English 202, Survey Brit Lit I, Schedule*
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| Week 1 | Medieval Period | |
| 1/12** |
Introductions;
Syllabus; Anglo-Saxon
culture and history Bede (131-137) Caedmon's Hymn (A-S side by side with modern English) Wanderer (150-153); Wife's Lament (153-155) Study questions |
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| Week 2 | Holiday |
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| 1/19 | Martin Luther King Day--Have Fun! | |
| Week 3 | Anglo Saxon Epic | |
| 1/26*** | Beowulf (27-91) Study questions Kennings in Beowulf |
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| Week 4 | Arthurian Romance | |
| 2/2 |
Marie de France,
"Prologue" & "Lanval" (176-192) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (192-248) Study Questions |
Essay #1 due |
| Week 5 | Estates Satire | |
| 2/9 | Canterbury
Tales, "General
Prologue" (1st 40 lines + profiles of Knight, Squire, Prioress, Monk, Friar, and Wife of Bath) (begins on 301) Miller's "Prologue" and "Tale" (321-337) Wife of Bath's "Prologue" and "Tale" (337-364) (Note: You may read the translation, instead of the original, in the companion Penguin volume, The Canterbury Tales, which was bundled with your anthology) Midterm I (take home) |
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| Week 6 | Holiday |
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| 2/16 | President's Day--Have fun! | |
| Week 7 | Renaissance Period/Poetry | |
| 2/23 | Intro to Renaissance period Intro to sonnet form: Wyatt "WLH" (621); Petrarch 90 (622) Surrey: Intro & "Love that doth reign," "Set me whereas," "Alas, So all things" (679-681) Sidney: Intro (967-8) & sonnets 1 (1043); 71 (1045-6) Background (best viewed in Internet Explorer) Poetry |
Midterm I due |
| Week 8 | Renaissance Poetry | |
| 3/1 | Shakespeare sonnets
(1222-37)
1, 73 , 130, 138, 144, 20 |
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| Week 9 | Spring
Break |
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| 3/8*** | Spring
Break--Have Fun! |
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| Week 10 | Renaissance
Poetry |
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| 3/15 | Elizabeth I
(1078-1082) Lanyer, "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" (1098-1103) Donne, "The Flea" (1655); Donne, "Sun Rising" (1650); Donne, "Holy Sonnets 6 & 10" (1664, 1666) |
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| Week 11 | Renaissance Drama | |
| 3/22**** | Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Midterm II (take home) |
Essay #2 due |
| Week 12 | Restoration & 18th Century: Public and Private Expressions | |
| 3/29 | Diaries &
Journals: Pepys (+Evelyn, Carlton)
(2085-2122); Defoe (2380-86) Newspapers: "The Fire of London" (2389-90); "Vampires in London" (2393-96); "Introducing Mr. Spectator" (2400-02); "The Spectator and its Readers" (2406-8) Poetic Conversations Part I: Rochester
"Intro" and "Imperfect" (2277-8; 2280-2) & Behn (2213-18)
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| Week 13 | Gendered Perspectives | |
| 4/5 | Behn, "To the Fair
Clarinda" (2138)
; Finch, "The Introduction" (2226-8); Leapor,
"An Essay
on Woman" (2232-3) Poetic Conversations Part II: Swift (2445-48)
& Montague "Reasons" (2583-85)
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Midterm II due |
| Week 14 | Slavery and Exoticism | |
| 4/12***** | Behn, Oroonoko
(2235-2277) Study Questions |
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| Week 15 | Satire: Poetry and Essays | |
| 4/19 | Pope, Intro
&Rape of the Lock
(2474-5 & 2504-23) Swift, A Modest Proposal & Petty (2466-73) |
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| Week 16 | Satire : Drama | |
| 4/26 | Gay, The Beggar's Opera (2585-2635) | |
| Week 17 | ||
| 5/3 |
Final Exam Test Review | Essay #3 due |
| Finals
Week 5/4-5/11 |
Monday, May 10, 6:45-8:45 | Final Quotes |