British Literature II
Spring 2002
Keirstead
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 AustenPersuasion (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 ShelleyFrankenstein (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 WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest (1882-1913);Longman Intro to Aestheticism (1936-38)
3/22 F WildeEarnest (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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