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W01/12 |
Course Introduction. View
First Day Images at ArtStor. |
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F01/14 |
Poetry Rules!: Pope and the Neoclassical Age.
Pope:
Bio.; from "An Essay on Man."
(HANDOUT)
View Examples of
18th-Century Art
at Artstor. |
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M01/17 |
MLK
DAY--NO CLASS. |
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W01/19 |
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. These two links will
take you to helpful overviews of Powerpoint presentations 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. Since we don't
have class on Monday, 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. |
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F01/21 |
Figure out a way to add a Jane Austen Novel. |
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M01/24 |
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. |
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W01/26 |
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. |
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F02/28 |
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. |
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M02/01 |
Catch-up Day on Tintern Abbey. |
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W02/02 |
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F02/04 |
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 an eolian harp and
here to
see one. Click
here to see a picture of a rook. |
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M02/07 |
Coleridge and the Natural Supernatural.
Coleridge:
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 326, companion reading 341. |
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W02/09 |
Literary Superstar:
Byron and Celebrity.
Byron: selections from Don Juan, Dedication, Canto I
368-87. |
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F02/11 |
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.
Shelley: The Mask of Anarchy
HANDOUT.
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M02/14 |
Lookin’ for Love in all the Wrong Places. Keats: The Eve of St. Agnes 425, selected
Letters 444-49.
Essay 1 DUE |
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W02/16 |
1819: A
VERY Good Year.
Keats: "The Odes of 1819," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on
Melancholy," "To Autumn" 437-43. |
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F02/18 |
New Voices in British Poetry? 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. |
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M02/21 |
ROMANTICS EXAM |
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W02/23 |
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. |
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F02/25 |
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 |
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M02/28 |
Great Fiction?
Gaskell:
"Our Society at Cranford" 691. |
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W03/02 |
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. |
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F03/04 |
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 |
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03/07-11 |
SPRING
BREAK
I encourage you to read all of Great Expectations over the break. |
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M03/14 |
BIG Book I.
Dickens: Great Expectations, chapters 1-19. |
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W03/16 |
BIG Book II.
Dickens: Great Expectations, chapters 20-39. |
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F03/18 |
BIG Book III.
Dickens:
Great Expectations, chapters 40-59 (read the 2 pages beyond the
"ending" too (pp. 440-441). |
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M03/21 |
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
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W03/23 |
Victorian Pop, Pop, Pop Fiction I.
Doyle: "A Scandal in Bohemia"
706. |
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F03/25 |
Victorian Pop, Pop, Pop Fiction
II.
Kipling: "Without Benefit of Clergy"
721. |
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M03/28 |
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. |
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W03/30 |
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F04/01 |
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. |
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M04/04 |
VICTORIAN EXAM |
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W04/06 |
Modern Life.
Longman
Intro: “The Twentieth Century” 921-42; Hardy: "Hap," 1073, "The
Darkling Thrush" 1074, "Channel Firing" 1077 "Logs on the Hearth" 1078.
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F04/08 |
Apocalypse Then!
Conrad:
Preface to “The Nigger of the Narcissus” 946 and Heart of Darkness
"Chapter 1" |
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M04/11 |
Apocalypse Then! continued
Heart of Darkness
the rest of the novella. |
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W04/13 |
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. |
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F04/15 |
Best Story Ever.
Joyce: "The Dead" 1138. |
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M04/18 |
Love, Sex and Death.
Lawrence
"Odor of Chrysanthemums" 1318.
West:
"Indissoluble Matrimony" 1273 |
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W04/20 |
"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. |
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F04/22-25 |
EASTER
BREAK |
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W04/27 |
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. |
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F04/29 |
Hear Me Roar.
Woolf:
from A Room of One’s Own 1229-53. |
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M05/02 |
Ladies Last. "Perspectives:
Regendering Modernism"
1254. ;
Woolf: "Kew Gardens"
HANDOUT.
Mansfield: "The
Daughters of the Late Colonel" 1290;
Essay 2 Due |
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W05/04 |
The Big Finish.
Yeats:
“Lapis
Lazuli,”1129.
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05/12 |
FINAL EXAM Tuesday May 10, 1PM. |
