Wordsworth
(219-21): &1xbet online games login ;A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal&1xbet online games login ; (254), &1xbet online games login ;Lucy Gray&1xbet online games login ;
(254-5), &1xbet online games login ;I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud&1xbet online games login ; (284-5), &1xbet online games login ;Tintern
Abbey&1xbet online games login ; (235-8), excerpts from &1xbet online games login ;Preface&1xbet online games login ; to Lyrical Ballads
(238-51) Quiz
Wordsworth, continued.
Wordsworth, &1xbet online games login ;Ode: Intimations of Immortality&1xbet online games login ; (286-92),
excerpts from The Prelude, Books I (303-8; 311-19), II
(324-5), VII (348-51), XI-XIV (362-77, 382-3)
M 17
W 19
F 21
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (416-18): &1xbet online games login ;The Eolian Harp,&1xbet online games login ;
&1xbet online games login ;This Lime Tree Bower My Prison,&1xbet online games login ; &1xbet online games login ;The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner,&1xbet online games login ; &1xbet online games login ;Kubla Khan&1xbet online games login ; (419-41), &1xbet online games login ;Frost at
Midnight&1xbet online games login ; (457-8), &1xbet online games login ;Dejection: An Ode&1xbet online games login ; (459-462); excerpts
from Biographia Literaria (467-8,474-89) Quiz
Coleridge, continued.
Mary Wollstonecraft, excerpts from Vindication of the
Rights of Woman (163-192)
M 24
W 26
F 28
Percy Bysshe Shelley (698-701): &1xbet online games login ;Mont Blanc&1xbet online games login ; (720-23),
&1xbet online games login ;Hymn to Intellectual Beauty&1xbet online games login ; (723-25), &1xbet online games login ;To a Skylark&1xbet online games login ;
(765-67), and excerpts from A Defense of Poetry
(789-802) Quiz
Mary Shelley (903-5), Frankenstein (905-1034) Quiz
Frankenstein, continued.
October
M 1
W 3
F 5
John Keats (823-26): &1xbet online games login ;On First Looking into Chapman's
Homer,&1xbet online games login ; &1xbet online games login ;Sleep and Poetry,&1xbet online games login ; &1xbet online games login ;On Seeing the Elgin Marbles,&1xbet online games login ;
from &1xbet online games login ;Endymion: A Poetic Romance,&1xbet online games login ; &1xbet online games login ;On Sitting Down to
Read King Lear...,&1xbet online games login ; &1xbet online games login ;When I Have Fears...,&1xbet online games login ; &1xbet online games login ;To Homer&1xbet online games login ;
(826-34)
Keats, &1xbet online games login ;Ode to a Nightingale,&1xbet online games login ; &1xbet online games login ;Ode on a Grecian Urn,&1xbet online games login ;
&1xbet online games login ;Ode on Melancholy&1xbet online games login ; (849-854), &1xbet online games login ;To Autumn&1xbet online games login ; (872-3), and
excerpts from Keats' Letters (886-903)
Paper #1 due in class.
Keats, continued.

The Victorian Age (1830-1901)
M 8
W 10
F 12
Midterm Exam
&1xbet online games login ;The Victorian Age&1xbet online games login ; (1043-65); &1xbet online games login ;The Rise and Fall of
Empire&1xbet online games login ; (2017-18); Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1198-1201):
&1xbet online games login ;The Kraken&1xbet online games login ; (1201-2), &1xbet online games login ;The Lady of Shalott,&1xbet online games login ; &1xbet online games login ;The
Lotus-Eaters,&1xbet online games login ; &1xbet online games login ;Ulysses&1xbet online games login ; (1202-14), &1xbet online games login ;Locksley Hall&1xbet online games login ;
(1219-25) Quiz
Tennyson, continued.
M 15
W 17
F 19
Tennyson, excerpts from In Memoriam A. H. H. (1230-80);
&1xbet online games login ;Evolution&1xbet online games login ; and excerpts from Darwin's Descent of Man
(1679, 1686-90)
Robert Browning (1345-9): &1xbet online games login ;My Last Duchess&1xbet online games login ; (1352-3)
and &1xbet online games login ;Caliban upon Sebetos&1xbet online games login ; (1402-9); &1xbet online games login ;Industrialism:
Progress or Decline?&1xbet online games login ; (1696-7); Macaulay, from &1xbet online games login ;A Review
of Southey's Colloquies&1xbet online games login ; (1697-1702); Dickens, from Hard
Times (1711-2) Quiz
Fall Break - No Class.
