Text: The Norton Anthology
of English Literature, Volume 1,
Seventh
Edition
Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy online or
paperback, if you wish (Volumes I-IV)
January 17:
Introduction:
Conception
19:
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I
21:
Twelfth
Night, Act II
24:
Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy Volume I:
Chapters I-XV
http://www.gifu-u.ac.jp/~masaru/TS/contents.html
26:
Twelfth Night, Act III
28:
Twelfth Night, Act IV; and
Mary Wroth
31:
John Donne, Songs and Sonnets
(1236-54))
February 2:
Twelfth
Night, Act V
4:
Lawrence
Sterne, Tristram Shandy
I: Chapters XVI-XXV
7:
Ben Jonson, Volpone, Act I
9:
Volpone,
Act II
11:
Donne, Holy
Sonnets
and prose (1268-1281)
14:
Volpone, Act III
16:
Volpone, Acts IV-V
18:
Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy Volume II Chapters
I-XVI
21:
George Herbert
23:
Robert
Herrick; Katherine Philips
25:
Exam
(short answer)
28
Exam
(essay)
March 2:
Lawrence Sterne, Tristram
Shandy II Chapters XVII-XIX
4:
John Bunyan
7:
John
Milton, Paradise Lost Book I
9:
John Milton, Paradise Lost Book I, cont.
11:
Paper # 1 Due
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* Spring Break *
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21:
Lawrence
Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Volume III Chapters I-XX
23:
.
Alphra Behn, Oroonoko (to p. 2195)
25:
Oroonoko
(the remainder)
28:
John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II
30:
John Milton, Paradise Lost Book I I, cont.
April
1:
Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Volume III Chapters XXI-XLII
4:
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s
Travels, Lilliput
6:
Exam
(short answer)
8:
Exam (essay)
11
Gulliver’s
Travels, Brobdingnab
13:
Lawrence
Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Volume IV Chapters I-XV
15: Paradise
Lost,
Book IX
18:
The Eighteenth
Century/The Age of Reason
20:
Alexander Pope,
“The Rape of
the Lock”
22:
Paradise Lost, Book X Paper Due
# 2 Due
25:
William Congreve, The Way of the
World Acts I-III
27:
William Congreve, The Way of the World Acts IV-V and
epilogue
29:
Lawrence Sterne, Tristram
Shandy Chapters IV Chapters XVI-XXXII
May
2:
Final
Exam 3:00-5:30
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the dates shown--the
material
specifically assigned for discussion (200 points); take short quizzes
(average=200
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(100
points); write one paper involving research (100 points); write an
essay
final exam (200 points).
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less
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same as the college policy in the College Catalog and the Student
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college
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