ENGL 362: British Survey 2
Fall, 2004; MWF 1:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
Course Description:
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.
Course Objectives:
Requirements and General Expectations:
Paper #1 | 10% |
Paper #2 | 10% |
Quizzes | 15% |
Class Participation | 20% |
In-class 10% |
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Postings 10% |
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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.]
August | W 18 | Introduction: Condition of England in Life and Art, c.1700 |
The Restoration and the 18th Century (1660-1785) |
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F 20 | &1xbet online sports betting ;The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century&1xbet online sports betting ; (CPI: 2045-70); Alexander Pope (CPI: 2505-8): &1xbet online sports betting ;An Essay on Criticism,&1xbet online sports betting ; Part 1 (CPI: 2509-13) | |
M 23 | Pope, from &1xbet online sports betting ;An Essay on Man&1xbet online sports betting ; (CPI: 2554-62); Jonathan Swift (CPI: 2298-9), &1xbet online sports betting ;A Description of a City Shower&1xbet online sports betting ;(CPI: 2300-1) Quiz | |
W 25 | &1xbet online sports betting ;Debating Women&1xbet online sports betting ; (CPI: 2584-85): Jonathan Swift, &1xbet online sports betting ;The Lady's Dressing Room&1xbet online sports betting ; (CPI: 2585-88); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (CPI: 2579-80), &1xbet online sports betting ;The Reasons That Induced Dr. Swift to Write a Poem Called the Lady's Dressing Room&1xbet online sports betting ; (2588-90) | |
F 27 | John Wilmot (CPI: 2162), &1xbet online sports betting ;The Disabled Debauchee&1xbet online sports betting ; (CPI: 2162-3) and &1xbet online sports betting ;The Imperfect Engagement&1xbet online sports betting ; (CPI: 2163-5); Aphra Behn (CPI: 2165-7), &1xbet online sports betting ;The Disappointment&1xbet online sports betting ; (CPI: 2167-70) | |
M 30 | Restoration Drama: &1xbet online sports betting ;Drama and Theater in the Late Seventeenth Century &1xbet online sports betting ; (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 | W 1 | Samuel Johnson (CPI: 2660-2), from A Dictionary of the English Language (CPI: 2719-25); &1xbet online sports betting ;Landscape and Power&1xbet online sports betting ; (CPII: 2857-58): Selections from Pope, Walpole, and Burke (CPII: 2872-82) Quiz |
F 3 | &1xbet online sports betting ;Landscape and Power,&1xbet online sports betting ; continued. | |
M 6 | No Class -- Labor Day | |
W 8 | &1xbet online sports betting ;The Romantic Period&1xbet online sports betting ; (1-23); William Wordsworth (219-21): &1xbet online sports betting ;A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal&1xbet online sports betting ; (254), &1xbet online sports betting ;Lucy Gray&1xbet online sports betting ; (254-5), &1xbet online sports betting ;I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud&1xbet online sports betting ; (284-5), &1xbet online sports betting ;Tintern Abbey&1xbet online sports betting ; (235-8), excerpts from &1xbet online sports betting ;Preface&1xbet online sports betting ; to Lyrical Ballads (238-51) Quiz | |
F 10 | Wordsworth, continued. | |
M 13 | Wordsworth, &1xbet online sports betting ;Ode: Intimations of Immortality&1xbet online sports betting ; (286-92), excerpts from The Prelude, Books I (303-8; 311-19), II (324-5), VII (348-51), XII (364-5, 369-71), XIII (375), and XIV (381-83) | |
W 15 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (416-18): &1xbet online sports betting ;The Eolian Harp,&1xbet online sports betting ; &1xbet online sports betting ;This Lime Tree Bower My Prison,&1xbet online sports betting ; &1xbet online sports betting ;The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,&1xbet online sports betting ; &1xbet online sports betting ;Kubla Khan&1xbet online sports betting ; (419-41), &1xbet online sports betting ;Frost at Midnight&1xbet online sports betting ; (457-8), &1xbet online sports betting ;Dejection: An Ode&1xbet online sports betting ; (459-462); excerpts from Biographia Literaria (467-8,474-89) Quiz | |
F 17 | Coleridge, continued. | |
M 20 | Mary Wollstonecraft, excerpts from Vindication of the Rights of Woman (163-192) | |
