READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2003
*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 12795. MWF 10:00 – 10:50 a.m., McCarthy Hall (MH) 617. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: MW 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. in University Hall (UH) 423. 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. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Vols. 2ABC.
De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium- Eater. New York: Dover, 1995. ISBN 0-486-28742-4.
Dickens, Charles. Hard Times. New York: Dover, 2001. ISBN 0-486-41920-7.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New York: Dover, 1991 or subsequent reprint. ISBN 0-486-26688-5.
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.
Blake | Wollstonecraft | Wordsworth | Shelley | De Quincey | Carlyle | Mill | Dickens | Tennyson | Stevenson | Hopkins | Wilde | Housman | Sassoon | Owen | Yeats | Woolf
SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED
WEEK 1
02/03. Intro to Course and to the Romantic Period. Norton introductions to authors/periods are assigned.
02/05. William Blake. From Songs of Innocence.
02/07. William Blake. From Songs of Experience.
WEEK 2
02/10. William Blake. From Songs of Experience. Mary Wollstonecraft. Intro. to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
02/12. Mary Wollstonecraft. From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
02/14. William Wordsworth. “Preface to Lyrical Ballads.”
WEEK 3
02/17. Holiday; no class. (Presidents’ Day.)
02/19. William Wordsworth. “Preface…,” continued, and “Tintern Abbey.”
02/21. William Wordsworth. “Tintern” and “Intimations of Immortality”; also assigned: “The Solitary Reaper”; “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”; “I wandered lonely as a cloud”; “Lucy Gray.”
WEEK 4
02/24. Percy Bysshe Shelley. from “A Defence of Poetry.” 02/26. Percy Bysshe Shelley. “A Defence” (cont.); begin “Ode to the West Wind.”
02/28. Percy Bysshe Shelley, (cont). “Ode to the West Wind”; “To a Sky-Lark”; “Ozymandias”; “Mutability.”
WEEK 5
03/03. Percy Bysshe Shelley (cont.); Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
03/05. Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, continued.
03/07. Thomas de Quincey, Confessions …, cont.; ”On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth”; “Alexander Pope”; “The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power.” (Final Draft of Paper #1 due.)
WEEK 6
03/10. Introduction to the Victorian Period.
03/12. Thomas Carlyle. From Portraits; from Sartor Resartus.
03/14. Thomas Carlyle. From Sartor Resartus, cont.
WEEK 7
03/17. Thomas Carlyle. From Sartor Resartus, cont. (“Natural Supernaturalism”); from The French Revolution.
03/19. Thomas Carlyle. From The French Revolution and from Past and Present.
03/21. Midterm exam in class.
WEEK 8
03/24. John Stuart Mill. From On Liberty.
03/26. John Stuart Mill. From On Liberty (cont.); from Autobiography.
03/28. John Stuart Mill. From Autobiography (cont.). Charles Dickens. Intro. to Hard Times.
WEEK 9
03/31. Spring Break; no classes.
04/02. Spring Break; no classes.
04/04. Spring Break; no classes.
WEEK 10
04/07. Charles Dickens. Hard Times, Part 1.
04/09. Charles Dickens. Hard Times, Part 2.
04/11. Charles Dickens. Hard Times, Part 3.
WEEK 11
04/14. Alfred Tennyson. From In Memoriam A. H. H.: Prologue, 1-5, 7, 11, 14-15, 28, 30, 34, 39, 54-56, 75, 108, 118, 123-24, 126, 130-31, Epilogue.
04/16. Alfred Tennyson. From In Memoriam A. H. H., continued.
04/18. Alfred Tennyson. “The Lady of Shalott”; “The Lotos-Eaters”; “Ulysses”; “The Eagle”; “Tears, Idle Tears”; “Crossing the Bar.”
WEEK 12
04/21. Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. (Separate edition.)
04/23. Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, cont. (Separate edition.)
04/25. Gerard Manley Hopkins. All Norton selections.
WEEK 13
04/28. Gerard Manley Hopkins. All Norton selections, cont.
04/30. Oscar Wilde. “The Critic as Artist.”
05/02. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest. (Film in class.)
WEEK 14
05/05. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest, cont. (Film in class.)
05/07. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest. (Text.)
05/09. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest, cont. (Text.)
WEEK 15
05/12. A. E. Housman. All Norton selections.
05/14. WWI Poets: Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. All Norton selections.
05/16. William Butler Yeats. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”; “Easter 1916”; “The Second Coming”; “Sailing to Byzantium”; “Leda and the Swan”; “Byzantium”; “Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop”; “Among School Children”; “Under Ben Bulben.”
WEEK 16
05/19. William Butler Yeats. “Sailing to Byzantium”; “Byzantium”; “Leda and the Swan”; “Crazy Jane Talks to the Bishop”; “Among School Children”; “Under Ben Bulben.”
05/21. Virginia Woolf. A Room of One’s Own.
05/23. Virginia Woolf. A Room of One’s Own, cont.
FINALS WEEK
05/30. Friday, 9:30 – 11:20 a.m. Final draft of Paper #2 due.