Introduction
to British Literature
Joseph
Viscomi jsviscom@email.unc.edu
English
121.7
Office:
504 GL, tele: 962 8764
2:00
T&Th; GL 319
hrs. 1-2 Tues., Thurs. &by appt.
Spring
2005
http://english.unc.edu/faculty/viscomij.html
Charles
Dickens. Oliver Twist. Ed.
Kathleen Tillotson. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Handouts:
Useful
terms for literary analysis
More useful terms for literary analysis
1/13
Introduction
to English 121
ROMANTIC
PERIOD (pages 1-21, + timeline, pages 22-23, + Poetic Forms and
Literary
Terminology, 2928-44)
WILLIAM
BLAKE, introduction and letters (bio and images in Blakearchive.org)
1/18
Songs
of Innocence
1/20
Songs
of Experience
1/25
Book
of Thel
WILLIAM
WORDSWORTH, introduction, poems, prose
1/27
selections
from Lyrical Ballads (222-238)
2/1
selections
from Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (238-250)
SAMUEL
TAYLOR COLERIDGE, introduction, poems, prose
2/10
Dejection,
an Ode; selections from Biographia Literaria, chaps. 4, 17
JOHN
KEATS, introduction, poems, and letters
2/15
poems:
826-34, 844-56;
Ode
to Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale,
2/17
Ode
to a Grecian Urn, Ode to Indolence, Ode on Melancholy
2/22
Romantic
Period Exam
VICTORIAN
PERIOD (pages 1043-1062, + timeline, 1064-65)
ALFRED,
LORD TENNYSON, introduction and poems
2/24
poems:
1201-19, 1282-1304
The
Lady of Shalott, The Lotos-Eaters, Ulysses, Tithonus
3/1
Idylls
of the King: The Coming of Arthur; The Passing of Arthur
ELIZABETH
BROWNING, ROBERT BROWNING, introduction, poems
3/3
EB:
sonnets from the Portuguese; selections from Aurora Leigh, Mother &
Poet
3/8
RB:Porphyria's
Lover, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, My Last Duchess
3/10
The
Bishop Orders His tomb, Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto
3/15-17
SPRING
BREAK
CHARLES
DICKENS, introduction in Tillotson
3/22-24
Oliver
Twist
JOHN
CARDINAL NEWMAN, JOHN STUART MILL, MATTHEW ARNOLD, introductions
3/29-31
Newman:
selections from The Idea of a University
Mill:
What is Poetry, On Liberty, Subjection of Women
4/5
Victorian
Period Exam
TWENTIETH
CENTURY (1897-1913, + timeline, 1914-15)
BERNARD
SHAW, introduction and the Woman Question (1719-1739)
4/7,
12
Mrs.
Warren's Profession
WORLD
WAR I POETS:
4/14
poetry
of Brooke, Sassoon, Owen
WILLIAM
BUTLER YEATS, introduction and poems (2092-2124)
4/19,
21
Lake
Isle of Innisfree, Wild Swans at Coole, A Prayer for My Daughter
The
Second Coming, Leda and the Swan, Sailing to Byzantium, Byzantium,
Crazy Jane
JAMES
JOYCE, introduction
4/26
The
Dead
T.
S. ELIOT, introduction (2364-67)
4/28
Love
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,
5/7
Final
Exam: 2pm
ASSIGNMENTS:
There will be spot quizzes on the readings, exams on the Romantic and
Victorian
periods, and a final exam covering all three periods studied. You are
responsible for two papers, one on a work from the Romantic Period, and
the
second on a work from either the Victorian or Modern Period. The papers
should
be four or more pages long, follow MLA style (see your Freshman writing
handbooks), and include at least two secondary sources; topics and
writing
strategies will be discussed in class.
Paper
I
due
Paper II
due
Blake
or Wordsworth
2/15
Tennyson,
Brownings,
3/22
Coleridge
or Keats
3/1
Dickens,
Arnold, Mill, Newman
4/12
Shaw,
Yeats
4/26
Eliot, Joyce
5/2
The
quizzes are worth 3 points each (6 points), exams are worth 12 points
each (24
points), the final exam is worth 20 points, and the papers are worth 25
points
each.
Papers:
I encourage you to discuss your papers with your classmates and anyone
else you
want to. The crucial thing to remember is that you must give citations
for
ideas and words that are not your own. The honor code is in effect in
this
class.
Critical
works on the Romantics: The English Romantic Poets; A
Review of Research and Criticism,
ed. Frank Jordan, 4th edition. MLA,
l985. [Davis Reference
Shelf, PR590.E5.1985]; See also http://www.lib.unc.edu/
for UNCÕs Article
Databases (e.g., MLA
International Bibliography [1963-2004]), E-Journal
Finder, and Print Journals (Catalog Search); the
Romantic Circles at http://www.rc.umd.edu., the Norton Anthology web
site at www.wwnorton.com/nael,
Voice
of the Shuttle, http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3,
Romantic Literary Resources, http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/romantic.html,
and Google Scholar at http://www.scholar.google.com/ For articles
online, see the Scholarly Journal Archive
at http://www.jstor.org/. Also
helpful is the Introduction to Library
Research, http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/tutorial/.