W 22 | Percy Bysshe Shelley (698-701): &1xbet online sports betting ;Mont Blanc&1xbet online sports betting ; (720-23), &1xbet online sports betting ;Hymn to Intellectual Beauty&1xbet online sports betting ; (723-25), &1xbet online sports betting ;To a Skylark&1xbet online sports betting ; (765-67), and excerpts from A Defense of Poetry (789-802) Quiz | |
F 24 | Mary Shelley (903-5), Frankenstein (905-1034) Quiz | |
M 27 | Frankenstein, continued. | |
W 29 | John Keats (823-26): &1xbet online sports betting ;On First Looking into Chapman's Homer,&1xbet online sports betting ; &1xbet online sports betting ;Sleep and Poetry,&1xbet online sports betting ; &1xbet online sports betting ;On Seeing the Elgin Marbles,&1xbet online sports betting ; from &1xbet online sports betting ;Endymion: A Poetic Romance,&1xbet online sports betting ; &1xbet online sports betting ;On Sitting Down to Read King Lear...,&1xbet online sports betting ; &1xbet online sports betting ;When I Have Fears...,&1xbet online sports betting ; &1xbet online sports betting ;To Homer&1xbet online sports betting ; (826-34) | |
October | F 1 | Keats, &1xbet online sports betting ;Ode to a Nightingale,&1xbet online sports betting ; &1xbet online sports betting ;Ode on a Grecian Urn,&1xbet online sports betting ; &1xbet online sports betting ;Ode on Melancholy&1xbet online sports betting ; (849-854), &1xbet online sports betting ;To Autumn&1xbet online sports betting ; (872-3), and excerpts from Keats' Letters (886-903); Paper #1 due in class. |
M 4 | Keats, continued. | |
W 6 | Midterm Exam | |
The Victorian Age (1830-1901) |
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F 8 | &1xbet online sports betting ;The Victorian Age&1xbet online sports betting ; (1043-65); &1xbet online sports betting ;The Rise and Fall of Empire&1xbet online sports betting ; (2017-18); Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1198-1201): &1xbet online sports betting ;The Kraken&1xbet online sports betting ; (1201-2), &1xbet online sports betting ;The Lady of Shalott,&1xbet online sports betting ; &1xbet online sports betting ;The Lotus-Eaters,&1xbet online sports betting ; &1xbet online sports betting ;Ulysses&1xbet online sports betting ; (1202-14), &1xbet online sports betting ;Locksley Hall&1xbet online sports betting ; (1219-25) Quiz | |
M 11 | No Class -- Fall Break | |
W 13 | Tennyson, continued. | |
F 15 | Tennyson, excerpts from In Memoriam A. H. H. (1230-80); &1xbet online sports betting ;Evolution&1xbet online sports betting ; and excerpts from Darwin's Descent of Man (1679, 1686-90) | |
M 18 | Robert Browning (1345-9): &1xbet online sports betting ;My Last Duchess&1xbet online sports betting ; (1352-3) and &1xbet online sports betting ;Caliban upon Sebetos&1xbet online sports betting ; (1402-9); &1xbet online sports betting ;Industrialism: Progress or Decline?&1xbet online sports betting ; (1696-7); Macaulay, from &1xbet online sports betting ;A Review of Southey's Colloquies&1xbet online sports betting ; (1697-1702); Dickens, from Hard Times (1711-2) Quiz | |
W 20 | Matthew Arnold (1471-5): &1xbet online sports betting ;To Marguerite--Continued&1xbet online sports betting ; (1479-80), &1xbet online sports betting ;The Buried Life&1xbet online sports betting ; (1480-2), &1xbet online sports betting ;Dover Beach&1xbet online sports betting ; (1492-3); excerpts from &1xbet online sports betting ;The Function of Criticism at the Present Time&1xbet online sports betting ; (1514-15, 1526-28) | |
F 22 | John Stuart Mill (1137-9): from The Subjection of Women (1155-65); &1xbet online sports betting ;The Women Question&1xbet online sports betting ; (1719-21) and excerpts from Ellis, &1xbet online sports betting ;The Women of England...,&1xbet online sports betting ; Patmore, &1xbet online sports betting ;The Angel in the House,&1xbet online sports betting ; and Besant, &1xbet online sports betting ;The Queen's Reign&1xbet online sports betting ; (1721-4, 1738-9) | |
M 25 | Martineau, &1xbet online sports betting ;Autobiography,&1xbet online sports betting ; Mullock, &1xbet online sports betting ;A Woman's Thoughts...&1xbet online sports betting ;, and Nightingale, &1xbet online sports betting ;Cassandra&1xbet online sports betting ; (1725-8, 1732-7); Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1173-4): excerpts from &1xbet online sports betting ;Aurora Leigh&1xbet online sports betting ; (1180-94); Christina Rossetti (1583-84): &1xbet online sports betting ;In an Artist's Studio&1xbet online sports betting ; (1586) and &1xbet online sports betting ;Goblin Market&1xbet online sports betting ; (1589-1601) Quiz | |
