Following is a general schedule, subject to change; specific assignments will be given at the end of each class. Items with an asterisk will be available in .pdf form on the blog; please bring downloads or printouts to class.
| 1/25 | Introduction | |
| 1/31 | Arthur Conan Doyle, Hound of the Baskervilles | |
| 2/1 | Hound | |
| 2/6 | J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan | |
| 2/8 | Peter Pan | |
| 2/13 | NO CLASS | |
| 2/15 | Peter Pan | Response #1 |
| 2/20 | NO CLASS: Classes will meet on Tuesday instead | |
| 2/21 | World War I poetry and manifestoes | |
| 2/22 | Katherine Mansfield, “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” | |
| 2/27 | Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway | |
| 3/1 | Mrs. Dalloway | |
| 3/6 | Dalloway | |
| 3/8 | Modernist poetry—Yeats, Eliot; paper workshop | |
| 3/13 | Yeats, Eliot continued | Paper #1 |
| 3/15 | PG Wodehouse, “Uncle Fred Flits By”* | |
| 3/20 | Modernist poetry II—Sitwell, Auden; start reading George Orwell, from Down and Out in Paris and London* Down and Out | |
| 3/22 | discussion of Down and Out | |
| 3/27 | Alan Sillitoe, “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner* | |
| 3/29 | Sam Selvon, “The Lonely Londoners (excerpts)* | |
| 4/3 | Pat Barker, from Union Street; James Kelman, “By the Burn”* | Response #2 |
| 4/5-13 | NO CLASS—SPRING RECESS | |
| 4/17 | Kazuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day | |
| 4/19 | Visit by Mike McCormack, reading from Solar Bones | |
| 4/24 | Remains of the Day | |
| 4/26 | Remains of the Day | |
| 5/1 | Heaney and Boland | RefAnnBib |
| 5/3 | J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | |
| 5/8 | Potter | |
| 5/10 | Potter | |
| 5/15 | Recent poetry—Johnson, Breeze, Alvi, Agbabi | |
| 5/22 | Researched paper due |