English 212—Major British Authors: Romantic to
Modern
Section 03
McIver 135
M/W
Office: McIver
203 Phone:
334-5866
Office Hours: Tuesdays
email: mingyung@earthlink.net
This course provides a survey of 19th
and 20th-century British literature. Readings have been selected
with an eye to representing the major genres, styles, and cultural/historical
concerns of the period. Questions we will ask as we read: What is good
literature? What is the function of good literature? What is a national
literature? What is British about British literature? How and why do our
answers to these questions change as we move from the Romantic Period to the
Victorian to the Modern?
1) study of
nineteenth-century British literature within historical, social, and cultural
contexts
2) examination of
literary and aesthetic theories
3) application of
literary analysis to literature
4) identification
and discussion of varied characteristics of literature
5) development of
close reading, critical thinking, research, and writing skills
The
Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors. Volume B, 7th Edition.
Frankenstein. Mary Shelley.
Hard Times. Charles
Dickens.
Students
are expected to own and use a grammar handbook.
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3
papers |
10%,
20%, 20% |
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Group
Presentation w/1-page write-up |
10% |
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Final
exam |
20% |
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Participation |
20% |
The
format of the class will be a mixture of lecture, discussion, and group work
with an emphasis on student discussion. Students will come to class having
completed the assigned readings and prepared to actively participate. Please
read through the following class policies carefully:
·
Attendance is
mandatory.
Students absent for more than 3 classes for any reason will be dropped or have
their grade lowered at the instructor’s discretion.
·
Late papers
will not be accepted unless prior permission from the instructor has been given.
·
Tardiness is
unacceptable and will negatively effect your
standing in class as well as your final grade.
·
All
assignments are mandatory in order to pass this course,.
·
Students and teachers are expected to treat each other with
respect and courtesy in the classroom.
·
Academic
honesty is expected. Students are expected to adhere to the University Academic
Honor Policy.
Writing
Workshops
Attendance
at Writing Workshops is mandatory. For Writing Workshops, students will bring 3
copies of a substantially complete draft of their paper to class. Failure to
satisfactorily complete the Writing Workshop will result in severe penalty.
Monday
1/13:
Logistics.
Wednesday
1/15: William Wordsworth
“Preface to
Lyrical Ballads” (1435-48)
Monday
1/20: Classes
dismissed: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
Wednesday 1/22: William Blake
“Introduction,”
“The Lamb,” “The Little Black Boy,” “The Chimney Sweeper” (1349, 1351-53)
Monday 1/27: “Introduction,” “The Clod and the
Pebble,” “The Chimney Sweeper,” “A Divine Image” (1355-58, 1359-60, 1364)
Wednesday
1/29 William Wordsworth
“Lines Composed
a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” (1432-35)
Monday 2/3: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner” (1580-95)
Wednesday 2/5: Percy Bysshe
Shelley
“Mont
Blanc” (1714-17)
Monday 2/10: John Keats
“Ode
on a Grecian Urn” (1820-22)
Frankenstein:
Volume 1
Paper #1 Due
Monday 2/24: Frankenstein: Volume 3
Wednesday 2/26: John Newman
` “The
Idea of the University” (xerox)
Monday 3/3: Matthew Arnold
“Function
of Criticism” (2103-17)
Wednesday 3/5: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora
Leigh (1898-1912)
Monday
3/10: Classes
dismissed: Spring Break.
Wednesday 3/12: Classes
dismissed: Spring Break.
Monday 3/17: Charles Dickens
Hard Times
Wednesday 3/19: Hard Times
Monday 3/23: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The
Lady of Shalott” (1920-24)
Wednesday
3/25: Writing
Workshop
Monday 3/30: Dante Rossetti
“Blessed
Damozel” (xerox)
Paper #2 Due
Wednesday 4/2: Christina Rossetti
“Goblin
Market” (2140-52)
Monday 4/7: Oscar Wilde
“Preface
to The Picture of Dorian Gray” (2176-78)
Wednesday 4/9: William Butler Yeats
“Sailing
to Byzantium” (2385-86)
“Leda and the
Swan” (2386)
Monday 4/14: Joseph Conrad
Heart
of Darkness
Wednesday 4/16: Heart of Darkness
Monday 4/21: Virginia Woolf
A
Room of One’s Own (Video)
Wednesday 4/23: T.S. Eliot
“The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (2607-11)
Monday 4/28: James Joyce
From
Ulysses: “Proteus” (2524-38)
Wednesday 4/30: From Ulysses: “Lestrygonians”
(2538-65)
Monday 5/5: Paper #3 Due