ENGLISH 326: British Literature: Restoration to Romanticism
Section 01
Professor: Derek Taylor
Spring 2015
Office: Grainger 306
Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:00; F 10:00-12:00 (and by appointment)
Phone: 395-2748
e-mail: [email protected]
website: www.ederektaylor.weebly.com
ENGLISH 326. British Literature: Restoration to Romanticism. Restoration, Enlightenment, and Romantic literature (1660-1832), with an emphasis on such major authors as Dryden, Behn, Swift, Pope, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Johnson, Wollstonecraft, Blake, Wordsworth, Charlotte Smith, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, Keats, and Austen. Prerequisite: completion of General Education Goal 3. 3 credits.
Course Text: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vols. C and D. Ninth Edition. New York: Norton, 2012.
Objectives: This course will introduce students to a wide variety of major British writers from the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. By the end of the semester, students should have foundational knowledge of major intellectual movements, literary genres, and cultural contexts that define these periods.
Grading:
--Quizzes: 30%
--Preliminary Examination 1 (2-13): 10%
--In-class Essay (3-11): 10%
--Comparison Essay (4-24): 20%
--Final Examination (4-28): 30%
--Participation: + or -
Attendance, Tardiness, Late Papers: Students are expected to attend classes regularly. ONLY illness, official college business, and emergencies permit the make-up of work missed, and all such absences must be documented. Unexcused absences totaling 10% or more of class meetings will result in a one letter grade penalty; absences totaling 25% or more, excused or otherwise, will result in an F for the course. Consistently tardy students will be remembered as such when final grades are assigned.
Essays are due at the beginning of the class period, and a late essay is its own punishment. Students may not make up missed quizzes for any reason.
Classroom Decorum: Students are expected to behave civilly both to each other and to the instructor, and to conduct themselves in a manner that encourages learning in the classroom. Email messages, voice mail, notes to the instructor, etc., will be considered as part of the participation grade, so students should think carefully about the tone and content of them.
Honor Code: All work is governed by the Longwood University Honor Code. Written work must contain the pledge in writing and be signed. Students should read closely the section on plagiarism in the Longwood Style Manual.
Class Schedule:
NB—I reserve the right to change the following schedule by giving oral notification in class. Unless otherwise notified, all reading and writing assignments are due at the beginning of class on the day indicated by this schedule. Absence from one class is never an excuse for being unprepared for any subsequent class.
Week 1
W. 1-14. Introduction to course
F. 1-16. John Bunyan, “From The Pilgrim’s Progress” (2269-2278); John Locke, “From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” (2279-2283); Sir Isaac Newton, “From a Letter . . . Containing His New Theory about Light and Colors” (2283-2289). Always read the biographical introductions to the authors, both for today and for the rest of the semester. Use your table of contents as necessary.
Week 2
M. 1-19. Class Canceled for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
W. 1-21. John Dryden: “From Annus Mirabilis” (2208-2212); Samuel Peyps, “From The Diary” (2260-2264).
F. 1-23. John Dryden: Criticism (2251-2259) and “Mac Flecknoe” (2236-2242).
Week 3
M. 1-26. Mary Astell, “From Some Reflections Upon Marriage” (2420-2424); William Hogarth: Marriage A-la-Mode (2833-2840); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Excerpts from Turkish Letters and “Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband” (2759-2765).
W. 1-28. Poems by John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (2296-2307); Aphra Behn: “The Disappointment” (2307-2313).
F. 1-30. Congreve, Acts 1-2 of The Way of the World (begins on 2359)
Week 4
M. 2-2. Congreve, Acts 3-5 of The Way of the World
W. 2-4. Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” (2633-2639)
F. 2-6. Writing Workshop
Week 5
M. 2-9. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 1 (2487-2531)
W. 2-11. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 4 (2587-2633)
F. 2-13. Preliminary Examination
Week 6
M. 2-16. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part 1 (2665-2673)
W. 2-18. Pope, Cantos 1 and 2 of The Rape of the Lock (begins on 2685)
F. 2-20. Pope, Cantos 3-5 of The Rape of the Lock (ends 2704).
Week 7
M. 2-23. Pope, Epistle 1 of An Essay on Man (2713-2720); Joseph Addison, “On the Scale of Being” (2662-2665)
W. 2-25. James Boswell, selections from The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. (2962-2992); Samuel Johnson, selections from Dictionary of the English Language (2929-2936)
F. 2-27. Class Canceled (SEASECS Meeting)
Week 8
Classes Canceled for Spring Break
Week 9
M. 3-9. “The Restoration and Eighteenth Century 1660-1785” (2177-2205)
W. 3-11. In-class essay
F. 3-13. Balladry and Ballad Revivals (31-39); William Wordsworth, “From Lyrical Ballads” (270-288)
Week 10
M. 3-16. William Wordsworth, “From Preface to Lyrical Ballads [1802]” (292-304); Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “From Biographia Literaria” (491-499)
W. 3-18 Dorothy Wordsworth, “From The Alfoxden Journal and The Grasmere Journal” (402-405); William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” (258-262), “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (305).
