ENG
1210 - Schedule of Readings
(note: unless otherwise specified, definitions of key terms can be found in the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms)
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WEEK 1 (January 21-25 )
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Introduction |
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Monday |
MLK Holiday - No Class |
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Introduction – Syllabus (strongly encouraged to start King Lear) |
| Friday | Feather - Introduction (1-22?) key terms: History of the Book, periods of English literature (lecture) |
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WEEK 2 (January 28 - February 1)
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Monday |
King Lear (Act I) key terms: drama, tragedy |
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King Lear (Act II) key terms: act, scene Sign up day for presentations |
| Friday | King Lear (Act III) Michel De Montaigne, “Of the Affection of Fathers for Their Children” key terms: blank verse |
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WEEK 3 (February 4-8 )
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Monday |
King Lear (Act IV) |
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King Lear (Act V) Nahum Tate, The History of King Lear key terms: adaptation, bowdlerize |
| Friday | Samuel Johnson, “Notes on King Lear” Charles Lamb, “On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation” key terms: literary criticism |
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WEEK 4 (February 11-15)
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Monday |
Evelina (51-101) key terms: fiction, novel, epistolary novel |
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Evelina (102-160) |
| Friday | Evelina (160-202) - comment on blackboard |
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WEEK 5 (February 18-22)
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Monday |
Feather (51-68) Evelina (202-257) Thomas Gisborne, "On the Mode of Introducing Young Women into General Society" key terms: bildungsroman |
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Evelina (257-292) Tobias Smollett, "On A Visit to Bath" key terms: eponymous |
| Friday | Evelina (292-344) Frances Burney, "An Unwanted Proposal of Marriage" key terms: satire |
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WEEK 6 (February 25-29)
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Monday |
Feather (71-84) Evelina (344-402) Joseph Addison, "The Royal Exchange" key terms: imagination, reason, quixotism (lecture) |
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Evelina (402-436) Fordyce, "On the importance of the Female Sex" key terms: closure |
| Friday | Midterm Exam |
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WEEK 7 (March 3-7 )
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Monday |
Feather (85-96) Northanger Abbey (1-24) William Gilpin, "Observations on the River Wye" key terms: rise of the novel (lecture) |
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Northanger Abbey (24-49) Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto key terms: Gothic |
| Friday |
Northanger Abbey (49-73) |
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WEEK 8 (March 10-14 )
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Monday |
Feather (97-107) Northanger Abbey (73-94) Review from British Critic. key terms: narrator, narrative |
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Northanger Abbey (94-121) Ann Radcliffe, "Sensibility" key terms: Regency |
| Friday | Northanger Abbey (121-150) Sir Walter Scott, Waverly key terms: foil MoCAT Evaluations Due |
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WEEK 9 (March 17-21)
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Monday |
Feather (108-119) Northanger Abbey (150-173) Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho key terms: free indirect discourse |
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Northanger Abbey (173-end) Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk key terms: third person omniscient |
| Friday | Library Day - Special Collections |
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SPRING BREAK |
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WEEK 10 (March 31 - April 4) |
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Feather (120-131) New Grub Street (53-120) Issac D'Israeli, "The Calamities of Authors" key terms: Victorian, nineteenth-century |
| Wednesday | New Grub Street (120-165) Thornbury, "Old and New London" key terms: literary canon |
| Friday | New Grub Street (165-202) Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language key terms: marketplace |
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WEEK 11 (April 7-11) |
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Monday |
Feather (132-142) New Grub Street (202-274) Thomas Carlyle, "The Hero as Man of Letters" key terms: realism |
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New Grub Street (274-327) "Edmund Gosse Writes a Book Review" key terms: three-volume novel |
| Friday | New Grub Street (327-381) H. D. Traill, "Author and Critic," Literature (1897) key terms: tradition |
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WEEK 12 (April 14-18 )
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Monday |
Feather (145-151) New Grub Street (381-454) Leopold Wagner, How to Publish a Book or Article and How to Produce a Play. Advice to Young Authors (1898) key terms: third person narration |
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New Grub Street (454-end) key terms: epigram |
| Friday | Library Day - Special Collections |
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WEEK 13 (April 21-25 )
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Monday |
The Waste Land, "The Burial of the Dead" Ovid, "The Blinding of Tiresias" key terms: poem |
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The Waste Land, "A Game of Chess" James L. Weston, "The Tarot Pack" key terms: verse, meter |
| Friday | Feather (152-180 - CHECK) The Waste Land, "The Fire Sermon" Herman Hesse "The Downfall of Europe" key terms: intertextuality, allusion |
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WEEK 14 (April 28 - May 2 )
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Monday |
The Waste Land, "Death By Water" "The Fisher King" key terms: onomatopoeia, colloquialism |
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The Waste Land, "What the Thunder Said" James L. Weston, "The Grail Quest " key terms: Classicism |
| Friday | The Waste Land (discussion of whole) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, The Three Great Disciplines key terms: New Criticism |
WEEK 15 (May 5-8)
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Monday
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Feather (211-219) Aldous Huxley, "Madame Sosostris" Final Thoughts, Review for Exam |
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Final Exam |
| Friday | Reading Day - No Class |