E211 British Literature to 1760 Schedule, Spring 2005

READING SCHEDULE FOR E211 BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1760
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2005

*2023 Note. Most links and procedural information have been removed from this archival copy, leaving mainly the required editions and the reading schedule.

COURSE INFORMATION. English 211, Course Code 12662. Wed. 4:00 – 6:45 p.m., McCarthy Hall (MH) 617. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Wed. 3:00 – 4:00 in University Hall 329. Email: e211_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Major periods and movements, major authors, and major forms through 1760. Units (3). Satisfies General Education requirements GE Category III.B.2 with grade of C or better.”

REQUIRED TEXTS AT TITAN BOOKSTORE

Abrams, M. H. et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vols. 1ABC. 7th. ed. New York : Norton, 2000. ISBN: 1A = 0393975657, 1B = 0393975665, 1C = 0393975673.

Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Washington, D.C: Washington Square Press, 2004. ISBN: 0743477561. (Folger Editions)

Shakespeare, William. Henry V. Washington, D.C: Washington Square Press, 2004. ISBN: 0743484878. (Folger Editions)

QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS

*2023 Note. Visitors may download the following questions in PDF format: BRITISH LITERATURE TO C18 | SHAKESPEARE. Editions may differ from the ones used for this course.

SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1

02/02. Course Introduction.

WEEK 2

02/09. Bede (23ff), “The Dream of the Rood” (26ff), and Beowulf (29ff).

WEEK 3

02/16. Marie de France and Geoffrey Chaucer. Marie de France’s “Lanval” (126ff). Chaucer: “General Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales, lines 1-164 (pp. 215-19); “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” (pp. 253-81).

WEEK 4

02/23. Sir Thomas Wyatt and Sir Thomas More. Wyatt’s “The Long Love,” “My Galley,” “Madam, Withouten Many Words,” “Whoso List to Hunt,” “My Lute, Awake!” “They Flee from Me,” “Divers Doth Use,” “Blame Not My Lute,” “Forget Not Yet,” “Who List His Wealth and Ease,” “Mine Own John Poins” (527ff). More’s Utopia (503ff).

WEEK 5

03/02. William Shakespeare. Henry V. (Film)

WEEK 6

03/09. William Shakespeare. Henry V. (Discussion, separate text.)

WEEK 7

03/16. William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice. (Film.)

WEEK 8

03/23. William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice. (Discussion, separate text.)

WEEK 9

03/30. Spring Recess, no class.

WEEK 10

04/06. John Donne and George Herbert. Donne’s “The Flea,” “The Good Morrow,” “Song — Go and Catch a Falling Star,” “The Canonizaton,” “A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day,” “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “Holy Sonnets” (all), “Good Friday, 1613: Riding Westward” (1233ff). Herbert’s “The Altar,” “Redemption,” “Easter,” “Easter Wings,” “Affliction (I),” “Prayer (1),” “Jordan (1),” “Denial,” “Jordan (2),” “Time,” “The Bunch of Grapes,” “The Pilgrimage,” “The Pulley,” “The Flower,” “Discipline,” “Death” (1595ff).

WEEK 11

04/13. John Milton and John Dryden. Milton’s Paradise Lost 1-4, 9 (1815ff). Dryden’s “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” (2114-18).

WEEK 12

04/20. Samuel Pepys and Jonathan Swift. Pepys’ Diary, “The Great Fire” (2122-27). Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. (2329ff).

WEEK 13

04/27. Joseph Addison & Richard Steele and Alexander Pope. Addison/Steele’s “The Gentleman; the Pretty Fellow”; “Dueling”; “The Spectator’s Club”; “Sir Roger at Church”; “The Aims of the Spectator”; “Wit: True, False, Mixed”; “Paradise Lost: General Critical Remarks”; and “On the Scale of Being” (2479ff). Pope’s The Rape of the Lock and “Eloisa to Abelard” (2525ff).

WEEK 14

05/04. John Gay and William Hogarth. Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (2605ff). Hogarth’s Marriage à la Mode (2652ff).

WEEK 15

05/11. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Johnson’s Rasselas (2678-2712); Rambler #4 “On Fiction)” (2712-15), “Metaphysical Wit” (2736-38). Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (2752-83).

WEEK 16

05/18. Frances Burney, Thomas Gray, William Collins, and William Cowper. Burney’s Journals and Letters (2783-2805). Gray’s “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”; “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (2825ff). Collins’ “Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” and “Ode on the Poetical Character” (2833ff). Cowper’s selections from The Task and “The Castaway” (2875ff).

FINALS WEEK

05/23-29. Cumulative final exam.

READING SCHEDULE FOR E211 BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1760CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2005