Course

Schedule
UPDATED ON: 1/25/17

The Age of Romanticism

Jan. 10: Introduction to The Age of Romanticism
Jan 11: Barbauld The Washing Day
Jan 12: Smith The Winter Night; To the Muse
Jan 13: Blake from Songs of Innocence: The Little Black Boy; The Chimney Sweeper; from
Songs of Experience: Holy Thursday; The Chimney Sweeper
Jan 17: Wordsworth from Lyrical Ballads: Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey;
Preface; Ode to Joy; The Solitary Reaper
Jan. 18-22: Novel #1: The Jungle Book
Jan 24: Coleridge Frost at Midnight; Cristobel

Assign Paper #1
Jan 25: Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Jan 26: Austin Pride and Prejudice: Chapters 1-2
Jan 27: Austin Pride and Prejudice: Chapters 3-4
Jan 30: Shelley from A Defense of Poetry; Ode to the West Wind
Jan 31: Keats On the Grasshopper and Cricket; To Homer; The Living Hand
Paper #1 Due
Feb 1: Exam Review
Feb. 2: Exam I: Romanticism
Feb 6: Shelley from The Last Man: Chapters 29-30 (You will not be tested on this)

The Victorian Era
Feb 7: Introduction to The Victorian Era
Feb 8: History of the Language and Print Culture
Feb 9: Carlyle from Past and Present: from Book 1: Chapter 1; Chapter 6
Feb 10: Carlyle from Past and Present: from Book 3: Chapter 13; from Book 4: Chapter 4
Feb 13: Browning The Cry of the Children; The Runaway Slave at Pilgrims Point
Feb 14: Tennyson Ulysses; The Epic
Feb 16: Darwin from The Voyage of the Beagle: Chapter 10 & 17
Feb 17: Gaskell Our Society at Cranford
Feb 21: Browning Porphyrias Lover; My Last Duchess
Feb 22: Dickens The Quiet Poor
Feb 23: Ruskin The Nature of Gothic
Feb 24: Arnold East London; West London
Feb 25: Doyle The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Feb. 27- Mar. 3: Novel #2: Study in Scarlet
Mar 3: Exam II Review
Mar 6: Assign Paper #2
Mar 7: Exam II: The Victorian Era
Mar 8: Rossetti Jenny; My Sisters Sleep
Mar 9: Rossetti Goblin Market
Mar 10: Rossetti The Triad; Cobwebs
Mar 13: Carroll Verses Recited by Humpty Dumpty; Jabberwocky
Mar 14: Webster A Castaway
Mar 15: Swinburne A Forsaken Garden
Mar 16: Hardy The Darkling Thrush; The Voice
Mar 17: Paper #2 Due

Mar 20: Hopkins Felix Randal; Authors Preface

Mar 21: Wilde To Milton; from The Critic as Artist
Mar 22-24: Wilde The Importance of Being Ernest
Mar 27: Kipling The Window at Windsor; If-

The Twentieth Century
Mar 28: Introduction to the Early Twentieth Century
Mar 29: Shaw Mrs. Warrens Profession
Mar 30: Conrad The Secret Sharer
Mar 31: Housman Loveliest Trees; Terence, This is Stupid Stuff
April 3: Sassoon They; Glory of Women
April 4: Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree; The Secret Rose
April 5: Yeats The Second Coming; Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
April 6: Exam III Review
April 7: Exam III: Rossetti to Yeats
April 10: Owen Strange Meeting; Arms and the Boy; Anthem for Doomed Youth
April 11: Lawrence Odour of Chrysanthemums
Assign Research Prop. (Paper #3)
April 12-23: Novel #3: Jacobs Room
April 24: Research Prop. (Paper #3) Due
April 25: Joyce Araby
April 26: Joyce The Dead
April 27: Mansfield The Garden Party
April 28: Eliot The Metaphysical Poets
May 1: Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Journey of the Magi
May 2: Rhys Let Them Call It Jazz
May 3: Orwell Politics and the English Language
May 4: Introduction to the Late Twentieth Century and Beyond
May 5: Larkin Days; Church Going
May 8: Hughes Pike; Daffodils
May 9: Achebe Dead Mens Path
May 10: Heaney Digging; The Wifes Table; Uncoupled
May 11: Atwood The Immigrants
May 12: Carter Bloody Chamber
May 15: Boland The Lost Land
May 16: McEwan Last Day of Summer
May 17 - 23: Novel #4: The Picture of Dorian Gray
May 22: Research Paper (Paper #4) Due
May 24: Jack and the Beanstalk (by: Jacobs, Hartland, Parsons)
May 26: Jack and the Beanstalk (by: Jacobs, Hartland, Parsons)
May 25: Final Review
May 26: Final Exam @ 12:30pm
May 30: Little Red Ridding Hood (by: Calvino, Perrault, & Brothers Grimm)
May 31: Sleeping Beauty (by: Basile, Perrault, & Brothers Grimm)
June 1: Grades Due