ENGLISH 15B—SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE II: (3 UNITS)
FALL SEMESTER 2015
Instructor: Dr. Mary Ann Leiby
Office: H 121-D
Phone: 310-660-3593, ext. 3183
Section: 6622
Day/Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
Room: H 103
Email: mleiby@elcamino.edu (Please use your ECC email account and
include your section number and specific topic in the subject line.)
Web Site: http://www.elcamino.edu/Faculty/mleiby/index.html
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays: 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.; 11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Fridays: 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.; and all week by appointment.
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Prerequisite: English 1A with a minimum grade of C.
Catalog Description: This course is a survey of British literature by English, Irish, Scottish, and
Welsh writers that begins with the Romantic Age and continues to the present. The course includes
selections from major Romantic, Victorian, Modern and Postmodern authors, which may include
Equiano, Burns, Blake, the Wordsworths, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, Keats, Tennyson, the
Brownings, the Brontës, Arnold, Hardy, Yeats, Conrad, Joyce, Eliot, Woolf, Lawrence, Beckett,
Heaney, Pinter, and others. Note: English 15A is not a prerequisite to 15B.
Required Texts: (available on reserve at the library and at the campus bookstore under
ISBN: 9780321874665 (packaged together): http://www.elcamino.edu/studentservices/bookstore.asp)
1) The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2 (A, B, and C). 5th Edition. Eds.
David Damrosch and Kevin J. H. Dettmar. San Francisco: Longman, 2012.
2) Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. Mary Shelley. Ed. Maurice Hindle. New York:
Penguin Books, 2003.
3) Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë. Intro. Erica Jong. New York: Penguin, 1997 or 2008.
4) Grammar Handbook. (Strongly Recommended: A Writer’s Resource 3rd Edition. Elaine P.
Maimon, Janice H. Peritz, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. San Francisco: McGraw Hill, 2010 or
later, preferably the ECC custom version with 2009 MLA update).
Materials: Folder or binder to keep handouts and readings given by the instructor; notebook to keep
class notes; two-pocket folder for term paper; a blank flash drive for exams; notebook paper, stapler,
white out, pen, etc.
Student Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of the course students will:
1. Identify representative works of major British authors from the Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and
Postmodern (post-1945) periods and their literary forms, elements, styles, and concerns.
2. Analyze representative works from the periods covered by the course in terms of relevant cultural
and historical backgrounds and literary, linguistic, and formal features.
3. Research, evaluate, and synthesize secondary sources, and incorporate these sources into a term
paper that interprets a work of British literature from the late 18th century through the present.
Course Objectives:
1) Recognize, identify, and analyze the literary forms, elements, styles, and concerns of major British
authors from the Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Postmodern (post-1945) periods.
2) Demonstrate knowledge of passages selected from the Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and
Postmodern periods.
3) Research and interpret the historical and literary milieu of the eighteenth century as the
background to interpret the historical and literary changes in the Romantic Age.
4) Assess the relationships between the works of earlier and later Romantic Age authors.
5) Analyze the Victorian background as it developed from the Romantic by comparing and
contrasting the treatment of themes and the use of literary devices such as symbol, metaphor, and
myth in works by Victorian authors.
6) Compare and evaluate the emerging themes and techniques pioneered by modernist and postWorld War II authors.
7) Interpret and evaluate a major prose work from the Romantic, Victorian, Modern, or Postmodern
periods.
8) Examine the political and socioeconomic backgrounds of the periods and how they shape and are
shaped by literature.
9) Analyze the literature with respect to its historicity by discerning and articulating how historical
periods differ in philosophical and ethical stances from our own.
10) Evaluate and synthesize material from secondary sources that approach the literature from a
critical perspective, including one or more of the following methodologies: New Historicist, Postcolonial, Poststructuralist, Feminist, Gender Studies, Reader Response, and Psychoanalytic.
*Please note that students in English 15B are expected to write clear, college-level essays with
logical paragraph composition and sentence structure as well as correct grammar, spelling, word
usage, and punctuation. If you feel you cannot be successful in this class due to struggles with
grammar or other elements of essay composition, please see the instructor as early as possible to
discuss resources and strategies for your improvement.
