English 202-02, Survey Brit Lit I, Schedule*
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| Week 1 | Medieval Period | |
| 8/23 | Introductions;
Syllabus; Anglo-Saxon
culture and history Bede (131-137) Study questions |
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| 8/25** | Caedmon's
Hymn
(A-S side by side with modern English) Wanderer (150-153); Wife's Lament (153-155) |
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| Week 2 | Anglo Saxon Epic | |
| 8/30 | Beowulf
(27-73) Study questions Kennings in Beowulf |
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| 9/1 | Beowulf (73-91) | |
| Week 3 | Arthurian Romance | |
| 9/6 | Marie de France,
"Prologue" & "Lanval" (176-192) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (192-218) Study Questions |
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| 9/8*** | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (218-248) | |
| Week 4 | Estates Satire | |
| 9/13 |
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) (Note: You may read the translation, instead of the original) |
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| 9/15 | Wife of Bath's
"Prologue" and "Tale" (337-364) (Note: You may read the translation, instead of the original) Midterm I (take home) |
Essay #1 |
| Week 5 | Renaissance
Period; Renaissance Poetry |
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| 9/20 | 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) Background (best viewed in Internet Explorer) Poetry |
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| 9/22 | Sidney: Intro (967-8) & sonnets 1 (1043); 71 (1045-6) | Midterm I due |
| Week 6 | Renaissance Poetry | |
| 9/27 | Shakespeare sonnets
(1222-37)
1, 73 , 130 |
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| 9/29 | Shakespeare sonnets (1222-37) 138, 144, 20 | |
| Week 7 | Renaissance Poetry | |
| 10/4 | Elizabeth I
(1078-1082) Lanyer, "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" (1098-1103) Donne, "The Flea" (1655) |
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| 10/6 | Donne,
"Sun Rising" (1650); Donne, "Holy Sonnets 6 & 10" (1664, 1666) |
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| Week 8 | Renaissance Drama | |
| 10/11 | Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (Acts I, II) |
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| 10/13 |
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (Acts III, IV) |
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| Week 9 | Renaissance Drama |
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| 10/18*** | Fall Break--Have fun! |
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| 10/20 | Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (Act V) Midterm II (take home) |
Essay #2 |
| Week 10 | Restoration & 18th Century: Public and Private Expressions | |
| 10/25 |
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) |
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| 10/27 |
Poetic Conversations
Part I: Rochester "Intro" and "Imperfect" (2277-8; 2280-2) & Behn (2213-18) |
Midterm II due |
| Week 12 | Gendered Perspectives | |
| 11/1 | Behn, "To the Fair Clarinda" (2138)
; Finch, "The Introduction" (2226-8); Leapor, "An
Essay on Woman" (2232-3) |
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| 11/3**** | Poetic Conversations Part II: Swift (2445-48) & Montague "Reasons" (2583-85) |
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| Week 13 | Slavery and Exoticism | |
| 11/8 | Behn, Oroonoko (2235-2259) Study Questions |
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| 11/10 |
Behn, Oroonoko (2260-2277) | |
| Week 14 | Satire | |
| 11/15 | Pope, Intro &Rape of the Lock (2474-5 & 2504-23) | |
| 11/17 | Rape of the Lock (cont) |
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| Week 15 | Satire : Essays and Drama | |
| 11/22 | Swift, A
Modest Proposal & Petty (2466-73) |
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| 11/24***** | Thanksgiving |
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| Week 15 | Satire : Drama | |
| 11/29 | Gay, "Intro" & The Beggar's Opera Act I (2585-2602) | |
| 12/1 | Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act II (2602-2617) | |
| Week 16 | Satire : Drama | |
| 12/6 | Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act III
(2617-2635) Quotations |
E-mail Dr. Kent-Drury 1 quotation from each work read since Midterm 2 |
| 12/8 |
Final Exam Test
Review |
Essay #3 |
| Finals
Week 12/13 |
Tuesday, Dec 13, 1-3pm | |