W 27 | Virginia Woolf (2141-3), A Room of One's Own (2153-2182) | |
F 29 | Woolf, Room (2183-2214) Quiz | |
November | M 1 | &1xbet online sports betting ;The Nineties&1xbet online sports betting ; (1740-1); Oscar Wilde (1747-9): from &1xbet online sports betting ;The Critic as Artist&1xbet online sports betting ; (1752-60) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1761-1805) |
W 3 | Wilde, continued. | |
F 5 | &1xbet online sports betting ;The Twentieth Century&1xbet online sports betting ; (1897-1915); &1xbet online sports betting ;The Rise and Fall of Empire&1xbet online sports betting ; (2017-18); Joseph Conrad (1952-3): &1xbet online sports betting ;Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus&1xbet online sports betting ; (1954-6) and Heart of Darkness (1957-2017) | |
M 8 | Conrad, continued; Chinua Achebe (2616-7), &1xbet online sports betting ;An Image of Africa: Conrad's Heart of Darkness&1xbet online sports betting ; (2035-40) Quiz | |
The Twentieth Century |
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W 10 | Thomas Hardy (1916-7), &1xbet online sports betting ;Hap&1xbet online sports betting ; (1934), &1xbet online sports betting ;Neutral Tones&1xbet online sports betting ; (1935-6); &1xbet online sports betting ;The Darkling Thrush&1xbet online sports betting ; (1937-8); &1xbet online sports betting ;The Convergence of the Twain&1xbet online sports betting ; (1945-6); &1xbet online sports betting ;Under the Waterfall&1xbet online sports betting ; (1947-8); and &1xbet online sports betting ;He Never Expected Much&1xbet online sports betting ; (1951-2) | |
F 12 | No Class Read ahead. | |
M 15 | &1xbet online sports betting ;Voices from World War I&1xbet online sports betting ; (2048-9): Rupert Brooke (2049-50): &1xbet online sports betting ;The Soldier&1xbet online sports betting ; (2050); Siegfried Sassoon (2054-5): &1xbet online sports betting ;They&1xbet online sports betting ; (2055), &1xbet online sports betting ;The Rear-Guard&1xbet online sports betting ; (2056), &1xbet online sports betting ;Glory of Women&1xbet online sports betting ; (2057), and &1xbet online sports betting ;On Passing the New Menin Gate&1xbet online sports betting ; (2057-8); Wilfred Owen (2066), &1xbet online sports betting ;Dulce Et Decorum Est&1xbet online sports betting ; (2069-70) | |
W 17 | W.B. Yeats (2085-8): &1xbet online sports betting ;Adam's Curse&1xbet online sports betting ; (2097-8), &1xbet online sports betting ;Easter 1916&1xbet online sports betting ; (2104-6), &1xbet online sports betting ;The Second Coming&1xbet online sports betting ; (2106-7), &1xbet online sports betting ;Sailing to Byzantium&1xbet online sports betting ; (2109-10); &1xbet online sports betting ;The Circus Animals' Desertion&1xbet online sports betting ; (2120) Quiz -- cancelled | |
F 19 | T.S. Eliot (2360-3), &1xbet online sports betting ;The Waste Land&1xbet online sports betting ; (2368-83); &1xbet online sports betting ;Tradition and the Individual Talent&1xbet online sports betting ; (2170-6); Paper #2 due in class. | |
M 22 | Eliot, continued. | |
W 24 | No Class -- | |
F 26 | Thanksgiving Break | |
M 29 | Virginia Woolf, &1xbet online sports betting ;Kew Gardens&1xbet online sports betting ; (CPII) and &1xbet online sports betting ;Modern Fiction&1xbet online sports betting ; (2148-53); Quiz | |
December | W 1 | Philip Larkin (2564-5): &1xbet online sports betting ;Church Going&1xbet online sports betting ; (2565-6), &1xbet online sports betting ;Talking in Bed&1xbet online sports betting ; (2567), &1xbet online sports betting ;Sad Steps&1xbet online sports betting ; (2569), and &1xbet online sports betting ;Aubaude&1xbet online sports betting ; (2570-71) |
F 3 | Seamus Heaney (2818-9): &1xbet online sports betting ;Digging&1xbet online sports betting ; (2819-20) and excerpts from &1xbet online sports betting ;Station Island&1xbet online sports betting ; (2825-7); Derek Walcott (2580): &1xbet online sports betting ;Midsummer&1xbet online sports betting ; (2584-5); and Wole Soyinka, &1xbet online sports betting ;Telephone Conversation&1xbet online sports betting ; (xerox) | |
M 6 | Tom Stoppard (2785-6), Arcadia (1-97) | |
W 8 | Stoppard, continued | |
F 10 | Review for Final Exam. | |
M 13 | Final Exam: 11:50 a.m. -1:40 p.m. |
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