British literature from 1780s to nowEach Entry: These are 1-2 page casual writings on the material you have been reading on or near that entry?s due date.Description: This serves as an introduction to British writers from 1780s to the present. Plan to pay special attention to matters such as literary theory, issues of canon formation, and gender and literary production. Requirements include mandatory attendance at all class meetings, 1-2 page journal entries that will also serve as in-class presentations, a mid-term and a final, and one 5-7 page research papers. Final Grade: Student final grades for this course will be factored as: vBook List:1790s-1829 ROMANTICISM1. English Romantic Poets ed. Stanley Appelbaum (Dover Thrift #0-486-29282-7) R2. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah EquianoOlaudah Equiano (any edition) R1830-1880S VICTORIANISM3. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte4. Sketches by Boz Charles Dickens (Penguin preferred) V5. English Victorian Poetry ed. Paul Negri (Dover 0-486-40425-0) V6. Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde (any edition) V1890S-1920 MODERNISM7. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad (any edition) M8. Dubliners James Joyce (any editon) M??.?.Week 1Tu 1/14: Introduction: Democratic Revolutions (ShelleySong Men of England149; England 1819 150; Blake London8; Songs of Experience: Introduction4; I saw a chapel10)Th 1/16: Democratic Revolutions (Blake The Tyger 7 And did those feet in ancient time22; Wordsworth The Prelude Book XI 47-48; On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic 40; The World is too much with us 51; ColeridgeThe Dungeon 62)Tu 1/21: Democratic Revolutions (Byron Darkness 127 On this Day I Complete 143; ShelleyOzymandias 147 Stanzas Written in Dejection 147)Th 1/23: Retreat (Coleridge Frost at Midnight 100; Wordsworth Solitary Reaper 42 Lines Composed . . .Tintern Abbey 25)Journal Entry #1 DUE (use dates above for journal date )Tu 1/28: Abolition First « Equiano; Wordsworth To Toussaint L?Ouverture 40; Blake The Little Black Boy 3)Th 1/30: Abolition Second « Equiano; [Victorian Reader Martineau and Dickens on slavery pp281-287]Tu 2/4: Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte: Chapters 1-9Th 2/6 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte: Chapters 10-16 [ Journal #2 DUE]Tu 2/11: Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte: Chapters 17-24Th 2/13: Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte: Chapters 25-ENDTu 2/18: Byron Don Juan: I, cc-cciii 138-139; Childe Harold?s Pilgrimage [Ocean] 136-138; She Walks in Beauty 114-5; The Girl of Cadiz 113; DISCUSS MID-TERM & PAPER #1 TOPICSTh 2/20: Keats Ode to a Nightingale 216 When I have fears 228 Ode on Melancholy 223 On the Sea 227-8 Lines on the Mermaid Tavern 221Journal #3 DUETh 2/27: Sketches by Boz Charles Dickens (from Scenes: ?The Streets?Morning? 69; ?The Streets?Night? 74; ?Gin-Shops? 214; ?The Pawnbroker?s Shop? 220) Tu 3/4: Sketches by Boz Charles Dickens (from Scenes: ?Criminal Courts? 229; ?A Visit to Newgate? 234)Th 3/6: Victorian Poets (Tennyson Mariana 2; The Lady of Shalott 4; Browning My Last Duchess 49; Porphyria?s Lover 53 HoodSong of the Shirt 40-2; The Bridge of Sighs 43-5)Journal #4 DUETu 3/18: Victorian Poets (Barrett Browning Cry of the Children xerox; To George Sand [both sonnets] 99; C Rossetti A Triad 155; A Birthday 155; Remember 156; Song 159; [from Victorian Reader Friedrich Engels Child Labor in the Mines 67-69)]Th 3/20: Victorian Poets (DG Rossetti The Sea-Limits 148; Swinburne The Garden of Proserpine 178-81; Arnold Dover Beach 114) [optional reading: Victorian Reader The Pre-Raphaelites pp 574-85]Tu 3/25: Victorian Poets (TennysonThe Lotos-Eaters 8; Hopkins God?s Grandeur 195; Spring 195; The Windhover 196; Pied Beauty 197)Th 3/27: Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde (all) Journal #5 DUETu 4/1: Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad (first 1/3)Th 4/3: Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad (second 1/3)Tu 4/8: : Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad (third 1/3)Th 4/10: Intro. to Joyce and Modernism; DISCUSS FINAL AND PAPER #2; Journal #6 DUETu 4/15: Dubliners James Joyce The Sisters; An Encounter; The Dead; Eveline; After the Race; Two GallantsTh 4/17: Dubliners James Joyce The Boarding House; A Little Cloud; Counterparts; Clay; A Painful CaseTu 4/22: Dubliners James Joyce Ivy Day in the Committee Room; A Mother; GraceTh 4/24: Dubliners James Joyce: The Dead Journal #7 DUE??.?.
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