E212 British Literature since 1760 Schedule CSU Fullerton, Spring 2006 (Thurs.)

READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2006 (THURSDAYS)

*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 12796. Thurs. 7:00 – 9:45 p.m., McCarthy Hall (MH) 685. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Thurs. 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. in University Hall (UH) 329. 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, Vols. 2ABC. 7th ed. New York: Norton, 2000. ISBN 2A = 0393975681, 2B = 039397569X, 2C = 0393975703.

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Oxford: Oxford UP, repr. 2005. ISBN 0192802380.

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.

SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1

02/02. Course introduction.

WEEK 2

02/09. William Blake, Mary Robinson. Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience (43-59); The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (72-84). Robinson’s “London’s Summer Morning” (92-93); “January, 1795” (93-94); “The Poor Singing Dame” (94-96).

WEEK 3

02/16. William and Dorothy Wordsworth. William’s “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads (238-51); “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” (252); “Three years she grew” (252-53); “Lucy Gray” (254-56); “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (284-85); “The Solitary Reaper” (293-94); “Tintern Abbey” (235-38); “Intimations of Immortality” (286-92). Dorothy’s Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (383-97).

WEEK 4

02/23. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Robinson. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria (467-86); Lectures on Shakespeare (486-89); The Statesman’s Manual (489-92); “The Eolian Harp” (419-20); “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (422-38); “Kubla Khan” (439-41); “Frost at Midnight” (457-58); “Dejection: an Ode” (459-62). Robinson’s “To the Poet Coleridge” (98-99); “The Haunted Beach” (96-97).

WEEK 5

03/02. Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats. Shelley’s “Mutability” (701); “Mont Blanc” (720-23); “Ozymandias” (725-26); “Ode to the West Wind” (730-32); “To a Sky-Lark” (765-67); “Defence of Poetry” (789-802). Keats’ “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (826-27); “The Eve of St. Agnes” (834-44); “Ode to a Nightingale” (849-51); “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (851-53); “To Autumn” (872-73); Letters (889-903).

WEEK 6

03/09. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. (2005 Film version starring Keira Knightley; 2:09 hrs.)

WEEK 7

03/16. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. (Oxford edition.)

WEEK 8

03/23. Thomas Carlyle and John Henry Newman. From Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus (1077-1103). From Newman’s The Idea of a University (1119-27); from Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1128-35); and from Liberalism (1135-37).

WEEK 9

03/30. Spring recess; no classes all week.

WEEK 10

04/06. Alfred Tennyson. “The Lady of Shalott” (1204-08); “The Lotos-Eaters” (1208-13); “Ulysses” (1213-15); from In Memoriam A.H.H. (1230-80), read at least the following: Prologue (1231), 1-3, 5, 7, 11, 14-15, 28, 34, 39, 54-56, 75, 108, 118, 123-24, 126, 130-31, Epilogue.

WEEK 11

04/13. John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold. From Mill’s Autobiography (1166-73). From Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice (1432-42) and The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (1443-51). Arnold’s “Preface” to Poems (1504-14); “The Buried Life” (1480-82); “The Scholar Gypsy” (1485-91); “Dover Beach” (1492-93); “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” (1493-98).

WEEK 12

04/20. Edward Fitzgerald, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christina Rossetti. Fitzgerald’s “The Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam” (1304-18). Hopkins’s “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). Rossetti’s “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).

WEEK 13

04/27. Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde. From Pater’s The Renaissance (1636-44), from Appreciations (1645-48). Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (1761-1805).

WEEK 14

05/04. Voices of World War I Section — read all selections: Brooke, Thomas, Sassoon, Gurney, Rosenberg, Owen, Cannan, Jones (2048-84).

WEEK 15

05/11. William Butler Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Yeats’s “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (2092); “Easter 1916” (2104); “The Second Coming” (2106); “Sailing to Byzantium” (2109); “Leda and the Swan” (2110); “Among School Children” (2111); “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” (2113); “Byzantium” (2115); “Crazy Jane… “ (2116); “After Long Silence” (2117); “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” (2120); “Under Ben Bulben” (2121); from Reveries over Childhood and Youth and from The Trembling of the Veil (2124-31). Eliot’s The Waste Land (2368-83); “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (2395-2401).

WEEK 16

05/18. Jean Rhys, Robert Graves, and Harold Pinter. Rhys’s “Mannequin” (2437-42). Graves’ Graves’ “Down, Wanton, Down!” (2445); “Love Without Hope” (2446); “The Cool Web” (2446); “The Reader Over My Shoulder” (2446); “To Juan at Winter Solstice” (2447); “The White Goddess” (2448); “The Blue-Fly” (2449); “A Slice of Wedding-Cake” (2450). Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter (2594-2616).

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam Thursday, May 25th 7:30-9:20 p.m.

READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2006 (THURSDAYS)