Professor Justice - British Literature II

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Textbook for the course: David Damrosch, ed., The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume Two

Reading assignments must be read carefully before the class period for which they are assigned. I will give a number of quizzes throughout the semester. Points from the quizzes will count towards the point total of the semester. Course evaluation.

This is a writing-intensive course. Assignments also include: essays and a research essay.

August 27	Introduction
August 29	The Romantics and Their Contemporaries, pp. 3-28; Blake, "Songs of Innocence and of Experience"
September 3	Labor Day
September 5	Perspectives: The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade, pp. 149-195
September 10	Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pp. 206-35
September 12	Perspectives: The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women, pp. 247-86
September 17	Wordsworth, "Lines Written a Few miles above Tintern Abbey"; "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (pp 332-6); "Strange fits of Passion have I known"; "Nutting."
September 19	Wordsworth, "Elegiac Stanzas"; Sonnets, pp. 359-63; The Prelude, from Book Eleventh, 418-23; "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," "The Solitary Reaper."
September 24	Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Biographia Literaria (pp. 525-37)
September 26	Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes," "La Belle Dame sans Mercy," and Letter to George and Thomas Keats (pp. 795-6)
October 1	Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode to a Grecian Urn," and "To Autumn"
October 3	Shelley, "Adonais" and A Defence of Poetry (pp. 696-705)
October 8	"The Victorian Age," pp. 1032-1055; Carlyle, pp. 1057-1093
October 10	E.B. Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, and Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess" and "Fra Lippo Lippi"
October 15	Midterm Examination
October 17	Tennyson, "Mariana," "The Lady of Shalott," "The Lotos-Eaters," and "Ulysses"
October 22	Eliot, "Brother Jacob"
October 24	Dickens, "A Christmas Carol"
October 29	Arnold, "Dover Beach," The Function of Criticism at the Present Time, and Culture and Anarchy
October 31	D.G. Rossetti, "The Blessed Damozel," and Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
November 5	Hopkins, "God's Grandeur," "The Starlight Night," "Spring," "The Windhover," "Pied Beauty," "Hurrahing in Harvest," "[Carrion Comfort]," "No Worst, There is None," "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day," "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord," and Journal (pp.1786-7)
November 7	"The Twentieth Century," pp. 1991-2011; Hardy, "The Darkling Thrush," "The Convergence of the Twain," and "Channel Firing"
November 12	Conrad, Heart of Darkness
November 14	Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "The Wild Swans at Coole," "The Second Coming," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," and "Byzantium"
November 19	Blast, pp. 2191-2225
November 21	Owen, "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "Strange Meeting," and "Dulce Et Decorum East," and Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
November 26	Joyce, from Ulysses (pp. 2379-2404)
November 28	Woolf, "The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection;" Lawrence, "Tortoise Shout"; Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts," "In Memory of W.B. Yeats," and "In Praise of Limestone"
December 3	Perspectives: Whose Language? (pp. 2842-2897)
December 5	Conclusion and Review
December 10	Final examination, 10 a.m. to noon