Dr. Amanda Hiner
Eng 203 Major British Authors
TR Class Schedule Fall 2009
All texts are taken from the Longman Anthology of British Literature except where noted in the syllabus.
Students are required to read all introductory and biographical information for assigned texts.
T Aug Introduction to the Course: Discussion of course content, syllabus, assignments, grading
rubrics, and policies.
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Brief introduction to the study of British literature.
R Aug Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature and the Middle Ages:
Read “The Middle Ages” (3 – 10). Read The Dream of the Rood (106 – 110), Bede, “The
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Conversion of King Edwin” (112 – 114), and The Wanderer (130 – 133). Discussion of
Critical Reading handout.
F Aug Last day to add/drop without Dean’s permission
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T Sept Read “The Middle Ages” (10 – 25). Read Beowulf (lines 1 – 1235). Pronunciation guide
available online at
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http://www2.bc.cc.ca.us/gdumler/English%205A/Beowulf/beowulf_pronunciation_guide.htm
R Sept Read Beowulf (lines 1236 – 2800).
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M Sept Winthrop is open on Labor Day
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T Sept Chaucer, The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (246 – 270).
Pronunciation guide available at http://webpages.marshall.edu/~will2/chaucer.html.
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Last day to change S/U options
R Sept Chaucer, The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale (287 – 314).
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T Sept Chaucer, The Miller’s Prologue and Tale (271 – 287). Read The Parson’s Tale and
Chaucer‟s Retraction (345 – 351).
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R Sept Introduction to the Early Modern Period: Read “The Early Modern Period” (391 – 404).
Read “Perspectives: Government and Self-Government” (632 – 652). Lanyer, “Salve Deus
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Rex Judaeorum” (658 -663), Elizabeth I, “On Marriage” and “On Mary‟s Execution” (622 –
623 and 626 – 628) and Sir Walter Raleigh, short poems (664 – 665).
T Sept Read “The Early Modern Period” (404 – 411). Read Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to
His Love” (683) and Raleigh, “The Nymph‟s Reply to the Shepherd” (684). Read The
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Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, Act 1 – Act 3, Scene 3 (683 – 711).
First Response Paper Due in Class
R Sept Read Dr. Faustus, Act 3 Scene 4 – Act 5 (733).
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T Sept Introduction to the Sonnet Form: Read Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnets 39 and 71
(593). Read Shakespeare, Sonnets 1, 18, 29, 55, 60, 116, 130, and 138 (737 – 741). Read
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Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Sonnets 39 and 40 (818).
Student Presentation I: Art, Music, and/or Education in the Renaissance.
R Oct Read Donne, “The Good Morrow,” “The Undertaking,” “The Canonization,” “The Flea,”
“The Bait,” “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” and “The Ecstasy” (806 – 814). Read
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Donne, Holy Sonnets (814 – 815).
T Oct Read Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (855 – 856). Read George Herbert, all selections (850
– 854) Read Milton, from Areopagitica (911 – 921). Read Milton, „When I Consider How
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My Light is Spent” and “Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint,” (910).
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Read Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 1 and 9 (921 – 940 and 987 – 1013).
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Introduction to the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century: Read “The Restoration and
the Eighteenth Century” (1041 – 1054). Read Aprha Behn, Oroonoko (1135 – 1176).
Student Presentation II: Commerce, Slavery, and Trade in the 18th Century
In-Class Midterm Examination
Fall Break
Fall Break
Advising for Spring 09 begins
Read “The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century” (1054 – 1064). Read Swift, “The Lady‟s
Dressing Room,” (1181 – 1185). Read Montagu, “The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. . . .”
(1185 – 1187). Read Swift, A Modest Proposal (1231 – 1238). Read Pope, “An Essay on
Criticism” (2141 – 1247).
Second Response Paper Due in Class
Last day to withdraw from courses (automatic ‘N’) without documentation of
extenuating circumstances. Last day to rescind S/U option.
Read “Perspectives: Mind and God” selections: Locke (1350 – 1355), Watts (1355 – 1356,
1358 – 1359), Hume (1360 – 1366), Cowper (1369 – 1373), and Gray, (1373 – 1377). Read
Johnson, selections from The Rambler and The Idler (1377 – 1390).
Read Austen, Emma, Volume I (5 – 143).
Read Austen, Emma, Volume II (143 – 292).
Student Presentation III: The Rise of the Middle Class and the Novel in 18th Cent.
England
Pre-registration begins
Read Austen, Emma, Volume III (293 – 453).
Discussion of MLA Documentation and Research Paper Assignment.
Begin Volume B of The Longman Anthology of British Literature.
Introduction to the Romantic Period: Read “Romantics and their Contemporaries” (3 –
14). Read Blake, “Introduction” from Songs of Innocence (78), “The Lamb” (79), “The
Chimney Sweeper” (81), Charles Lamb, from The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers” (83 – 85),
Blake, “Introduction” from Songs of Experience (85 – 86), “The Tyger,” (88), “The
Chimney-Sweeper” (89), and “London” (91).
Read “Romantics and their Contemporaries” (14 – 28). Barbauld, “Washing-Day” (32 – 34),
Wordsworth, “Lines Written in Early Spring” (201 – 202), “Lines Written a Few Miles above
Tintern Abbey” (202 – 206), “Nutting” (215 – 217), “The World is too much with us” (234).
Read Coleridge, “The Eolian Harp” (325 – 326), “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (326 –
341), “Kubla Kahn” (341 – 343), “Frost at Midnight” (342 – 45). Read Byron, “She walks in
beauty” (358), Shelley “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (397- 399), “Ozymandias” (399),
Keats, “On First Looking Into Chapman‟s Homer” and Companion Readings (424), “Sonnet:
When I have fears” (425), all anthologized Odes (438 – 442).
Intro to the Victorian Age: E. B. Browning, “Sonnets from the Portuguese” (530 – 532),
Tennyson, “Mariana” (586), “The Lady of Shalott” (588 – 593), R. Browning, “The Bishop
Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed‟s Church” (665 – 668). Hopkins, “God‟s Grandeur” (774).
Student Presentation IV: Art and Literary Expression in the 19th Century/PreRaphaelites
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Introduction to the Twentieth Century: Read “The Twentieth Century” (921 – 929).
Read Conrad, Heart of Darkness (943 – 1001).
Thanksgiving Break begins. No classes.
Read “The Twentieth Century” (929 – 942). Read Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
(1117), “Easter 1916” (1119), Companion Reading “Proclamation of the Irish Republic”
(1121 – 1122), “The Second Coming” (1122), “Among School Children” (1126), “Sailing to
Byzantium” (1124).
Student Presentation V: Modernist Philosophy and Art – Minimalist Art, Skepticism,
Existentialism, and/or Stream of Consciousness
Read Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1194), and “Journey of the Magi” (1215
– 1216). Read Waugh, “Cleverness and the New Poetry” (1198).
Research Paper Due in my office by 4:00 p.m. Research Paper due to Turnitin.com by
midnight.
Last Day of Classes
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T Dec Study Day
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R Dec. Exam given at 11:30 a.m. in our regular classroom.
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