M

Jan 11

Course Intro., Syllabus, Why study British literature?

W

Jan 13

“Challenges to the Canon” (P 6-10);  Intro. to The Middle Ages and Anglo-Saxon Lit. (N 1-7); “The Dream of the Rood” (N 24-26)

M

Jan 18

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, No classes.

W

Jan 20

“The Act of Reading” (P 19-27); Beowulf (N 31-52)
Quiz on WebCT

M

Jan 25

Beowulf (N 52-77)
Quiz on WebCT

W

Jan 27

Beowulf (N 77-97); “From Reading to Writing” (P 100-111)

Passage Paper #1, due turnitin.com before class.

M

Feb 1

Intro to “Middle English Literature” (N 10-21);

Geoffrey Chaucer: “The Miller’s Prologue and Tale” (N 191-207); View PPoint / Podcast on Middle English

Quiz on WebCT

W

Feb 3

Geoffrey Chaucer: “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” (N 207-234) 

Group Presentation

Quiz on WebCT

M

Feb 8

William Langland: “The Vision of Piers Plowman” (N 271-282) and Julian of Norwich (N 282-285); Sir Thomas Malory: "Morte Darthur" (299-319) 

Quiz on WebCT

Passage Paper #2, due turnitin.com before class.

W

Feb 10

“Engaging with Poetry” (P 34-43) Introduction to “The Sixteenth Century” (N 319-329), Selection of sonnets and other poems: Wyatt’s “Whoso list to hunt” (350), “My Lute Awake” (N 351); Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (N 499), Sonnet 116 (N 506); Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd” (N 459); and Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply” (N 448); View PPoint / Podcast on Early Modern Period

handout on sonnets

Quiz on WebCT

M

Feb 15

Experiencing Drama” (P 44-48); Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (N 464-493)

Group Presentation

W

Feb 17

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (510-571)

Quiz on WebCT

Passage Paper #3, due turnitin.com before class.

M

Feb 22

W

Feb 24

Intro. to “Early Seventeenth Century” (N 582-590), John Donne “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (N 611); Holy Sonnets 10 (N 623); Ben Jonson: Epigrams (640-644), "To Penshurst" (644-646); View PPoint / Podcast on 17th Century

Quiz on WebCT

M

Mar 1

John Milton Paradise Lost Book I (N 726-733, line 330) and Book II (743-753); “On Shakespeare” (697) and “When I Consider” (722); Robert Herrick: "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" (669); Katherine Phillips: "A Married State"; Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress" (677)

W

Mar 3

Midterm Exam

M

Mar 8

Intro to “The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century” (N 853- 855, 857-861, 866-871); John Dryden "Absalom and Achitophel" (880-903); Earl of Rochester: "The Disabled Debauchee" (918), "The Imperfect Enjoyment" (919)Aphra Behn “The Disappointment” (N 924-927); View PPoint / Podcast on Restoration and 18th Century

Quiz on WebCT

W

Mar10

Aphra Behn Oroonoko (N 927-971)

Group Presentation

Last Day to withdraw with an automatic “N.”

M / W

Mar 12-15

Spring Break

M

Mar 22

Intro. cont’d (N 871-875); Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” (N 1124-1136) and "Rape of the Lock" (1136-1155); Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” (N 1114-1119)

Group Presentation

W

Mar 24

Samuel Johnson Intro; Rambler #4 (N 1285-1288), The Preface of Shakespeare (N 1297-1306)

Quiz on WebCT

Analytical Proposal Due

M

Mar 29

Introduction to “The Romantic Period” (N 1363-1378); William Blake “The Lamb” (N 1412), “The Little Black Boy” (N 1413), “The Chimney Sweeper” (N 1414), “The Tyger” (N 1420), “London” (N 1422); View PPoint / Podcast on Romanticism

Quiz on WebCT

W

Mar 31

Anna Letitia Barbauld, “Washing Day” (N 1395); Charlotte Smith “To Sleep” (N 1398), “On Being Cautioned” (N 1399); William Wordsworth “We Are Seven” (N 1487), “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (N 1537)

Group Presentation

M

Apr 5

 William Wordsworth “Tintern Abbey” (N 1491-1495); "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" (1538-1544) Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (N 1615-1632)

Quiz on WebCT

W

Apr 7

Introduction to “Victorian Age” (N 1885-1894, 1896-1903); Lord Alfred Tennyson “The Lady of Shalott” (N 1953-1958), “Ulysses” (N 1962); and Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach” (N 2105); View PPoint / Podcast on Victorian Period

Group Presentation

Annotated Bibliography Due

M

Apr 12

 Matthew Arnold from Culture and Anarchy (N 2126 and handout); Robert Browning: "Porphyria's Lover" (2054), "Andrew del Satro" (2078-2084)Elizabeth Barrett Browning “The Cry of the Children” (N 1922-1925) and “How Do I Love Thee” (N 1927); “MLA Documentation” (P 193-206)

Quiz on WebCT

W

Apr 14

Introduction to “The Twentieth Century” (N 2293-2298,2300-2301,2304-2306);  William Butler Yeats “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (N 2391), “Sailing to Byzantium” (N 2385), “Leda and the Swan” (N 2386), “Crazy Jane Talks to the Bishop” (N 2411); View PPoint / Podcast on Modernism

Quiz on WebCT

M

Apr 19

 Virginia Woolf “Modern Fiction” (N 2429-2435) from A Room of One’s Own (N 2435-2437/ 2458-2469)

Group Presentation

W

Apr 21

T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (N 2610-2614)

Quiz on WebCT

Analytical Paper Due

M

Apr 26

James Joyce The Dead (N 2507-2534)

Quiz on WebCT

Last Day of Classes

T

May 4

11:30

FINAL EXAM

Travel plans or work schedules are not reasons to reschedule examinations.