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: |
| 6/10 |
To read before 6/11: Swift and Montagu* Swift, “Modest Proposal” * Haywood, Fantomina* | |
| 6/11 |
Introduction Swift and Montagu* discussion Fantomina discussion | |
| 6/13 | Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village” and Crabbe’s response*
Barbauld, “The Mouse’s Petition” * Burns, “To a Mouse” *; Blake, from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience* | Annotations for week 1 |
| 6/17 | Austen, Pride and Prejudice | Response #1 |
| 6/18 | 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” * | Oral presentations |
| 6/20 | Pride and Prejudice | Annotations for week 2 |
| 6/24 | Mary Prince*; [optional: Gaskell*]; Darwin and Mayhew * | |
| 6/25 | Austen, Pride and Prejudice discussion | Oral presentations |
| 6/27 | A.C. Doyle, “A Scandal in Bohemia” * Begin reading Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway | Annotations for week 3 Paper #1 (due 6/28) |
| 7/1 | Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway | |
| 7/2 | Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway discussion | Oral presentations |
| 7/3 | Selvon from Lonely Londoners* Barker from Union Street * Begin reading Ishiguro, Remains of the Day | Annotations for week 4 |
| 7/8 | Ishiguro, Remains of the Day | Response #2 |
| 7/9 | Ishiguro, Remains of the Day | Oral presentations |
| 7/11 | James Kelman, “By the burn” *
Postwar poetry* | Annotations for week 5 |
| 7/15 | Paper/project #2 |