BRITISH LITERATURE II | Fall 2006
SCHEDULE
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 10:30 a.m. - 11:20 p.m., Welles 123.
Weeks 1-2 | Neoclassicism: Intelligent Design
Aug. 28 - Introduction
Aug. 30 - Pope, Epitaph for Sir Isaac Newton; Essay on Man, Epistle I
Sept. 1 - Essay on Man, Epistle II
Sept. 4 - Labor Day
Sept. 6 - Pope, Essay on Criticism; "Ode on Solitude"
Sept. 8 - Pope, The Rape of the Lock
Weeks 3-5 | Design Meets Disorder: The Early Novel
Sept. 11 - The Rape of the Lock
Sept. 13 - Behn, Oroonoko
Sept. 15 - Oroonoko
Sept. 18 - Oroonoko
Sept. 20 - Fielding, Joseph Andrews, Book I
Sept. 22 - Joseph Andrews, Book II
Sept. 25 - Joseph Andrews, Book III
Sept. 27 - Joseph Andrews, Book III
Sept. 29 - Joseph Andrews, Book IV
Weeks 6-8 | Romanticism and Revolution
Oct. 2 - No Class
Oct. 4 - Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Barbauld, "The Rights of Woman"
Oct. 6 - Blake, "All Religions are One"; "There is No Natural Religion" (a and b); A Vision of the Last Judgment; Four Letters on Sight and Vision; Coleridge, selections from Biographia Literaria (Chapters 4, 13, 17); Lectures on Shakespeare; Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads; Mary Shelley, Introduction to Frankenstein
Oct. 9 - Fall Break
Oct. 11 - Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads of 1798; "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"; "My Heart Leaps Up"; "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"; "The Solitary Reaper"; Sonnets
Oct. 13 - Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Oct. 16 - Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Oct. 18 - Coleridge, "Kubla Khan"; "Frost at Midnight"; "Dejection: An Ode"; P.B. Shelley, "Ozymandias"; "Mont Blanc"; "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"; "Mutability"; "A Song: Men of England"; "England in 1819"
Oct. 20 - Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"; "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles"; "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"; Odes; "Sonnet to Sleep"
Weeks 9-11 | The Evolving Victorians
Oct. 23 - Midterm Exam
Oct. 25 - Tennyson, In Memoriam, A.H.H. (Prologue, nos. 3, 7, 50, 54-57, 118; Epilogue); "Tithonus"; "Ulysses"; "The Lady of Shalott"; Songs from The Princess
Oct. 27 - R. Browning, "Porphyria's Lover"; "My Last Duchess"; "Andrea del Sarto"; "The Bishop Orders His Tomb"; "Fra Lippo Lippi"
Oct. 30 - Arnold, "Lines Written in Kensington Gardens"; "The Buried Life"; "Dover Beach"; "Isolation. To Marguerite"; "To Marguerite. Continued"; "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"; "The Sudy of Poetry"
Nov. 1 - Brontë, Jane Eyre
Nov. 3 - Jane Eyre
Nov. 6 - Jane Eyre
Nov. 8 - Jane Eyre
Nov. 10 - Jane Eyre
Weeks 12-13 | Modernism's Hard, Gem-Like Flame
Nov. 13 - Pater, "Conclusion to The Renaissance; Wilde, "Impression du Matin"; Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray; excerpt from De Profundis; Hopkins, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"; "Pied Beauty"; "The Windhover"; "Carrion Comfort"
Nov. 15 - Hardy, "Hap"; "Neutral Tones"; "The Ruined Maid"; "The Convergence of the Twain"; "During Wind and Rain"; Yeats, "The Madness of King Goll"; "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"; "When You Are Old"; "The Trembling of the Veil"
Nov. 17 - Yeats, "The Second Coming"; "Sailing to Byzantium"; "A Prayer for My Daughter"; "Among School Children"; Auden, "In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Nov. 20 - "Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; "Tradition and the Individual Talent"; "The Metaphysical Poets"; Lawrence, "The Horse Dealer's Daughter"; "Why the Novel Matters"; "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is"
Nov. 22 - Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 24 - Thanksgiving Break
Weeks 14-15 | It's a Post, Post, Post, Post World
Nov. 27 - Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Nov. 29 - Heart of Darkness
Dec. 1 - Heart of Darkness; Achebe, excerpt from "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Dec. 4 - Larkin, "Church Going"; Hughes, "Wind," "Relic," "Examination at the Womb-Door"; Heaney, "Digging," "The Forge," "Punishment"; Rushdie, "The Prophet's Hair"
Dec. 6 - Beckett, Endgame
Dec. 8 - Endgame
Week 16 | Conclusion and Review
Dec. 11 - Conclusion and Review
Final Exam
Wednesday, December 13, 8 a.m. - 11 a.m.