Dr. Amanda Hiner
ENGL 203 Major British Authors
TR Class Schedule Spring 2014
All texts are taken from Masters of British Literature, Volumes A and B, except where noted in the syllabus.
Students are required to read all introductory and biographical information for assigned texts.
Introduction to the Course: Discussion of course content, syllabus, assignments,
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grading rubrics, and policies.
Brief introduction to the study of British literature.
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Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature and the Middle Ages:
Skim “The Middle Ages” (3 – 10). Read The Dream of the Rood (110 – 115), The
Wanderer (115 – 118), and the introductory material to Beowulf (27 – 31). Discussion
of Critical Reading handout.
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Last day to add/drop without Dean’s permission
Skim “The Middle Ages” (10 – 26). Read Beowulf (lines 1 – 1235). Pronunciation
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guide available by clicking here.
Read Beowulf (lines 1236 – 2800).
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Read Margery Kempe, from The Book of Margery Kempe (378 – 385). Read Chaucer,
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The Canterbury Tales, The General Prologue (221 – 259). Pronunciation guide
available by clicking here.
Last day to change S/U options
Chaucer, The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale (287 – 314) and The Miller’s Prologue
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and Tale (260 – 276).
Reader Response Journal One Due.
Introduction to the Early Modern Period: Skim “The Early Modern Period” (411 –
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430). Read Lanyer, “Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum” (658 -663), Elizabeth I, “To the
English Troops” (683) and “The Golden Speech” (683 – 685), Wyatt, “Whoso List to
Hunt” (440), Surrey, “Alas, So All Things Now do Hold Their Peace” (450), Marlowe,
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (701), and Raleigh, “The Nymph’s Reply to
the Shepherd” (703).
Introduction to the Sonnet Form: Read Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnets 1, 7,
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52, 68, and 71 (648 – 652). Read Shakespeare, Sonnets 1, 18, 29, 55, 60, 116, 130, and
138 (770 – 780). Read Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Sonnets 55 and 68 (901).
Student Presentation I: Art, Music, and/or Education in the Renaissance.
Read Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, Act 1 – Act 3, Scene 3 (701 –
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731).
Read Dr. Faustus, Act 3 Scene 4 – Act 5 (731 – 753).
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First Response Paper Due in Class.
Read Donne, “The Canonization,” “The Flea,” “The Bait,” “A Valediction: Forbidding
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Mourning,” and Holy Sonnets, all selections (885 – 897). Read Marvell, “To His Coy
Mistress” (922). Read George Herbert, “The Altar,” “Redemption,” “Easter Wings,”
“The Collar,” and “The Pulley” (910 –917).
Reader Response Journal Two Due.
Read Milton, ‘When I Consider How My Light is Spent” (944) and “Methought I Saw
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My Late Espoused Saint” (944). Read Paradise Lost, Book 1(946 – 966).
Read Paradise Lost, Book 9 (980 – 1007).
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No Class. Dr. Hiner at an out-of-state academic conference.
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Introduction to the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century:
Skim “The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century” (1017 – 1040). Read Swift, “The
Lady’s Dressing Room,” (1225 – 1228). Read Montagu, “The Reasons that Induced
Dr. S. . . .” (1228 – 1231). Read “Perspectives: Women and Men, Manners and
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Marriage” (1201 – 1216).
Read Aphra Behn, Oroonoko.
Student Presentation II: Commerce, Slavery, and Trade in the 18th Century
In-Class Midterm Examination
Last day to withdraw from courses (automatic ‘N’) without documentation of
extenuating circumstances. Last day to rescind S/U option.
Read Swift, A Modest Proposal (1287 – 1294). Read Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”
(1315 – 1336) and from An Essay on Man (1339 – 1348).
Spring Break. No Class. Begin reading Austen, Emma.
Spring Break. No Class.
Read Austen, Emma, Volume I (5 – 106).
Reader Response Journal Three Due.
Read Austen, Emma, Volume II (107 – 216).
Student Presentation III: The Rise of the Middle Class and the Novel in 18th Cent.
England
Read Austen, Emma, Volume III (216 – 333).
Discussion of MLA Documentation and Research Paper Assignment.
Begin Volume B of Masters of British Literature.
Introduction to the Romantic Period: Skim “Romantics and their Contemporaries”
(3 – 17). Read Blake, “Introduction” from Songs of Innocence (53), “The Lamb” (55),
“The Chimney Sweeper” (57), “The Little Black Boy” (56), “Introduction” from Songs
of Experience (85 – 86), “The Tyger” (88), “The Chimney-Sweeper” (89), and
“London” (91). Read Wordsworth, “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”
(193 – 196), “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (271), “My heart leaps up” (272), and
“Nutting” (215 – 217) and “Strange fits of passion have I known” (208).
Skim “Romantics and their Contemporaries” (17 – 28). Read Coleridge, “The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner” (298 – 314), “Kubla Khan” (330 – 332), and “Frost at Midnight”
(296 – 297). Read Byron, “She walks in beauty” (349), Shelley, “Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty” (474 – 476), “Ozymandias” (476), and Keats, “Sonnet: When I have fears”
(537), “Ode to a Nightingale” (553) “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (555), and “Ode on
Melancholy” (558).
Reader Response Journal Four Due.
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Intro to the Victorian Age: Skim “The Victorian Age” (567 – 591). Read E. B.
Browning, “Sonnets from the Portuguese” (617 – 619), Tennyson, “The Lady of
Shalott” (640 – 645), “Ulysses” (649) and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (689 –
691). Read R. Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover” (745 – 747) and “The Bishop Orders
His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church” (750 – 753).
Student Presentation IV: Art and Literary Expression in the 19th Century/PreRaphaelites
Read C. Rossetti, “An Apple-Gathering” (893 – 894) and “Goblin Market” (894 –
907). Read Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur” (924), “Pied Beauty” (925), As Kingfishers
Catch Fire” (927), and “Thou Art Indeed Just Lord” (929). Read Kipling, “Without
Benefit of Clergy” (931).
Introduction to the Twentieth Century: Skim “The Twentieth Century” (1019 -1027). Read “The Twentieth Century” (929 – 942). Read Yeats, “The Lake Isle of
Innisfree” (1117), “The Second Coming” (1122), “Among School Children” (1126),
and “Sailing to Byzantium” (1124). Read Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock” (1194), and “Journey of the Magi” (1215 – 1216).
Reader Response Journal Five Due.
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Skim “The Twentieth Century” (1027 – 1042). Read Sassoon, “The Rear-Guard”
(1167), Owen, “Dulce Et Decorum Est” (1171), Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
(1186), “No Second Troy” (1186), “The Second Coming” (1189), and “Sailing to
Byzantium” (1194). Read Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1248) and
“Journey of the Magi” (1275).
Student Presentation V: Modernist Philosophy and Art – Minimalist Art,
Skepticism, Existentialism, and/or Stream of Consciousness
Last Day of Class. Course Evaluations. Review for Final Exam.
Study Day. Research Paper Due in my office by 5:00 p.m. Research Paper due to
Turnitin.com by midnight.
Exam given at 6:30 p.m. in our regular classroom.