F. 3-20. William Wordsworth, “From The Prelude: Book First” (349-351; 356-378).
Week 11
M. 3-23. William Wordsworth, “From The Prelude (excerpts from Book Eleventh and Book Thirteenth)” (395-402); “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” (335-341).
W. 3-25. Anna Latitia Barbauld, “A Mouse’s Petition” (39-41), “To a Little . . .” (49-50), “Washing Day” (50-52), “The Caterpillar” (52-53); Charlotte Smith: “From Elegiac Sonnets (53-57).
F. 3-27. “The Revolution Controversy” (183-207)
Week 12
M. 3-30. William Blake, “Two Letters on Sight and Vision” (162-165) and “From Songs of Innocence and Experience” (118-135)
W. 4-1. Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (148-162)
F. 4-3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (443-459) and “Kubla Khan” (459-462).
Week 13
M. 4-6. George Gordon, Lord Byron (612-616): “Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos” and “She Walks in Beauty” (616-618); “So We’ll Go No More a Roving” (620); Manfred (638-655)
W. 4-8. Bryon, Manfred (655-672) and excerpt from Don Juan (700-704)
F. 4-10. Class Canceled for ACTC Conference.
Week 14
M. 4-13. Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mont Blanc” (770-771), “Ozymandias” (776), “England in 1819” (790), “To Sidmouth and Castleagh” (790-791), “Ode to the West Wind” (791-793), excerpts from “A Defence of Poetry” (865-869)
W. 4-15. John Keats: Poems (901-911); excerpts from Letters (965-972)
F. 4-17. Keats: “Ode to a Nightingale” (903-905), “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (905-906), excerpts from Letters (972-974; 980).
Week 15
M. 4-20. “The Gothic. . .” (584-612)
W. 4-22. “The Romantic Period 1785-1830” (3-27)
F. 4-24. Comparison Essay Due (bring hard copy to class). Final Examination review.
Week 16
T. 4-28. Final Examination (3:00-5:30).
Section 01
Professor: Derek Taylor
Spring 2015
Office: Grainger 306
Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:00; F 10:00-12:00 (and by appointment)
Phone: 395-2748
e-mail: [email protected]
website: www.ederektaylor.weebly.com
ENGLISH 326. British Literature: Restoration to Romanticism. Restoration, Enlightenment, and Romantic literature (1660-1832), with an emphasis on such major authors as Dryden, Behn, Swift, Pope, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Johnson, Wollstonecraft, Blake, Wordsworth, Charlotte Smith, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, Keats, and Austen. Prerequisite: completion of General Education Goal 3. 3 credits.
Course Text: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vols. C and D. Ninth Edition. New York: Norton, 2012.
Objectives: This course will introduce students to a wide variety of major British writers from the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. By the end of the semester, students should have foundational knowledge of major intellectual movements, literary genres, and cultural contexts that define these periods.
Grading:
--Quizzes: 30%
--Preliminary Examination 1 (2-13): 10%
--In-class Essay (3-11): 10%
--Comparison Essay (4-24): 20%
--Final Examination (4-28): 30%
--Participation: + or -
Attendance, Tardiness, Late Papers: Students are expected to attend classes regularly. ONLY illness, official college business, and emergencies permit the make-up of work missed, and all such absences must be documented. Unexcused absences totaling 10% or more of class meetings will result in a one letter grade penalty; absences totaling 25% or more, excused or otherwise, will result in an F for the course. Consistently tardy students will be remembered as such when final grades are assigned.
Essays are due at the beginning of the class period, and a late essay is its own punishment. Students may not make up missed quizzes for any reason.
Classroom Decorum: Students are expected to behave civilly both to each other and to the instructor, and to conduct themselves in a manner that encourages learning in the classroom. Email messages, voice mail, notes to the instructor, etc., will be considered as part of the participation grade, so students should think carefully about the tone and content of them.
Honor Code: All work is governed by the Longwood University Honor Code. Written work must contain the pledge in writing and be signed. Students should read closely the section on plagiarism in the Longwood Style Manual.
Class Schedule:
NB—I reserve the right to change the following schedule by giving oral notification in class. Unless otherwise notified, all reading and writing assignments are due at the beginning of class on the day indicated by this schedule. Absence from one class is never an excuse for being unprepared for any subsequent class.
