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CALENDAR

[Note: Where two initial page numbers are provided, the first corresponds to the 4th ed./the second to the 5th ed.]

WEEK 1


 * T J 17
 * Introductions/Syllabus Overview/Foss Teaching Philosophy

THE ROMANTICS AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES


 * R J 19
 * Assign Class Summary Essay
 * “The Romantic Period at a Glance” (3)
 * “The Romantics and Their Contemporaries” (7)
 * “The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque” (34)
 * “The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy” (104/108)
 * “The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade” (214/229)
 * “The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women” (315/341)
 * “Literary Ballads” (351/390)
 * “Popular Prose and the Problems of Authorship” (988/1086)

WEEK 2


 * T J 24
 * W. WORDSWORTH:
 * “Lines written in early spring” (379/418)
 * “Expostulation and Reply” (387/426)
 * “The Tables Turned” (402/427)
 * “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” (390/429)
 * “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802” (436/475)
 * “‘The world is too much with us’” (436/475)
 * “‘It is a beauteous Evening” (436/475)
 * “Resolution and Independence”(506/545)
 * “‘I wandered lonely as a Cloud’” (512/554)
 * “Elegiac Stanzas” (520/559)
 * D. WORDSWORTH:
 * “Floating Island” (533/600)
 * “Thoughts on My Sick-bed” (535/602)
 * from The Grasmere Journals (538/605)


 * R J 26 (382)
 * BLAKE:
 * “The Lamb” (166/179)
 * “The Little Black Boy” (167/180)
 * “The Chimney Sweeper” (168/181)
 * “Holy Thursday” (171/184)
 * “The Clod and the Pebble” (175/190)
 * “Holy Thursday” (175/190)
 * “The Chimney Sweeper” (179/194)
 * “The Fly” (181/196)
 * “The Tyger” (182/197)
 * “London”(184/199)
 * COLERIDGE:
 * “Frost at Midnight” (563/630)
 * “Kubla Khan” (602/669)
 * “Dejection: An Ode” (607/674)
 * “Work Without Hope” (613/680)
 * BYRON:
 * “She walks in beauty” (646/710)
 * “So, we’ll go no more a-roving” (647/711)
 * [Byron’s Strained Idealism. Apostrophe to His Daughter] (705/771) and [Apostrophe to the Ocean.  Conclusion](711/777) from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
 * “Stanzas” (767/882)
 * “On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year” (767/882)
 * [Camille]

WEEK 3


 * T J 31 (382)
 * P. SHELLEY:
 * “Mont Blanc” (776/871)
 * “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (780/875)
 * “Ozymandias” (782/877)
 * “Sonnet: England in 1819” (783/878)
 * “Ode to the West Wind” (794/889)
 * “To A Skylark” (796/891)
 * KEATS:
 * “Sonnet: When I have fears” (893/988)
 * “Ode to a Nightingale” (911/1006)
 * “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (913/1008)
 * “Ode on Indolence” (915/1010)
 * “Ode on Melancholy” (917/1012)
 * “To Autumn” (918/1013)
 * “‘This living hand’” (949/1044)
 * “‘Bright Star’” (949/1044)
 * [Nia]


 * R F 02 (382)
 * BARBAULD:
 * “The Mouse’s Petition to Dr. Priestley” (62/66)
 * “Washing-Day” (66/70)
 * C. SMITH:
 * “Written in the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex” (85/89)
 * “On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea, because it was frequented by a lunatic” (85/89)
 * ROBINSON:
 * “January, 1795” (275/291)
 * “London’s Summer Morning” (282/298)
 * BAILLIE:
 * “London” (345/384)
 * “A Mother to Her Waking Infant” (346/385)
 * BURNS:
 * “To a Mouse” (359/398)
 * “Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled” (364/403)
 * HEMANS:
 * “Joan of Arc, in Rheims” (855/950)
 * “Woman and Fame” (861/956)
 * CLARE:
 * “[The Mouse’s Nest]” (874/969)
 * “The Mores” (876/971)
 * [Shama and Alex]

WEEK 4


 * T F 07 (382)
 * EQUIANO:
 * from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (216/230)
 * PRINCE:
 * from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (225/239)
 * WOLLSTONECRAFT:
 * from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (288/304)
 * [Jacob]


 * R F 09
 * M. SHELLEY:
 * Frankenstein (1-115)

WEEK 5


 * T F 14
 * M. SHELLEY:
 * Frankenstein (115-207)


 * R F 16
 * FIRST EXAMINATION

THE VICTORIAN AGE

WEEK 6


 * T F 21
 * “The Victorian Age at a Glance” (1045)
 * “The Victorian Age” (1049)
 * “The Industrial Landscape” (1088)
 * “Religion and Science” (1291)
 * “Popular Short Fiction” (1431)
 * “Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen” (1520)
 * “Travel and Empire” (1746)
 * “Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin De Siècle” (1885)

WEEK 7
 * R F 23 (382)
 * E. B. BROWNING:
 * Sonnet 22 (1146) and Sonnet 43 (1148) from Sonnets from the Portuguese
 * “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1148)
 * “A Musical Instrument” (1174)
 * TENNYSON:
 * “The Lady of Shalott” (1181)
 * “The Lotos-Eaters” (1185)
 * “Ulysses” (1189)
 * R. BROWNING:
 * “Porphyria’s Lover” (1325)
 * “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” (1326)
 * “My Last Duchess” (1328)
 * “Love Among the Ruins” (1338)
 * [Cole and June]


