English
323-01
British
Literature
III
Spring 2006
MWF 9:00-9:50 Grainger 218; Dr. Lund (Grainger 10; 395-2168; Office
Hours: MW 10:00-10:50; TTR 1:45-2:45; and by appointment.
http://web.longwood.edu/staff/mlund/mlund.html
Texts:
The Norton
Anthology of English Literature, Volume II, Seventh Edition. ed.
M. H. Abrams et al. Arthur Conan Doyle,
Sherlock Holmes (Stanford
U.; available online
http://sherlockholmes.stanford.edu/)
January
18: Introduction:
Irrational Men/Rational Women
20: Blake,
Songs of Innocence and Experience
23: Jane Austen,
Pride and
Prejudice Chapters 1-15 (online at
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93pr/index.html)
25: Anna Letitia Barbauld,
Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson
27: William Wordsworth, from
Lyrical Ballads (but not
the "Preface")
30: Jane Austen,
Pride and
Prejudice Chapters 16-23
February
1: Wordsworth,
"The Ruined Cottage"
Review of
sentence
structure.
3: Coleridge, "Rime of the
Ancient Mariner"
and "Kubla Khan"
6: Byron, Lyrics (pp. 555-563)
8: Jane Austen,
Pride and
Prejudice Chapters 24-42 (Volume II)
10: Dorothy Wordsworth's
Journals
13: Sherlock Holmes,
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
"A Scandal in Bohemia" (Jan 27 issue)
15: Percy Shelley, "Ode to
the West Wind" "Men of England" "To a Skylark"
17: Jane Austen,
Pride and
Prejudice Chapters 43-61 (Volume III)
20:
Exam, Part II
22:
Exam, Part II
24: Keats, "Lamia,"
27: Sherlock Holmes,
Hound of the Baskervilles,
Chpts 1-2.
March 1:
Scott, from
Heart of the
Midlothian
3: Arnold, "Dover
Beach"
March
6: Robert Browning, "My Last
Duchess" "Childe Roland"
Paper
# 1 due
8: Sherlock Holmes,
Hound of the Baskervilles,
Chp 3-6
10: Charles Dickens, "A Visit to
Newgate"
* * * Spring Break
* * *
20: Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, from
Aurora Leigh
Paper Review
22: George Eliot, Chapters
1-5, Volume One,
Daniel
Deronda Chpts 1-5 (online)
http://ebooks.du.ac.in/etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/e/eliot/george/e42d/index.html
24: Sherlock Holmes,
Hound of the Baskervilles,
Chpts 7-8
27: Elizabeth Gaskell,
Wives and Daughters,
Chapters I-III
(online)
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-W&D.html
29: Christina Rosetti
31: George Eliot, Chapters
1-5, Volume One,
Daniel
Deronda Chpts 6-10
April
3: Sherlock Holmes,
Hound of the Baskervilles,
Chpts 9, 10, 11, 12
5:
Exam II, Part One
April
7:
Exam II, Part
Two
10: Tennyson,
Idylls of the King
"The Coming of Arthur"
12: Tennyson,
Idylls of the King
"The Passing of Arthur"
14: Thomas Hardy, chapters
1-8
from
Return of the Native
(online)
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/h/hardy/thomas/h27r/
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
17: Kipling, "The Man Who
Would be King"
19: Sherlock Holmes,
Hound of the Baskervilles
Chpts 13 to the end
21: Michael Field;
Paper # 2 due
24: Bernard Shaw,
Mrs. Warren's Profession Act
26: Bernard Shaw,
Mrs. Warren's Profession Ac
28:
Review
May
4: Final Exam:
11:30-2:00
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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