English 202-01 & 03, Survey Brit Lit I, Schedule*
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| Week 1 | Medieval Period | |
| 1/9 | Introductions;
Syllabus; Anglo-Saxon
culture and history |
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| 1/11** | Bede (112-117) Wanderer (130-133); Wife's Lament (133-135) Study questions |
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| Week 2 | Anglo Saxon Epic | |
| 1/16 | Beowulf
(27-73) Extra credit: Beowulf crossword |
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| 1/18 | Beowulf (73-91) | |
| Week 3 | Arthurian Romance | |
| 1/23 | Marie de France,
"Prologue" & "Lanval" (153-169) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (169-196) Study Questions |
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| 1/25*** | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (196-225) | |
| Week 4 | Estates Satire | |
| 1/30 |
Canterbury
Tales, "General
Prologue" (1st 40 lines + profiles of Knight, Squire, Prioress, Monk, Friar, and Wife of Bath) (begins on 246) Miller's "Prologue" and "Tale" (271-287) (Note: You may read the translation, instead of the original) |
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| 2/1 | Wife of Bath's
"Prologue" and "Tale" (287-314) (Note: You may read the translation, instead of the original) Midterm 1(take home) |
Essay #1 |
| Week 5 | Renaissance
Period; Renaissance Poetry |
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| 2/6 | Intro to Renaissance period Intro to sonnet form: Wyatt, Intro (419);"WLH" (420); Petrarch 90 (421) Sidney: Intro (590-592) & sonnets 1 (592); 71 (593) Background (best viewed in Internet Explorer) Poetry |
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| 2/8 | Shakespeare (733-736); sonnets 1 (737), 73 (739), , 130 (741) | |
| Week 6 | Renaissance Poetry | |
| 2/13 | Snow day |
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| 2/15 | Shakespeare; sonnets 138 (741),
116 (740), 20 (737) |
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| Week 7 | Renaissance Poetry | |
| 2/20 | Donne, "The Flea" (810) Elizabeth I (616-619) |
Midterm 1 due |
| 2/22 | Lanyer, "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" (658-663) | |
| Week 8 | Renaissance Drama | |
| 2/27 | Donne, "Sun Rising" (808); Donne, "Holy Sonnets 6 & 10" (815) |
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| 3/1*** |
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (Acts I, II, III) (742-770) |
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| Week
9 3/5-3/10 |
Spring Break--Have Fun! |
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| Week 10 | Restoration & 18th Century: Public and Private Expressions | |
| 3/13 |
Shakespeare, Twelfth
Night (ActIV, V) (770-796) |
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| 3/15 |
Diaries & Journals: Pepys (+Evelyn) (1066-1085) Perspectives: The Royal Society & The New Science (1086-1103) Swift, Gulliver's visit to the Academy of Logado (1188-1193) |
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| Week 12 | Slavery and Exoticism | |
| 3/20 | Behn, Oroonoko (1134-1157) |
Midterm 2 due |
| 3/22**** |
Behn, Oroonoko (1157-1176) |
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| Week 13 | Gendered Perspectives | |
| 3/27 | Behn, "To
the Fair Clarinda" (1122); Chudleigh, "To the Ladies" (1123-1125); Finch, "The
Introduction" (1125-1126); Leapor, "An Essay on Woman" (1131-1132) |
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| 3/29 |
Poetic Conversations
Part I: |
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| Week 14 | Satire: Poetry | |
| 4/3 | Poetic Conversations Part II: |
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| 4/5***** | Pope, Intro (1239-1241) & Rape
of the Lock (1248-1255) |
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| Week 15 | Satire : Prose | |
| 4/10 | Pope, Rape
of the Lock (1255-1267) |
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| 4/12***** | Swift, A Modest Proposal & Petty (1231-1238) | |
| Week 15 | Satire : Drama | |
| 4/17 | Satire : Drama |
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| 4/19 | Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act II (1292-1307) |
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| Week 16 | Satire : Drama | |
| 4/24 | Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act III (1307-1322) | E-mail Dr. Kent-Drury 1 quotation from each work read since Midterm 2 by midnight! |
| 4/26 | Final Exam Test
Review |
Essay #2 (was #3) |
| Finals
Week 4/28-5/4 |
ENG 202-01, Tuesday, 5/1, 10:10 am - 12:10 pm ENG 202-03, Thursday, 5/3, 10:10 am - 12:10 pm |
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