M 22
W 24
F 26
Matthew Arnold (1471-5): &1xbet online games login ;To Marguerite--Continued&1xbet online games login ;
(1479-80), &1xbet online games login ;The Buried Life&1xbet online games login ; (1480-2), &1xbet online games login ;Dover Beach&1xbet online games login ;
(1492-3); excerpts from &1xbet online games login ;The Function of Criticism at the
Present Time&1xbet online games login ; (1514-15, 1526-28)
John Stuart Mill (1137-9): from The Subjection of
Women (1155-65); &1xbet online games login ;The Women Question&1xbet online games login ; (1719-21) and
excerpts from Ellis, &1xbet online games login ;The Women of England...,&1xbet online games login ; Patmore,
&1xbet online games login ;The Angel in the House,&1xbet online games login ; and Besant, &1xbet online games login ;The Queen's Reign&1xbet online games login ;
(1721-4, 1738-9)
Martineau, &1xbet online games login ;Autobiography,&1xbet online games login ; Mullock, &1xbet online games login ;A Woman's
Thoughts...&1xbet online games login ;, and Nightingale, &1xbet online games login ;Cassandra&1xbet online games login ; (1725-8,
1732-7); Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1173-4): excerpts
from &1xbet online games login ;Aurora Leigh&1xbet online games login ; (1180-94); Christina Rossetti
(1583-84): &1xbet online games login ;In an Artist's Studio&1xbet online games login ; (1586) and &1xbet online games login ;Goblin
Market&1xbet online games login ; (1589-1601) Quiz
November
M 29
W 31
F 2
Virginia Woolf (2141-3), A Room of One's Own
(2153-2183)
Woolf, Room (2183-2214). Quiz.
&1xbet online games login ;The Nineties&1xbet online games login ; (1740-1); Oscar Wilde (1747-9): from
&1xbet online games login ;The Critic as Artist&1xbet online games login ; (1752-60) and The Importance of
Being Earnest (1761-1805)
M 5
W 7
F 9
Wilde, continued.
&1xbet online games login ;The Twentieth Century&1xbet online games login ; (1897-1915); &1xbet online games login ;The Rise and Fall
of Empire&1xbet online games login ; (2017-18); Joseph Conrad (1952-3):
&1xbet online games login ;Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus&1xbet online games login ; (1954-6)
and Heart of Darkness (1957-2017)
No Class - Read ahead.

The Twentieth Century
M 12
W 14
F 16
Conrad, continued; Chinua Achebe (2616-7), &1xbet online games login ;An
Image of Africa: Conrad's Heart of Darkness&1xbet online games login ;
(2035-40) Quiz
Thomas Hardy (1916-7), &1xbet online games login ;Hap&1xbet online games login ; (1934), &1xbet online games login ;Neutral
Tones&1xbet online games login ; (1935-6); &1xbet online games login ;The Darkling Thrush&1xbet online games login ; (1937-8);
&1xbet online games login ;The Convergence of the Twain&1xbet online games login ; (1945-6); &1xbet online games login ;Under the
Waterfall&1xbet online games login ; (1947-8); and &1xbet online games login ;He Never Expected Much&1xbet online games login ;
(1951-2)
&1xbet online games login ;Voices from World War I&1xbet online games login ; (2048-9): Rupert Brooke
(2049-50): &1xbet online games login ;The Soldier&1xbet online games login ; (2050); Siegfried Sassoon
(2054-5): &1xbet online games login ;They&1xbet online games login ; (2055), &1xbet online games login ;The Rear-Guard&1xbet online games login ; (2056),
&1xbet online games login ;Glory of Women&1xbet online games login ; (2057), and &1xbet online games login ;On Passing the New
Menin Gate&1xbet online games login ; (2057-8); Wilfred Owen (2066), &1xbet online games login ;Dulce
Et Decorum Est&1xbet online games login ; (2069-70)
M 19
W 21
F 23
W.B. Yeats (2085-8): &1xbet online games login ;Adam's Curse&1xbet online games login ; (2097-8), &1xbet online games login ;Easter
1916&1xbet online games login ; (2104-6), &1xbet online games login ;The Second Coming&1xbet online games login ; (2106-7), &1xbet online games login ;Sailing
to Byzantium&1xbet online games login ; (2109-10); &1xbet online games login ;The Circus Animals' Desertion&1xbet online games login ;
(2120)
No Class -
Thanksgiving Break
M 26
W 28
F 30
T.S. Eliot (2360-3), &1xbet online games login ;The Waste Land&1xbet online games login ; (2368-83);
&1xbet online games login ;Tradition and the Individual Talent&1xbet online games login ; (2170-6);
Paper #2 due in class.
