Revised 4-20-16
ENGLISH 326 British Literature: Restoration to Romanticism
Section 01
Professor: Derek Taylor
Spring 2016
Office: Grainger 306
Office Hours: MWF 3:00-4:00; W 12:00-1:00 (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: 40%
--Timed Writing Assignment (2-19): 10%
--Midterm Examination (3-16): 10%
--Comparison Essay (4-29): 20%
--Final Examination (5-2): 20%
--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 have their participation grades significantly lowered.
A late essay is its own punishment. Furthermore, if you turn in your essay late there is simply no telling when I will be able to get it back to you. 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. 1-20. Introduction to course
F. 1-22. Snow Cancelation
Week 2
M. 1-25. Snow Cancelation
W. 1-27. John Dryden: “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” (2243-2246). 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. Daily quizzes will assume you have read this material. Dryden: Criticism (2251-2259) and “From Annus Mirabilis” (2208-2212); Samuel Peyps, “From The Diary” (2260-2264); Dryden,Mac Flecknoe (2236-2242).
F. 1-29. 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).
Week 3
M. 2-1. Mary Astell, “From Some Reflections Upon Marriage” (2420-2424); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband” (2763-2765); William Hogarth: Marriage A-la-Mode (2833-2840).
W. 2-3 Poems by John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (2296-2307); Aphra Behn: “The Disappointment” (2307-2313).
F. 2-5. Congreve, Acts 1-2 of The Way of the World (begins on 2359)
Week 4
M. 2-8. Congreve, Acts 3-5 of The Way of the World
W. 2-10. Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” (2633-2639)
F. 2-12. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 1 (2487-2504)
Week 5
M. 2-15. Class Canceled (snow!)
W. 2-17. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 1 (2505-2531); Gulliver’s Travels, Part 4 (2587-2633)
F. 2-19. Class Canceled (AACU Conference). Timed Writing Assignment due by 9:00 pm on Sunday, 2-21 (email as an attachment). You will have 2 and ½ hours, as explained on the assignment sheet (distributed on Friday afternoon via email--but I'll post it on my website as well, just in case).
Week 6
M. 2-22. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part 1 (2665-2673)
W. 2-24. Pope, Cantos 1 and 2 of The Rape of the Lock (begins on 2685)
F. 2-26. Class Canceled (CMS Conference).
Week 7
M. 2-29. Pope, Cantos 3-5 of The Rape of the Lock (ends 2704).
W. 3-2. Pope, Epistle 1 of An Essay on Man (2713-2720); Joseph Addison, “On the Scale of Being” (2662-2665)
F. 3-4. James Boswell, selections from The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. (2962-2992); Samuel Johnson, selections from Dictionary of the English Language (2929-2936)
Week 8
Classes Canceled for Spring Break
Week 9
M. 3-14. “The Restoration and Eighteenth Century 1660-1785” (2177-2205)
W. 3-16. Midterm Examination
F. 3-18. Balladry and Ballad Revivals (31-39); William Wordsworth, “From Lyrical Ballads” (270-288)
Week 10
M. 3-21. William Wordsworth, “From Preface to Lyrical Ballads [1802]” (292-304); “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (305); Dorothy Wordsworth, “From The Alfoxden Journal and The Grasmere Journal” (402-405).
W. 3-23. William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” (288-292).
F. 3-25. William Wordsworth, “From The Prelude: Book First” (349-351; 356-378).
Week 11
M. 3-28. William Wordsworth, “From The Prelude (excerpts from Book Eleventh and Book Thirteenth)” (395-402); “Surprised by joy” (347)
W. 3-30. 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. 4-1. “The Revolution Controversy” (183-207)
Week 12
M. 4-4. William Blake, “Two Letters on Sight and Vision” (162-165) and “From Songs of Innocence and Experience” (118-135)
W. 4-6. Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (148-162)
F. 4-8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (443-459) and “Kubla Khan” (459-462).
Week 13
M. 4-11. George Gordon, Lord Byron (612-616): “Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos” and “She Walks in Beauty” (616-618); “Darkness” (618-619); “So We’ll Go No More a Roving” (620).
W. 4-13. Byron, Manfred (638-648; 662-672); excerpt from Don Juan (700-704)
F. 4-15. 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).
Week 14
M. 4-18. John Keats: Poems (901-911); excerpts from Letters (965-972)
W. 4-20. Keats: “Ode to a Nightingale” (927-929), “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (930-931), excerpts from Letters (972-974; 980).
