Updated 4/4/05
English 406: English Literature II
Spring 2005
Bowman 220
Dr. Stan Galloway
Bowman 304
Hours: 10-11, 2-3:30 MWF and by appointment
sgallowa@bridgewater.edu
http://www.bridgewater.edu/~sgallowa/eng406.html
Texts:
Joyce, James. The Dead Ed. Daniel R. Schwarz. Bedford Case Studies in
Contemporary Criticism. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin’s, 1994.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2. Ed. M.H. Abrams et. al. 7th
ed. New York: Norton, 1999.
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ed. Donald L. Lawler. Norton Critical
Edition. New York: Norton, 1987.
Reserve Books:
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen. Hopewell, NJ:
Ecco, 1989.
---. “The Demon Lover.” Collected 661-66, Ivy .
---. Elizabeth Bowen’s Irish Stories. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour, 1994.
---. “Her Table Spread.” Collected 418-24, Irish
---. Ivy Gripped the Steps. New York: Knopf, 1946.
Mann, Chris. “Is This the Freedom for Which We Died?” Mann Alive! Cape
Town : David Philip, 1992.
---. “Saying Goodbye to the Romans.” Heartlands. Pietermaritzburg : University
of Natal Press, 2002.
Reserve Videos:
Beckett, Samuel. Krapp’s Last Tape. (46 min.)
Doyle, Arthur Conan. “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.” (52 min.)
Kipling, Rudyard. The Man Who Would Be King. (129 min.)
Objective:
To acquaint students with the Romantic, Victorian, Modern and Contemporary
periods on British literature, to introduce them to its historical and
philosophical basis upon, and to require students to think critically about
these ideas.
Course Requirements
Critical Essays:
1. Essays will be typed, double-spaced, on one side of the page only.
2. Essays will be turned in flat. Do not use plastic covers or binders; use
only a staple or paper clip to hold the paper together.
3. Late essays will be penalized 15 points for each day late.
4. Grade of essays will be lowered for technical errors.
5. The essay must be at least 1500 words, excluding the works cited
page, and conform to current MLA documentation guidelines.
6. A minimum of one primary and one secondary source is required.
7. The first essay will deal with a work from the Romantic or Victorian
period; the second will address either The Picture of Dorian Gray or
The Dead from a specific critical approach.
Quizzes:
Quizzes will be taken online prior to the class period when the work is discussed.
Specific dates will be noted in class or by e-mail.
Attendance:
You are expected to attend class. Students involved in sanctioned school
functions will make arrangements prior to the class period missed, allowing
enough lead time to complete any assignments that may need to be done.
Though no absence is beneficial to you, you will be allowed 4 absences before
grade reduction occurs; one letter grade for each additional absence. If you
believe your involvement in other activities will rob you of more than 4 days,
consult with me immediately for alternate arrangements. A semester grade of “F”
or “I” are the only grades possible after 7 absences.
Quizzes
Papers
Exams
Final Exam
Jan
Feb
10%
2 x 15%
4 x 10%
20 %
24
class introduction
26
Blake: “The Lamb” 45, “The Chimney Sweeper” 46-47, “The
Chimney Sweeper” 52, “The Sick Rose” 52, ”The Tyger” 54, “The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell” 72-82,
28
Wordsworth: “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”
235-38, “What is a Poet?” [from the Preface to Lyrical Ballads] 246-50,
“Michael” 270-80, “My Heart Leaps Up” 285
31
Coleridge: “Kubla Khan” 439-41, “Frost at Midnight” 457-58, “Rime
of the Ancient Mariner” 422-38, chapter 14 from Biographia Literaria 47883.
2
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein 907-69, view Frankenstein: The
Making of a Monster in class
4
Frankenstein 970-1034
Mar
Apr
7
Byron: “Manfred” 588-621, from Don Juan 623-37 [through canto
127], Percy Shelley: “Ozymandias” 725, “To a Sky-Lark” 765-67.
9
Keats: ”On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” 826-27, “La Belle
Dame sans Merci” 845-87, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” 851-53.
11
Exam
14
Tennyson: “The Lady of Shalott” 1204-08, “Ulysses” 1213-15, “The
Charge of the Light Brigade” 1280-82,
16
Idylls of the King excerpts 1282-1304, “Crossing the Bar” 1304
18
Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess” 1352-53, “Fra Lippo Lippi”
1373-82.
21
“An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish,
the Arab Physician” 1396-1402, “Caliban Upon Setebos” 1402-09
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnet 43 1180, “Mother and Poet” 119598; Arnold: “Dover Beach” 1492-93. First paper due.
