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[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)

    








  • 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]

        

      

    




	
WEEK 7






  • 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]		

        

      

    








  • 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]

        

      

    




		
WEEK 13












  • 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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