Students with Disabilities: It is the policy of the El Camino Community College District to
encourage full inclusion of people with disabilities in all programs and services. Students with
disabilities who believe they may need accommodations in this class should contact the campus
Special Resource Center, (310) 660-3295, http://www.elcamino.edu/academics/src/, as soon as
possible. This will ensure that students are able to fully participate. If you have a documented
disability and wish to discuss academic accommodations, please let me know. You may speak to me
after class, during my office hours, or by phone or email. Your privacy will be protected.
Academic Honesty and Plagiarism: El Camino College places a high value on the integrity of its
student scholars. When an instructor determines that there is evidence of dishonesty in any academic
work (including, but not limited to cheating, plagiarism, or theft of exam materials), disciplinary
action appropriate to the misconduct as defined in BP 5500 may be taken. A failing grade on an
assignment in which academic dishonesty has occurred and suspension from class are among the
disciplinary actions for academic dishonesty (AP 5520):
http://www.elcamino.edu/administration/board/AP5520StudentDisciplineDueProcessProceduresDece
mber212009%20docx.pdf. Students with any questions about the Academic Honesty or discipline
policies are encouraged to speak with the instructor in advance. PLAGIARISM is a serious offense
and will not be tolerated. You must submit your essays to the web-based, college-provided
plagiarism software program Turnitin.com, which helps to determine if any part of your essays is
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plagiarized. Cite and document all sources accurately to avoid plagiarism; please review the
discussion of cheating and plagiarism in ECC’s Student Code of Conduct:
http://www.elcamino.edu/studentservices/activities/codeofconduct.asp.
Attendance Policy: Students are expected to attend their classes regularly. Students who miss the
first class meeting or who are not in regular attendance during the add period for the class may be
dropped by the instructor. Students whose absences from a class exceed 10% of the scheduled class
meeting times may be dropped by the instructor. However, students are responsible for dropping a
class within the deadlines published in the class schedule. Students who stop attending but do not
drop may receive a failing grade.
Classroom Policies:
Essay Exams and Analysis Papers. We will have two exams, a midterm exam on the Romantic
period, and a final exam on the Victorian Age and the Twentieth Century. These in-class exams will
consist partially of identifications and sentence-length responses and primarily of short paper-length
responses (“mini essays”) to assess your understanding of the texts and of the discussions in class.
Anything mentioned in class may appear on the exams, so take good notes and annotate your texts,
as well as use the Exam Study Guide (available on the 15B website). The in-class essay portion of
the exams will be open book, but notes and other materials are not permitted.
After taking the midterm exam, you will have the option to choose one of your in-class short paperlength responses to an exam prompt, then develop and revise it into a complete out-of-class short
analysis paper. (You could also choose an exam prompt that you did not respond to during the exam.)
This analysis paper is NOT required; rather, it provides you the opportunity to add up to ten points to
the grade on the midterm exam. The number of points added depends upon the quality of the
analysis paper and what it adds to your exam. I recommend that you revise one of your weaker
responses (or a prompt you didn’t respond to yet from a section on which you received low points on
the exam), as the paper is meant to supplement (not simply repeat) the work you have completed
on the in-class portion of the exam. You must staple the original graded exam to the back of the
analysis paper. Please note that points added to the exam cannot exceed 100; for example, if you
earn a 95% on Exam 1, the maximum points you can earn on the analysis paper would be five. In
addition, prior to the in-class final exam, you will write an out-of-class analysis paper on Jane Eyre
that will factor in as a portion of the final exam.
Analysis papers should be at least five paragraphs (an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a
conclusion paragraph), a minimum of two and a half typed pages, double-spaced, and provide solid
support for a clear thesis that addresses the exam prompt through a close reading of the literary
text(s) assigned; the papers must utilize proper (updated, 2009) MLA format, including a Works
Cited page, even if the only source you cite is the literary text(s). (Refer to your handbook.). If you
conduct research (not required), please include with your paper photocopies or printouts of pages of
books and articles from which you quote or paraphrase and highlight or underline on these
photocopies or printouts any quoted and/or paraphrased material that you use and cite in the paper,
placing the title page or first page of each source on top, with the author and title highlighted, then
staple to it the pages of the source from which you quote or paraphrase, and organize these separately
stapled source materials alphabetically (in the same order as the Works Cited page). Do not include
copies of the literary texts themselves, just outside sources used to write your analysis papers. You
must submit analysis papers to the web-based plagiarism software program Turnitin.com by the
due date; you must also submit a paper copy to the instructor.
