English 46B TTh 8:00 – 9:50
Tuesday January 8
Thursday January 10
Tuesday January 15
Thursday January 17
Readings and In-Class Activities
Week 1
Introduction to Class
Active Reading Strategies
Introduction to the Restoration (2177 – 2207)
John Bunyan (2269 – 2270), “The Pilgrim’s Progress” (2269 – 2278)
Week 2
John Dryden (2208 – 2209), “Absalom and Achitophel” (2212 – 2236); “Mac
Flecknoe” (2236 – 2242); “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” (2251 – 2255; 2257 2258)
John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (2296 – 2297), “The Disabled
Debauchee” (2297 – 2298); “The Imperfect Enjoyment” (2298 – 2300); “Upon
Nothing” (2300 – 2301); “A Satire Against Reason and Mankind” (2301 – 2307)
Week 3
William Wycherley, The Country Wife
Tuesday January 22
Thursday January 24
Tuesday January 29
Thursday January 31
Aphra Behn (2307 – 2309), Oroonoko (2313 – 2358)
Olaudah Equiano, “Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African” (3033 – 3043)
Week 4
Jonathan Swift (2464 – 2466), “A Modest Proposal” (2633 – 2639)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (2759 – 2760), “The Turkish Embassy Letters”
(2760 – 2763); “Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband” (2763 – 2765)
“Debating Women” – Swift/Montagu (2766 – 2772)
Alexander Pope (2665 – 2669), “An Essay on Criticism” (2669 – 2686); “The
Rape of the Lock” (2686 – 2704)
Tuesday February 5
Thursday February 7
Tuesday February 12
Thursday February 14
Tuesday February 19
Thursday February 21
Tuesday February 26
Thursday February 28
Week 5
Alexander Pope, “The Dunciad” (2732 – 2738)
Eliza Haywood (2739), “Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze” (2740 – 2758)
James Thomson (3044), “Autumn” (3044 – 3046)
Oliver Goldsmith (3061 – 3062), “The Deserted Village” (3062 – 3071)
William Cowper (3071 – 3072), “The Task” (3072 – 3077)
Week 6
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe pgs. 1 – 149
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe pgs. 150 – 220
Week 7
Midterm Examination
John Locke (2279 – 2280), “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”
(2280 – 2283), “Two Treatises of Government” (3012 – 3018)
James Thomson, “Ode: Rule, Britannia” (3022 – 3023)
Samuel Johnson, “A Brief to Free a Slave” (3032)
Week 8
William Wordsworth (270 – 272), Lyrical Ballads (272 – 304); “Ode:
Intimations of Immortality” (335 -341)
Dorothy Wordsworth (402 – 404), Excerpts from the Journals (404 – 418)
William Blake (112 – 116), Songs of Innocence and of Experience (118 – 135)
Tuesday March 5
Thursday March 7
Tuesday March 12
Thursday March 14
Tuesday March 19
Thursday March 21
Week 9
Samuel Coleridge (437 – 439), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (443 – 459);
“Kubla Khan” (459 – 462); “Christabel” (462 – 477)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (612 – 616), “She walks in beauty” (617); “So, we’ll
go no more roving” (620); “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” Canto 1 (620); “Don
Juan” Fragment and Canto 1 (672 – 704)
Week 10
Percy Bysshe Shelley (748 – 751), “Mutability” (751 – 752); “Hymn to
Intellectual Beauty” (773 – 776); “England in 1819” (790); “Ode to the West
Wind” (791 – 793); “A Defence of Poetry” (856 – 869)
John Keats (901 – 903), “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (904); “On
Seeing the Elgin Marbles” (906); “On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once
Again” (910 – 911); “The Eve of St. Agnes” (912 – 922); The Odes (925 – 934)
Week 11
Editor’s Preface (vii – xii)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Vol. I and II (pgs. 1 – 101)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Vol. III (pgs. 103 – 156)
Week 12
Tuesday March 26
NO CLASS – FINALS WEEK
Thursday March 28
Final Class: 7:30 – 9:30
Final Examination
Essay #2 Due