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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