English 206: British Literature II
	Professor Stuart Barnett 309 Willard Hall 832-2758 barnetts@ccsu.edu

TEXTS:

Norton Anthology of English Literature II
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

 

Sept 2

Introduction

Wordsworth, Preface, Lyrical Ballads
Barnett, "Kant's Critique of Judgment"

Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations

Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
     --, Nutting

Coleridge, The Eolian Harp
Shelley, Ozymandias

Shelley, Frankenstein

Sept 25

Shelley, Frankenstein
QUIZ

Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn

Keats, Ode to a Nightingale

EXAM

Introduction: The Victorian Age
(information online can be found at The Victorian Web)

Tennyson, The Lady of Shallot;  The Lotus Eaters

Tennyson, Locksley Hall

Mill, On Liberty

Dickens, Oliver Twist

Dickens, Oliver Twist
QUIZ

Browning, My Last Duchess; Porphyria's Lover

Ruskin, "The Savageness of Gothic Architecture"
Mill, On Liberty

  Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"

EXAM

Introduction: Modern to Postmodern

Yeats, "Leda and the Swann"; "The Second Coming," "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Joyce, Ulysses [Proteus]; Anna Livia Plurabelle

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts," "Spain 1937"

Larkin, "Aubade," "High Windows"

Larkin, "Sad Steps," "This Be the Verse"

Raine, "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home"

This course is a survey of British literature and culture from the late eighteenth century to the present.

Attendance is expected.  I will take attendance each day.  It is your responsibility to make sure I notice you.  It will take me a couple of weeks to learn names.  If you are busy  talking to someone when I call your name and I mark you as absent, this is your fault, not mine.  If you come in late, it is your responsibility to remind me after class that you were present.  Excessive tardiness will affect your grade.  I expect you to be attentive and engaged in the class.  This means not talking to your friends, reading material or doing work not related to the class--like filling out day planners.  I will mark you as absent for the day if you persist in such activities.

Your oral report should be about 10 minutes.  It should be a focused analysis and argument, not a loose collection of your impressionistic responses.  To receive your oral report grade, send me an email message and I will reply to it with your grade.

You can leave messages for me in my mailbox in the English Department.  Be aware that I am usually only in my office on the days I teach, so that I will probably get your message right before I see you.  Your best bet is to speak to me in my office hours or right before or after class or to email me at: barnetts@ccsu.edu.

I may bring in additional material during the Modernism unit for which you will also be responsible.

Grade:

• Exam 1: 25%
• Exam 2: 30%
• Exam 3 (Final): 30%
• Quizes: 15%
• Oral Report: 10%