| 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 |