READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760
CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2004
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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 Humanities Hall (HH) 520. 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. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volumes 2A/2B/2C. 7th edition. ISBN 0-393-15114-X.
Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Ed. Jane Stabler. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003. 019280264X.
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0142437344.
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 | Keats | Byron | Lamb | Hazlitt | Austen | Carlyle | Mill | Arnold | Tennyson | Hopkins | Carroll | Rossetti | Morris | Wilde | Shaw | Sassoon | Owen | Graves | Joyce
SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED
WEEK 1
08/24. Intro to class and to romantic period.
08/26. William Blake. Songs of Innocence.
WEEK 2
08/31. William Blake. Songs of Experience.
09/02. William Wordsworth. “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads, “Expostulation and Reply,” “The Tables Turned,” “Tintern Abbey.”
WEEK 3
09/07. William Wordsworth. “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.”
09/09. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From Biographia Literaria; from Lectures on Shakespeare; from The Statesman’s Manual; “The Eolian Harp.”
WEEK 4
09/14. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “Kubla Khan,” “Frost at Midnight,” “Dejection: an Ode.”
09/16. Percy Bysshe Shelley. “A Defence of Poetry,” “Mutability,” “To Wordsworth,” “England in 1819,” “Ozymandias.”
WEEK 5
09/21. Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Mont Blanc,” “Ode to the West Wind,” “To a Sky-Lark.”
09/23. John Keats. “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “To Autumn,” from Letters 889-95.
WEEK 6
09/28. Lord Byron. Manfred.
09/30. William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb. Hazlitt: “On Gusto,” “My First Acquaintance with Poets.” Lamb: “Christ’s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago.”
WEEK 7
10/05. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park. (Film.)
10/07. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park. (Film.)
WEEK 8
10/12. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park. (Separate text.)
10/14. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park. (Separate text.)
WEEK 9
10/19. Thomas Carlyle. From Sartor Resartus.
10/21. Thomas Carlyle. From The French Revolution; from Past and Present.
WEEK 10
10/26. John Stuart Mill. From Autobiography; from On Liberty.
10/28. Matthew Arnold. “Dover Beach,” “The Buried Life,” “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time.”
WEEK 11
11/02. Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning. Tennyson: “The Lady of Shalott”; “The Lotos-Eaters”; “Ulysses”; “Mariana”; “The Eagle.” Browning: “Porphyria’s Lover,” “My Last Duchess,” “The Bishop Orders His Tomb,” “Caliban upon Setebos.”
11/04. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Morris. D. G Rossetti: “The Blessed Damozel”; Christina Rossetti: all except “Goblin Market”; Morris: “The Haystack in the Flood.”
WEEK 12
11/09. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Lewis Carroll. 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). Carroll: “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter.”
11/11. Oscar Wilde. “The Critic as Artist.”
WEEK 13
11/16. George Bernard Shaw. Mrs.Warren’s Profession.
11/18. Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves. Sassoon: “They,” “The Rear-Guard,” “The General,” “The Glory of Women,” “Everyone Sang,” “On Passing the New Menin Gate”; Owen: “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo,” “Miners,” “Dulce et Decorum Est”; Graves: all Norton selections.
WEEK 14
11/25. Thanksgiving holiday; no class.
11/27. Thanksgiving holiday; no class.
WEEK 15
11/30. James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. (Film, Dir. Joseph Strick, 1977.)
12/02. James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. (Separate text.)
WEEK 16
12/07. James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
12/09. Review.
FINALS WEEK
Exam date: Dec. 16, beginning at regular class time.