English 323  British Literature III
MWF 11:00-11:50; Grainger G18; Dr. Lund (Grainger G10; 395-2168; Office Hours:  MW 10:00-10:50; TTR 1:45-2:45; and by appointment. http://web.lwc.edu/staff/mlund/lundmc.html

Assignments are to the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2, Seventh Edition unless identified as online.

August     30:       Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, Chapter 1 (online; follow links from below to authors beginning with "W," to Walpole, to etexts, etc.)  http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/authors.html     

September 1:       Byron, Don Juan Canto 2           

                  3:      William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience

                  6:      Labor Day; no class

                  8:      Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume One

                10:      William Wordsworth, from Lyrical Ballads  (but not the "Preface")

                13:      Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, "Frost at Midnight"; Review of sentence structure 

                15:      Frankenstein, Volume Two

                17:      William Wordsworth, "The Ruined Cottage"

                20:      Anna Letitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson

                22:      Frankenstein, Volume Three

                24:      Dorothy Wordsworth, from her Journals

                27:      Review; Exam Part One

                29:      Exam Part Two

 October    1:      Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford Chapters I-IV (online)

 http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Cranford-Illustrated.html

                 4:        Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes"; "Ode to a Nightingale" 

                 6:        Sir Walter Scott, from Heart of the Midlothian

                 8:        Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford Chapters V-VIII

                11:       Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"  Paper Due

                13:       George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (Volume 1, chapters 1-5)

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

                15:       Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford Chapters IX-XI

 * * * Fall Break * * *

                20:       Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess" "Fra Lippo Lippi"

                22:       Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford Chapters XII-XVI

                25:       Research

                27:       George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (Volume 1, chapters 6-10.)

                29:       Tennyson, from Idylls of the King "The Coming of Arthur"

November 1:       Tennyson, from Idylls of the King "The Passing of Arthur"
         
                 3 :       Exam Part One

                 5:        Exam Part Two

                 8:        Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Aurora Leigh

                10:       Christina Rossetii

                12:       Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (installments 1, 2; chapters 1-8)

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

                15:      Light Verse (pp. 1662-1678)

                17:      Robert Louis Stevenson,  The Master of Ballantrae Preface, Chapters 1-3 (online)
http://www.bartleby.com/1017/

                19:        Michael Field

                22:        Robert Louis Stevenson,  The Master of Ballantrae Chapters 4-5

 *    *    *    Thanksgiving    *    *    *

                29:         Kipling, "The Man Who Would be King"

December  1:         Robert Louis Stevenson,  The Master of Ballantrae Chapters 6-9

                  3:         Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession Acts 1 and 2

                  6:         Gerald Manly Hopkins, Paper Due

                  8:         Robert Louis Stevenson,  The Master of Ballantrae Chapters 10-12

                 10:        Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession Acts 3 and 4

                 17:        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.  Grading scale:  90%=A; 80%=B; 70%=C; 60%=D; less than 60%=F.
Policies:  See 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.  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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