23
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: “My Sister’s Sleep” 1578-79, Christina
Rossetti: “Goblin Market” 1589-1601, Morris: “The Defense of
Guenevere” 1606-14, Hopkins: “God’s Grandeur” 1651, “Spring and Fall”
1655-56 (CD track 11)
25
Exam
7
Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, chapters 1-9
9
Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, chapters 10-20
11
Wilde essays: Wilde excerpts (313-26), reviews and replies in the
St. James Gazette (333-42), Oates’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray: Wilde’s
Parable of the Fall” (422-31), and Lawlor’s “Keys to the Upstairs Room”
(431-57).
14
Kipling: no reading, view The Man Who Would Be King on reserve.
16
“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” online at http://www.onlineliterature.com/kipling/
jungle_book/8/ and “The Hyenas” 1893-94, Hardy: “”The Ruined Maid”
1938-39, “Channel Firing” 1944-45, Thompson: “The Hound of Heaven”
1857-61
18
Doyle: “A Case of Identity” online at http://sherlock-holmes.classicliterature.co.uk/a-case-of-identity/ and view “The Blue Carbuncle” (52
min.) on reserve
21
Shaw: Mrs. Warren’s Profession 1810-56
23
Exam
30
Conrad: “Heart of Darkness” 1957-2016
1
Yeats: “The Stolen Child” 2090-91, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
2092-93 (CD track 14), “Sailing to Byzantium” 2109-10, “Leda and the
Swan” 2110-11, “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” 2120-21
4
Thomas: “Rain” (2053); Sassoon: “’They’” (2055); Owen: “Anthem
for Doomed Youth” (2066-67), “Dulce Et Decorum Est” (2069-70),
“Disabled” (2071-72).
6
Joyce: “The Dead” 2240-68 or Schwarz 21-59
8
Joyce Essays: critical history, psychoanalytic criticism, Schwarz’s
“Gabriel Conroy’s Psyche” (Schwarz 63-96, 102-124)
May
11
Joyce Essays: new historicism, Levenson’s “Living History in ‘The
Dead,’” feminist criticism, Nottis’s “Not the Girl She Was at All: Women in
‘The Dead,’” deconstruction, Riquelme’s “For Whom the Snow Taps: Style
and Repetition in ‘The dead’” (Schwarz 150-58, 163-85, 190-215, 219-33)
13
Lawrence: “Piano” 2347, “Snake” 2352-54, view “The Horse
Dealer’s Daughter” in class
15
Mansfield: “The Garden Party” 2423-33; Bowen: “Her Table
Spread,” and “The Demon Lover” on reserve
18
Exam
20
Auden: ”Musee des Beaux Arts” 2505 (CD track 16), “The Shield
of Achilles” 2511 (CD track 17), Thomas: “Do Not Go Gentle into That
Good Night” 2524,
22
Larkin: “MCMXIV” 2566 (CD track 20), “Aubade” 2570 (CD track
21), Walcott: “A Far Cry from Africa” 2580-81, “The Glory Trumpeter”
2582 (CD track 24), Hughes: “Pike” 2589 (CD track 26); second paper
due
25
Heaney: “Digging” 2819-20, “The Skunk” 2825 (CD track 28),
Station Island 12 2825-27;
27
Maclennan: “Poetry” and “An Open Window” online at
http://www.bridgewater.edu/~sgallowa/235/2maclennan.htm, Mann: “Is
This the Freedom for Which We Died?,” “Saying Goodbye to the Romans”
on reserve, Wylie: “Secretly” online at http://www.unisa.ac.za/default.
asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=13059 and “The Break-In” online at
http://www.bridgewater.edu/~sgallowa/235/wylie-break.htm.
29
Brutus: “Leafdrift” excerpt online (scroll down) at
http://www.geocities.com/joopbersee/db2.html , and “It is the Constant
Image of Your Face” online at http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/holistic/brutus1.htm,
Berold: “valley “ online at http://www.geocities.com/joopbersee/v.html
and The stone says” online at
http://www.geocities.com/joopbersee/m.html, McGrane: “The Puzzle”
online at
http://www.wah.org.uk/wah1/MichelleMcGrane/MichellePoems.htm and
“Some Poems” online at http://www.geocities.com/joopbersee/mg10.html.
2
Review
6
8 a.m. final exam
Leadership Room Viewing
Man Who Would Be King (129 min.)
March 12 2 p.m.
March 13 8 p.m.
March 14 8 a.m.
Blue Carbuncle (52 min.)
March 17 2 p.m., 8 p.m.
March 18 8 a.m.
Krapp’s Last Tape (46 min.)
Apr. 16 2 p.m.
Apr. 17 8 p.m.
Apr. 18 8 a.m.