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.
| 1/30 | Introduction: Swift and Montagu* |
| 2/1 | Swift, “Modest Proposal”* |
| 2/6 | Haywood, Fantomina* |
| 2/8
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Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village”*
Barbauld, “The Mouse’s Petition” Burns, “To a Mouse” |
| 2/13 | COLLEGE CLOSED |
| 2/15 | Blake, from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience |
| 2/20 | COLLEGE CLOSED |
| 2/22
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Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn;” “To a Nightingale;” “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” |
| 2/27 | Austen, Pride and Prejudice |
| 3/1 | Austen |
| 3/6 | Austen |
| 3/8 | Victorian poetry presentations |
| 3/13 | Bronte, Wuthering Heights |
| 3/15 | Bronte |
| 3/20 | Bronte |
| 3/22 | Darwin, Mayhew, and Gaskell* |
| 3/27 | Decadent poetry presentations |
| 3/29 | Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest |
| 4/3 | Wilde |
| 4/5 | Modernist poetry presentations |
| 4/10&12&17 | SPRING BREAK—NO CLASSES |
| 4/19 | LAST DAY FOR W
A.C. Doyle, “A Scandal in Bohemia”* |
| 4/20 | Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway |
| 4/24 | Woolf |
| 4/26 | Woolf (Postwar poetry presentations) |
| 5/1 | Selvon, from Lonely Londoners* (Postwar poetry presentations) |
| 5/3 | Barker, from Union Street* (Postwar poetry presentations) |
| 5/8 | Ishiguro, Remains of the Day (Postwar poetry presentations) |
| 5/10 | Ishiguro |
| 5/15 | Ishiguro |
| 5/17 | James Kelman, “By the burn”* |