English 252 1T3RA Professor
David Richter
Fall 2006 Survey of English
Literature II
Syllabus
Chronology: This half of the course covers the period from
the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 to the death of Queen
Required Texts:
The Longman Anthology of English Literature, Third Edition, volumes 1C (The Restoration and Eighteenth Century), 2A (The Romantics and Their Contemporaries), and 2B (The Victorian Age).
Required
Work:
A
midterm, scheduled for October 17, plus a final exam, which will be scheduled
during Examination Week (December 15-22).
Final
Examination – click on the hot link for takehome exam and instructions.
No
papers but extra credit will be granted to raise
your grades based on your work on the class wiki.
Here
are the directions for wikiing
(1)
Go to the WIKI site.
(2)
From there you go to the page called “Historical Context.” There you will find a list of possible pages
to add to. Pages that are blank (no one
has written anything) have dots under the words. Pages that have already been written to are
underlined.
(3)
When you click on a blank page, titled X, you will go to a screen that says,
“The Page X does not yet exist … but you can create it.”
(4)
You then click on the hot link “…but you can create it.”
(5)
At this point a form comes up asking you to name your page X or to change its
name. You do either, then click at the
bottom on the link that says “Create new page”.
(6)
What then comes up is a form, with the title of the page, X, and then in
parens, the word “editing.” You then
type in or paste in from a previously created file what you want the page to
consist of.
(7)
When you are done, you click “Preview” to see what it will look like on the
Wiki, and then you can return to editing, or Save the page as it is.
When
you save a page for the first time, the Wiki will ask for your password
(engl252) and for your name and email address.
It needs those to save the page.
Once
again, the extremely devious password that you will need to access the site and
allow you to make changes in the files is engl252 -- the first four letters of “English” in
lower case followed by the number of the course, 252.
The WIKI is
now complete—all extra credit has now been awarded (three points per successful
posting).
Tentative
Schedule:
NB:
The list is of required readings for each day and you need to keep up with the
class. We have limited class time but
need to read the major figures of two and a half centuries, so not everything
can be covered in class. Those texts
that will definitely be discussed in class are listed in boldface red but other
texts may be discussed, and in any case all
listed readings are required and
regardless of whether or not they are gone over in class they will be used for
paper topics and will appear on your midterm and final examinations.
August 31:
Introduction to the course. A
quick overview of
September 5: Poets within politics. Text: John Dryden: “Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem,” p. 2211. Also read: Dryden: “Mac Flecknoe,” p. 2239. Aphra Behn: Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave., p. 2278.
September 7:
Restoration satire on society, science and reason. John
Wilmot, Earl of
September 12: Restoration satire once more. Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub. Full text will be available at Deep Singh’s Tale of a Tub site (unless something happens to the Lehigh website) and the part we will be closely reading in class, chapter IX, “A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use, and the Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth,” should be there but is definitely at http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/ENGLISH/Staff/richter/swifttaleofatubchapter9.html
September 14: Swift: Gulliver’s Travels. Please read at some point, now if possible, the complete 1726 edition of Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, available on the net here . The section that we will be discussing is Book IV, the Voyage to Houyhnhnmland, in your text, p. 2531.
September 19: Sex and Satire. Alexander Pope: “The Rape of the Lock,” p. 2631. Mary, Lady Chudleigh, “To the Ladies” p. 2327; Mary Leapor, “The Headache – To Aurelia,” p. 2335; “An Epistle to Artemisia on Fame” p. 2338; Jonathan Swift, “The Lady’s Dressing-Room,” p. 2506; Alexander Pope, “An Epistle to a Lady: Of the Characters of Women,” p. 2684; Mary Leapor, “An Essay on Woman,” p. 2692.
September 21: The Augustan Vision: Alexander Pope: Book I of Essay on Man, p. 2664
September 26: Crime and Politics: John Gay: The Beggar’s Opera, p. 2719. Film version available outside class.
September 28:. The Great Cham of Literature: Samuel Johnson: “The Vanity of Human Wishes,” p. 2861; Rambler #4 [On Fiction], p. 2872; Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language, p. 2895; Letter to Lord Chesterfield, p. 2940; Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare, p. 2919; from Lives of the Poets, p. 2931.
October 3: College is on Monday schedule.
October 5: Writing Lives: James Boswell: from
October 10: The
Revolution and the Rights of Man: Edmund Burke: from
Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 103; Mary
Wollstonecraft: from A Vindication of the Rights of Men, p.
113; Thomas Paine, from The Rights of
Man, p. 121; William Godwin, from Political Justice, p. 128, Hannah More, from
Village Politics, p. 137; Arthur Young: from The Example of France, p. 145. Mary
Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
October 12: William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
October 17: Midterm Examination
October 19: William Wordsworth: "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey," p. 404; "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways," p. 422; "Three Years She Grew," p. 427; "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal," p 423; "Michael,” p. 433.
October
24: Wordsworth:
Preface to Lyrical Ballads; "Ode: Intimations of Immortality”;
“Resolution and
October
26: Samuel
Taylor Coleridge: “Frost at
Midnight,” p. 576; “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” p. 580; “Kubla Khan,” p. 614
October
31: Coleridge:
“Dejection: An Ode,” p. 619; Biographia Literaria, p. 628; from Lectures on Shakespeare, p. 641.
November
2: George Gordon, Lord Byron: “She Walks in Beauty,” p. 658; “So we’ll go
no more a-roving,” p. 659; Don Juan, Dedication and Canto 1, p. 727.
November
7: Percy Bysshe Shelley:
“Ozymandias,” p. 823; “Adonais,” p. 841; from “A Defence of Poetry,” p.
867.
November
9: John Keats: “On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer,” p. 924; “The Eve of St. Agnes,” p. 935; “La Belle Dame
sans Mercy,” p. 946.
November
14: Keats: Ode
to a Nightingale, p. 953; Ode to a Grecian Urn, p. 955; Ode to
Melancholy, p. 959; To Autumn, p. 960; “Bright Star” p. 991, Letters
to Benjamin Bailey and to George and Thomas Keats.
November 16: Industrial
November 21: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “Mariana,” p. 1233; “The Lady of Shalott,” p. 1235; “The Lotos-Eaters,” p. 1240; “Ulysses,” p. 1244; “Tithonus,” p. 1246; Songs from The Princess: “Tears, Idle Tears,” “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal,” and “Come Down O Maid.”
November 23: Thanksgiving Day, no classes.
November 28: Tennyson: “In Memoriam A.H.H.” p. 1260; from Idylls of the King, “The Passing of Arthur,” p. 1316.
November 30: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnets from the Portuguese,” p. 1200. Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess,” p. 1415; “The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church,” p. 1419
December 5: Robert Browning: “Fra Lippo Lippi,” p. 1433; “Andrea Del Sarto,” p. 1445; “Caliban upon Setebos, or Natural Theology on the Island,” p. 1454.
December 7: Matthew Arnold: “
December 12: Algernon Charles Swinburne: “A
December 14: Reading Day
December 19 (week of): Final Examination
Contact
Information
MISCELLANEOUS: My office is Klapper 639; telephone # (718) 997-4667; fax
997-4693; e-mail via internet "david_richter@qc.edu". My departmental webpage is http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/ENGLISH/Staff/richter/index.html
My home address, if you need to mail me a paper, is
My scheduled "office hours" are 3:15 to 4:30 TR, but I am
usually in or around my office all day on Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00-5:00.