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Term Paper. You will write one 5-6 page term paper (minimum of 5 full pages, not counting the
Works Cited page), which will be due the last day of class. You must include at least one rough
draft with the paper, and when you conduct research, you must include photocopies or printouts of
pages from which you quote or paraphrase, with quotations or paraphrased material
highlighted or underlined. All sources used to write the paper MUST be documented accurately
using proper MLA format (both in-text and on a Works Cited page); plagiarism is unacceptable and
will result in a zero on the assignment, thus lowering your overall course grade by two full letter
grades. You must submit your paper to the web-based plagiarism software program Turnitin.com,
as well as turn in a paper copy to the instructor.
Research is required (at least THREE valid sources of literary criticism), as well as historical or
other research as needed to support the thesis of the paper, the majority of which should be a close
reading of one or more of the literary texts assigned during the semester. When turning in the
essay, place the final version (labeled as such) in one side of a two-pocket folder (and please write
your name and the course/section # on the front cover of the folder); in the other side place clearly
labeled rough drafts, including any drafts you have brought to conferences with me or with tutors in
the Writing Center or Learning Resource Center, and your research materials (photocopies or
printouts of pages of books and articles from which you quote or paraphrase). Please highlight or
underline on these photocopies or printouts any quoted and/or paraphrased material that you use in
your essay, placing the title page or first page of each source on top, with the author and title
highlighted, then staple to it the pages of the source from which you quote or paraphrase, and
organize these separately stapled source materials alphabetically (in the same order as the Works
Cited page). Do not include copies of the literary texts themselves, just any additional sources used to
write your essays. Failure to include at least one satisfactory rough draft (one that shows proof of
revision and/or proofreading) will result in lowering of the essay grade by 25 points. You are
welcome to discuss rough drafts with me during my office hours or you can make an appointment for
an alternate time that is mutually agreeable. However, please make appointments a few days in
advance.
Written Analysis Exercises. Throughout the term, you will be assigned out-of-class and in-class
exercises, including analyses of the assigned readings. Out-of-class and in-class exercises should be
typed. For group exercises, each group member should save a copy of the work onto his or her
own flash drive; at least one copy should be printed out and submitted to the instructor. I will grade
individual and group exercises on a simple scale of check minus, check, check plus, roughly
equivalent to 60%, 80%, and 100%. Serious efforts that thoroughly address the assignments will
receive a check plus; the grade lessens as the seriousness, correctness, and thoroughness of your work
lessens. Half-hearted efforts will receive a check minus or perhaps even a failing grade; missed
exercises will receive a “0.” If you miss class due to an excused absence, please see me to arrange
make-up work to replace the missed exercise.
Quizzes. At any time you may be quizzed on material from the reading assignments or class
discussions; therefore, you must attend class regularly and take the time to read assignments before
class. The quizzes are usually closed-book and closed notes; however, you may bring to class a list of
questions and answers you have written based on the readings, using these to help you with the quiz
and/or to offer as questions for the quiz. Some quizzes may be online. Any quiz or exam missed due
to tardiness or unexcused absence will receive a "0." No make-ups are permitted for quizzes;
however, if you miss class due to an excused absence the missed quiz grade can be changed from a
“0” to a passing grade (70%) if you arrange with me an acceptable make-up assignment (usually a list
of questions and answers totaling double that of the number on the missed quiz). Students who attend
class yet earn a failing grade on a quiz also have this opportunity to improve their grade. If you miss a
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quiz on one of the novels, be aware that these quizzes are weighted more heavily in your overall
grade than the other quizzes. Except in rare circumstances (such as extended, extreme illness), no
more than two quiz grades may be changed during the semester, and the make-up assignment must
be submitted within two weeks of the date of the original quiz.
