Revised 11-27-17
ENGLISH 326: British Literature: Restoration to Romanticism (Section 01)
Professor: Derek Taylor
Fall 2017
Office: Grainger 306
Office Hours: MF 12:00-1:00; W 3:00-4:00; Th 2:00-3:00 (and by appointment)
Phone: 434-395-2748
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:
--Word-of-the-Day Quizzes: 40%
--Two Response Papers (9-20, 11-20): 10%
--Midterm Examination (10-11): 10%
--Exit Interview (Conducted 12-4 through 12-8): 10%
--Final Examination (12-8): 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 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
M. 8-21. Introduction to course (via John Dryden’s “Annus Mirabilis”)
W. 8-23. John Dryden: Criticism (2251-2259) and “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” (2243-2245). Always read the biographical introductions to the authors (in this case, 2208-2209), 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.
F. 8-25. Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (2236-2242).
Week 2
M. 8-28. 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).
W. 8-30. John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, “The Imperfect Enjoyment” (2298-2300); Aphra Behn: “The Disappointment” (2307-2313).
F. 9-1. 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).
Week 3
M. 9-4. Class Canceled (Labor Day)
W. 9-6. Congreve, Act 1 of The Way of the World (begins 2359)
F. 9-8. Congreve, Acts 2-3 of The Way of the World (2372-2395)
Week 4
M. 9-11. Congreve, Acts 4-5 of The Way of the World
W. 9-13. Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” (2633-2639)
F. 9-15. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 1 (2487-2512)
Week 5
M. 9-18. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 2 (2562-2564) and Part 4 (2587-2609 and 2617-2624).
W. 9-20. Response Paper 1 Due. The “Rise of the Novel” (read Samuel Johnson’s Rambler No. 4 (2923-2926).
F. 9-22. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part 1 (2665-2673); peek back at Dryden’s brief “Epigram on Milton” (2246).
Week 6
M. 9-25. Pope, Cantos 1 and 2 of The Rape of the Lock (begins on 2685)
W. 9-27. Pope, Cantos 3-5 of The Rape of the Lock (ends 2704).
F. 9-29. Pope, Epistle 1 of An Essay on Man (2713-2720); Joseph Addison, “On the Scale of Being” (2662-2665); Johnson, selections from Dictionary of the English Language (2929-2930 and 2934-2936).
Week 7
M. 10-2. James Thompson, from The Seasons (3044-3046); Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (3051-3054); William Collins, “Ode to Evening” (3057-3058).
W. 10-4. Christopher Smart, from Jubilate Agno (3058-3060)
F. 10-6. Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (3061-3070)
Week 8
M. 10-9. “The Restoration and Eighteenth Century 1660-1785” (2177-2205)
W. 10-11. Midterm Examination
F. 10-13. Class Canceled
Week 9
M. 10-16. Class Canceled for Fall Break
W. 10-18. William Wordsworth, Balladry and Ballad Revivals (31-39); William Wordsworth, “From Lyrical Ballads” (270-72), "Simon Lee" (275-278), "We Are Seven" (278-279), "Lines Written in Early Spring" (280), “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (305); Dorothy Wordsworth, “From The Grasmere Journals” (402-404; 409-410)
F. 10-20. William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” (288-292), “From Preface to Lyrical Ballads [1802]” (292-304)
Week 10
M. 10-23. William Wordsworth, “From The Prelude: Book First” (349-351; 356-357; 362-367)
W. 10-25. William Wordsworth, “From The Prelude (Book Eleventh and Book Thirteenth)” (395-402)
F. 10-27. Paradise Lost Marathon (meet outside in front of Grainger)
Week 11
M. 10-30. 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).
W. 11-1. “The Revolution Controversy” (183-207)
F. 11-3. “The Slave Trade and the Literature of Abolition” (88-112)
Week 12
M. 11-6. William Blake, “Two Letters on Sight and Vision” (162-165) and “From Songs of Innocence and Experience” (118-135)
W. 11-8. Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (148-162)
F. 11-10. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (443-459) and “Kubla Khan” (459-462).
Week 13
M. 11-13. George Gordon, Lord Byron (612-616), Manfred (638-648, 659-661, 668-672)
W. 11-15. 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).
F. 11-17. John Keats: “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (904), “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” (911), excerpts from Letters (965-972)
Week 14
M. 11-20. Response Paper 2 Due. (Email as attachment by 5:00 pm).
W. 11-22. Class Canceled for Thanksgiving
F. 11-24. Class Canceled for Thanksgiving
Week 15
M. 11-27. Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” (903-905), “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (905-906), excerpts from Letters (972-974; 980).
W. 11-29. “The Gothic. . .” (584-612)
F. 12-1. “The Romantic Period 1785-1830” (3-27)
Week 16
Exit Interviews must be held before the end of the week. See prompt for details.
