Schedule
Page numbers refer to Longman Anthology of British Literature,
Volume 2A, 5th Edition (all selections available in 3rd and 4th editions) |
Assignment
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8/22
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Wordsworth, “I wandered lonely as a
cloud” (551); Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” (669-671); Byron, from Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage (771-772)
(recommended) “Romantics and Their Contemporaries” (7-33) |
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8/24
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“The Rights of Man and
the Revolution Controversy” (108);
Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France (113-122); Paine, “The Rights of Man” (131-138) |
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8/29
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Barbauld, “The Mouse’s Petition to Dr. Priestley” (66-7); Burns, “To a Mouse” (398-399), “Is
There, In Honest Poverty” (404);
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8/31
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Equiano,
“The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” (230-239); Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience (176-186); Blake, Songs of Innocence
and Experience (189-203)
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Response due on either Equiano or one Blake poem
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9/5
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Labor Day Holiday:
CAMPUS CLOSED
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9/7
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Continue with Blake
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9/12
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Wollstonecraft, “Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (288-308)
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9/14
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Austen, Northanger Abbey, Volume 1 (chapters
1-15)
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Response due on Northanger Abbey
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9/19
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Austen, Northanger Abbey, Volume 2 (chapters 16-31)
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9/21
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Continue with Austen
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9/26
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Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell (203-216)
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9/28
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Percy Shelley, “Ozymandias” (877),
“Sonnet: England in 1819” (878), “Ode to the West Wind” (889-891)
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Response due on one
Shelley poem
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10/3
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Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical
Ballads (433-442); selections (412-433); Jeffrey, ‘[“the new poetry”]’ (468-471);
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10/5
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Wordsworth, [continue with
selections (412-433)];
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10/10
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Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight” (563-565), “This Lime Tree
Bower My Prison” (628-630)
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10/12
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MIDTERM
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10/17
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“The Sublime, the
Beautiful, and the Picturesque” (34-37); Burke
(37-43); Kant (44-46)
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10/19
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Wordsworth, “There was a Boy” (407), from The Prelude, Book 11,
lines 243-389 (492-496), Book 13, lines 1-184 (496-500)
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Response due on any
passage from Wordsworth
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10/24
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Wordsworth, from The Prelude, Book First, lines 306-502
(485-489), Book Second, lines 237-303 (493-494), “Ode: Intimations of
Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (552-558)
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10/26
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Continue with Wordsworth
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10/31
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Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (634-649)
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Response due on Coleridge
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11/2
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Continue with Coleridge
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11/7
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Byron, Manfred (647-683)
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11/9
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Continue with Byron; Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”
(911-913)
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11/14
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Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes (893-904), “La
belle dame sans merci” (906-907)
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11/16
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Keats, “Ode
on a Grecian Urn” (913-915), “Ode on Melancholy” (917-918), “To Autumn” (918-919)
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NEW Optional Makeup Response due on any passage from one of Keats' Odes
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11/21
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Percy Shelley, “To a Skylark” (891-893), Adonais (894-909)
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NEW Paper Draft Due
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11/23
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Study Day: NO CLASS
MEETING
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11/28
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Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein
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11/30
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Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein
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12/5
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Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein
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Revised Paper Due
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Th.
12/8 |
Final Examination 1:30-3:30pm
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