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English Literature II

Fall, 2010


Time: Thursday 6:40-9:20

Classroom: ES 509

Instructor: Wen-ling Su

Office: LC 306

E-mail: wling1@ms23.hinet.net

 

Course Description: This year course surveys nineteenth-century English literature in relation to literary movements and historical contexts. This semester we will focus specifically on the Romantic period (from the fall of the Bastille in 1789 to the Reform Act of 1832), devoting most of our time to studying the major themes and literary techniques in canonical works of the great Romantic poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats). Attention, however, will also be paid to the equally eminent essayists and woman writers that fall within this time frame.

 

Textbook: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II (8th ed.)

         (Photocopies of copyrighted texts are not allowed.)

 

Grading:   Midterm & final exams                      70%

           Presentations & participation                 30%

         

Requirements:

1.       Attendance: The FIRST absence for whatever reason will not be held against you, but each subsequent absence will result in a 5-point deduction of the class average. Late arrivals will cost you a 3-point deduction each time. You will get a zero if you miss a test. There will be NO make-up tests.

2.      Presentations: 3-4 people form a group. Each group needs to sign up for TWO presentations: one before the mid-term exam and the other afterwards. No need to produce PPT files or formal speeches. On the presentation day, the presentation group has to sit in the front row and respond to the teacher''s and the other students'' questions regarding the author and the literary works. All group members are expected to be familiar with the basic biographical information of the author, ready to give a brief summary and introduce central themes and important figures of speech (similes, metaphors, and so on). Whoever fails to get a passing grade in the presentation will be required to turn in a 3-page paper on topics assigned by the teacher.

 

Schedule:

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Readings

1

9/16

Introduction to the Romantic period (1785-1830)

William Blake, from Songs of Innocence and of Experience (81-97)

2

9/23

Robert Burns, “To a Mouse” (135-6); “Auld Lang Syne” (137-38); “A Red, Red Rose” (145-6); “Tam o''Shanter: A Tale” (139-44)

Edmund Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France (152-8)

William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Books IX-XI (368-75)

3

9/30

William Wordsworth, “We Are Seven” (248-49); “The Table Turned” (251-2); “Lucy Gray” (254-56); “Tintern Abbey” (258-62); “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (305-6); “The Solitary Reaper” (314-5)

Romantic Landscape Painting: John Constable and J. M. W. Turner

4

10/7

William Wordsworth, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (262-74) ; “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” (306-12)

Sir Walter Scott, “The Lay of the Last Minstrel” (407-8)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” (428-30)

5

10/14

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” (446-8); “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (430-38);“Dejection: An Ode” (466-9)

6

10/21

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Biographia Literaria (474-88)

Charles Lamb, “Old China” (510-4)

7

10/28

William Hazlitt, “On Gusto”(538-41)

Thomas de Quincey, from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (556-9)

The Gothic (577-602)

*Guest Speaker: On Jane Austen''s Northanger Abbey

8

11/4

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (170-95)

Mary Robinson, “The Poor Singing Dame” (71-2); “The Haunted Beach” (72-4)

9

11/11

Midterm

10

11/18

Lord Byron, Manfred (635-69)

11

11/25

Lord Byron, from Childe Harold''s Pilgrimage, (617-22; 625-8)

Napoleon—film (25 minutes)

Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability” (744), “Ozymandias” (768)

12

12/2

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (775-814)

13

12/9

Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (766-68), “Stanzas Written in Dejection” (769-70); “Ode to the West Wind” (772-5), “To a Sky-Lark” (817-9)

14

12/16

John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” (849-50); “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (851-52); “Ode on Melancholy” (853-54); “Ode on Indolence” (854-56)

15

12/23

John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes” (888-898); “La Belle Dame sans Merci” (899-900); “Ode to Psyche” (901-2); Letter to George and Thomas Keats [Negative Capability] (942-3)

16

12/30

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, “The Mortal Immortal” (961-70)

*Guest Speaker: Frankenstein

17

1/6

John Clare, all poems (850-61)

L.E.L—Letitia Elizabeth Landon, all poems (971-8)

18

1/13

Final Exam.

 

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