Eliot, continued.
Virginia Woolf, &1xbet online games login ;Kew Gardens&1xbet online games login ; (CPII) and &1xbet online games login ;Modern
Fiction&1xbet online games login ; (2148-53) Quiz
December
M 3
W 5
F 7
Philip Larkin (2564-5): &1xbet online games login ;Church Going&1xbet online games login ; (2565-6),
&1xbet online games login ;Talking in Bed&1xbet online games login ; (2567), &1xbet online games login ;Sad Steps&1xbet online games login ; (2569), and
&1xbet online games login ;Aubaude&1xbet online games login ; (2570-71); Seamus Heaney (2818-9):
&1xbet online games login ;Digging&1xbet online games login ; (2819-20) and excerpts from &1xbet online games login ;Station Island&1xbet online games login ;
(2825-7); Derek Walcott (2580): &1xbet online games login ;Midsummer&1xbet online games login ;
(2584-5); and Wole Soyinka, &1xbet online games login ;Telephone
Conversation&1xbet online games login ; (xerox)
Tom Stoppard (2785-6), Arcadia (1-97)
Stoppard, continued; review for Final Exam.
F 14 Final Exam, 11:50 a.m.-1:40 p.m.
Guidelines for Papers
Paper 1 | Paper 2
General Instructions
Papers should follow the general rules of composition and be typed or word-processed with standard double-spacing, 1-inch margins, and either 10- or 12-point typeface. Title pages and covers are unnecessary. Pages should be numbered, stapled together, and spell-checked. Please follow the M.L.A. style for quotations. Errors in grammar and punctuation will be marked and will be significant factors in the grading of the paper if the mistakes are so numerous or egregious as to distract from the argument. Papers are due at the time the class meets; late papers will be penalized one grade (i.e., B to C) for each day late.
Paper #1 (Due Wednesday, October 3rd; 3-4 pages in length)
Identify and discuss whatever patterns of imagery you find in one of Keats' odes on the syllabus: &1xbet online games login ;Ode to a Nightingale,&1xbet online games login ; &1xbet online games login ;Ode on a Grecian Urn,&1xbet online games login ; &1xbet online games login ;Ode on Melancholy&1xbet online games login ; (849-54), or &1xbet online games login ;To Autumn&1xbet online games login ; (872-3). As preparation for your paper, make a list of the poem's images, and identify any patterns that might emerge from that list. Then, decide how those patterns of images develop the poem's theme(s). What are some of the themes in the poem? How does the poem's imagery tell us about the theme(s)? Your thesis should answer these two questions, and the pattern(s) you uncover should help you answer them.
This paper should be in standard essay form. You should include a very short introduction that tells me the pattern(s) of imagery and the imagery's bearing on the poem's theme(s) - that is, the thesis of your paper. The rest of your paper will support this interpretation by supplying the details of your analysis.
Paper #2 (Due Monday, November 26th; 4-5 pages in length)
Choose one of the following topics for your paper on Part I of Eliot's &1xbet online games login ;The Waste Land&1xbet online games login ; (2369-72). As for Paper #1, this paper should be in standard essay form. You should include a very short introduction that tells me the thesis of your paper in response to one of the topics below; the rest of your paper will support this interpretation by supplying the details of your analysis.
1. Use the poem's title (&1xbet online games login ;The Waste Land&1xbet online games login ;), the epigraph (translated in your footnotes), and the section title (&1xbet online games login ;The Burial of the Dead&1xbet online games login ;) as a way into a discussion about Part I of Eliot's poem. How do each of these &1xbet online games login ;introductions&1xbet online games login ; elucidate or connect to the narrative which follows in Part I? Be sure to refer to specific lines and images in your discussion.
or
2. In footnote #4 on p.2371, Eliot tells the reader that he &1xbet online games login ;associate[s], quite arbitrarily,&1xbet online games login ; an image from a tarot card with the mythical image of the Fisher King. Consider Eliot's choice of the word &1xbet online games login ;arbitrarily&1xbet online games login ;: What might Eliot's comment tell us about the way in which the poem is and will be constructed? Do the &1xbet online games login ;I&1xbet online games login ; and &1xbet online games login ;we&1xbet online games login ; of the poem &1xbet online games login ;associate, quite arbitrarily&1xbet online games login ; as well? Can we, as readers, begin to detect a pattern to these &1xbet online games login ;arbitrary&1xbet online games login ; associations? Be sure to refer to specific lines and images in your discussion.

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