English 2210 - Schedule of Readings

Week 1: Introduction
Tuesday 8/18 Introduction – Syllabus
Thursday 8/20 Borges "The Web" (F.509)
Eighteenth Century
Tuesday 8/25 Reader Profile Due
Nedim (D.167-172)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (D.172-181)
Thursday 8/27 George Warren (D.342-5)
Oroonoko (D.298-320)
Tuesday 9/1 Oroonoko (D.320-342)
Thursday 9/3 Equiano (D.441-49)
Tuesday 9/8 Gulliver's Travels (D.348-375)
Thursday 9/10 Gulliver's Travels (D.375-394)
Tuesday 9/15 Basho (D.406-25)
Pope, from “An Essay on Man” (D.515-8)
Thursday 9/17 Candide (D.451-94)
Tuesday 9/22 Candide (D.495-521)
Thursday 9/24 Roussaeu (D.586-91)
Wollstonecraft (D.592-8)
Paper 1 Due
Nineteenth Century
Tuesday 9/29 Kakuzo (E.478-81)
Baudelaire (E.530-40)
Thursday 10/1 Midterm Exam
Tuesday 10/6 Lermontov (E.322-43)
Eastman/Ohiyesa (E.351-8)
Thursday 10/8 Instructor at Conference (Burney/EC-ASECS)
Library Day - Report on your progress on Blackboard
Tuesday 10/13 Dostoevsky (E.580-603)
Thursday 10/15 Melville (E.690-713)
Gilman (E.823-833)
Tuesday 10/20 Jacobs (E.766-87)
Thursday 10/22 Douglass (E.713-65)
Twentieth Century
Tuesday 10/27 Hu Shi, from Some Modest Proposals for the Reform of Literature (F.47-55)
Thursday 10/29 Eliot, "The Burial of the Dead" (F.224-7)
Tuesday 11/3 Borges, "The Library of Babel" (F.501-6)
Thursday 11/5 Instructor at Conference (Aphra)
Online Assignment: TBA
Tuesday 11/10 Vladimir Nabokov, "An Evening of Russian Poetry" (F.474-7)
V.S. Naipaul, from Prologue to an Autobiography (F.483-91)
Thursday 11/12 Paula Gunn Allen, "Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe" and "Taking a Vistor to See the Ruins" (F.669-672)
Tuesday 11/17 Class Selections - TBA
Thursday 11/19 Class Selections - TBA
Paper 2 Due
Tuesday 11/24 Thanksgiving Break
Thursday 11/26
Tuesday 12/1 Class Selections - TBA
Thursday 12/3 Class Selections - TBA
Thursday 12/10 (for 11 AM section) Exam - Noon
Friday 12/11 (for 2 PM section) Exam - 4 PM