Class Participation / Standards of Conduct Policy. This course requires you to complete a large
amount of reading, including many texts made difficult by complex ideas. Because the class will
largely consist of the discoveries of the students, you will be expected to participate by contributing
to class discussion and by taking part in group exercises, which you can not do if you have not
completed the reading assignments. This class doesn’t work unless everyone reads everything by the
due dates. The pace is difficult at times, but you must keep up. You should bring the anthology to
class every day (and/or the novel we are discussing); you cannot participate if you do not bring
the reading material, already read and annotated by the dates listed. Always bring a flash drive
with all of your written work/assignments, especially group work. You must, of course, attend
class to be able to participate; failure to participate due to unexcused absences will significantly
lower your overall class participation grade due to the failing grades you will receive on in-class
assignments not completed. Students must adhere to a strict Standards of Conduct Policy: you will
be expected to treat your peers and your instructor with respect, listening to others attentively and
speaking only when you have something to say that will contribute in a productive manner to the
class; violations of the Student Code of Conduct will be dealt with according to campus policy.
(Please refer to the ECC Code of Conduct, Board Policy 5500, for more information:
http://www.elcamino.edu/administration/board/boarddocs/5500%20Standards%20of%20Student%20Conduct.
pdf ). You should avoid disciplinary problems that disrupt the class and/or create a hostile
environment for your fellow students, including using the classroom computers for social
networking, e-mail, chat, or surfing the Web for material unrelated to course work.
Rules
1) You must attend class regularly. Each unexcused absence will result in a zero if I give a
a quiz or any other in-class work on that day. I will determine what constitutes an excused absence.
Do not expect me to excuse an absence just because you tell me you had to miss class; you must put
in writing via ECC email your request to have an absence excused, be prepared to document the
reason for the absence, complete all work missed in a timely fashion, and double-check the MyECC
online grade book and with me via ECC email to ensure that I have recorded your absence and late
work as excused. If you are sick and cannot afford to pay for medical care, remember that the student
Health Center is available for you (http://www.elcamino.edu/studentservices/health/index.asp), as
you have already paid for it as part of your fees. When emailing me about an absence or other issue,
be sure to do so from your MyECC email account and include your section number and the
topic (for example, “excused absence”) in the subject line. Students must sign up on the roll
sheet each day; please be sure to do so, even if you arrive late. ONLY TRUE EMERGENCIES
(severely ill health, hospitalization, death in the family, etc.) will excuse you from one of the exams;
you will then need to arrange a make-up exam. A student who cannot document a VALID reason
for missing an exam will not be allowed to do a make-up exam, thus receiving a zero for that portion
of his or her overall grade.
When you miss class, it is your responsibility to find out from another student what you missed
(notes, reading assignments, due dates, and so forth) and to download from the instructor’s website
any handouts submitted to students on the day(s) you missed class; I will not repeat lectures to
students who miss class, and I will hold you fully responsible for coming back to class (after an
illness, religious holiday, etc.) prepared for quizzes, exercises, discussion, and so forth, even if
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scheduled assignments have changed during your absence. Never call or email me to ask about
material you missed due to an absence; call or email another student in the class first. Then, if you
have questions, contact me, and I will be happy to address your concerns. If you decide to stop
attending class altogether, you are responsible for dropping the class and notifying me. (The last
day to drop classes at ECC and receive a “W” is Nov. 13.) However, if you have an emergency,
serious illness, or other circumstance beyond your control, please notify me as soon as possible
before dropping the course; I am willing to work with students in such situations, providing
additional assignments to make up for missed class time and/or arranging for an Incomplete grade to
be assigned so that you can complete the course. Arrangements for an Incomplete grade must be in
writing via ECC email.
2) You must attend class on time. If you arrive late to class and miss a quiz or other in-class
assignment, you will receive a zero on the missed assignment; if you only partially complete an
assignment because you arrived late to class, your grade will be lowered accordingly. Frequent late
arrivals will lower your class participation grade due to missed work; such behavior is also disruptive
to the class and violates the ECC Student Code of Conduct.
3) You must submit work according to the assigned format. Analysis papers and the term paper
must be on standard-sized, white, smooth-edged paper, one side only, with 1" margins, and typed
double-spaced in good print, using proper (updated, 2009) MLA documentation style, including a
Works Cited page. Please do not use odd point sizes and unusual fonts to make your paper seem
longer; such practices simply make you appear foolish and manipulative.
