English 323-02             British Literature III                                Spring 2004

MWF 2:00-2:50 Grainger 116; Dr. Lund (Grainger 10; 395-2168; Office Hours:  MW 10:00-10:50; TTR 1:45-2:45; and by appointment.  http://web.lwc.edu/staff/mlund/mlund.html

Texts:  The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume II, Seventh Edition. ed. M. H. Abrams et al.  Anthony Trolloope, Lady Anna (Oxford)

January      12:        Introduction:  Tales
             14:        Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience
             16:        Lady Anna, Chapters 1-4

             19:        William Wordsworth, from Lyrical Ballads (but not the "Preface")
             21:        Lady Anna, Chapters 5-12
             24:        Wordsworth, "Michael" Review of sentence structure.

             26:        Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals
             28:        Lady Anna, Chapters 13-16
             30:        Coleridge, "Christabel" and "Kubla Khan"

February      2:        Byron, Canto 1 from Don Juan
              4:        Lady Anna, Chapters 17-20
              6:        Anna Letitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson

              9:        Mary Shelley, Volume I of Frankenstein
             10:        Exam, Part I
             12:        Exam, Part II


             16:        Percy Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" "Men of England" "To a Skylark"
             18:        Lady Anna 21-28
             20:        Keats, "Lamia," "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

             23:        Scott, from Heart of the Midlothian
             25:        Tennyson, from In Memoriam, Prologue, Epilogue, Stanzas 54-57, 78, 95
                        Arnold, "Dover Beach"
             27:        No class; paper # 1 due

March         1:        Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess" "Childe Roland"
              3:        Lady Anna, 29-32
              5:        Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities, Chapters 1-5; online http://dickens.stanford.edu/tale/two_cities.html

   *    *    * Spring Break *    *    *

             15:        Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Aurora Leigh
             17:        George Eliot, Chapters 1-5, Volume One, Middlemarch (online)
                        http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/EliMidd.html
             19:        Elizabeth Gaskell, "Lois the Witch" (oneline)
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Lois.html
                      
             22:        Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapters I-III (online)
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-W&D.html

             24:        Lady Anna, Chapters 33-35; Tennyson's "The Marriage of Geraint"
         http://www.gutenberg.net/etext96/idyll10.txt
 
             26:        Christina Rosetti
 
             29:        T.B.A.
             31:        Lady Anna, Chapters 36-41
April         2:        Tennyson, from Idylls of the King

              5:        Exam II, Part One
              7:        Exam II, Part Two                          
              9:        Thomas Hardy, chapters 1-8 from Return of the Native (online)  http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
                        
             12:        Kipling, "The Man Who Would be King"
             14:        Lady Anna, Chapters 42-44
             16:        Michael Field; Paper # 2 due

             19:        Wilde, The Importance of Being  Earnest Act I
             21:        Lady Anna, Chapters 45-48
             23:        The Importance of Being Earnest Acts II-III


             30:        Final Exam:  8:00-10:30

Course Requirements:  read in advance the material listed below for discussion on the dates shown (200 points); write one short critical paper (100 points); write one paper including historical and critical sources (100 points); write two essay exams on material read and discussed in class (200 points); write an essay final exam on the material of the course (200 points).  Unannounced quizzes will be given to determine if the reading is being done on time; the average of these quizzes is worth 200 points.  You should save all returned written work from the course for one semester.  Grading scale:  90%=A; 80%=B; 70%=C; 60%=D; less than  60%=F.
Attendance Policy:  The attendance policy for this course is the same as the college policy in the College Catalog and the Student Handbook.  Unexcused absences for more than 10% of classes may lower a final grade one letter. Absence, excused and/or unexcused, from more than 25% of classes may be an automatic F in the course.
Honor Code:  Students are expected to abide by the college Honor Code.
Inclement Weather:  If the college closes for inclement weather, students should continue work as outlined above.



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