Reading and Assignment Schedule
English 334: Schedule
This schedule designates assignment due dates, the central works we will be reading, and the approximate time when you should have them completed. Additional reading will come from the class discussion assignments and from assigned criticism during the semester. Paper and assignment due dates will not change unless absolutely necessary, but as we explore the material we may deviate from the reading plan articulated here.
Paper #1 Due: 2/25
Paper #2 Due: 4/28
Final Exam will be held at the scheduled final exam time.
Jan. 14:
Introduction and Preliminaries.
Jan. 21:
Reading and discussion: Norton ¡∫Introduction¡Ö to the period, pp. 2045-2068. Handout: Chapter 6-The Culture of Science; Dryden: "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day," "Mac Flecknoe" "Annus Mirabilis"
Start reading Aphra Behn, Oroonoko
Jan. 28:
Reading and discussion: Dryden clean-up. Locke in NA 2146-2150. Newton, NCE pgs. xi-34. Bunyan, "Pilgrim's Progress" NA 2137-2145. Sprat, "History of the Royal Society" (Handout).
Keep reading: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave and also read any one of the sections in the "Historical Backgrounds"(75-178) and any two of the critical essays (199-265).
Sign up for discussion/presentation topics.
Feb. 4:
Reading and discussion: Oroonoko
Start Reading: Congreve, Way of the World
Discussion Paper 1 due.
Feb. 11:
Reading and discussion: Congreve, Way of the World , Dryden Handout on "Essay on Dramatic Poesie"
Feb. 18:
Reading and discussion: Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Feb. 25:
Reading and discussion: Gulliver clean-up, all of the rest of Swift in NA
Critical Paper 1 due
March 3:
Reading and discussion: Pope, "Rape of the Lock," "Essay on Man" and "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"
Start Reading: Defoe, Moll Flanders
March 10: SPRING BREAK
Reading: Take Moll Flanders with you to the beach/slopes with you and also read the following critical pieces: Watt, Martin, Booth in the NCE.
March 17:
Reading and discussion: Defoe, Moll Flanders.
March 24:
Reading and discussion: Johnson, "Vanity of Human Wishes"; "Rambler" numbers 4, 5, 60 and "Idler No. 31"; Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Discussion Paper 2 due.
March 31:
Reading and discussion: Johnson clean-up. James Thomson, "The Seasons"in NA and "Winter" (handout); Edmund Burke Handout on the Sublime; Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" in NA; Christopher Smart (TBA).
Start reading Tristram Shandy.
April 7:
Reading and discussion: Edward Young, "Night Thoughts" (Handout); Blair, "The Grave" (Handout); Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village."
Keep Reading Tristram Shandy and add the critical essays by Lanham and by Hunter, plus one of your choosing.
April 14:Reading and discussion: Poetry clean-up. Sterne Tristram Shandy.
Discussion paper 3 due.
April 21:
Reading and discussion: Sterne Tristram Shandy. Blake's Poetry (Handout).
April 28:
Reading and discussion: Blake clean-up. Final exam preparation. Course evaluations.
Critical Paper 2 due.
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