E212 British Literature since 1760 Schedule, Fall 2009

READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760
CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2009

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

COURSE INFORMATION. English 212, Course Code 12072. Section 1. Tu/Th 8:30 – 9:50 a.m., Humanities Hall (HH) 511. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Tu/Th 7:30 – 8:25 a.m. in University Hall (UH) 329. Email: e212_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Major periods and movements, major authors, and major forms since 1760. Units (3). Satisfies requirements for General Education (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. 8th ed. New York: Norton, 2006. ISBN Package 2 (Vols. DEF) 0-393-92834-9.

Austen, Jane. Persuasion. Eds. Deidre Shauna Lynch and James Kinsley. 2nd. Edition. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. ISBN 0-192-80263-1.

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-142-43734-4.

QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS

*2023 Note. Visitors may download the following questions in PDF format: BRITISH ROMANTIC | BRITISH VICTORIAN | BRITISH MODERN. Norton editions and page numbers may differ from the editions actually used in the course.

SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1

08/25. Course Introduction.

08/27. William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience (81-97); The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plates 2-5 (111-14).

WEEK 2

09/01. William Wordsworth. “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (262-74); “We Are Seven” (248-49); “Expostulation and Reply” (250-51); “The Tables Turned” (251-52).

09/03. William and Dorothy Wordsworth. William’s “Tintern Abbey” (258-62); “Three years she grew” (275-76); “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (305-06); “The Solitary Reaper” (314-15). Dorothy’s Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (389-402).

WEEK 3

09/08. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Biographia Literaria (474-85); Lectures on Shakespeare (485-88); The Statesman’s Manual (488-91).

09/10. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. “The Eolian Harp” (426-28); “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (430-48); “Kubla Khan” (446-48); “Frost at Midnight” (464-66); “Dejection: an Ode” (466-69).

WEEK 4

09/15. Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Defense of Poetry” (837-50); “Mutability” (744); “To Wordsworth” (744-45); “Mont Blanc” (762-66).

09/17. Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Ozymandias” (768); “Ode to the West Wind” (772-75); “To a Sky-Lark” (817-19).

WEEK 5

09/22. John Keats. “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (880-81); “The Eve of St. Agnes” (888-98); “Ode to a Nightingale” (903-05).

09/24. John Keats. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (905-06); “Ode on Melancholy” (907-08), “To Autumn” (925-26); “Letters” (940-955).

WEEK 6

09/29. Jane Austen. Persuasion. (Film.)

10/01. Jane Austen. Persuasion (film); and Persuasion, Vol. 1. (Separate text.)

WEEK 7

10/06. Jane Austen. Persuasion, Vol. 1. (Separate text.)

10/08. Jane Austen. Persuasion, Vol. 2. (Separate text.)

WEEK 8

10/13. Thomas Carlyle. From Sartor Resartus (1005-1024).

10/15. John Stuart Mill. From On Liberty (1050-61); from Autobiography (1070-77).

WEEK 9

10/20. Furlough Day: No Class. For this week, read John Ruskin. From Modern Painters (1320-24) and from The Stones of Venice (1324-34). We will recap Ruskin briefly next Tuesday before moving on to Matthew Arnold.

10/22. Furlough Day: No Class. See note above for Oct. 20.

WEEK 10

10/27. Matthew Arnold. “The Buried Life” (1356-58); “Dover Beach” (1368-69); “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” (1369-74); “Preface” to Poems (1374-84).

10/29. Alfred Tennyson. “The Lady of Shalott” (1114-18); “The Lotos-Eaters” (1119-23); “Ulysses” (1123-25); from In Memoriam A.H.H.: Prologue (1138-39), 1-5 (1140-42), 54-56 (1157-59).

WEEK 11

11/03. Robert Browning and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Browning’s “The Bishop Orders His Tomb. . .” (1259-62). Hopkins’s “God’s Grandeur” (1516); “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” (1517); “The Windhover” (1518); “Pied Beauty” (1518); “Binsey Poplars” (1519); “Duns Scotus’s Oxford” (1520); “Felix Randal” (1520-21); “I wake and feel . . .” (1522-23); “No worst, there is none” (1522); “That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire . . .” (1523); from Journal (1524-26).

11/05. Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti. Dante Gabriel’s “The Blessed Damozel” (1443-47). Christina’s “Song — She sat and sang alway” (1460-61); “Song — When I am dead . . .” (1461); “In an Artist’s Studio” (1463); “An Apple-Gathering” (1464); “Winter My Secret” (1464-65); “No Thank You, John” (1478).

WEEK 12

11/10. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest (Film + text, Act 1. 1698-1740).

11/12. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest (Film + text Acts 2-3. 1698-1740).

WEEK 13

11/17. WWI Poetry. Voices of World War I Section — Sassoon (1960-64); Gurney (1965-66); Rosenberg (1966-70); Owen (1971-80); Cannan (1981-84); Graves (1984-87).

11/19. William Butler Yeats. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (2025); “The Second Coming” (2036-37); “Leda and the Swan” (2039); “Sailing to Byzantium” (2040); “Among School Children” (2041-42); “Byzantium” (2044-45); “Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop” (2045-46); “Under Ben Bulben” (2047-50); “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” (2051-52).

WEEK 14

11/24. Thanksgiving Holiday; no classes.

11/26. Thanksgiving Holiday; no classes.

WEEK 15

12/01. James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. (Film.)

12/03. James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. (Film, separate text Part 1, pp. 1-61 .)

WEEK 16

12/08. James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Parts 2-3 (separate text, 62-158).

12/10. James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Parts 4-5 (159-276, separate text.)

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam Thursday, Dec. 17, 9:30 – 11:20 a.m.

READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2009