English 2230 - Schedule of Readings
Week 1: Introduction |
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Day |
Date |
Readings and Assignments |
Key terms and concepts |
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Tuesday |
1/11 |
Introduction to Survey – Syllabus |
Canon, literary criticism |
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Anglo-Saxon-Medieval Period |
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Thursday |
1/12 |
Library Day |
Norman Conquest, Magna Carta, Lindisfarne Gospel, Book of Kells, Bayeux Tapestry, Domesday Book |
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Tuesday |
1/17 |
from Beowulf |
Old English, Sutton Hoo burial, oral tradition, the form of medieval texts, manuscript, Cotton Library, alliteration, stress, thorn (the letter) |
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Thursday |
1/19 |
from Julian of Norwich, A Revelation of Love (Broadview 318-334) |
mystic, monasteries, anchoress, vita apostolica |
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Tuesday |
1/24 |
Canterbury Tales, Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale |
Middle English, vernacular, Thomas Becket (Archbishop of Canterbury), Canterbury, cathedral, pilgrim, martyr, Black Death |
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Thursday |
1/26 |
from The Book of Margery Kempe |
autobiography, women in the medieval church, saint's lives |
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Tuesday |
1/31 |
Wakefield Second Shepherd's Play |
Fable/Fabliau, Miracle Plays (AKA mystery plays, cycle plays), guilds, apprentice, journeyman, master |
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Thursday |
2/2 |
Everyman |
Castle of Perseverance, morality play |
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Tudor-Early Stuart Period (The English Renaissance) |
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Tuesday |
2/7 |
Library Day |
Early Modern Period, Renaissance, Humanism |
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Thursday |
2/9 |
Douay-Rheims Bible |
Douay-Rheims Bible, Protestant Reformation, Ninety-Five Theses, Dissolution of the monasteries, King James "Authorized" Bible (1611) |
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Tuesday |
2/14 |
Exam 1 |
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Thursday |
2/16 |
from Contexts: Culture: A Portfolio |
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Tuesday |
2/21 |
from Spencer, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Cantos 1-3.
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"the king's two bodies," Gloriana |
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Thursday |
2/23 |
from Bacon's Essays |
Essay, scientific method, Montaigne |
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Tuesday |
2/28 |
from Shakespeare's sonnets (focus on 29, 116, 130, but note others that catch your eye) |
queer, sonnet sequence, blank verse |
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Thursday |
3/1 |
Donne, "The Sun Rising," "The Flea," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," Batter my heart, three-person'd God...," "Meditation 17" |
metaphysical poetry |
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Tuesday |
3/6 |
from Milton, Paradise Lost (Book I) |
Civil Wars |
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Thursday |
3/8 |
Illustrating Paradise Lost |
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SPRING BREAK |
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Tuesday |
3/20 |
Library Paper Due (on Canvas) |
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Thursday |
3/22 |
Exam 2 |
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Restoration and Eighteenth Century |
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Tuesday |
3/27 |
Library Day |
"Long" Eighteenth Century, Restoration, |
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Thursday |
3/29 |
Pepys, from The Diary, and other accounts of the Great Fire of London |
Great Fire of London, life-writing |
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Tuesday |
4/3 |
Pope, The Rape of the Lock |
Mock Epic, "Papists" (and how they were treated in England)
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Thursday |
4/5 |
Swift, "The Lady's Dressing Room" |
Augustan Age, Neoclassicism, Scriblerus Club, satire |
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Tuesday |
4/10 |
Johnson, Idler No. 4 ("On Fiction") [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 |
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Thursday |
4/12 |
Evelina (51-168) |
Introduction to The Novel Form: |
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Tuesday |
4/17 |
Evelina (168-247) |
romance, sentimental, Henry Mackenzie (The Man of Feeling), Vauxhall, Ranelagh, Bedlam |
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Thursday |
4/19 |
Evelina (248-300) |
Bluestockings, conduct books |
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Thursday |
4/24 |
Evelina (301-386) |
courtship, "marriage plot" |
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Thursday |
4/26 |
Evelina (386-end) |
courtship, "marriage plot" |
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Thursday |
5/3 |
Final (18C) Exam - 12-2.30 (11 AM Section) |
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Friday |
5/4 |
Final (18C) Exam – 4-6.30 (2 PM Section) |