E212 British Literature since 1760 Schedule, Spring 2005

READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2005

*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 12664. Thurs. 7:00 – 9:45 p.m., McCarthy Hall (MH) 617. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Thurs. 6:00 – 7:00 p.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. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volumes 2ABC. 7th edition. ISBN 2A = 0-393-97568-1, 2B = 0 -393-97569-X, 2C = 0-393-97570-3.

Austen, Jane. Persuasion. Eds. Deidre Shauna Lynch and James Kinsley. 2nd. Edition. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. ISBN 0192802631.

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon’s Mines. Ed. Dennis Butts. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. ISBN 0192834851.

Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion. Dover, 1994. ISBN 0486282228.

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

02/03. Introduction to class.

WEEK 2

02/10. Anna Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine. Barbauld’s “Washing-Day” (29-31); “Life” (31-32). Smith’s “Written at the Close of Spring” (33); “To Sleep” (33); “To Night” (33-34); “Written in the Church- Yard…” (34); “On Being Cautioned…” (34-35); “The Sea View” (35). Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (121ff). Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Men (128ff). Paine’s Rights of Man (133ff).

WEEK 3

02/17. William Blake, Mary Robinson. Blake’s Songs of Innocence & of Experience (43ff); The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (72ff). Robinson’s “London’s Summer Morning” (92-93); “January, 1795” (93-94); “The Poor Singing Dame” (94-96).

WEEK 4

02/24. William and Dorothy Wordsworth. William’s “Preface to Lyrical Ballads (238ff); “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” (252); “Three years she grew” (252); “Lucy Gray” (254); “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (254); “The Solitary Reaper” (293); “Tintern Abbey” (235); “Intimations of Immortality” (286). Dorothy’s Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (383-97).

WEEK 5

03/03. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Robinson. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria (467ff); Lectures on Shakespeare (486ff); The Statesman’s Manual (489ff); “The Eolian Harp” (419); “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (422); “Kubla Khan” (439); “Frost at Midnight” (457); “Dejection: an Ode” (459). Robinson’s “To the Poet Coleridge” (98-99); “The Haunted Beach” (96-97).

WEEK 6

03/10. Percy B. Shelley, John Keats. Shelley’s “Mutability” (701); “Ozymandias” (725); “Mont Blanc” (720); “Ode to the West Wind” (730); “To a Sky-Lark” (765); “Adonais” (772). Keats’ “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (826); “The Eve of St. Agnes” (834); “Ode to a Nightingale” (849); “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (851); “To Autumn” (872); Letters (889ff).

WEEK 7

03/17. Jane Austen. Persuasion. (Film.)

WEEK 8

03/24. Jane Austen. Persuasion. (Discussion of novel, separate text)

WEEK 9

03/31. Spring recess; no class.

WEEK 10

04/07. Thomas Carlyle, J. S. Mill. Selections from Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus (1077ff); Past and Present (1110ff). J. S. Mill’s Autobiography (1166-73); On Liberty (1146-55).

WEEK 11

04/14. Tennyson, Hopkins, Christina Rossetti. Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” (1204ff) and In Memoriam A. H. H. (1230ff): Prologue (1231), 1-3, 5, 7, 11, 14-15, 28, 34, 39, 54-56, 75, 108, 118, 123-24, 126, 130-31, Epilogue. Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” (1651); “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” (1652); “The Windhover” (1652); “Pied Beauty” (1653); “Binsey Poplars” (1654); “Duns Scotus’ Oxford” (1654); “Carrion Comfort” (1656); “I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark; Not Day” (1657); “That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire…” (1658); “Thou Art Indeed Just; Lord” (1658). Rossetti’s “Song — She sat and sang alway” (1584); “Song — When I am dead; my dearest” (1584); “After Death” (1585); “In an Artist’s Studio” (1586); “Winter: My Secret” (1588); “No; Thank You; John” (1601); “Sleeping at Last” (1604).

WEEK 12

04/21. H. Rider Haggard. King Solomon’s Mines. (Separate text.)

WEEK 13

04/28. Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats. Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth”; “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo”; “Miners”; “Dulce et Decorum Est” (2066ff). Yeats’s “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (2092); “The Second Coming” (2106); “Sailing to Byzantium” (2109), “Leda and the Swan” (2110); “Among School Children” (2111); “Byzantium” (2115); “Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop” (2116).

WEEK 14

05/05. George Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion. (Film and discussion of separate text.)

WEEK 15

05/12. E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence. Forster’s “Chapter 2. Mosque” from A Passage to India (2131ff). Lawrence’s “ Odour of Chrysanthemums”; “The Horse-Dealer’s Daughter”; “Why the Novel Matters” (2313-45).

WEEK 16

05/19. Anita Desai, J. M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie. Desai’s “Scholar and Gypsy” (2768ff). From Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (2829ff). Rushdie’s “The Prophet’s Hair” (2842ff).

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam Thursday, May 26 from 7:30 – 9:20 p.m.

READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2005