English 2230 - Schedule of Readings

Week 1: Introduction

Day

Date

Readings and Assignments

Key terms and concepts

Tuesday

1/11

Introduction to Survey – Syllabus

Canon, literary criticism 

Anglo-Saxon-Medieval Period

Thursday

1/12

Library Day
Introduction to The Medieval Period (Broadview 1-33)

Norman Conquest, Magna Carta, Lindisfarne Gospel, Book of Kells, Bayeux Tapestry, Domesday Book

Tuesday

1/17

from Beowulf
(Broadview 57-70, up to line 836)
Reader Profile Due

Old English, Sutton Hoo burial, oral tradition, the form of medieval texts, manuscript, Cotton Library, alliteration, stress, thorn (the letter)

Thursday

1/19

from Julian of Norwich, A Revelation of Love (Broadview 318-334)

mystic, monasteries, anchoress, vita apostolica

Tuesday

1/24

Canterbury Tales, Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
(Broadview 282-303)

Middle English, vernacular, Thomas Becket (Archbishop of Canterbury), Canterbury, cathedral, pilgrim, martyr, Black Death

Thursday

1/26

from The Book of Margery Kempe
(Broadview 335-350)

autobiography, women in the medieval church, saint's lives

Tuesday

1/31

Wakefield Second Shepherd's Play
(Broadview 372-388)

Fable/Fabliau, Miracle Plays (AKA mystery plays, cycle plays), guilds, apprentice, journeyman, master

Thursday

2/2

Everyman
(Broadview 389-403)

Castle of Perseverance, morality play

Tudor-Early Stuart Period  (The English Renaissance)

Tuesday

2/7

Library Day
British Literature: A Historical Overview ("Renaissance and Early 17C")
(Broadview 450-501)

Early Modern Period, Renaissance, Humanism

Thursday

2/9

Douay-Rheims Bible
Tyndale, from English Bible
(Broadview 535-548)

Douay-Rheims Bible, Protestant Reformation, Ninety-Five Theses, Dissolution of the monasteries, King James "Authorized" Bible (1611)

Tuesday

2/14

Exam 1

Thursday

2/16

from Contexts: Culture: A Portfolio
(Read Broadview 692-709)

 

Tuesday

2/21

from Spencer, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Cantos 1-3.
(Broadview 573-596)
Elizabeth I, The Golden Speech (Broadview 688-690)

 

"the king's two bodies," Gloriana 

Thursday

2/23

from Bacon's Essays
(Broadview 729-735)

 

Essay, scientific method, Montaigne

Tuesday

2/28

from Shakespeare's sonnets (focus on 29, 116, 130, but note others that catch your eye)
(Broadview 784-802)
 The Shakespearean Theatre
(Broadview 884-889)

queer, sonnet sequence, blank verse

Thursday

3/1

Donne, "The Sun Rising," "The Flea," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," Batter my heart, three-person'd God...," "Meditation 17"
(Broadview 903-929)

metaphysical poetry

Tuesday

3/6

from Milton, Paradise Lost (Book I)
(Broadview 975-977, 996-1010)

Civil Wars
- Cavaliers
- Levellers
Oliver Cromwell
- Commonwealth
- Puritans
Guy Fawkes
- Gun Powder Plot

Thursday

3/8

Illustrating Paradise Lost
(Broadview 1059-1061)

SPRING BREAK

Tuesday

3/20

Library Paper Due (on Canvas)
No Class

Thursday

3/22

Exam 2

Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Tuesday

3/27

Library Day
Introduction to The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
(Broadview 1062-1097)

"Long" Eighteenth Century, Restoration,
Glorious Revolution, Act of Union of 1707 (Scotland), dictionaries, English grammar, standardized language, medial "s", "rise" of the middle class

Thursday

3/29

Pepys, from The Diary, and other accounts of the Great Fire of London
Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year
(Broadview 1131-42, 1269-1278)

Great Fire of London, life-writing

Tuesday

4/3

Pope, The Rape of the Lock
(Read 1399-1414)

Mock Epic, "Papists" (and how they were treated in England)

 

Thursday

4/5

Swift, "The Lady's Dressing Room"
Montagu, "The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room"
(Broadview 1290-92, 1389-98)

Augustan Age, Neoclassicism, Scriblerus Club, satire

Tuesday

4/10

Johnson, Idler No. 4 ("On Fiction")
(Broadview 1502-4, 1509- 1512)

[Start reading Evelina – note that you have a lot to get through by Thursday!]

Print: reading practices in the period, rise of "literary criticism," "high" and "low" culture
hack writers, Grub Street, print piracy, change in copyright laws, Stationer's Company, 1710 Statute of Anne
Periodicals: pamphlet, periodicals, Tatler, Spectator, coffee-house
Stage: Restoration comedy, opera, comedies of manners, describe a night at the theatre, Shakespeare in the 18C, laughing and sentimental comedies, Licensing Act

Thursday

4/12

Evelina (51-168)

Introduction to The Novel Form:
The "rise" of the novel, picaresque, "realism," "true history," epistolary novel, Gothic novel, Aphra Behn,Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sarah Fielding, Tobias Smollett, John Cleland, Horace Walpole, Matthew "Monk" Lewis, Ann Radcliffe

Tuesday

4/17

Evelina (168-247)

The Fashionable World (Appendix)

romance, sentimental, Henry Mackenzie (The Man of Feeling), Vauxhall, Ranelagh, Bedlam

Thursday

4/19

Evelina (248-300)

The Young Lady (Appendix)

Bluestockings, conduct books

Thursday

4/24

Evelina (301-386)

Beyond the Fashionable World (Appendix)

courtship, "marriage plot"

Thursday

4/26

Evelina (386-end)

courtship, "marriage plot"

Thursday

5/3

Final (18C) Exam - 12-2.30 (11 AM Section)

Friday

5/4

Final (18C) Exam – 4-6.30 (2 PM Section)