BBNAN11100: Elective Seminar on Anglo-American Literature
A Survey of English Literature from the Sixteenth Century to the end of the Nineteenth
Century.
Week One Thursday February 13:
Introduction
Week Two: Thursday, February 20: John Dryden, MacFlecknoe; Alexander Pope, The Rape
of the Lock and Essay on Criticism
Week Three: Thursday, February 27: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Part I and Part IV
Week Four:
Week Five:
Week Six: ,
Thursday, March 6: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Thursday, March 13: William Congreve, The Way of the World; John Gay, The
Beggar’s Opera
Thursday, March 20: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Week Seven: Thursday, March 27: Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; William Blake, ‘The
Tyger’
Week Nine:
Thursday, April 3: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations; William Blake ‘The
Chimney Sweeper’(1)
Week Ten: Thursday, April 10: William Wordsworth, ‘Intimations on Immortality’;
William Blake, ‘The Lamb’; ‘Earth’s Answer’
BREAK
Week Eleven: Thursday, May 1 – holiday
Week Twelve: Thursday, May 8: Class Examination (One and a half hours)
Week Thirteen: Thursday, Student feedback