British Literature Survey II

Rauch - English 3050

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Day Date Topic Reading Assignment
Mon. Aug. 19 Intro    
Wed. Aug. 21 History of England in 45 minutes Religions in England/Persistence (Vol. 2A)  
Fri. Aug. 23 British Customs/Parliament/Religion British Customs/Parliament/Religion  
Mon. Aug. 26 British Customs/Parliament/Religion British Customs/Parliament/Religion Knowledge Topic Assignments
Wed. Aug. 28 The Epic Blake's Poetry  
Fri. Aug. 30 Religion and Rationality Dryden: Annus Mirabilis; Absalom & Achitophel ll. 1-84; "Progress of Satire" (p. 2120-2121). Pepys: The Great Fire, 2123-2127.  
Mon. Sept. 2 Labor Day    
Wed. Sept. 4 Religion and Rationality Pepys: Great Fire/Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress/Locke: Essay  
Fri. Sept. 6 Women and the Oppressed Behn: Oroonoko (to 2179)/Cavendish:Blazing World/Astell: Marriage (2280 ALL) Quiz 1
Mon. Sept. 9      
Wed. Sept. 11      
Fri. Sept. 13      
Mon. Sept. 16      
Wed. Sept. 18 Women and the Oppressed Swift: "On the Death"/Lilliput2329-2346/Houyhnhms 2428--2435 & 2465-2473 (Ch. 11)  
Fri. Sept. 20 Wit & Satire A Modest Proposal (all)  
Mon. Sept. 23 Wit & Satire Pope: An Essay on Man (2555 ff - all), Essay on Criticism - Part I only(2509)  
Wed. Sept. 25 Wit & Satire: The Heroic Couplet Pope: Rape of the Lock (all) Quiz 2
Fri. Sept. 27 Samuel Johnson "Vanity of Human Wishes" (all, p.2662), Idler No. 31 (2677)  
Mon. Sept. 30 Samuel Johnson Intro to the Dictionary 2719-2725 & Rasselas Ch. 1-15  
Wed. Oct. 2 Samuel Johnson Rasselas Ch. 16-35  
Fri. Oct. 4 Samuel Johnson Rasselas Ch. 36-End  
Mon. Oct. 7 Jomes Boswell Life of: pp. 2752-2754; A Memorable Year: 2762 2765 /Goldsmith, etc. 2765-2770/  
Wed. Oct. 9 The Ode, Nostalgia, and Ceremony Gray: "Favorite Cat" 2829/Elegy 2830  
Fri. Oct. 11 Break Break  
Mon. Oct. 14 The Ode, Nostalgia, and Ceremony Goldsmith: Deserted Village - 2858 All; Cowper: Crazy Kate (2877)" Robbie Burns  
Wed. Oct. 16 Ballads Revived Barbauld:"Rights"/"Invisible"/Washing Day" Paper 1 Due
Fri. Oct. 18 Politics- Women Wollstonecraft: "Rights of Woman" 166-192 (all)/ Burke: "Reflections" 121 - & Paine 133  
Mon. Oct. 21 The Wollstonecraft-Godwin Connection Lyrical Ballads: Preface (all) & "Simon Lee"/"We are Seven"/"Expostulation"/"Tables"/ WW: "Ode: Intimations" (287 ff) Quiz 3
Wed. Oct. 23 Wordsworth & Coleridge "Tintern Abbey" (all)  
Fri. Oct. 25 Wordsworth & Coleridge Coleridge"Eolian"/"Kubla Khan"/"Rime"  
Mon. Oct. 28 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner "The Rime" (all)  
Wed. Oct. 30 Debased & Debauched? DeQuincey: "Confessions" 530-536/Byron: "Swimming"/"She Walks"/"So We'll Go"  
Mon. Nov. 11 Childe Harold & Don Juan Byron: "Childe"/"Don Juan"-561-569 & Stanza 113-118  
Wed. Nov. 13 Percy Shelley: Philosopher, Atheist, & Agitator "Mutability"/"Ozymandias"/"England in 1819"  
Fri. Nov. 15 Percy Shelley: Philosopher, Atheist, & Agitator "Mutability"/"Ozymandias"/"England in 1819"  
Mon. Nov. 18 Percy Shelley: Philosopher, Atheist, & Agitator "Mont Blanc"/"Hymn to Intellectual"  
Wed. Nov. 20 Keats and Inner Beauty Shelley: "To a Skylark" - Keats: "Chapman's Homer"/"Grecian Urn"/"When I have Fears"/ Letters (pp. 896;900;901)  
Fri. Nov. 22 Tennyson "The Kraken," "Ulysses," "Tithonus," "Break, Break Break," In Memoriam (Stanza 48-59; pp. 1249-1252)  
Mon. Nov. 25 Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning Sonnets (1179-1180) "My Last Duchess," "Spanish Cloister"  
Wed. Nov. 27 No Class No Class  
Thurs. Nov. 28 T H A N K S G I V I N G  
Fri. Nov. 29      
Mon. Dec. 2 Arnold "Dover Beach," (1492) "Sweetness and Light," (1529), "literature and Science" (1545-1550) Quiz 4 & Take Home Due
Wed. Dec. 4 Review .  
Fri. Dec. 6 Review . Paper 2 Due

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