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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