daily schedule

James Gillray, "Promised Horrors of the French Invasion or Forcible Reasons for Negotiation of a Regicide Peace. Vide, The Authority of Edmund Burke," October 1796.

week 1 [ questions ]

Aug. 21: Introduction to Course

Aug. 23: Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France, 103-112; Helen Maria Williams: “Letters” (including “A Visit to the Bastille Prison”, 95-96; “The Execution of the King,” 97-100)

week 2 [ questions ]

Aug. 28: Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man, 121-128 [ pdf ]

Aug. 30: Edmund Burke: “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of the Sublime and the Picturesque”, 33-39; [ pdf ] William Gilpin: “Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape”, 41-46

week 3 [ questions | ...on reading a novel ]

Sept. 4: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Vol. 1 (1-102)

Sept. 6: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Vol. 2 (103-184)

Jane Austen wearing her wedding ring

week 4 [ questions ]

Sept. 11: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Vol. 3 (185-298)

Sept. 13: Mary Wollstonecraft: “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” 281-303

week 5 [ questions | ...on reading poetry ]

Sept. 18: William Wordsworth: “Michael,” 433-443

Sept. 20: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison,” 574-576; “Dejection: An Ode,” 619-623

week 6 [ questions ]

Sept. 25: John Keats: “Ode to a Nightingale,” 953-955; “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” 955-957

Sept. 27: John Keats: “The Eve of St. Agnes,” 935-946

week 7 [ questions | gothic handout ]

Oct. 2: Midterm Exam

Oct. 4: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights, 37-87 (Chapters 1-7)

week 8 [ questions | psychoanalytic criticism handout ]

Oct. 9: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights, 87-176 (Chapters 8-16)

Oct. 11: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights, 176-229 (Chapters 17-22)  Abstract Due

Emily Brontë. c. 1834-1838 by Patrick Branwell Brontë. From WorldImages Kiosk.

week 9 [ questions ]

Oct. 16: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights, 229-312 (Chapters 23-34)

Oct. 18: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “Ulysses,” 1244-1246”; Robert Browning: “Andrea del Sarto,” 1445-1451

week 10 [ questions ]

Oct. 23: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “The Lotus-Eaters,” 1240-1244; Robert Browning: “Fra Lippo Lippi,” 1433-1442

Oct. 25: Friedrich Engels: The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, 1150-1158; Henry Mayhew: London Labour and the London Poor, 1158-1163

week 11 [ questions ]

Oct. 30: Arthur Conan Doyle: “A Scandal in Bohemia,” 1557-1572  Research Project Due

Nov. 1: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Chapters 1-6)

week 12 [ questions ]

Nov. 6: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Chapters 7-14)

Nov. 8: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Chapters 15-20)
** two short essays due (2pp each) **

week 13 [ questions ]

Nov. 13: James Joyce, “Araby,” “Eveline,” and “Clay,” 2434-2445

Nov. 15: William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” 2393; “The Second Coming,” 2399; “Easter 1916;” 2397-2399;  “Sailing to Byzantium,” 2401-2402; W.H. Auden, “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” 2904

Nov. 16 (Friday): ** Research Project and accompanying description due (1p minimum - 3pp maximum)**

week 14

Thanksgiving Break

Caricature of Charles Dickens. June 1868 by André Gill.

week 15 [ questions ]

Nov. 27: Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own,” 2660-2695

Nov. 29: World War I Poetry: Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier,” 2343; Siegfried Sassoon, “Glory of Women,” 2343-44; Wilfred Owen: “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” 2346; “Dulce Et Decorum Est,” 2348-49
** 4pp reivsion of a previous essay due **

week 16 [ questions ]

Dec. 4: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1464-1500

Dec. 6: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol,  1500-1513
** last day to hand in a 2pp essay **

exam week

Dec 12: 10:30-12:30 for TR 11:00-12:30 section

Dec. 13: 8:00-10:00 for TR 9:30-11:00 section