English 206-011
Spring 1999, MWF 12:20-1:10
Pearson 106
ENGL 206: British Literature II
REQUIRED TEXTS
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William Blake, Songs
of Innocence (Dover) ISBN 04862276 {this is a link}
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William Blake, Songs
of Experience (Dover) ISBN 0486246361
[Alternate link to webpage with combined edition of Innocence and
Experience]
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William Wordsworth, Favorite Poems (Dover) ISBN 0486270734
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Dover) ISBN
0486223051
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Jane Austen, Emma (Penguin) ISBN 0140430105
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, Selected Poems (Dover) ISBN 0486275582
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John Keats, Lyric Poems (Dover) ISBN 0486268713
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Alfred Tennyson, Selected Poems (Dover) ISBN 0486272826
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Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (Penguin) ISBN 0140430016
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese and Other Poems
(Dover) ISBN 0486270521
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Robert Browning, My Last Duchess and Other Poems (Dover) ISBN
0486277836
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Christina Rosetti, Goblin Market (Dover) ISBN 0486245160
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Thomas Hardy, Selected Poems (Dover) ISBN 048628753X
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Wilfred Owen, World War I British Poets (Dover)
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T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land & Other Poems (Dover)
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Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Harcourt, Brace) ISBN 0156628708
Please use the editions listed. (Many of these books cost $1.00. We will
not be using the Norton Anthology.)
Recommended reference book: M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms
(available at Morris Library in the reference department, PN41.A184 1993).
REQUIREMENTS
One brief, in-class report on an author or a topic.
Four 3-page papers, due: Wednesday, March 3
Friday, March 19
Monday, April 12
Friday, April 30.
One of these papers may be an intellectually creative response to the text
(a parody, a new ending, an imagined interview with a character, etc.).
One final 6-page paper, due Wednesday, May 19.
In addition:
- Individual conferences will be held during the semester.
- You must use your email account. We may occasionally have assignments
and questions handled via email.
- More than two absences will lower your final grade; class
participation is expected.
- When the schedule lists books of poetry, the specific poems upon
which we will concentrate will be assigned in class.
Finally, a word about academic integrity.
Always note your sources and do not hesitate to ask me about the correct
ways of handling and citing outside sources.
SCHEDULE
2/10 Introduction
2/12 William Blake, Songs of Innocence
2/15 William Blake, Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
2/17 William Wordsworth
2/19 William Wordsworth
2/22 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
2/24 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
2/26 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
3/1 Coleridge and Mary Robinson, "Haunted Beach"
3/3 Jane Austen, Emma Paper #1 due
3/5 Jane Austen, Emma
3/8 Jane Austen, Emma
3/10 Jane Austen, Emma
3/12 Jane Austen, Emma
3/15 Jane Austen, Emma
3/17 Jane Austen, Emma
3/19 Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats Paper #2
due
3/22 Shelley and Keats
3/24 Emily Bront�, Wuthering Heights
3/26 Emily Bront�, Wuthering Heights
3/29 [Spring Break]
3/31 [Spring Break]
4/2 [Spring Break]
4/5 Emily Bront�, Wuthering Heights
4/7 Emily Bront�, Wuthering Heights
4/9 Emily Bront�, Wuthering Heights
4/12 Emily Bront�, Wuthering Heights Paper #3
due
4/14 Alfred Tennyson
4/16 Alfred Tennyson
4/19 Elizabeth and Robert Browning
4/21 Elizabeth and Robert Browning
4/23 Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
4/26 Thomas Hardy
4/28 Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen
4/30 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Paper #4
due
5/3 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
5/5 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
5/7 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
5/10 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
5/12 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
5/14 T.S. Eliot, "Prufrock" & "Hamlet and His Problems"
5/17 T.S. Eliot, "Prufrock" & "Hamlet and His Problems"
5/19 Conclusion Final paper due
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