E212 British Literature since 1760 Schedule, Summer 2007

READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760
CSU FULLERTON, SUMMER 2007

*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 10359. Section C. M/Tu/Th 8:00 – 10:20 a.m., McCarthy Hall (MH) 617. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Tues 10:30-11:30 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

06/25. Course Introduction.

06/26. William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience (81-97).

06/28. William Wordsworth. “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (262-74),“Three years she grew” (275-76),“I wandered lonely as a cloud” (305-06), “The Solitary Reaper” (314-15), “Tintern Abbey” (258-62).

WEEK 2

07/02. S. T. Coleridge. From Biographia Literaria (474-85), from Lectures on Shakespeare (485-88), from The Statesman’s Manual (488-91), “The Eolian Harp” (426-28), “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (430-46), “Kubla Khan” (446-48), “Frost at Midnight” (464-66), “Dejection: an Ode” (466-69).

07/03. P. B. Shelley. “Defence of Poetry” (837-50); “Mutability” (744); “To Wordsworth” (744-45); “Mont Blanc” (762-66); “Ozymandias” (768); “England in 1819” (771); “Ode to the West Wind” (772-75); “To a Sky-Lark” (817-19).

07/05. John Keats. “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (880-81); “The Eve of St. Agnes” (888-98); “Ode to a Nightingale” (903-05); “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (905-06); “To Autumn” (925-26); from Letters (940-55).

WEEK 3

07/09. Jane Austen. Persuasion. (Film.)

07/10. Jane Austen. Persuasion, Vol. 1. (Separate text.)

07/12. Jane Austen. Persuasion, Vol. 2. (Separate text.) Journal Set 1 due.

WEEK 4

07/16. Thomas Carlyle and Matthew Arnold. From Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus (1005-1024). Arnold’s “The Buried Life” (1356-58); “Dover Beach” (1368-69); “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” (1369-74); “Preface to Poems, 1853” (1374-84).

07/17. Alfred Tennyson, G. M. Hopkins, Dante Gabriel & Christina Rossetti. Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” (1114-18); “The Lotos-Eaters” (1119-23); “Ulysses” (1123-25); from In Memoriam A. H. H. (1138-88) Prologue, 1-5, 54-56. Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” (1516); “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” (1517); “The Windhover” (1518); “Pied Beauty” (1518); “Duns Scotus’s Oxford” (1520); “I Wake and Feel . . .” (1522-23); “That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire . . .” (1523). D. G. Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel” (1443-47). Christina Rossetti’s “Song — When I am dead . . .” (1461); “In an Artist’s Studio” (1463); “Winter My Secret” (1464-65); “No Thank You, John” (1478).

07/19. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest (1698-1740).

WEEK 5

07/23. WWI Poetry. Voices of World War I Section: Sassoon (1960-64); Gurney (1965-66); Rosenberg (1966-70); Owen (1971-80); Cannan (1981-84); Graves (1984-89).

07/24. W. B. 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).

07/26. James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. (Film.)

WEEK 6

07/30. James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Parts 1-3 (1-158). (Separate text.)

07/31. James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Parts 4-5 (159-276). (Separate text.)

08/02. Final Exam. Also Journal Set 2 and Term Paper due.

READING SCHEDULE FOR E212 BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1760CSU FULLERTON, SUMMER 2007