English 4405 schedule, fall 2013
Updated 12/3/13
Note that this schedule of readings and assignments is tentative. I will make additions and adjustments as need arises, giving ample notice in class and on the web when making changes in the schedule.
Day/Date | Assignments due | Readings due | In class |
Tuesday, August 20 | Introduction to course |
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Thursday, August 22 | Student
info form (online) |
Mary
Wollstonecraft overview |
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Tuesday, August 27 | William Blake overview Blake headnote 112-16 "All Religions Are One" 116 "There Is No Natural Religion" (a & b) 116-17 From Songs of Innocence and Experience: "Introduction" & "Introduction" 118-19, 125 "The Lamb" & "The Tyger" 120, 129-30 "The Chimney Sweeper" (both) 121-22, 128 "The Divine Image" 122 "A Divine Image" 135 |
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Thursday, August 29 | William Blake: "The Clod & the Pebble" 127 "The Garden of Love" 131 "The Human Abstract" 133 "The Book of Thel" 135-40 "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" 148-59 |
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Tuesday, Sept. 3 | Gothic excerpts: 584-612 Northanger Abbey 1-30 (chaps. 1-7) |
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Thursday, Sept. 5 | Northanger Abbey 31-102 (chs. 8-18, or through Vol. II, ch. 3) |
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Tuesday, Sept. 10 | Northanger Abbey 103-79 (chs. 19-31, or to the end) |
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Thursday, Sept. 12 | William Wordsworth overview Wordsworth headnote 270-72 "Simon Lee" 275-78 "We Are Seven" 278-79 "The Thorn" 282-88 "Lines Composed . . . Tintern Abbey" 288-92 "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" 292-304 |
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Tuesday, Sept. 17 | William Wordsworth: "I wandered lonely as a cloud" 334-35 "My heart leaps up" 335 "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" 335-41 "The world is too much with us" 347 "Mutability" 348 "Resolution and Independence" 330-34 |
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Thursday, Sept. 19 | William Wordsworth: The Prelude excerpts 349-78 |
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Tuesday, Sept. 24 | William Wordsworth: "Michael" 320-30 The Prelude excerpts 378-402 |
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Thursday, Sept. 26 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge overview Coleridge headnote 437-39 "The Eolian Harp" 439-41 "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" 441-43 "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 443-59 "Frost at Midnight" 477-79 |
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Tuesday, October 1 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Kubla Khan" 459-62 "Christabel" 462-77 "Dejection: An Ode" 479-83 "Table Talk Specimens" 505-8 |
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Thursday, October 3 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia Literaria excepts 487-99 "Lectures on Shakespeare" 499-502 |
Paper 1 assigned Discuss midterm |
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Tuesday, October 8 | Midterm exam | ||
Thursday, October 10 | Sir Walter Scott headnote 418-20 "The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Intro" 420-22 "Wandering Willie's Tale" 423-37 George Gordon, Lord Byron headnote 612-16 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage excerpts 620-37 |
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Tuesday, October 15 | Paper proposal | Lord Byron: "She Walks in Beauty" 617-18 "So, we'll go no more a roving" 620 Don Juan excerpts 672-726 |
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Wednesday, Oct. 16 | Midterm last
day to withdraw with "W" grade |
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Thursday, October 17 |
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Frankenstein v-x, 1-54 (chs. 1-7) | |
Tuesday, October 22 | Paper 1 due | Frankenstein 54-114 (chs. 8-18) | |
Thursday, October 24 | Frankenstein 114-66 (chs. 19-end) | ||
Tuesday, October 29 | Charles Lamb headnote 509-10 "Detached Thoughts on Books . . ." 514-19 "Old China" 519-23 William Hazlitt headnote 546-47 "My First Acquaintance with Poets" 551-64 Online: "On Gusto" Thomas De Quincey headnote 565-66 "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 567-80 |
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Thursday, October 31 | Long Live The Rocky Horror Picture Show! | ||
Tuesday, November 5 | Percy Bysshe Shelley overview Shelley headnote 748-51 "Mutability" 751-52 "Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude" 752-69 "Mont Blanc" 770-73 "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" 773-76 "Ozymandias" 776 "Stanzas Written in Dejection" 778-79 |
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Thursday, November 7 | Percy Bysshe Shelley: |
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Tuesday, November 12 | Percy Bysshe Shelley: |
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Thursday, November 14 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans headnote 884-85 "England's Dead" 885-86 "Casabianca" 886-87 "The Homes of England" 888-89 "Corinne at the Capitol" 889-90 "Properzia Rossi" 890-93 "Indian Woman's Death Song" 894-95 "A Spirit's Return" 895-900 |
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Tuesday, November 19 | Paper 1 corrections | Keats headnote 901-3 "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" 904 "Sleep and Poetry" 904-6 "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" 906 Endymion excerpts 906-10 "The Eve of St. Agnes" 912-22 Letters 965-74 |
Paper 2 assigned |
Thursday, November 21 | Paper proposal | John Keats: "La Belle Dame sans Merci" 923-24 "Ode to Psyche" 925-27 "Ode to a Nightingale" 927-29 "Ode on a Grecian Urn" 930-31 |
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Monday-Friday, November 25-29 |
Thanksgiving holiday | Thanksgiving holiday | Thanksgiving holiday |
Tuesday, December 3 | Paper 2 due | John Keats: "Ode on Melancholy" 931-33 "Ode on Indolence" 933-34 "Lamia" 935-50 "To Autumn" 951-52 |
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Thursday, December 5 | John Keats: "The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream" 952-64 Letitia Elizabeth Landon headnote 996-97 "Love's Last Lesson" 997-99 "Lines of Life" 1000-2 "The Fairy of the Fountains" 1002-14 |
Discuss exam | |
Final exam Tuesday, Dec. 10 1:00-3:00 p.m. |