F. 12-8. Final Examination (8:00-10:30).
ENGLISH 326: British Literature: Restoration to Romanticism (Section 01)
Professor: Derek Taylor
Fall 2017
Office: Grainger 306
Office Hours: MF 12:00-1:00; W 3:00-4:00; Th 2:00-3:00 (and by appointment)
Phone: 434-395-2748
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:
--Word-of-the-Day Quizzes: 40%
--Two Response Papers (9-20, 11-20): 10%
--Midterm Examination (10-11): 10%
--Exit Interview (Conducted 12-4 through 12-8): 10%
--Final Examination (12-8): 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 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
M. 8-21. Introduction to course (via John Dryden’s “Annus Mirabilis”)
W. 8-23. John Dryden: Criticism (2251-2259) and “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” (2243-2245). Always read the biographical introductions to the authors (in this case, 2208-2209), 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.
F. 8-25. Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (2236-2242).
Week 2
M. 8-28. 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).
W. 8-30. John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, “The Imperfect Enjoyment” (2298-2300); Aphra Behn: “The Disappointment” (2307-2313).
F. 9-1. 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).
Week 3
M. 9-4. Class Canceled (Labor Day)
W. 9-6. Congreve, Act 1 of The Way of the World (begins 2359)
F. 9-8. Congreve, Acts 2-3 of The Way of the World (2372-2395)
Week 4
M. 9-11. Congreve, Acts 4-5 of The Way of the World
W. 9-13. Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” (2633-2639)
F. 9-15. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 1 (2487-2512)
Week 5
M. 9-18. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 2 (2562-2564) and Part 4 (2587-2609 and 2617-2624).
W. 9-20. Response Paper 1 Due. The “Rise of the Novel” (read Samuel Johnson’s Rambler No. 4 (2923-2926).
F. 9-22. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part 1 (2665-2673); peek back at Dryden’s brief “Epigram on Milton” (2246).
Week 6
M. 9-25. Pope, Cantos 1 and 2 of The Rape of the Lock (begins on 2685)
W. 9-27. Pope, Cantos 3-5 of The Rape of the Lock (ends 2704).
F. 9-29. Pope, Epistle 1 of An Essay on Man (2713-2720); Joseph Addison, “On the Scale of Being” (2662-2665); Johnson, selections from Dictionary of the English Language (2929-2930 and 2934-2936).
Week 7
M. 10-2. James Thompson, from The Seasons (3044-3046); Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (3051-3054); William Collins, “Ode to Evening” (3057-3058).
W. 10-4. Christopher Smart, from Jubilate Agno (3058-3060)
F. 10-6. Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (3061-3070)
Week 8
M. 10-9. “The Restoration and Eighteenth Century 1660-1785” (2177-2205)
W. 10-11. Midterm Examination
F. 10-13. Class Canceled
Week 9
M. 10-16. Class Canceled for Fall Break
W. 10-18. William Wordsworth, Balladry and Ballad Revivals (31-39); William Wordsworth, “From Lyrical Ballads” (270-72), "Simon Lee" (275-278), "We Are Seven" (278-279), "Lines Written in Early Spring" (280), “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (305); Dorothy Wordsworth, “From The Grasmere Journals” (402-404; 409-410)
F. 10-20. William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” (288-292), “From Preface to Lyrical Ballads [1802]” (292-304)
Week 10
M. 10-23. William Wordsworth, “From The Prelude: Book First” (349-351; 356-357; 362-367)
W. 10-25. William Wordsworth, “From The Prelude (Book Eleventh and Book Thirteenth)” (395-402)
F. 10-27. Paradise Lost Marathon (meet outside in front of Grainger)
Week 11
M. 10-30. 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).
W. 11-1. “The Revolution Controversy” (183-207)
F. 11-3. “The Slave Trade and the Literature of Abolition” (88-112)
Week 12
M. 11-6. William Blake, “Two Letters on Sight and Vision” (162-165) and “From Songs of Innocence and Experience” (118-135)
W. 11-8. Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (148-162)
F. 11-10. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (443-459) and “Kubla Khan” (459-462).
Week 13
M. 11-13. George Gordon, Lord Byron (612-616), Manfred (638-648, 659-661, 668-672)
W. 11-15. 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).
F. 11-17. John Keats: “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (904), “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” (911), excerpts from Letters (965-972)
Week 14
M. 11-20. Response Paper 2 Due. (Email as attachment by 5:00 pm).
W. 11-22. Class Canceled for Thanksgiving
F. 11-24. Class Canceled for Thanksgiving
Week 15
M. 11-27. Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” (903-905), “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (905-906), excerpts from Letters (972-974; 980).
W. 11-29. “The Gothic. . .” (584-612)
F. 12-1. “The Romantic Period 1785-1830” (3-27)
Week 16
Exit Interviews must be held before the end of the week. See prompt for details.
F. 12-8. Final Examination (8:00-10:30).