E211 British Literature to 1760 Schedule, Spring 2004

READING SCHEDULE FOR E211 BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1760
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2004

*2023 Note. Most links and procedural information have been removed from this archival copy, leaving mainly the required editions and the reading schedule.

COURSE INFORMATION. Code 12697, Humanities 511, Wednesdays 4:00 – 6:45 p.m. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Wed. 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. in University Hall 423. Email: e211_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Major periods and movements, major authors, and major forms through 1760. Units (3). Satisfies General Education requirements GE Category III.B.2 with grade of C or better.”

REQUIRED TEXTS AT TITAN BOOKSTORE

Abrams, M. H. et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vols. 1ABC. 7th. ed. New York : Norton, 2000. ISBN: 1A = 0393975657, 1B = 0393975665, 1C = 0393975673.

Sterne, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey. New York: Penguin Classics, 2002.

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest.

QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS

*2023 Note. Visitors may download the following questions in PDF format: BRITISH LITERATURE TO C18 | SHAKESPEARE. Editions may differ from the ones used for this course.

SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1

Wed. 02/04. Course Introduction.

WEEK 2

Wed. 02/11. Bede; Dream of the Rood; Battle of Maldon; Marie de France’s “The Wolf and the Lamb” and “The Wolf and the Sow”; Ancrene Riwle. Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, “General Prologue” lines 1-164, “Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale.”

WEEK 3

Wed. 02/18. Langland. Piers Plowman; Wakefield Master. The Second Shepherd’s Play.

WEEK 4

Wed. 02/25. Sir Thomas More. Utopia; Sir Thomas Wyatt. “The Long Love,” “My Galley,” “Madam, Withouten Many Words,” “Whoso List to Hunt,” “My Lute, Awake!” “They Flee from Me,” “Divers Doth Use,” “Blame Not My Lute,” “Forget Not Yet,” “Who List His Wealth….,” “Mine Own John Poins”; Edmund Spenser. “Epithalamion”; Sir Walter Ralegh and Thomas Hariot. All selections.

WEEK 5

Wed. 03/03. Christopher Marlowe. Doctor Faustus.

WEEK 6

Wed. 03/10. Shakespeare. The Tempest. (Separate text.)

WEEK 7

Wed. 03/17. John Donne. “The Flea,” “The Good Morrow,” “Song — Go and Catch a Falling Star,” “The Canonizaton,” “A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day,” “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “Holy Sonnets” (all), “Good Friday, 1613: Riding Westward,” from Devotions, and from “Death’s Duel”; Ben Jonson. The Masque of Blackness.

WEEK 8

Wed. 03/24. Sir Francis Bacon. from Essays, The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, and The New Atlantis; Sir Thomas Browne. Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia; Thomas Hobbes. From Leviathan.

WEEK 9

Wed. 03/31. Spring Recess. No class.

WEEK 10

Wed. 04/07. John Milton. Paradise Lost.

WEEK 11

Wed. 04/14. George Herbert. “The Altar,” “Redemption,” “Easter,” “Easter Wings,” “Affliction (I),” “Prayer (1),” “Jordan (1),” “Denial,” “Jordan (2),” “Time,” “The Bunch of Grapes,” “The Pilgrimage,” “The Pulley,” “The Flower,” “Discipline,” “Death”; John Bunyan. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. (Separate text.)

WEEK 12

Wed. 04/21. Daniel Defoe. A Journal of the Plague Year. (Separate text.)

WEEK 13

Wed. 04/28. Jonathan Swift. From Gulliver’s Travels.

WEEK 14

Wed. 05/05. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock and Eloisa to Abelard.

WEEK 15

Wed. 05/12. Samuel Johnson. Rambler #4 “On Fiction” (2743-46); “Preface” to Shakespeare (2755-66). James Boswell. Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D (2752-83).

WEEK 16

Wed. 05/19. Thomas Gray. “Elegy in a Country Churchyard”; Laurence Sterne. A Sentimental Journey. (Separate text.)

FINAL EXAM

Wed. 05/26.

READING SCHEDULE FOR E211 BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1760CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2004