Books (YOU MUST PURCHASE THESE EDITIONS!)
- Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. 1798/1818. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2005. ISBN: 0321202082
- Damrosch, David. The Longman Anthology of British Literature Compact Edition. Vol. B. 2nd edition. New York: Longman, 2004. ISBN: 0321202392
- Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. 1860-61. New York: Bedford, 1996. ISBN: 0312080824
Also read biographical sketches in Longman for each author we read this semester. I sometimes do not list page numbers for these author introductions. I encourage you to answer the study questions that I have provided for each day's reading--periodically, I will require you to answer them.
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| W01/16 | Course Introduction. View First Day Images at ArtStor. |
| R01/17 | First Day Images cont'd; View Examples of 18th-Century Art at Artstor. Read: Neoclassicism; Introduction to Neo-Classicism |
| F01/18 | Poetry Rules!: Pope and the Neoclassical Age. Pope: Bio.; from "An Essay on Man." (HANDOUT) |
| M01/21 | Talkin' ‘Bout a Revolution. "Perspectives: Rights of Man & the Revolution Controversy, Williams: from Letters Written in France; Burke: from Reflections; Wollstonecraft: from A Vindication; Paine: from The Rights of Man 36-70. Write answers to French Revolution study questions from web site and bring them to class. View French Revolution DC148.F746 2005 (100 minute video-recording on LIBRARY RESERVE) before class. Click here for a useful video guide from The History Channel to print and use. Be ready for a quiz. This link will take you to a helpful overview of a Powerpoint presentation on some of the basics of the French Revolution: Note to students: There is a lot of material for you to read, view and consider, but this should be manageable IF YOU START THE REVIEW EARLY. The goal is to become as familiar as you can with the French Revolution and the influence it had on Britain and British literature. |
| W01/23 | An Age of 'Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes' or This Can’t Be Poetry. "Longman Intro" 3-28. Blake: "Introduction to Songs of Innocence" 78, "The Chimney Sweeper" 81, "London" 91, and "The School-Boy" 94. Remember to read biographical sketches in Longman for each author this semester. |
| R01/24 | TBA |
| F01/25 | This REALLY Can’t Be Poetry: Wordsworth and Poetic Theory. Wordsworth: from Lyrical Ballads, "Simon Lee" 197, "We Are Seven" 200, "Lines Written in Early Spring" 201. Selections from "The Preface" 206-212, companion reading by Jeffrey 228-31. |
| M01/28 | Memory, Nature, and . . . History? The Power of the Mind. Wordsworth: "Lines Written A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" 202. View images of Tintern Abbey at Artstor. |
| W01/30 | Catch-up Day on "Tintern Abbey. " Here are some pics of the abbey and surrounding area from 2007. |
| R01/31 | |
| F02/01 | Coleridge's Greatest Hits: Nature, Nurture, and the Neighbor. “The Eolian Harp” 325, "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” click, print, read, and bring to class; all selections from Biographia Literaria 350-5. Click here to listen to eolian harps and here to see one. Click here to see a picture of a rook. |
| M02/04 | Coleridge and the Natural Supernatural. Coleridge: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 326, companion reading 341. |
| W02/06 | Literary Superstar: Byron and Celebrity. Byron: selections from Don Juan, Dedication, Canto I 368-87. |
| R02/07 | Belated Superstar: Austen's Gothic Parody. Austen: Northanger Abbey |
| F02/08 | Northanger Abbey cont'd. |
| M02/11 | Shelley's Greatest Hits: Power, Beauty, and Nature. "Mont Blanc" 393, "Ozymandias" 399, "Ode to the West Wind" 399. View images of Mont Blanc at Artstor (from campus computer) and Retro-poem: Back to the Eighteenth Century. |
| W02/13 | Shelley: The Mask of Anarchy HANDOUT. |
| R02/14 | Lookin’ for Love in all the Wrong Places. Keats: The Eve of St. Agnes 425, selected Letters 444-49. |
| F02/15 | catch-up day |
| M02/18 | Class cancelled |
| W02/20 | 1819: A VERY Good Year. Keats: "The Odes of 1819," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Melancholy," "To Autumn" 437-43. |
| R02/21 | New Voices in British Literature? Barbauld: “To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected to Soon Become Visible” 31, "To the Poor" 31; J. Baillie: "Thunder" HANDOUT; D. Wordsworth: "Thoughts on My Sick-bed" 293; Hemans: "Evening Prayer at a Girl's School" HANDOUT, "Indian Woman's Death Song" HANDOUT; Jeffrey's review of Hemans 415-18. |
| F02/22 | ROMANTICS EXAM |
