Schedule of Readings and Due Dates

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:

Following is a general schedule, subject to change; specific assignments will be given at the end of each class. Items with an asterisk are available under pdfs.

DATE	TEXTS FOR DISCUSSION	ASSIGNMENTS DUE
2/1	Introduction: Swift and Montagu*
2/3	Swift and Montagu*
2/8	Swift, “Modest Proposal” *
2/10	Haywood, Fantomina*
2/15	COLLEGE CLOSED
2/17	Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village” and Crabbe’s response* Barbauld, “The Mouse’s Petition” * Burns, “To a Mouse” *
2/22	Blake, from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience*	Response #1
2/24	Wordsworth, “A slumber did my spirit seal;” “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” * Keats, “To a Nightingale;” “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” *
3/1	Austen, Pride and Prejudice
3/3	Austen
3/8	Austen
3/10	Mary Prince*
3/15	Victorian poetry*	Paper #1
3/17	Darwin and Mayhew *
3/22	Tricia Matthews lecture
3/24	Gaskell* and Decadent poetry*
3/27-4/4	SPRING BREAK—NO CLASSES
4/5	Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
4/7	Wilde
4/12	A.C. Doyle, “A Scandal in Bohemia” *
4/14	Modernist poetry*	Paper #2
4/19	Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
4/21	Woolf
4/26	Woolf CANCELED
4/28	Selvon, from Lonely Londoners*; Postwar poetry* Woolf
5/3	Barker, from Union Street *; Postwar poetry* Selvon, from Lonely Londoners*; Postwar poetry*
5/5	Ishiguro, Remains of the Day
5/10	Ishiguro	Response #2
5/12	Ishiguro
5/17	James Kelman, “By the burn” *; presentations; LAST DAY OF CLASS
5/24		Paper/project #3