READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760
CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2002
*2023 Note. Most links and procedural information have been removed from this archival copy, leaving mainly the assigned editions and the reading schedule.
COURSE INFORMATION. English 212, Course Code 12722. Tu/Th 8:30 – 9:45 a.m., Humanities Hall (HH) 511. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: M/W 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. in 423 Humanities Hall. Email: e212_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Major periods and movements, major authors, and major forms since 1760. Units (3). Satisfies requirements for General Education (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. 7th ed. Vol. 2ABC.
Wilde, Oscar. “The Decay of Lying,” electronic text.
QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS
*2023 Note. Visitors may download the following questions in PDF format: BRITISH ROMANTIC | BRITISH VICTORIAN | BRITISH MODERN. Norton editions and page numbers may differ from the editions actually used in the course.
Blake | Wordsworth | Coleridge | Shelley, P.B. | Shelley, Mary | Carlyle | Mill, J.S. | Ruskin | Tennyson | Arnold | Browning | Rossetti, D. G. | Rossetti, C. | Swinburne | Hopkins | Pater | Wilde | Conrad | Joyce | Yeats
SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED
WEEK 1
*Note: The Norton introductions to our authors and periods are assigned material.
08/27. Introduction to class and to the Romantic period.
08/29. William Blake. From Songs of Innocence & of Experience.
WEEK 2
09/03. William Blake. The Marriage of Heaven & Hell; Letters.
09/05. William 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. William 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. Samuel T. 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. Percy B. Shelley. from “A Defence of Poetry”; “Mutability”; “To Wordsworth”; “England in 1819”; “Ode to the West Wind”; “To a Sky-Lark.”
09/19. Percy B. Shelley, cont. John Keats. “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; From Letters, pp. 889-90, 894.
WEEK 5
09/24. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
09/26. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
WEEK 6
10/01. Intro. to Victorian period. Thomas Carlyle. From Portraits; from Sartor Resartus.
10/03. Thomas Carlyle. From Sartor Resartus and from Past and Present.
WEEK 7
10/08. John Stuart Mill. From On Liberty; from The Subjection of Women; from Autobiography.
10/10. John 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. Alfred Tennyson. From In Memoriam A. H. H: 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. Alfred 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. Matthew 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. Robert 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”; “Sonnets” from The House of Life.
10/31. Christina Rossetti. “Song – “She sat and sang alway” (1584), “Song — When I am dead, my dearest” (1584), “After Death” (1585), “In an Artist’s Studio” (1586), “Winter: My Secret” (1588), “No, Thank You, John” (1601), “Sleeping at Last” (1604). Algernon C. Swinburne. “Hymn to Proserpine”; “Ave Atque Vale.”
WEEK 11
11/05. Gerard Manley Hopkins. “God’s Grandeur” (1651), “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” (1652), “The Windhover” (1652), “Pied Beauty” (1653), “Binsey Poplars” (1654), “Duns Scotus’ Oxford” (1654), “Carrion Comfort” (1656), “I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day” (1657), “That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire…” (1658), “Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord” (1658).
11/07. Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde. Pater’s “Preface” and “Conclusion” to The Renaissance; Wilde’s “The Decay of Lying” (PDF format, course web).
WEEK 12
11/12. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest.
11/14. Intro. to Twentieth Century. Thomas Hardy. Read the shorter poems.
WEEK 13
11/19. Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness.
11/21. Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness.
WEEK 14
11/26. Thanksgiving Holiday; no class.
11/28. Thanksgiving Holiday; no class.
WEEK 15
12/03. James Joyce. “The Dead.”
12/05. William B. 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. “The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower”; “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”; and the rest of the Norton selections.
12/12. Doris Lessing. “To Room Nineteen.”
FINALS WEEK
Final exam date: Thursday, Dec. 19, 9:30 – 11:20 a.m.