4) You must edit carefully. All essays will be subject to a strict grammar rule: each grammatical
or typographical error will count one point off the overall grade for the paper. Do not rely solely on
computer software for editing your work.
5) You must include your name, my name, the course title, the day and period the
class meets, a brief description of the assignment ("Group Exercise"; “Short Analysis Paper
#2); "Quiz #3"), and the date submitted on each assignment and folder you turn in to me. I will
not grade work that does not include this information in the top left-hand corner of the first page.
6) You must photocopy (or print out an extra copy of ) each out-of-class assignment and print
out an extra copy (if in the computer lab) of each in-class assignment. Keep the copy in case for
some reason the original does not get to me or I misplace it. I also suggest that you copy work,
including group assignments, onto a flash drive as well as email a copy to yourself.
7) You must submit out-of-class essays to the college-provided, web-based plagiarism software
program Turnitin.com by the appropriate due dates. Essays submitted to the instructor but not
submitted to Turnitin.com by the end of the semester will most likely revert to earning an “F” grade.
8) You must complete all work to ensure a passing grade in the course. A student who has
received good grades but has not completed all assignments may not pass the class. Even one missed
exam can lower the grade significantly.
9) You must keep copies of all returned, graded material until the last day of the semester
(preferably longer, in case you feel you did not receive a correct overall course grade).
10) You must use the computerized classroom only for academic work assigned for the class. At
any time, the instructor will be able to view your computer screen via software installed in the
computerized classroom/lab. If you choose to break the lab rules and view nonacademic material on
the Internet or write personal emails, and so forth, please be aware that you have no privacy rights in
the lab/classroom; the instructor has the option at all times to view your computer screen and freeze
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it, thus gathering evidence needed to report you to the Director of Student Development for Student
Code of Conduct violations.
Grading Policies:
Paper Criteria:
A--concrete, well-detailed, well-organized, grammatically
sound, stylistically admirable paper.
B--reasonably concrete, well-organized--perhaps
some minor grammatical flaws, perhaps some
minor problems with style.
C--paper lacks somewhat in concreteness, detail and development, has
some organization problems and some minor problems of grammar and
style.
D--paper poorly written, little detail or development,
poor organization, many minor and major grammar errors.
F--unacceptable manuscript, a laughable paper
without serious effort, many basic grammar errors.
Grading Scale: A=90-100; B=80-89; C=70-79; D=60-69; F=below 60.
Final Grade Determination:
● Midterm Exam: 15%
● Midterm Analysis Paper: up to 10 points added to the Midterm Exam
● Final Exam: 25% (includes Analysis Paper on Jane Eyre)
● Term Paper: 20%
● Exercises: 15%
● Quizzes: 7% on novels, 8% on all other readings: total, 15%
● Class Participation: 10%
Late Assignment Policy: Late papers will receive 5 percentage points off for each day late. All late
exercises will receive a "check minus." See me about late work due to excused absences; I seldom
take points off in these circumstances. I also grant extensions when necessary, but you must request
these before assignments are due.
***If you ever have any questions about your assignments, grades, or writing please feel free to
email me or come to my office to talk with me.***
Understanding Your Grade:
When I return your graded paper, it will have important comments on it meant to help you improve
your writing. I usually write brief comments throughout your essay to help you identify both strong
and weak aspects of your writing. If you EVER have difficulty understanding these comments or if
you disagree with the grade, I strongly urge you to speak to me either before or after class, during
office hours, or in a scheduled conference. Please refer to the list of revision symbols on the last page
of A Writer’s Resource and to the following list for explanations of my most commonly used
abbreviations and symbols:
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ag: there are problems with agreement of number, person, pronoun/antecedent, or
parallel structure
AGT: agentless prose
ap: apostrophe usage is incorrect
awk: an awkward sentence or phrase; needs to be reworded for clarity of
expression
c.s.: comma splice (using just a comma to join two independent clauses)
c.u.: comma usage is incorrect; comma rules are not followed
diction: improper word choice; consult a dictionary or thesaurus
expl: expletive such as “it is” or “there are”; avoid and replace with agent prose
frag: sentence fragment
fused: fused sentence (shoving two independent clauses together); needs punctuation
pass: unnecessary passive voice
paragraph symbol: problems with paragraphing / start a new paragraph
question mark: your writing is unclear, confusing, or illegible
rep: unnecessary repetition
ref: the referent is unclear
r.o.: run-on sentence
slash through a letter: lowercase the letter
sp: spelling error
s.u.: semicolon usage is incorrect
s/v: subject/verb agreement problems
tense: verb tense is incorrect
underlined or circled word or phrase: signals a problem area (unless
accompanied by a positive remark)
word or line marked through: should be cut from the essay
wordy: unnecessary words
Important Dates:
Last day to add a class: Friday, 9/4/2015
Last day to drop with no notation: Friday, 9/4/2015
Labor Day Holiday (Campus Closed): Monday, 9/7/2015
Veterans Day Holiday (Campus Closed): Wednesday, 11/11/2015
Last day to drop with a “W”: Friday, 11/13/2015
Thanksgiving Holiday (Campus Closed): 11/26/2015 - 11/29/2015
Student Resources:
 Reading Success Center (East Library Basement E-36)
Software and tutors are available for vocabulary development and reading comprehension.
