This calendar is dynamic: it will be updated during the course of the term if necessary. If you have any question about what is due for a specific day, check here: even if I make a mistake and say something different than this in class, this calendar is always right.
1st Week (Jan 17)
Introductions
Reading:
• selections from medieval lyrics, The Canterbury Tales, John Donne's Meditations, Milton's Aeropagitica, and William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Writing: nothing due this class
Reading:
• selections from medieval lyrics, The Canterbury Tales, John Donne's Meditations, Milton's Aeropagitica, and William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Writing: nothing due this class
2nd Week (Jan 24)
Milton and the Puritan Self
Reading:
• Milton, "When I Consider how my Light is Spent," selections from Aeropagitica, and Paradise Lost, Books 1, 2, 3, 4 (1-130); also read Andrew Marvell, "Bermudas," and "A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body."
• Stanley Fish, "Discovery as Form in Paradise Lost," and selections from Is There a Text In this Class?
Writing: nothing is to be handed in, but
these questions will form the start of our discussion; be very ready to speak on them.
Reading:
• Milton, "When I Consider how my Light is Spent," selections from Aeropagitica, and Paradise Lost, Books 1, 2, 3, 4 (1-130); also read Andrew Marvell, "Bermudas," and "A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body."
• Stanley Fish, "Discovery as Form in Paradise Lost," and selections from Is There a Text In this Class?
Writing: nothing is to be handed in, but
these questions will form the start of our discussion; be very ready to speak on them. 3rd Week (Jan 31 )
Restoration Print Culture and Interpretive Communities
Reading:
• Dryden, "Mac Flecknoe," the "Criticism" selections which are in the Norton, (and a handout); Phillips, "Friendship"; Pepys, diary selections in the Norton; Locke, selections (handout); Rochester (as in Norton); Behn, "The Disappointment"; the selections in the Norton under "Debating Women"
• Walter Ong, selections from Orality and Literacy; McLuhan, selections from The Gutenberg Galaxy
Writing: response prompts.
Reading:
• Dryden, "Mac Flecknoe," the "Criticism" selections which are in the Norton, (and a handout); Phillips, "Friendship"; Pepys, diary selections in the Norton; Locke, selections (handout); Rochester (as in Norton); Behn, "The Disappointment"; the selections in the Norton under "Debating Women"
• Walter Ong, selections from Orality and Literacy; McLuhan, selections from The Gutenberg Galaxy
Writing:
response prompts.4th Week (Feb 7)
The Novel, Part 1
Reading:
• Andrew Marvell, "Bermudas"; Aphra Behn, Oroonoko; Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Writing: response prompts.
Turn in this form by today to tell me whether you've chosen to write one or two papers for the course AND to designate the date you choose to present.
Reading:
• Andrew Marvell, "Bermudas"; Aphra Behn, Oroonoko; Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Writing:
response prompts.Turn in
this form by today to tell me whether you've chosen to write one or two papers for the course AND to designate the date you choose to present.5th Week (Feb 14)
Comic Drama, part 1
Reading
• Congreve, The Way of the World
• Handout including Congreve, "Concerning Humor"; essays by Steele and Addison; and re-read Dryden, "Preface" to "An Evening's Love"
Writing: response prompts.
Reading
• Congreve, The Way of the World
• Handout including Congreve, "Concerning Humor"; essays by Steele and Addison; and re-read Dryden, "Preface" to "An Evening's Love"
Writing:
response prompts.6th Week (Feb 21)
Coffee Shops and Newspapers
Reading: For this week, the readings come from the Norton as well as Mackie and some handouts.
• Reading Papers (see response prompts for list)
• Haslett, Introduction and ch. 1; Habermas, selections from Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Writing: response prompts.
Reading: For this week, the readings come from the Norton as well as Mackie and some handouts.
• Reading Papers (see response prompts for list)
• Haslett, Introduction and ch. 1; Habermas, selections from Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Writing:
response prompts.7th Week (Feb 28)
Satire and Swift
Reading:
• Miner, "Body Ritual among the Nacirema"; Swift, "A Modest Proposal," and Gulliver's Travels, Books 1-4, as in the Norton
• Norton intro. to Swift; Haslett, chs. 2, 5
Writing: response prompts.