F. 4-22. Class Canceled (Funeral)
Week 15
M. 4-25. “The Gothic. . .” (584-612)
W. 4-27. “The Romantic Period 1785-1830” (3-27)
F. 4-29. Comparison Essay Due.
Week 16
M. 5-2. Final Examination (8:00-10:30).
ENGLISH 326 British Literature: Restoration to Romanticism
Section 01
Professor: Derek Taylor
Spring 2016
Office: Grainger 306
Office Hours: MWF 3:00-4:00; W 12:00-1:00 (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: 40%
--Timed Writing Assignment (2-19): 10%
--Midterm Examination (3-16): 10%
--Comparison Essay (4-29): 20%
--Final Examination (5-2): 20%
--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 have their participation grades significantly lowered.
A late essay is its own punishment. Furthermore, if you turn in your essay late there is simply no telling when I will be able to get it back to you. 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. 1-20. Introduction to course
F. 1-22. Snow Cancelation
Week 2
M. 1-25. Snow Cancelation
W. 1-27. John Dryden: “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” (2243-2246). 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. Daily quizzes will assume you have read this material. Dryden: Criticism (2251-2259) and “From Annus Mirabilis” (2208-2212); Samuel Peyps, “From The Diary” (2260-2264); Dryden,Mac Flecknoe (2236-2242).
F. 1-29. 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).
Week 3
M. 2-1. Mary Astell, “From Some Reflections Upon Marriage” (2420-2424); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband” (2763-2765); William Hogarth: Marriage A-la-Mode (2833-2840).
W. 2-3 Poems by John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (2296-2307); Aphra Behn: “The Disappointment” (2307-2313).
F. 2-5. Congreve, Acts 1-2 of The Way of the World (begins on 2359)
Week 4
M. 2-8. Congreve, Acts 3-5 of The Way of the World
W. 2-10. Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” (2633-2639)
F. 2-12. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 1 (2487-2504)
Week 5
M. 2-15. Class Canceled (snow!)
W. 2-17. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 1 (2505-2531); Gulliver’s Travels, Part 4 (2587-2633)
F. 2-19. Class Canceled (AACU Conference). Timed Writing Assignment due by 9:00 pm on Sunday, 2-21 (email as an attachment). You will have 2 and ½ hours, as explained on the assignment sheet (distributed on Friday afternoon via email--but I'll post it on my website as well, just in case).
Week 6
M. 2-22. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part 1 (2665-2673)
W. 2-24. Pope, Cantos 1 and 2 of The Rape of the Lock (begins on 2685)
F. 2-26. Class Canceled (CMS Conference).
Week 7
M. 2-29. Pope, Cantos 3-5 of The Rape of the Lock (ends 2704).
W. 3-2. Pope, Epistle 1 of An Essay on Man (2713-2720); Joseph Addison, “On the Scale of Being” (2662-2665)
F. 3-4. James Boswell, selections from The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. (2962-2992); Samuel Johnson, selections from Dictionary of the English Language (2929-2936)
Week 8
Classes Canceled for Spring Break
Week 9
M. 3-14. “The Restoration and Eighteenth Century 1660-1785” (2177-2205)
W. 3-16. Midterm Examination
F. 3-18. Balladry and Ballad Revivals (31-39); William Wordsworth, “From Lyrical Ballads” (270-288)
Week 10
M. 3-21. William Wordsworth, “From Preface to Lyrical Ballads [1802]” (292-304); “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (305); Dorothy Wordsworth, “From The Alfoxden Journal and The Grasmere Journal” (402-405).
W. 3-23. William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” (288-292).
F. 3-25. William Wordsworth, “From The Prelude: Book First” (349-351; 356-378).
Week 11
M. 3-28. William Wordsworth, “From The Prelude (excerpts from Book Eleventh and Book Thirteenth)” (395-402); “Surprised by joy” (347)
W. 3-30. 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. 4-1. “The Revolution Controversy” (183-207)
Week 12
M. 4-4. William Blake, “Two Letters on Sight and Vision” (162-165) and “From Songs of Innocence and Experience” (118-135)
W. 4-6. Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (148-162)
F. 4-8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (443-459) and “Kubla Khan” (459-462).
Week 13
M. 4-11. George Gordon, Lord Byron (612-616): “Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos” and “She Walks in Beauty” (616-618); “Darkness” (618-619); “So We’ll Go No More a Roving” (620).
W. 4-13. Byron, Manfred (638-648; 662-672); excerpt from Don Juan (700-704)
F. 4-15. 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).
Week 14
M. 4-18. John Keats: Poems (901-911); excerpts from Letters (965-972)
W. 4-20. Keats: “Ode to a Nightingale” (927-929), “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (930-931), excerpts from Letters (972-974; 980).
F. 4-22. Class Canceled (Funeral)
Week 15
M. 4-25. “The Gothic. . .” (584-612)
W. 4-27. “The Romantic Period 1785-1830” (3-27)
F. 4-29. Comparison Essay Due.
Week 16
M. 5-2. Final Examination (8:00-10:30).