 Library Media Technology Center - LMTC (East Library Basement)
Computers are available for free use. Bring your student ID # and a flash drive. There is a
charge for printing.
 Writing Center (H122)
Computers are available for free use. Free tutoring is available for writing assignments,
grammar, and vocabulary. Bring your student ID and a flash drive to save work. Printing is
NOT available.
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 Learning Resource Center - LRC (West Wing of the Library, 2nd floor)
The LRC Tutorial Program offers free drop-in tutoring. For the tutoring schedule, go to
www.elcamino.edu/library/lrc/tutoring. The LRC also offers individualized computer
adaptive programs to help build your reading comprehension skills.
 Student Health Center (Next to the Pool)
The Health Center offers free medical and psychological services as well as free workshops
on topics like “test anxiety.” Low cost medical testing is also available.
 Special Resource Center – SRC (Southwest Wing of Student Services Building)
The SRC provides free disability services, including interpreters, testing accommodations,
counseling, and adaptive computer technology.
Detailed Weekly Schedule:
Please note: the instructor reserves the right to make changes in the schedule if necessary.
Week of
Assignment
Aug. 25
T: Introduction, syllabus; TH: Guidelines for Interpreting Literature handout (on 15B
website); The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Vol. 2 (all subsequent page
numbers are for this textbook unless otherwise noted): “The Romantics and Their
Contemporaries” (3-33); The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy” (108);
from Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Men (122-30); William
Blake (169-71; 176-77): "The Sick Rose" (194); "London" (199).
Sept. 1
T, TH: Discourse and imagery exercise on Wollstonecraft assigned (see 15B
website); William Blake continued; from "Songs of Innocence and of Experience":
"Introduction" (178); “The Lamb” (179-80); “The Blossom” (181); "The Chimney
Sweeper" (181-82); "The Divine Image" (183-84); "Holy Thursday" (184);
"Introduction" (189); “Earth’s Answer” (189-90); "Holy Thursday"(190-91); "The
Chimney Sweeper" (194); "The Tyger" (197-98); “The Human Abstract” (199-200);
“A Divine Image” (203); Review the color plates for all assigned poems:
http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=songsie; Please
Note: Sept. 4 is the last day to add courses and the last day to drop and be eligible for
a full refund; it is also the last day to drop without receiving a “W” on your transcript.
Sept. 8
T: “The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade” (229-30); Mary Prince: from
“The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Written by Herself” (239-44);
John Newton: “Amazing Grace!” (250-51); Robert Southey: Sonnets III, IV, V, and
VI from Poems Concerning the Slave-Trade (268-69) and “The Sailor Who Had
Served in the Slave-Trade” (269-272); Dorothy Wordsworth: from The Grasmere
Journals (273); William Wordsworth: “To Toussaint L’Ouverture” (282-283), “To
Thomas Clarkson” (283), from The Prelude (283-84), and from Humanity (284).
