T

Aug-26

Course Intro., Syllabus, Why study British literature?

R

Aug-28

Skim Intro. to The Middle Ages and Anglo-Saxon Lit. (N 3-10)

Read “Challenges to the Canon” (P 6-10); “The Act of Reading” (P 19-27).  Create Twitter account, email derochij@winthrop.edu with Twitter Username.

T

Sep-2

“The Act of Reading” (P 19-27); Joseph Conrad, from Heart of Darkness, (2407-2415); Bede - “The Dream of the Rood” (N 29-36)

R

Sep-4

Beowulf (N 36-58)

T

Sep-9

Beowulf (N 58-79)

Quiz on Blackboard

R

Sep-11

Beowulf (N 79-106); “From Reading to Writing” (P 100-111)

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

T

Sep-16

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

Read Geoffrey Chaucer: “The Miller’s Prologue and Tale” (N 214-230)

View PPoint / Podcast on Middle English

R

Sep-18

Geoffrey Chaucer: “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” (N 230-258); 

Quiz on Blackboard
Group Presentation

T

Sep-23

Skim Introduction to “The Sixteenth Century” (N 349-360)

Read “Engaging with Poetry” (P 34-43); and Selection of sonnets and other poems: Wyatt’s “Whoso list to hunt” (384); Elizabeth I “On Monsieur’s Departure” (N 394); Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (N 541), Sonnet 116 (N 549), Sonnet 130 (N 550), Sonnet 138 (N 550); Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd” (N 499); and Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply” (N 488)

View PPoint / Podcast on Early Modern Period

handout on sonnets
Group Presentation

R

Sep-25

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

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

T

Sep-30

“Experiencing Drama” (P 44-48); Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (N 500-535)

Quiz on Blackboard

R

Oct-2

Skim Intro. to “Early Seventeenth Century” (N 637-647)

Read John Donne “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (N 679), Ben Jonson “To My Book” (710), “To Penshurst” (N 714-716); Robert Herrick: "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" (743); Katherine Phillips: "A Married State" (746); Mary Wroth: from Pamphilia (722-724); Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress" (751)

View PPoint / Podcast on 17th Century

T

Oct-4

John Milton “On Shakespeare” (N 772) and “When I Consider” (N 797); “Aeropagitica” (N 786-796); John Milton Paradise Lost Book I (N 799-809, line 330)

Passage Paper #3, due turnitin.com before class

R

Oct-9

John Milton Paradise Lost Book I (N 799-809, line 330) and Book II (819-829, line 485); Joseph Conrad, from Heart of Darkness (2415-2429)

T

Oct-14

Midterm Exam

R

Oct-16

Skim Intro to “The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century” (N 931-942, 951-954)

View PPoint / Podcast on Restoration and 18th Century

Read Earl of Rochester: "The Disabled Debauchee" (1000), "The Imperfect Enjoyment" (1001); Aphra Behn “The Disappointment” (N 1006-1010)

T

Oct-21

Aphra Behn Oroonoko (N 1010-1055)

Quiz on Blackboard
Group Presentation

October 18: Last day to withdraw from courses (automatic ‘N’) without documentation of extenuating circumstances. Last day to rescind S/U option.

R

Oct-23

Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” (N 1209-1226)
Group Presentation

M

Oct-27

Analytical Paper—Phase 1 due on Turnitin by 5:00

T

Oct-28

Alexander Pope, "Rape of the Lock" (1226-1245); Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” (N 1199-1205)

Quiz on Blackboard

R

Oct-30

Skim Introduction to “The Romantic Period” (N 1411-1428)

Read William Blake “The Lamb” (N 1458), “The Little Black Boy” (N 1458), “The Chimney Sweeper” (N 1459), “The Chimney Sweeper” (N 1465), “The Tyger” (N 1466), “London” (N 1469)

View PPoint / Podcast on Romanticism

Group Presentation

T

Nov-4

Election day. No class.

R

Nov-6

Anna Letitia Barbauld, “Washing Day” (N 1446); Charlotte Smith “To Sleep” (N 1449), “On Being Cautioned” (N 1450); William Wordsworth “We Are Seven” (N 1535), “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (N 1585)

T

Nov-11

William Wordsworth “Tintern Abbey” (N 1539-1543); Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (N 1664-1680)

Quiz on Blackboard

R

Nov-13

Skim Introduction to “Victorian Age” (N 1941-1952)

Read Lord Alfred Tennyson “The Lady of Shalott” (N 2026-2030), Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach” (N 2172)

View PPoint / Podcast on Victorian Period

Group Presentation

F

Nov-14

Analytical Paper—Phase 2 due on Turnitin by 5:00

T

Nov-18

Robert Browning: "Porphyria's Lover" (2121), “My Last Duchess” (N2124), "Andrea del Sarto" (2146-2151), Elizabeth Barrett Browning “The Cry of the Children” (N 1995-1998) and “How Do I Love Thee” (N 1999); “MLA Documentation” (P 193-206); Joseph Conrad, from Heart of Darkness (2429-2447)

Quiz on Blackboard

R

Nov-20

Skim Introduction to “The Twentieth Century” (N 2367-2374, 2376-2380, 2381-2383)

Read William Butler Yeats “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (N 2470), “Sailing to Byzantium” (N 2485), “Leda and the Swan” (N 2484), “Crazy Jane Talks to the Bishop” (N 2491)

View PPoint / Podcast on Modernism

F

Nov-21

Analytical Paper—Phase 3 due on Turnitin by 5:00

T

Nov-25

Virginia Woolf “Modern Fiction” (N 2510-2515) from “Professions for Women” (N 2625-2628)

T

Dec-2

T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (N 2709-2713); Joseph Conrad, from The Heart of Darkness (2447-2465)

R

Dec-4

James Joyce The Dead (N 2635-2664)

Quiz on Blackboard

Last Day of Classes

M

Dec-8

Final Analytical Paper Due on Turnitin.com by 5:00

W

Dec-10
8:00AM

FINAL EXAM

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