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E312: British Literature since 1760 Syllabus Page for Fall 2002 Alfred J. Drake. Office: 424 University Hall Note: Other recent course webs are available from my Portal. *This upper-division course was subsequently renamed E212 and transferred to lower-division status to meet CSUF's need for surveys at that level. To view more recent versions as E212, visit Summer 2004, Spring 2003. Course Policies, Required Texts, etc. (Please review this information.) Online Lecture: During the course I posted lectures, and I have left a representative sample online. The file is in MP3 format, so you will need audio software such as Real Player. Listen to Lecture on Hopkins. General: College Success | Using Internet | Literary Theory | Sample Paper | Grammar | Deductive Essays | Citation | Analysis | Editing | Plagiphrasing | Orwell | Rubric | Writing Resources Specific: C19 Characteristics | British Liberalism | Romantic Topics | Romantic Backgrounds | Milton's Influence | Organic Metaphor | Romantic Nature | What Good is Poetry? | Coleridge | Adam and Eve | Marx on Commodites | Millais' 1851 "Mariana" | Waterhouse's 1888 "...Shalott" | Wilde's "Decay..." PDF | Wilde's "Decay..." HTML | Modernism Intro. Study Questions: Blake | Wordsworth | Coleridge | Shelley, P.B. | Shelley, Mary | Carlyle | Mill, J.S. | Ruskin | Tennyson | Arnold | Browning | Rossetti, D.G. | Rossetti, Chr. | Swinburne | Hopkins | Pater | Wilde | Conrad | Joyce | Yeats Schedule of Assignments: WEEK 1 *Note: please consider the Norton introductions to our authors and periods as assigned material. 08/27. Intro to class and to the Romantic period 08/29. Blake. From Songs of Innocence and of Experience WEEK 2 09/03. Blake. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Letters 09/05. Wordsworth. "Preface to Lyrical Ballads"; "Expostulation and Reply"; "The Tables Turned"; begin discussing "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey" WEEK 3 09/10. Wordsworth. "Expostulation and Reply"; "The Tables Turned"; "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"; "A slumber did my spirit seal"; "Lucy Gray"; "Three years she grew"; "Resolution and Independence"; "I wandered lonely as a cloud;" "My heart leaps up"; "The Solitary Reaper"; "Sonnet composed upon Westminster Bridge, 1802"; "Intimations of Immortality" 09/12. Coleridge. From Biographia Literaria XIII-XIV, XVII; from The Statesman's Manual; "The Eolian Harp"; "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; "Kubla Khan"; "Frost at Midnight"; "Dejection: an Ode" WEEK 4 09/17. Shelley. from "A Defence of Poetry"; "Mutability"; "To Wordsworth"; "England in 1819"; "Ode to the West Wind"; "To a Sky-Lark" 09/19. Shelley, continued. Keats. "Ode on a Grecian Urn"; letters on pp. 889-90, 894. [Please note change in Keats readings.] WEEK 5 09/24. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. 09/26. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. WEEK 6 10/01. Intro. to Victorian period; from Carlyle's Portraits; Sartor Resartus 10/03. Carlyle. From Sartor Resartus and Past and Present. Final Draft of Paper #1 Due WEEK 7 10/08. Mill. From On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and Autobiography. 10/10. Ruskin. From Modern Painters; from The Stones of Venice; The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, "Lecture 1" WEEK 8 10/15. Midterm Exam in class. 10/17. Tennyson. From In Memoriam A.H.H. (Read as many of the following as you can--we will discuss several of them in class: Prologue, 1-5, 7, 11, 14-15, 28, 30, 34, 39, 54-56, 75, 108, 118, 123-24, 126, 130-31, Epilogue) WEEK 9 10/22. Tennyson. "The Lady of Shalott"; "The Lotos-Eaters"; "Ulysses"; "Tithonus"; "Mariana," "The Eagle"; "Tears, Idle Tears"; "The Charge of the Light Brigade"; "Crossing the Bar" 10/24. Arnold. "Preface to Poems (1853)"; "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"; "The Buried Life"; "Dover Beach"; "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" WEEK 10 10/29. Browning. "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church"; "Caliban upon Setebos" D. G. Rossetti. "The Blessed Damozel"; "The Woodspurge"; "The Sea-Limits"; from The House of Life 10/31. Rossetti, Christina. all except "Goblin Market" Swinburne. "Hymn to Proserpine"; "Ave Atque Vale" WEEK 11 11/05. Hopkins. All Norton selections. 11/07. Pater and Wilde. Pater's "Preface to The Renaissance" and "Conclusion to The Renaissance"; Wilde's "The Decay of Lying" (PDF format, course web) WEEK 12 11/12. Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest 11/14. Intro. to Twentieth Century. Thomas Hardy -- just read the shorter poems that appeal to you WEEK 13 11/19. Conrad's Heart of Darkness 11/21. Conrad's Heart of Darkness WEEK 14 11/26 - no class 11/28 - no class WEEK 15 12/03. Joyce's The Dead 12/05. Yeats. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"; "Easter 1916"; "The Second Coming"; "Sailing to Byzantium"; "Leda and the Swan"; "Byzantium"; "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop"; "The Circus Animals' Desertion"; "Under Ben Bulben" WEEK 16 12/10. Dylan Thomas. All Norton selections 12/12. Doris Lessing. "To Room Nineteen." Final Draft of Paper #2 due. FINALS WEEK 12/19. Thursday, 9:30-11:20 a.m. I will be in class during this time so you can turn in your take-home final exam. You may also turn it in at an earlier date if that would be more convenient for you; I'll be giving out the exam instructions early enough to make that feasible.
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