Week 1

M, August 25 – Course Introduction

W, August 27 – Course Introduction and "Political and Religious Orders" (Vol. 2b xxviii-xxxiii)

The Romantics (Volume 2A)

F, August 29 – Syllabus Quiz, "The Romantics and Their Contemporaries" (3-29), and Bressler 1-15 "Chapter1: Defining Criticism, Theory, and Literature"

Week 2

M, Sept. 1 – No Class (Labor Day)

W, Sept. 3 – William Blake's Songs of Innocence (118-125), the introduction to Blake (112-113); Bressler "Chapter 3: New Criticism"37-40

F, Sept. 5 – William Blake's Songs of Experience (126-135) and Bressler "Chapter 4: Reader-Response" (55-70)

Week 3

M, Sept. 8 – The introduction to Mary Wollstonecraft; Wollstonecraft's A Vindication on the Rights of Woman (excerpts from) (227-257)

W, Sept. 10 – "Perspectives: The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women" (269-308) (contemporary responses to the text and other contributions to the Woman Question) and Bressler "Chapter 5: Structuralism" (75-89)

F, Sept. 11 – The introduction to William Wordsworth (336-337); W. Wordsworth's "Preface" (356-362), "There was a Boy" (362), "Strange fits of passion have I known" (363), "Lucy Gray" (365), "I wandered lonely as a cloud" (453), and "The Solitary Reaper" (460)

Week 4

M, Sept. 15 – William Wordsworth's Book Fifth and Sixth from The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind; the introduction to Dorothy Wordsworth (465-467); D. Wordsworth's "Grasmere–A Fragment" (467), "Irregular Verses" (470), "Floating Island"

W, Sept. 17 – The introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" (Part 1) (526-528), "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (528-545), and "Kubla Kahn" (545-546) Albatross Pictures

F, Sept. 19 – The introduction to George Gordon, Lord Byron; "The Byronic Hero" (638-654); excerpts from "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (654-666); Bressler "Chapter 6: Deconstruction" (94-114)

Week 5

M, Sept. 22 – The introduction to Percy Bysshe Shelley (752- 754); P.B. Shelley's "To Wordsworth" (754), "Mont Blanc" (754-7), and "Ozymandias" (760)

W, Sept. 24 – Excerpt from P.B. Shelley's "The Defense of Poetry"(800-810); the introduction to John Keats "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" (854), and "To Autumn" (886)

F, Sept. 26 – Keats' "Bright Star" (900), "Ode to a Nightingale" (879), and letters (900-915)

Week 6

M, Sept. 29 – Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bressler 119-136 "Chapter 7: Psychoanalytic
Criticism"

W, Oct.1 – The introduction to Felicia Hemans (810-812); Hemans' "Joan of Arc, in Rheims" (830-833), "The Homes of England" (833-834), "Corinne at the Capitol" (835-836), "Woman and Fame" (836-837), and the companion readings on Hemans (837-840)

F, Oct. 3 – "The Victorian Age" (1008-1031); the introduction to Charles Dickens 1355-1357); Bressler "Chapter 9: Marxism" (161-174)

The Victorians (Volume 2B)

Week 7

M, Oct. 6 – Exam One

W, Oct. 8 – No Class (instructor at conference)

F, Oct. 10 – No Class (instructor at conference)

Week 8

M, Oct. 13 – Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Bressler "Chapter 9: Marxism" (161-174)

W, Oct. 15 – Hard Times contd; "Perspectives: The Industrial Landscape" (1047-1072); "Perspectives: Imagining Childhood" (1705-1746)

F, Oct. 17 – The introduction to Thomas Carlyle and selections from Carlyle's Past and Present (1033-1046); the introduction to John Stuart Mill and selections from Mill's "The Subjection of Women" (1086-1095); Bressler "Chapter 8: Feminism" (142-156)

Week 9

M, Oct. 20 – The introduction to Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1105); selections form Sonnets from the Portuguese (1108-1112) and selections from Book 2 of Aurora Leigh (1120-1128); the introduction to Robert Browning (1305); R. Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1328-1336) and "Andrea del Sarto" (1339-1345)

W, Oct. 22 – The introduction to Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1136-1139); Tennyson's "Ulysess" (1150-1151); the introduction to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and "The Blessed Damozel" (1599-1604); Bressler "Chapter 10: Cultural Poetics or New Historicism" (179-191)

F, Oct. 24 – The introduction to Christina Rossetti and "Goblin Market" (1618-1630)

Week 10

M, Oct. 27 – The introduction to William Morris and "The defense of Guenevere (1633-1641), the introduction to Algernon Charles Swinburne (1651-1652); Swinburne's "Hymn to Proserpine" (1658-1661)

W, Oct. 29 – The introduction to Darwin (1243-1245); selection from "Ch. 21: General Summary and Conclusion" of Darwin's The Decent of Man" (1259-1265); "Perspectives: Travel and Empire"(1772-1819); Bressler "Chapter 11: Cultural Studies" (197-209)

F, Oct. 31 – "Perspectives: Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen" (1515-1546); the introduction to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1447-1463)

Week 11

M, Nov. 3 – The introduction to Oscar Wilde (1860-1862); Wilde's "Preface to The Picture of
Dorian Gray" (1883-1884) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1884-1924)

W, Nov. 5 – "Perspectives: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin De Siécle" (1939-1989) and
Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

F, Nov. 7 – No Class (Homecoming)

The Twentieth-Century (Volume 2C)

Week 12

M, Nov. 10 – Exam Two

W, Nov. 12 – The introduction to the Twentieth Century (1990-2015) and "Perspectives – The
Great War: Confronting the Modern" (2167-2231)

F, Nov. 14 – Pages 2889-2904 and 2941-2958 from "Perspectives: Whose Language?"

Week 13

M, Nov. 17 –The introduction to William Butler Yeats; Yeats' "The Wild Swans at Coole" (2248), "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" (2249), "Easter 1916" (2249), "Sailing to Byzantium" (2253), "Leda and the Swan" (2262), "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" (2265)

W, Nov. 19 – The introduction to T.S. Eliot; Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (2347-2353)

F, Nov. 21 – "Perspectives: Regendering Modernism" (2550-2637)

Week 14

M, Nov. 24 – The introduction to Virginia Woolf (2380-2382); Woolf's A Room of One's Own

W, Nov. 26 – Woolf contd.

F, Nov. 28 – No Class (Thanksgiving)

Week 15

M, Dec. 1 – Poetry Presentations (Dylan Thomas, W.H. Auden, Thomas Hardy I 2154-2160)

W, Dec. 3 – Poetry Presentations (Thomas Hardy II 2160-2166, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath)

F, Dec. 5 – Poetry Presentations (Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn); Revisions of Exam Two Take-Home Essays Due

Week 16

M, Dec. 8 – Review; Final Exam Take-Home Essays Due

W, Dec. 10 – Final Exam