Week 1
W. 1-14. Introduction to course
F. 1-16. John Bunyan, “From The Pilgrim’s Progress” (2269-2278); John Locke, “From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” (2279-2283); Sir Isaac Newton, “From a Letter . . . Containing His New Theory about Light and Colors” (2283-2289). Always read the biographical introductions to the authors, both for today and for the rest of the semester. Use your table of contents as necessary.
Week 2
M. 1-19. Class Canceled for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
W. 1-21. John Dryden: “From Annus Mirabilis” (2208-2212); Samuel Peyps, “From The Diary” (2260-2264).
F. 1-23. John Dryden: Criticism (2251-2259) and “Mac Flecknoe” (2236-2242).
Week 3
M. 1-26. Mary Astell, “From Some Reflections Upon Marriage” (2420-2424); William Hogarth: Marriage A-la-Mode (2833-2840); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Excerpts from Turkish Letters and “Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband” (2759-2765).
W. 1-28. Poems by John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (2296-2307); Aphra Behn: “The Disappointment” (2307-2313).
F. 1-30. Congreve, Acts 1-2 of The Way of the World (begins on 2359)
Week 4
M. 2-2. Congreve, Acts 3-5 of The Way of the World
W. 2-4. Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” (2633-2639)
F. 2-6. Writing Workshop
Week 5
M. 2-9. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 1 (2487-2531)
W. 2-11. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 4 (2587-2633)
F. 2-13. Preliminary Examination
Week 6
M. 2-16. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part 1 (2665-2673)
W. 2-18. Pope, Cantos 1 and 2 of The Rape of the Lock (begins on 2685)
F. 2-20. Pope, Cantos 3-5 of The Rape of the Lock (ends 2704).
Week 7
M. 2-23. Pope, Epistle 1 of An Essay on Man (2713-2720); Joseph Addison, “On the Scale of Being” (2662-2665)
W. 2-25. James Boswell, selections from The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. (2962-2992); Samuel Johnson, selections from Dictionary of the English Language (2929-2936)
F. 2-27. Class Canceled (SEASECS Meeting)
Week 8
Classes Canceled for Spring Break
Week 9
M. 3-9. “The Restoration and Eighteenth Century 1660-1785” (2177-2205)
W. 3-11. In-class essay
F. 3-13. Balladry and Ballad Revivals (31-39); William Wordsworth, “From Lyrical Ballads” (270-288)
Week 10
M. 3-16. William Wordsworth, “From Preface to Lyrical Ballads [1802]” (292-304); Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “From Biographia Literaria” (491-499)
W. 3-18 Dorothy Wordsworth, “From The Alfoxden Journal and The Grasmere Journal” (402-405); William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” (258-262), “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (305).
F. 3-20. William Wordsworth, “From The Prelude: Book First” (349-351; 356-378).
Week 11
M. 3-23. William Wordsworth, “From The Prelude (excerpts from Book Eleventh and Book Thirteenth)” (395-402); “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” (335-341).
W. 3-25. Anna Latitia Barbauld, “A Mouse’s Petition” (39-41), “To a Little . . .” (49-50), “Washing Day” (50-52), “The Caterpillar” (52-53); Charlotte Smith: “From Elegiac Sonnets (53-57).
F. 3-27. “The Revolution Controversy” (183-207)
Week 12
M. 3-30. William Blake, “Two Letters on Sight and Vision” (162-165) and “From Songs of Innocence and Experience” (118-135)
W. 4-1. Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (148-162)
F. 4-3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (443-459) and “Kubla Khan” (459-462).
Week 13
M. 4-6. George Gordon, Lord Byron (612-616): “Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos” and “She Walks in Beauty” (616-618); “So We’ll Go No More a Roving” (620); Manfred (638-655)
W. 4-8. Bryon, Manfred (655-672) and excerpt from Don Juan (700-704)
F. 4-10. Class Canceled for ACTC Conference.
Week 14
M. 4-13. Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mont Blanc” (770-771), “Ozymandias” (776), “England in 1819” (790), “To Sidmouth and Castleagh” (790-791), “Ode to the West Wind” (791-793), excerpts from “A Defence of Poetry” (865-869)
W. 4-15. John Keats: Poems (901-911); excerpts from Letters (965-972)
F. 4-17. Keats: “Ode to a Nightingale” (903-905), “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (905-906), excerpts from Letters (972-974; 980).
Week 15
M. 4-20. “The Gothic. . .” (584-612)
W. 4-22. “The Romantic Period 1785-1830” (3-27)
F. 4-24. Comparison Essay Due (bring hard copy to class). Final Examination review.
Week 16
T. 4-28. Final Examination (3:00-5:30).