TH: Mary Robinson (289-90): “January, 1795” (291-92) and “The Old Beggar” (30001); William Blake: from “Mary” (329-30); Mary Wollstonecraft: from A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman (302-09 and 324-26); from The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria
(330-40, also on the 15B website); “The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the
Rights of Women” (341); Discourse and imagery exercise (on Wollstonecraft) due;
Robert Burns (397-98); "To a Mouse" (398-99); "To a Louse" (399-400); "Scotts, wha
hae wi’ Wallace bled" (403); "Is there for honest poverty” (404); Thomas Moore:
“The harp that once through Tara’s halls” (408).
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Sept. 15
T, TH: William Wordsworth (410-12): "Lines written a few miles above Tintern
Abbey" (429-33); from The Preface to Lyrical Ballads (433-36, 439-41); The "Lucy
Poems": "Strange fits . . . ," "Song (She dwelt . . .)," "A slumber . . ." (446-48) and "I
travelled . . ." (545); “The Old Cumberland Beggar” (453-57); The Prelude, or
Growth of a Poet’s Mind (477-78): from Book First, lines 587-672 (491-92); from
Book Second (493-95); from Book Fourth, lines 360-504 (496-99); from Book
Ninth, lines 40-126 (514-16); from Book Tenth (520-29); from Book
Thirteenth, lines 120-452 (537-41); "Resolution and Independence" (545-49); "I
wandered lonely as a Cloud” (551); "My heart leaps up" (552); Dorothy Wordsworth
(592-94): “Grasmere: A Fragment” (594-96); “Irregular Verses” (597-600); “Floating
Island” (600); “Thoughts on My Sick-bed” (602-03); “When Shall I Tread Your
Garden Path?” (603-04); “Lines Written . . .” (604-05); from The Grasmere Journals
(605-11); “To Lady Beaumont” (614-15).
Sept. 22
T: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (624-25): “The Eolian Harp” (626-28); This Lime-Tree
Bower My Prison" (628-30); “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (634-49);
“Dejection: An Ode” (674-78); from Chapter 14 of Biographia Literaria (691).
TH: George Gordon, Lord Byron (708-10): "She walks in beauty" (710); "So,
we'll go no more a-roving” (711); from Child Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Third
and the Fourth (765-779); from Duan Juan, Dedication (781-86); “On This Day I
Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year” (862-63); Percy Bysshe Shelley (868-70): “To
Wordsworth” (870-71); "Mont Blanc" (871-75); "Ozymandias" (877); “Sonnet:
England in 1819” (878); "Ode to the West Wind" (889-91); “To Jane” (919); John
Keats (973-75): “To one who has been long in city pent” (979); "La Belle Dame sans
Merci" (1001-02); "Ode to a Nightingale" (1006-08);"Ode on a Grecian Urn" (100810); “Bright star” (1044); “To Fanny Brawne” (1058); “To Charles Brown” (1060).
Sept. 29
T, TH: Byron, Shelley, and Keats continued; Mary Shelley: Frankenstein.
Oct. 6
T, TH: Frankenstein continued (complete the novel by Oct. 6).
Oct. 13
T: Midterm Exam; TH: Midterm Analysis Paper assigned (see 15B website); The
Victorian Age (1049-1073); Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1138-40): from Sonnets from
the Portuguese, Sonnet 22 (1146) and Sonnet 43 (1148); from Aurora Leigh (1155-74)
and from Book I handout (on 15B website).
Oct. 20
T, TH: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1175-78): "Mariana" (1179-80); "The Lady of
Shalott" (1181-85); "Ulysses" (1189-91); from The Princess [“The Woman’s Cause Is
the Man’s”] (1203-4); from In Memoriam A. H. H. (1204-5); lines 1-44 (1205-6); parts
3 and 5 (1207-8); part 27 (1215); parts 55-56 (1218-19); parts 120, 123, 124, 130, 131
and from Epilogue (1232-35); Robert Browning (1322-25): "Porphyria's Lover"
(1325-26); "My Last Duchess" (1328-29); "Love among the Ruins" (1338-40); "The
Last Ride Together" (1355-58); Matthew Arnold (1557-60): "Isolation. To
Marguerite" and "To Marguerite--Continued" (1560-61); "Dover Beach" (1562); "The
Buried Life" (1565-67); and "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" (1567-72); Jane
Eyre identity exercise assigned (see 15B website).
