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Reading Schedule |
1/9 |
W |
Introduction to the course |
1/11 |
F |
British Essayists on the French Revolution: Burke
and Wollstonecraft (57-76) |
1/14 |
M |
Jane Austen: Persuasion (pages TBA) |
1/16 |
W |
P (TBA) |
1/18 |
F |
P (TBA) |
1/21 |
M |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day--Class Canceled |
1/23 |
W |
P (TBA) |
1/25 |
F |
P (TBA) |
1/28 |
M |
Wordsworth: Selections from Lyrical Ballads;
Longman
Intro to Romantic Age (1-17) |
1/30 |
W |
Wordsworth: Ode: Intimations of Immortality
(434-39); Longman Intro (17-25) |
2/1 |
F |
Burns: Selected Poems (302-09) |
2/4 |
M |
P. B. Shelley: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,
Ozymandias (657-59), Sonnet: England in 1819 (660) |
2/6 |
W |
P. B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind, To a Sky-Lark
(670-75), A Defence of Poetry (696-705) |
2/8 |
F |
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (810-35) |
2/11 |
M |
Frankenstein (835-71) Paper 1 Due |
2/13 |
W |
Class Canceled |
2/15 |
F |
Frankenstein (871-927) |
2/18 |
M |
Thomas DeQuincey: from Confessions of an
English Opium Eater (992-1020) |
2/20 |
W |
Longman Intro to Victorian Age (1033-55); Macaulay:
from Review of Southey's Colloquies (1098-1100); Mayhew:
from London Labour and the London Poor (1114-19) |
2/22 |
F |
Dickens: A Christmas Carol (1394-1418) |
2/25 |
M |
Dickens: CC (1418-44) and companion readings on Dickens
(1444-52) |
2/27 |
W |
Tennyson: Mariana, The Lady of Shallott (1187-94) |
3/1 |
F |
Tennyson: Ulysses (1198-99), The Charge of the Light Brigade
(1243-45) |
3/4 |
M |
Browning: Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, My Last Duchess
(1349-52) |
3/6 |
W |
Browning: The Bishop Orders His Tomb, Fra Lippo Lippi
(1355-57; 1367-75) |
3/8 |
F |
Perspectives: Religion and Science (1313-14); D. F. Strauss,
from The Life of Jesus (1318-21); Newman, from Apologia
Pro Via Sua (1328-34); Gosse, from Father and Son (1340-45) |
3/11 |
M |
Arnold: Dover Beach (1634), The Buried Life (1636-38) |
3/13 |
W |
Arnold: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
(1656-73) |
3/15 |
F |
C. Rossetti: Goblin Market (1712-24) |
3/18 |
M |
Swinburne: The Leper (1746-50), Hymn to Proserpine (1752-55);
Pater:
from The Renaissance (1759-65) Paper 2 Due |
3/20 |
W |
Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest (1882-1913);Longman
Intro
to Aestheticism (1936-38) |
3/22 |
F |
Wilde: Earnest (1913-22), Aphorisms (1922-24);
Gilbert
and Sullivan: Selections from H.M.S. Pinafore (handout) and
Patience
(1938-40) |
3/25 |
M |
Spring Break (3/25-3/31) |
4/1 |
M |
Kipling: Without Benefit of Clergy (1789-1804) |
4/3 |
W |
Strachey: from Eminent Victorians (2528-43); Longman
Intro to 20th-Century (1991-2003) |
4/5 |
F |
Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(pages TBA) |
4/8 |
M |
Joyce: Portrait |
4/10 |
W |
Joyce: Portrait |
4/12 |
F |
Joyce: Portrait |
4/15 |
M |
Woolf: from A Room of One's Own (2464-89) |
4/17 |
W |
Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts, Lullaby (2658ff) |
4/19 |
F |
Auden: September 1, 1939 (2663-69). |
4/22 |
M |
Waugh: Cruise; Monty Python: Travel Agent
(2626-33) Paper 3 Due |
4/24 |
W |
Rushdie: Outside the Whale, Chekov and Zulu (2717-35) |
4/26 |
F |
Walcott: A Far Cry from Africa, The Fortunate Traveller
(2888-95) |
4/29 |
M |
Course Evaluations; Exam Review |
5/7 |
T |
Final Exam, 11-1-30 |
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