Proposed Syllabus

Week 1: August 30 – September 3:    Introduction and Contexts

• Day One: Introductions, Policy and Procedures, Opening Lecture

• Reading for next class:Anna Letitia Barbauld: “The Mouses Petition”;”The Rights of Woman”;”To a Little Invisible Being”; Charlotte Smith: “Written in A Church Yard”; “On Being Cautioned”; Mary Robinson “London’s Summer Morning”; “The Haunted Beach”

• Day Two: Humanism and the Proto-Romantics

• Reading for next class: William Blake: Selections from “Songs of Innocence and Experience”

Week 2: September 6 – September 10: William Blake

• Day One:

• Reading for next class: William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

• Day Two:

• Reading for next class: Preface to “Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems”

Week 3: September 13 – September 17: William Wordsworth

• Day One:

• Reading for next class: “Resolution and Independence”;” I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”; “The Solitary Reaper”

• Day Two:

• Reading for next class: “Tintern Abbey”

Week 4: September  20 – September 24: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Percy Shelley

• Day One:

• Reading for next class: “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

• Day Two:

• Reading for next class: “Mutability”;”To Wordsworth”;”Ozymandias”;”O World, O Life, O Time”; “A Defense of Poetry”

Week 5: September 27 – October 1: John Keats

• Day One:

• Reading for next class: “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”;  “On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again”; “To Homer”; “Ode on a Grecian Urn; “The living hand, now warm and capable.”

• Day Two:

• Reading for next class: The Lady of Shalott

Week 6: October 4 – October 8: Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Day One:

• Reading for next class: Ulysses

• Day Two:

• Reading for next class: Goblin Market

Week 7: October 13 – 15 (Short Week): Christina Rossetti

• Day Two:

• Reading for next class: Studies in the History of the Renaissance

Week 8: October 18 – October 22 (Midterms) Walter Pater   

• Day One:

• Reading for next class: Excerpts from The Origin of Species

• Day Two:

• Reading for next class: The Descent of Man

Week 9: October 25 – October 29: Virginia Woolf

• Day One:

• Reading for next class: To The Lighthouse

• Day Two:

• Reading for next class: To The Lighthouse

Week 10: November 1 – November 5: Virginia Woolf

• Day One:

• Reading for next class: To The Lighthouse

• Day Two:

• Reading for next class: To The Lighthouse

Week 11: November 8 – November 12: Zadie Smith

• Day One:

• Reading for next class: White Teeth

• Day Two:

• Reading for next class: White Teeth

Week 12: November 15 – November 19: Zadie Smith

• Day One:

• Reading for next class: White Teeth

• Day Two:

• Reading for next class: White Teeth

Week 13: November 22 – November 23 (Short Week): Zadie Smith

• Day One:

• Reading for next class: White Teeth

Week 14: November 29 – December 3:

• Day One:

• Reading for next class: The Wife of Bath’s Tale

• Day Two:

• Reading for next class: Selections from Dante’s Inferno

Week 15: December 6 – December 10: Review Week

• Day One:

• Reading for next class:

• Day Two:

• Reading for next class:

Week 16: December 13 Final Exams

• TBD