Reading:
• Miner, "Body Ritual among the Nacirema"; Swift, "A Modest Proposal," and Gulliver's Travels, Books 1-4, as in the Norton
• Norton intro. to Swift; Haslett, chs. 2, 5
Writing:
response prompts.Mar 6
and 13
and 13
No Class
Spring Break
Spring Break
8th Week (Mar 20)
Criticism
Reading:
• Pope, Essay on Criticism, Essay on Man (as in the Norton); The Dunciad, Bks. 1 & 4 (handout); selections from reading papers (see sheet with the prompts for a full list)
• Haslett, ch. 4
Writing: response prompts. Here is the Bibliography due on Apr. 10th.
Reading:
• Pope, Essay on Criticism, Essay on Man (as in the Norton); The Dunciad, Bks. 1 & 4 (handout); selections from reading papers (see sheet with the prompts for a full list)
• Haslett, ch. 4
Writing:
response prompts. Here is the Bibliography due on Apr. 10th. 9th Week (Mar 27)
Comic Drama, part 2
Reading:
• Gay, The Beggar's Opera; Boswell, selections from the London Journals (handouts). Bring your copy of Engravings by Hogarth to class.
Writing: Paper #1 Due in class (if you've chosen to write two papers). We will work on these responses in class.
Reading:
• Gay, The Beggar's Opera; Boswell, selections from the London Journals (handouts). Bring your copy of Engravings by Hogarth to class.
Writing: Paper #1 Due in class (if you've chosen to write two papers). We will work on
these responses in class. 10th Week (Apr 3)
The Novel, Part 2
Reading:
• Samuel Richardson, Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded, part 1; Andrews, Shamela; Haywood, Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze
• Haslett, ch. 6
Writing: response prompts.
Reading:
• Samuel Richardson, Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded, part 1; Andrews, Shamela; Haywood, Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze
• Haslett, ch. 6
Writing:
response prompts.11th Week (Apr 10)
class cancelled due to illnessReading:
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Writing:
12th Week (Apr 17)
Samuel Johnson and EnglishReading:
• Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, selections from the Dictionary of the English Language, including the "Preface" (handout); selections from the Rambler, and literary criticism; Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
• selections from Ong and Lerer (handouts)
Writing:
response prompts.13th Week (Apr 24 )
The Novel, Part 3
Reading:
• Fanny Burney, Evelina
Writing: response prompts.
Reading:
• Fanny Burney, Evelina
Writing:
response prompts.14th Week (May 1)
Pastoral to Landscape
Reading: this week, we read a range of poems from the Renaissance to the 19th century:
• Jonson, "To Penshurst"; Lanyer, "A Description of Cookham"; Herrick, “Corinna’s Going A-Maying”; Marvell, "Upon Appleton House," “To His Coy Mistress”; Carew, "To Saxham"; Waller, "At Penshurst," "On St. James' Park" (handout); Pope, "Windsor Forest"; Denham, "Cooper's Hill"; Leapor, "Crumble Hall"; Gray, "Ode on a Distant Prospect," "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village"; Crabbe, "The Village"; Wordsworth, "The Ruined Cottage," "Tintern Abbey" (handout)
Writing: response prompts.
Reading: this week, we read a range of poems from the Renaissance to the 19th century:
• Jonson, "To Penshurst"; Lanyer, "A Description of Cookham"; Herrick, “Corinna’s Going A-Maying”; Marvell, "Upon Appleton House," “To His Coy Mistress”; Carew, "To Saxham"; Waller, "At Penshurst," "On St. James' Park" (handout); Pope, "Windsor Forest"; Denham, "Cooper's Hill"; Leapor, "Crumble Hall"; Gray, "Ode on a Distant Prospect," "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village"; Crabbe, "The Village"; Wordsworth, "The Ruined Cottage," "Tintern Abbey" (handout)
Writing:
response prompts.Finals Week (May 8)
Romanticism?
Reading:
• William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience; Charlotte Smith, Elegaic Sonnets (selections)
Writing: The final paper is due by Monday, May 5th by noon in my office.
Reading:
• William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience; Charlotte Smith, Elegaic Sonnets (selections)
Writing: The final paper is due by Monday, May 5th by noon in my office.