 * T F 28 (382)
 * DICKENS:
 * Hard Times (1-134)
 * [Michaela and Jonathan]


 * R M 01 (382)
 * DICKENS:
 * Hard Times (135-264)
 * [Jess and Ashley]

WEEK 8—NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK

WEEK 9


 * T M 13 (382)
 * ARNOLD:
 * “Dover Beach” (1562)
 * “Lines Written in Kensington Gardens” (1564
 * “The Buried Life” (1565)
 * “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” (1567)
 * C. ROSSETTI:
 * “Song [‘When I am dead, my dearest’]” (1644)
 * “A Pause” (1645)
 * “Echo” (1646)
 * “Up-Hill” (1650)
 * “‘No, Thank You, John’” (1663)
 * “Promises Like Pie-Crust” (1664)
 * “Sleeping at Last” (1666)
 * HOPKINS:
 * “God’s Grandeur” (1702)
 * “The Windhover” (1704)
 * “Pied Beauty” (1704)
 * “[Carrion Comfort]” (1708)
 * “Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord” (1710)
 * [Lorena and Rita]


 * R M 15 (382)
 * GASKELL:
 * “Our Society at Cranford” (1432)
 * HARDY:
 * “The Withered Arm” (1448)
 * DOYLE:
 * “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1467)
 * [Sarah and Caroline]

WEEK 10


 * T M 20 (382)
 * CARROLL:
 * from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1715)
 * from Through the Looking Glass (1721)
 * STEVENSON:
 * The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1780)
 * [A.J.]


 * R M 22
 * No Class—Conference
 * “The Twentieth Century and Beyond at a Glance” (1919)
 * “The Twentieth Century and Beyond” (1923)
 * “The Great War: Confronting the Modern” (2112)
 * “Speeches on Irish Independence” (2163)
 * “World War II and the End of Empire” (2527)
 * “Whose Language?” (2772)

WEEK 11


 * T M 27
 * PATER:
 * Conclusion from The Renaissance (1698)
 * WILDE:
 * from “The Soul of Man Under Socialism” (1824)
 * Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1828)
 * The Importance of Being Earnest (1829)
 * Aphorisms (1870)


 * R M 29
 * SECOND EXAMINATION

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND

WEEK 12


 * T A 03 (382)
 * WEST:
 * “Indissoluble Matrimony” (2141)
 * JOYCE:
 * “The Dead” (2229)
 * MANSFIELD:
 * “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” (2478)
 * [Eric and Diana]

WEEK 13
 * R A 05 (382)
 * YEATS:
 * “Easter 1916” (2181)
 * “Sailing to Byzantium” (2185)
 * “Byzantium” (2197)
 * “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” (2200)
 * ELIOT:
 * “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (2287)
 * “The Hollow Men” (2318)
 * AUDEN: “Spain” (2617)
 * “September 1, 1939” (2619)
 * “Musée des Beaux Arts” (2621)
 * “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (2622)
 * [Rachel and Claire]


 * T A 10 (382)
 * WOOLF:
 * Mrs Dalloway (2338-2388)
 * [Jordan]


 * R A 12 (382)
 * WOOLF:
 * Mrs Dalloway (2389-2437)
 * [Katherine and Joy]

WEEK 14


 * T A 17 (382)
 * FORSTER:
 * “The Life to Come” (2204)
 * GREENE:
 * “A Chance for Mr Lever” (2517)
 * GORDIMER:
 * “What Were You Dreaming?” (2655)
 * RUSHDIE:
 * “Chekov and Zulu” (2749)
 * “The Courter” (2758)
 * [Katie]


 * R A 19 (382)
 * THOMAS:
 * “Fern Hill” (2574)
 * “Poem in October” (2575)
 * DUFFY:
 * “Originally” (2648)
 * “Translating the English, 1989” (2649)
 * WALCOTT:
 * “A Far Cry from Africa” (2662)
 * 54 from Midsummer (2670)
 * HEANEY:
 * “The Toome Road” (2743)
 * “Postscript” (2746)
 * BOLAND:
 * “Mise Eire” (2780)
 * NÍ DHOMHNAILL:
 * “Ceist ’na Teangan/The Language Issue” (2804)
 * LEWIS:
 * “Mother Tongue” (2806)
 * HERBERT:
 * “Cabaret McGonagall” (2809)
 * [Elizabeth]

WEEK 15


 * T A 24
 * MOORE AND LLOYD:
 * from V for Vendetta (2813)
 * KUREISHI:
 * “Something to Tell You” (2836)
 * HORNBY:
 * “NippleJesus” (2848)
 * Z. SMITH:
 * “Martha, Martha” (2861)
 * R A 26
 * No Class—Kemp Symposium
 * BECKETT:
 * Endgame (2579) or
 * STOPPARD:
 * The Invention of Love (2685)

FINAL EXAMINATION—TUES., MAY 01, AT 12:00 NOON

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