E212 British Literature since 1760 Schedule, Summer 2004

READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760
CSU FULLERTON, SUMMER 2004

*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 11169. Section B. M/W/Th 1:00 – 3:20 p.m., McCarthy Hall (MH) 617. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Wed. 12:00 – 1:00 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, Volumes 2A/2B/2C. 7th edition. ISBN 0-393-15114-X.

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0142437344.

Peacock, Thomas L. [E-Text of “The Four Ages of Poetry.”] This is not in the Norton Anthology, so I have included it as a public-domain e-text.

Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe. New York: Signet, 2001. ISBN 0451527992.

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

07/07. Intro to class and to Romantic Period.

07/08. William Wordsworth. “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”; “The Solitary Reaper”; “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”; “I wandered lonely as a cloud”; “Lucy Gray”; “Three years she grew.”

WEEK 2

07/12. William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley. WW: “Tintern Abbey.” Coleridge: “Frost at Midnight,” “Dejection: an Ode.” Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind.”

07/14. Percy B. Shelley, John Keats, Walter Savage Landor. Shelley: “To a Sky-Lark,” “Ozymandias,” “Mutability.” Keats. “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Landor: “Mother…,” “Rose Aylmer,” “Past Ruined Ilion” Twenty Years Hence.”

07/15. Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, and Thomas Love Peacock. Lamb: “Christ’s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago.” Hazlitt: “On Gusto,” “My First Acquaintance with Poets.” Peacock: “The Four Ages of Poetry.” [E-Text of “Four Ages”]

WEEK 3

07/19. Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe. (A&E film version, discussion) *Please begin reading this novel well before this date — it is too long to be read in one week.

07/21. Scott’s Ivanhoe, cont. (film, discussion)

07/22. Scott’s Ivanhoe, cont. (film, discussion)

WEEK 4

07/26. Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin. Carlyle: from Sartor Resartus. Ruskin: “The Nature of Gothic” from The Stones of Venice.

07/28. John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold. Mill: from Autobiography. Arnold: “Dover Beach,” “The Buried Life,” “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time.”

07/29. 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.

WEEK 5

08/02. Gerard Manley Hopkins. All Norton selections. Lear: “The Jumblies,” “Cold are the Crabs”; Carroll: “Jabberwocky” and Humpty Dumpty’s Explication, “The Walrus and the Carpenter.”

08/04. Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, Edward Fitzgerald, William Morris. D. G. Rossetti:”The Blessed Damozel,” “The Woodspurge”; Christina Rossetti: “Song” (both), “After Death,” “In an Artist’s Studio,” “An Apple-Gathering,” “Winter: My Secret,” “No, Thank You, John,” “Cardinal Newman,” “Sleeping at Last”; Fitzgerald: “The Rubáiyát of Omar Kayyám”; Morris: “The Haystack in the Floods.”

08/05. Oscar Wilde. “The Critic as Artist.”

WEEK 6

08/09. James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. *Please begin reading this novel well before this date because it is too long to be read in one week.

08/11. James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, cont.

08/12. Final exam, in-class.

READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760CSU FULLERTON, SUMMER 2004