English 201
British Literature:
Restoration to 20th Century

Intersession 2001
Steve Lane

[The Course]|[Texts]|[Evaluation]|[Syllabus]|[Information and Policies]

The Course

This course is a continuation of ENGL 200; together, they form a broad survey of literature written in English.

Texts

Abrams, Greenblatt, et. al, eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th edition, vols. I & II (NOTE: you should have vol. I from ENGL 200, so you will only be buying vol. II)
Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Evaluation

Your grade for this course shall be calculated according to the following factors:

Take-home Midterm Exam (due May 22)	30%
Research Paper of 2000-2500 words (due June 18)	30%
Final Exam (June 14)	30%
Participation	10%

Syllabus

Tu May 1 Introductions. M. H. Abrams's notion of 4 coordinates of literary assessment. Reading/Interpreting/Criticizing. MLA Bibliography.

Th May 3 Wit and Taste. READ: Addison & Steele, Tatler no. 21 (vol. 1, p. 2481); Spectator nos. 2, 10, 62, 267 (vol. 1, pp. 2484, 2492, 2494, 2499); Pope, The Rape of the Lock (vol. 1, p. 2525).

Tu May 8 Poetry of Transition. READ: Gray, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College", (vol. 1, p. 2826), "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (vol. 1, p. 2830); Collins, "Ode to Evening" (vol. 1, p. 2836); Cowper, "The Task", Book I excerpts (vol. 1, pp. 2875-2877). Romantic Poetics I. READ: Pope, "Essay on Criticism" (vol. 1, p. 2509); Wordsworth, excerpts from "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (vol. 2, p. 238).

Th May 10 READ: Wollstonecraft, excerpts from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (vol. 2, p. 166); Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (p. 43), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (p. 72); Barbauld, "The Rights of Woman" (p. 27), "Washing-Day" (p. 29), "Life" (p. 31); Smith, "Written in the Church-Yard..." (p. 34), "On Being Cautioned..." (p. 34).

Tu May 15 Wordsworths & Coleridge. READ: Coleridge, "This Lime-tree Bower My Prison" (p. 420), "Frost at Midnight" (p. 457); W. Wordsworth, "Simon Lee" (p. 222), "We Are Seven" (p. 224), "Tintern Abbey" (p. 136); D. Wordsworth, "Alfoxden Journal excerpts (p. 385), Grasmere Journals excerpts (p. 387).

Th May 17 Wordsworth, "The Thorn" (p. 229, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" (p. 286); Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" (p. 439), "Dejection: An Ode" (p. 459), "The Pains of Sleep" (p. 462). Romantic Poetics II. READ: Coleridge, Biographia Literaria chs. 4, 13, 14, 17 excerpts (p. 474, 477, 478, 483); Keats, letters to his brothers (Dec. 21, 27, 1817; p. 889), to Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818; p. 890), to Reynolds (May 3, 1818; p. 892), to Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818; p. 894).

Tu May 22 Byron, Shelley, & Keats. READ: Byron, "Darkness" (p. 559), "So we'll go no more a-roving..." (p. 560); Shelley, "Mont Blanc" (p. 720), "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (p. 723), "Ode to the West Wind" (p. 730); Keats, excerpt from "Sleep and Poetry" (p. 827), "Ode to a Nightingale" (p. 849), "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (p. 851), "To Autumn" (p. 872).

Th May 24 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Tu May 29 The Victorian Period. READ: Barrett Browning, Sonnets From the Portuguese (p. 1179), excerpts from Aurora Leigh (p. 1180); Browning, "Love Among the Ruins" (p. 1365), "Andrea del Sarto" (p. 1385), "Caliban Upon Setebos" (p. 1402).

Th May 31 Tennyson, Arnold, Christina Rossetti. READ: Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott" (p. 1204), "Ulysses" (p. 1213), "Tithonus" (p. 1215); Arnold, "Dover Beach" (p. 1492), "The Scholar-Gypsy" (p. 1485), "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" (p. 1493), The Study of Poetry excerpt (p. 1534); C. Rossetti, "Goblin Market" (p. 1589).

Tu June 5 READ: Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Hardy, "Drummer Hodge" (p. 1937), "The Ruined Maid" (p. 1938), "A Trampwoman's Tragedy" (p. 1939), "Channel Firing" (p. 1944), "Ah, Are You Digging on my Grave?" (p. 1946)

Th June 7 Yeats. READ: "No Second Troy" (p. 2098), "The Wild Swans at Coole" (p. 2101), "Easter 1916" (p. 2104), "The Second Coming" (p. 2106), "Sailing to Byzantium" (p. 2109), "Leda and the Swan" (p. 2110), "Byzantium" (p. 2115), "The Circus Animals' Desertion" (p. 2120). The Great War. Modernism. READ: Brooke, "The Soldier" (p. 2050); Sassoon, "'They'" (p. 2055); Rosenberg, "Break of Day in the Trenches" (p. 2062); Owen, "Strange Meeting" (p. 2070), "Disabled" (p. 2071).

Tu June 12 READ: Woolf, A Room of One's Own, (p. 2153); Eliot, The Waste Land (p. 2368); Lessing, "To Room Nineteen", (p. 2542).