Oct. 27
T, TH: Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (complete the novel by Oct. 27); Jane Eyre
identity exercise due (Oct. 29); Jane Eyre Analysis Paper assigned.
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Nov. 3
T, TH: Midterm Analysis Paper Due; Jane Eyre continued; Christina Rossetti
(1642-44): "In an Artist's Studio" (1647-48); "An Apple-Gathering" (1648-49);
"Goblin Market" (1650-63); "'No, Thank You, John'" (1663-64); "Promises like PieCrust" (1664); Gerard Manly Hopkins (1701-2): “God’s Grandeur” (1702-3); “Pied
Beauty” (1704); “Carrion Comfort” (1708); “Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord” (1710).
Nov. 10
T, TH: Rudyard Kipling (1726-27): “The White Man’s Burden” (1776-78);
“Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin de Siècle” (1885-88); Richard Le Gallienne
(1907): “A Ballad of London” (1907-8); Oscar Wilde (1818-21): Preface to The
Picture of Dorian Gray (1828-29); The Importance of Being Earnest (1829-69); from
De Profundis (1872-79); Please Note: THE LAST DAY TO DROP CLASSES AT
ECC is Nov. 13.
Nov. 17
T: “The Twentieth Century” (1919-48); George Bernard Shaw (2026-29): Pygmalion
(2029-96).
TH: Thomas Hardy (2096-98): "Hap" (2098); "The Darkling Thrush" (20992100); "Channel Firing” (2106-7); "And There Was a Great Calm" (2108-9); “The
Great War: Confronting the Modern” (2112); Cicely Hamilton: “Non-Combatant”
(2113-14); Siegfried Sassoon (2130-31): “The Glory of Women” (2131), “The RearGuard” (2131-32); Pauline Barrington: “‘Education’” (2132-33); Rupert Brooke
(2134-35): “The Soldier” (2136-37); Teresa Hooley: “A War Film” (2137); Wilfred
Owen (2157-58): "Strange Meeting" (2158-58); "Disabled" (2159-60); "Dulce Et
Decorum Est” (2160-61); Speeches on Irish Independence (2163-65); “Proclamation
of the Irish Republic” (2169-70); William Butler Yeats (2174-77): “An Irish Airman
Foresees His Death” (2180-81).
Nov. 24
T: “The Second Coming” (2183); “No Second Troy” (2178); "Sailing to Byzantium"
(2185-86); "Leda and the Swan" (2194-95); “Under Ben Bulben” (2201-03); T. S.
Eliot (2284-87): "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (2287-91); from “The Waste
Land” (2297-98), lines 1-42 (2298-2300); lines 76-172 (2300-2303); lines 322-434
(2307-2310); Jane Eyre Analysis Paper due (take-home portion of the final exam).
TH: NO CLASS—Thanksgiving Day Holiday.
Dec. 1
T: James Joyce: (2215-18): Dubliners: “Araby” and “Eveline” (2218-25); Virginia
Woolf (2331-34): from A Room of One's Own (2442-77).
TH: D. H. Lawrence (2491-3): "Tortoise Shout" (2494-97); "Cypresses" (2499-2501);
World War II and the End of Empire (2527-28); Evelyn Waugh (2549-50): “The Man
Who Liked Dickens” (2550-59); Seamus Heaney (2739): “Punishment” (2740-42); “In
Memoriam Francis Ledwidge” (2745-46).
Dec. 8
T: Dylan Thomas (2572-73): “Fern Hill” (2574-75); "Do Not Go Gentle into That
Good Night” (2576-77); W. H. Auden (2614-15): “September 1, 1939” (2619-21); "In
Memory of W. B. Yeats" (2622-24); Stevie Smith: “Our Bog is Dood” and “Not
Waving but Drowning” (link on 15B website); Phillip Larken (2631): "Talking in
Bed" (2634); "High Windows" (2635); “Whose Language?” (2772); Eavan Boland
(2777-78): “Mise Eire” (2780-81).
TH: Final Exam (in-class portion); Term Paper Due (in a labeled folder, with a
Works Cited page, a rough draft, highlighted research materials attached; submit the
paper to Turnitin.com; see the syllabus and assignment sheet for all requirements).
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