All assignments are in The Oxford Anthology unless otherwise indicated.
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Jan. 11 |
Introduction to the course and to Romanticism
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Jan. 13 |
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 19-68; and Coleridge, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” 238-54
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Jan. 17 |
Martin Luther King holiday. No classes.
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Jan. 18 |
Frankenstein, 68-128
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Jan. 20 |
Frankenstein 128-85
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Jan. 25 |
Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience; introductory material: 17-29 and 3-9; and “Romantic Period in English Literature, 1798-1870,” Handbook, 448-49
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Jan. 27 |
Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” “Preface to Lyrical Ballads,” and Prelude (Book I): 146-50, 592-611, and 187-96; “Epic” and “Sublime,” Handbook: 185 and 492-93
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Feb. 1 |
Coleridge, “Kubla Khan,” Dejection: An Ode,” “Frost at Midnight,” “The Eolian Harp,” “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” and Biographia Literaria XIV: 236-54, 254-57, 273-79, 645-50
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Feb. 3 |
Shelley, “Alastor: Or the Spirit of Solitude,” “Ode to the West Wind,” “To Wordsworth” (http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/679/), and “Defense of Poetry”: 400-8, 447-49, 744-62; “Ode” and “Sonnet,” Handbook, 349-50, 480
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Feb. 8 |
Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” “On the Grasshopper and Cricket,” “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “To Autumn,” and letters (December 21, 1817; October 27, 1818): 495-96, 535-36, 541-42, 556-57, 766-68, 777-78
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Feb. 10 |
Romanticism Test
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Feb. 15 |
Tennyson, “Ulysses,” “The Lady of Shalott,” “Morte d’Arthur,” and introductory material: 1177-79, 1184-88, 1202-4, 12-6-13; “Victorian,” Handbook, 530 Last day to drop with automatic N
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Feb. 17 |
Browning, “My Last Duchess,” “Fra Lippo Lippi”: 1288-89, 1295-1304; “Porphyria’s Lover” (available at http://www.bartleby.com/101/720.html); “Dramatic Monologue,” Handbook, 164-65
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Feb. 22 |
Arnold, “to Marguerite—Continued,” “Dover Beach,” “The Buried Life,” “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse,” “The Scholar Gypsy”: 1374-75, 1379-96
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Feb. 24 |
Hopkins, all selections: 1468-75; “Inscape” and “Sprung Rhythm,” Handbook, 265 and 484
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March 1 |
Newman, “The Idea of a University”; Mill, “On Liberty,” “On the Subjection of Women,” “A Crisis in My Mental History”: 869-94, 912-17
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March 3 |
Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1-150
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March 8 |
Jane Eyre, 150-300
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March 10 |
Jane Eyre, 300-85
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March 15 |
Spring Break
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March 17 |
Spring Break
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March 22 |
Victorian Test
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March 23 |
Advising begins
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March 24 |
Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (http://www.bartleby.com/103/44.html), “The Wild Swans at Coole” (http://www.bartleby.com/148/1.html), “Song of Wandering Aengus” (http://www.bartleby.com/146/9.html), “Leda and the Swan,” “The Second Coming,” “Sailing to Byzantium,” “Byzantium,” “Lapis Lazuli”: 1699-1702, 1704-5, 1710-12, 1714-16; introductory material on modernism, 1511-20; and “Modern Period in English Literature,” Handbook, 318-20
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March 29 |
Yeats, “The Magi,” “Michael Robartes and the Dancer,” “Among School Children,” “Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop”: 1689-93, 1694-96, 1705-8, 1712
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March 31 |
Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1613-60
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April 5 |
Heart of Darkness, 1660-79
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April 6 |
Registration begins
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April 7 |
Joyce, “The Dead,” 1739-68
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April 12 |
Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “Tradition and the Individual Talent”: 1971-76, 2013-19
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April 14 |
Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, 3-57
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April 18 |
Last day to withdraw from a class
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April 19 |
A Room of One’s Own, 58-114
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April 21 |
Last day of class: Review
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April 25 |
Last day of classes
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April 26 |
Study day; exams begin at 6:30 pm
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