| M02/25 | Who's Victoria? Industrialization & Reform. "Longman Intro to Victorian Age" 451ff. Carlyle: from Past & Present 477ff. Review Romantic Images and view Victorian Images. View some images of the Industrial Revolution at Artstor. |
| W02/27 | Getting Steamed. "Perspectives: The Industrial Landscape" 487; Kemble: from Record of a Girlhood 491; Macaulay: from "A Review of Southey's Colloquies 491; Parliamentary Papers 493; Engels: from The Condition of the Working Class; 500; Mayhew: from Labour and the London Poor; 508 Essay 1 DUE |
| R02/28 | TBA |
| F03/01 | Great Fiction? Gaskell: "Our Society at Cranford" 691. |
| M03/04 | Retro-Neo-Classico. Tennyson: "The Lady of Shalott" 588, "Ulysses, 593 "Break, Break, Break" 594, and "Crossing the Bar" 616. View images of The Lady of Shalott from Artstor. |
| W03/06 | You talkin' to me? Master of the Monologue. R. Browning: “Porphyria’s Lover” 662, "My Last Duchess" 663, “The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church” 665; E.B. Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese #1, #13, #28, 530-32 |
| R03/07 | Gotta Have Faith? Darwin: from On the Origin of Species 627; "Perspectives: Religion and Science"632; Macaulay: from Lord Bacon 633; Clough: "Epi-strauss-ium," "The Latest Decalogue" 642-43; Newman: from Apologia 647; Gosse: from Father & Son (click title for HANDOUT); Hopkins: "God's Grandeur" 774, "Carrion Comfort" 777. DOUBLE QUIZ DAY |
| F03/08 | TBA--reading day for Dickens. |
| SPRING BREAK | |
| M03/18 | BIG Book I. Dickens: Great Expectations, chapters 1-19. |
| W03/20 | BIG Book II. Dickens: Great Expectations, chapters 20-39. |
| R03/21 | BIG Book III. Dickens: Great Expectations, chapters 40-59 (read the 2 pages beyond the "ending" too (pp. 440-441). |
| F03/22 | BIG Book Wrap-up |
| M03/25 | Victorian Pop, Pop, Pop Fiction I. Doyle: "A Scandal in Bohemia" 706. |
| W03/27 | Victorian Pop, Pop, Pop Fiction II. Kipling: "Without Benefit of Clergy" 721. |
| R04/28 | The "fleshly school of poetry." C. Rossetti: "Goblin Market" 759; D. Rossetti: "The Blessed Damozel" (click title for HANDOUT); View images of Pre-Raphaelite art at Artstor. |
| 03/29-04/01 | EASTER BREAK |
| W04/03 | Naughty Art at the Century’s End: Aestheticism & Decadence Part I. Perspectives: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin de Siecle 889. Gilbert : “If You’re Anxious. . .” 893; Whistler: from "Mr. Whistler's 10 O'Clock" 895; Field: “La Gioconda," 912; "A Girl" 913; Johnson: "A Decadent's Lyric" 914; Douglas: "In Praise of Shame" and "Two Loves" 915-17; Custance: "The Masquerade" 918 "The White Witch" 919; Wilde: “Symphony in Yellow” 831. Showtime! Make sure to watch Wilde's: Importance of Being Earnest 847. It's on reserve in the library. |
| R04/04 | TBA |
| F04/05 | VICTORIAN EXAM |
| M04/08 | Modern Life. Longman Intro: “The Twentieth Century” 921-42; Hardy: "Hap," 1073, "The Darkling Thrush" 1074, "Channel Firing" 1077 "Logs on the Hearth" 1078. Modern British Art (click) |
| W04/10 | Apocalypse Then! Conrad: Preface to “The Nigger of the Narcissus” 946 and Heart of Darkness "Chapter 1" |
| R04/11 | TBA |
| F04/12 | Apocalypse Then! continued Heart of Darkness the rest of the novella. |
| M04/15 | Not British Lit. Yeats Part 1: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” “Who Goes with Fergus?” “No Second Troy,” “The Wild Swans at Coole,” "Easter 1916," "Proclamation of the Irish Republic" 1117-22. |
| W04/17 | Best Story Ever. Joyce: "The Dead" 1138. |
| R04/18 | Joyce continued. |
| F04/19 | Love, Sex and Death. Lawrence "Odor of Chrysanthemums" 1318. West: "Indissoluble Matrimony" 1273 |
| M04/22 | "Smile, Smile, Smile." "The Great War: Confronting the Modern." Longman intro: 1080; Brooke: “The Soldier” 1098; Sassoon: "The Glory of Women" 1099, "Everyone Sang" 1100; Owen: “Anthem for Doomed Youth” 1100, “Dulce Et Decorum Est" 1102; Rosenberg: “Break of Day in the Trenches” 1103, Dead Man's Dump" 1104. View My Boy Jack PR4856.A3 M9 2008 (120 minute video-recording on LIBRARY RESERVE) before class. |
| W04/24 | WWI continued. |
| R04/25 | Hold on For Dear Life. Yeats Part 2: “The Second Coming”1122, “Sailing to Byzantium”1124, “Leda and the Swan” 1125; “Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop”1128. |
| F04/26 | Hear Me Roar. Woolf: from A Room of One’s Own 1229-53. |
| M04/29 | Ladies Last. "Perspectives: Regendering Modernism" 1254. ; Woolf: "Kew Gardens" HANDOUT. Mansfield: "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" 1290; Essay 2 Due |
| W05/01 | The Big Finish. Yeats: “Lapis Lazuli,”1129. |
| Tu05/07 | FINAL EXAM, 8 AM |