Th June 14 FINAL EXAM

Information and Policies

My office is in Bldg. 340, room 234. My campus phone local is 2114 - leave messages. My office hours this term will be Tuesdays and Thursdays 11-12. As well, you can always make an appointment to see me at some other time.
Your essays will be graded with letter grades; exams may receive percentage marks. For ease of comparison, here is my grade scale:
A = 86-100% B = 73-85% C = 60-72% D = 50-59% F = 0-49%
Assignments are due by 4:00 p.m. on the due date. After that, they are late and will be penalized at the rate of a grade per day (i.e., 1 day late, a "B" paper goes to "B-").
The final Exam shall be held on Thursday, June 14. The final exam must be written at the scheduled time (no lates or make-ups).

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Tu May 1	Introductions. M. H. Abrams's notion of 4 coordinates of literary assessment. Reading/Interpreting/Criticizing. MLA Bibliography.
Th May 3	Wit and Taste. READ: Addison & Steele, Tatler no. 21 (vol. 1, p. 2481); Spectator nos. 2, 10, 62, 267 (vol. 1, pp. 2484, 2492, 2494, 2499); Pope, The Rape of the Lock (vol. 1, p. 2525).
Tu May 8	Poetry of Transition. READ: Gray, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College", (vol. 1, p. 2826), "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (vol. 1, p. 2830); Collins, "Ode to Evening" (vol. 1, p. 2836); Cowper, "The Task", Book I excerpts (vol. 1, pp. 2875-2877). Romantic Poetics I. READ: Pope, "Essay on Criticism" (vol. 1, p. 2509); Wordsworth, excerpts from "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (vol. 2, p. 238).
Th May 10	READ: Wollstonecraft, excerpts from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (vol. 2, p. 166); Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (p. 43), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (p. 72); Barbauld, "The Rights of Woman" (p. 27), "Washing-Day" (p. 29), "Life" (p. 31); Smith, "Written in the Church-Yard..." (p. 34), "On Being Cautioned..." (p. 34).
Tu May 15	Wordsworths & Coleridge. READ: Coleridge, "This Lime-tree Bower My Prison" (p. 420), "Frost at Midnight" (p. 457); W. Wordsworth, "Simon Lee" (p. 222), "We Are Seven" (p. 224), "Tintern Abbey" (p. 136); D. Wordsworth, "Alfoxden Journal excerpts (p. 385), Grasmere Journals excerpts (p. 387).
Th May 17	Wordsworth, "The Thorn" (p. 229, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" (p. 286); Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" (p. 439), "Dejection: An Ode" (p. 459), "The Pains of Sleep" (p. 462). Romantic Poetics II. READ: Coleridge, Biographia Literaria chs. 4, 13, 14, 17 excerpts (p. 474, 477, 478, 483); Keats, letters to his brothers (Dec. 21, 27, 1817; p. 889), to Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818; p. 890), to Reynolds (May 3, 1818; p. 892), to Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818; p. 894).
Tu May 22	Byron, Shelley, & Keats. READ: Byron, "Darkness" (p. 559), "So we'll go no more a-roving..." (p. 560); Shelley, "Mont Blanc" (p. 720), "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (p. 723), "Ode to the West Wind" (p. 730); Keats, excerpt from "Sleep and Poetry" (p. 827), "Ode to a Nightingale" (p. 849), "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (p. 851), "To Autumn" (p. 872).
Th May 24	Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tu May 29	The Victorian Period. READ: Barrett Browning, Sonnets From the Portuguese (p. 1179), excerpts from Aurora Leigh (p. 1180); Browning, "Love Among the Ruins" (p. 1365), "Andrea del Sarto" (p. 1385), "Caliban Upon Setebos" (p. 1402).
Th May 31	Tennyson, Arnold, Christina Rossetti. READ: Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott" (p. 1204), "Ulysses" (p. 1213), "Tithonus" (p. 1215); Arnold, "Dover Beach" (p. 1492), "The Scholar-Gypsy" (p. 1485), "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" (p. 1493), The Study of Poetry excerpt (p. 1534); C. Rossetti, "Goblin Market" (p. 1589).
Tu June 5	READ: Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Hardy, "Drummer Hodge" (p. 1937), "The Ruined Maid" (p. 1938), "A Trampwoman's Tragedy" (p. 1939), "Channel Firing" (p. 1944), "Ah, Are You Digging on my Grave?" (p. 1946)
Th June 7	Yeats. READ: "No Second Troy" (p. 2098), "The Wild Swans at Coole" (p. 2101), "Easter 1916" (p. 2104), "The Second Coming" (p. 2106), "Sailing to Byzantium" (p. 2109), "Leda and the Swan" (p. 2110), "Byzantium" (p. 2115), "The Circus Animals' Desertion" (p. 2120). The Great War. Modernism. READ: Brooke, "The Soldier" (p. 2050); Sassoon, "'They'" (p. 2055); Rosenberg, "Break of Day in the Trenches" (p. 2062); Owen, "Strange Meeting" (p. 2070), "Disabled" (p. 2071).
Tu June 12	READ: Woolf, A Room of One's Own, (p. 2153); Eliot, The Waste Land (p. 2368); Lessing, "To Room Nineteen", (p. 2542).
Th June 14	FINAL EXAM

English 201 British Literature: Restoration to 20th Century