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. 25: Introduction to Course

Aug. 27: Helen Maria Williams: “Letters” (92-100)

Aug. 29: Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France, 103-112, Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man, 121-128 [ pdf ]

week 2 [ questions ]

Sept. 1: HOLIDAY, no classes

Sept. 3: Edmund Burke: “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of the Sublime and the Picturesque,” 33-39 [ pdf ]

Sept. 5: William Gilpin: “Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape,” 40-46

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

Sept. 8: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Vol. 1

Sept. 10: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Vol. 2

Sept. 12: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Vol. 2

Jane Austen wearing her wedding ring

week 4 [ questions | ...on reading poetry ]

Sept. 15: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Vol. 3

Sept. 17: Mary Wollstonecraft: “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” 279-303

Sept. 19: William Wordsworth, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads,” 385-87; 408-420; “Michael,” 433-443

week 5 [ questions ]

Sept. 22: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison,” 570-571; 574-576

Sept. 24: John Keats: “The Eve of St. Agnes,” 920-922; 935-946

Sept. 26: Exam #1

week 6 [ questions | gothic handout ]

Sept. 29: Friedrich Engels: The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, 1150-1158; Henry Mayhew: London Labour and the London Poor, 1158-1163

Oct. 1: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (Chapters 1-7)

Oct. 3: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (Chapters 8-12)

week 7 [ questions | psychoanalytic criticism handout ]

Oct. 6: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (Chapters 13-18)

Oct. 8: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (Chapters 19-29)

Oct. 10: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (Chapters 30-34)

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

week 8 [ questions ]

Oct. 13: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “Ulysses,” 1230-1232; 1244-1246

Oct. 15: Robert Browning: 1408-11; “My Last Duchess,” 1415

Oct. 17: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “The Lotus-Eaters,” 1240-1244

week 9 [ questions ]

Oct. 20: Robert Browning: “Andrea del Sarto,” 1445-50

Oct. 22: Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Chapters 1-4)

Oct. 24: Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Chapters 5-10)

week 10 [ questions ]

Oct. 27: Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Chapters 11-20)

Oct. 29: Arthur Conan Doyle: “A Scandal in Bohemia,” 1556-1572

Oct. 31: Introduction to Modernism

week 11 [ questions ]

Nov. 3: Exam #2

Nov. 5: James Joyce: “Araby,” 2431-38

Nov. 7: James Joyce: “Eveline,” 2438-2441

week 12 [ questions ]

Nov. 10: James Joyce: “Clay,” 2441-2445

Nov. 12: World War I Poetry: Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier,” 2343

Nov. 14: Siegfried Sassoon: “Glory of Women,” 2343-44; “The Rear-Guard,” 2344

week 13 [ questions ]

Nov. 17: Wilfred Owen: “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” 2345-46

Nov. 19: Wilfred Owen: “Dulce Et Decorum Est,” 2348-49

Nov. 21: E.M. Forster: “The Life to Come,” 2419-2430
>> 3pp. responses must be completed by this date

week 14

Thanksgiving Break

Caricature of Charles Dickens. June 1868 by André Gill.

week 15 [ questions ]

Dec. 1: Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, 2549-52, 2557-85

Dec. 3: Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, 2585-2633

Dec. 5: Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, 2633-55

week 16 [ questions ]

Dec. 8: Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol, 1464-1500

Dec. 10: Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol, 1501-1512

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