E212 British Literature since 1760 Schedule, Spring 2006 MWF

READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2006 (MWF)

*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 9:00 – 9:50 a.m., McCarthy Hall (MH) 617. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: MW 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. in University Hall 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 = 0393975681, 2B = 039397569X, 2C = 0393975703.

Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians. New York: Penguin, 1982. ISBN 014006110X.

Polidori, John et al. The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001. ISBN 0192838946.

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

01/30. Introduction to Course and to Wiki Features.

02/01. William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience (43-59).

02/03. William Blake. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (72-84).

WEEK 2

02/06. William Wordsworth. “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (238-51).

02/08. William Wordsworth. “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” (252), “Three years she grew” (252-53), “Lucy Gray” (254-56), “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (284-85), “The Solitary Reaper” (293-94).

02/10. William and Dorothy Wordsworth. William’s “Tintern Abbey” (235-38). From Dorothy’s Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (383-97).

WEEK 3

02/13. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From Biographia Literaria (467-86), from Lectures on Shakespeare (486-89), from The Statesman’s Manual (489-92).

02/15. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. “The Eolian Harp” (419-20), “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (422-38), “Kubla Khan” (439-41).

02/17. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Mary Robinson. Coleridge’s “Frost at Midnight” (457-58), “Dejection: an Ode” (459-62). Robinson’s “To the Poet Coleridge” (98-99) and “The Haunted Beach” (96-97).

WEEK 4

02/20. Presidents’ Day Holiday; no classes.

02/22. Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Defense of Poetry” (789-802), “Mutability” (701), “Mont Blanc” (720-23).

02/24. Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Ozymandias” (725-26), “Ode to the West Wind” (730-32), “To a Sky-Lark” (765-67). Journal Set 1 due.

WEEK 5

02/27. John Keats. “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (826-27), “The Eve of St. Agnes” (834-44).

03/01. John Keats. “Ode to a Nightingale” (849-51), “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (851-53), from Letters (889-903).

03/03. William Hazlitt. “On Gusto” (513-19), “My First Acquaintance with Poets” (519-26).

WEEK 6

03/06. Polidori, John. “The Vampyre” from The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (1-24). Oxford edition.

03/08. James Hogg. “Some Terrible Letters from Scotland” from The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (99-112). Oxford edition.

03/10. Letitia Landon. “The Bride of Lindorf” from from The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (175-200). Oxford edition.

WEEK 7

03/13. Thomas Carlyle. From Sartor Resartus (1077-1103).

03/15. John Henry Newman. From The Idea of a University (1119-27), from Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1128-35), and from Liberalism (1135-37).

03/17. Alfred Tennyson. Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” (1204-08), “The Lotos-Eaters” (1208-13), “Ulysses” (1213-15).

WEEK 8

03/20. John Stuart Mill. From Autobiography (1166-73).

03/22. John Ruskin. From The Stones of Venice (1432-42) and from “The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century” (1443-51).

03/24. Matthew Arnold. “The Buried Life” (1480-82), “Dover Beach” (1492-93), “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” (1493-98), “Preface to Poems, 1853” (1504-14). Journal Set 2 Due.

WEEK 9

03/28 – 03/31. Spring recess; no classes all week.

WEEK 10

04/03. Gerard Manley 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).

04/05. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti. Dante’s “The Blessed Damozel” (1573-78). Christina’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).

04/07. William Morris, Algernon Swinburne. Morris’ “The Haystack in the Floods” (1614-18), “How I Became a Socialist” (1619-21). Swinburne’s “Hymn to Proserpine” (1625-28).

WEEK 11

04/10. Walter Pater. From The Renaissance (1636-44), “Style” from Appreciations (1645-48).

04/12. Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (1761-1805).

04/14. Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, cont. (1761-1805).

WEEK 12

04/17. Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness (1957-2016).

04/19. Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness, cont. (1957-2016).

04/21. Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness, cont. (1957-2016). Read also Chinua Achebe’s “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (2035-40). Journal Set 3 Due.

WEEK 13

04/24. Voices of World War I Section. Read all selections: Brooke, Thomas, Sassoon, Gurney, Rosenberg, Owen, Cannan, Jones (2048-84).

04/26. Voices of World War I Section. Read all selections: Brooke, Thomas, Sassoon, Gurney, Rosenberg, Owen, Cannan, Jones (2048-84).

04/28. A. E. Housman. “The Loveliest of Trees” (2042); “When I was One-and-Twenty” (2042); “To an Athlete Dying Young” (2042); “On Wenlock Edge” (2043); “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff” (2044); “The Chestnut Casts his Flambeaux” (2046).

WEEK 14

05/01. James Joyce. The Dead (2240-68).

05/03. William Butler Yeats. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (2092); “Easter 1916” (2104); “The Second Coming” (2106); “Sailing to Byzantium” (2109); “Leda and the Swan” (2110); “Among School Children” (2111); “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” (2113).

05/05. William Butler Yeats. “Byzantium” (2115); “Crazy Jane… “ (2116); “After Long Silence” (2117); “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” (2120); “Under Ben Bulben” (2121); from Reveries over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil (2124-31).

WEEK 15

05/08. T. S. Eliot. “The Waste Land“ (2368-83).

05/10. Jean Rhys, Robert Graves. Rhys’ “Mannequin” (2437-42). Graves’ “Down, Wanton, Down!” (2445); “Love Without Hope” (2446); “The Cool Web” (2446); “The Reader Over My Shoulder” (2446); “To Juan at Winter Solstice” (2447); “The White Goddess” (2448); “The Blue-Fly” (2449); “A Slice of Wedding-Cake” (2450).

05/12. Harold Pinter. The Dumb Waiter (2594-2616).

WEEK 16

05/15. Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians. (Penguin Edition)

05/17. Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians, cont. (Penguin Edition)

05/19. Review.

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam Date Wednesday, May 24th 9:30 – 11:20 a.m. Also due: Journal Set 4 and the Term Paper. (I must turn in grades by Friday, June 2nd, 2006.) For other courses, see CSUF’s Final Exam Schedule.

READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2006 (MWF)