COURSE SCHEDULE (subject to change)
For a more detailed description of the course schedule, readings and other materials please consult the Moodle course. Visit Moodle at least once a day to be aware of any changes to the schedule.
WEEK 1 Sept 21-24
Mon.
Introduction to the Course and Requirements
Civil War and its fall-out -- viewing from Simon Schama's History of Britain series
Weds.
Margaret Cavendish Poetry selections, Selection from The Description of a New World, call the Blazing World and The Convent of Pleasure pp. 3-31.
Samuel Pepys's Diary selections about the Great Fire of London pp. 112-23.
Note: Wherever available read Broadview’s “In Context” material
Background reading: Broadview Introduction to The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
WEEK 2 Sept 28-Oct 2 (Friday makeup for Monday classes)
Mon.
John Bunyan selection from The Pilgrim’s Progress pp. 32-55
Weds.
Aphra Behn Orinooco
Seminar: The Popish Plot
Seminar: Aphra Behn: Writer or Spy?
Fri. (makeup for Monday classes)
Training day for how to do research with librarian
WEEK 3 Oct. 5-8
Mon.
William Wycherley The Country Wife
Background Reading: “Print Culture, Stage Culture”
Seminar: The restoration of the Theatre and cultural attitudes to it. What was it like to attend a play? Who went? What went on off-stage as well as on-stage?
Wed.
Daniel Defoe Selections from Robinson Crusoe
Seminar: Who was Friday in Robinson Crusoe (our excerpt doesn't have his story)? Consider his racial, cultural and religious significance in light of British imperial attitudes.
Seminar: Coffee House Culture
WEEK 4 Oct. 12-15
Mon.
Rakes and Sluts?
Eliza Haywood's Fantomina and excerpts from the works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Look at Rochester In Context on the website). Aphra Behn's "The Disappointment"
Seminar: Reputation -- literary and sexual -- and the woman writer: the case of Eliza Haywood
Weds.
Read the selections from Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea; Mary Astell's "A Serious Proposal to the Ladies" and "Reflections Upon Marriage"; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu "The Reasons that Induced Dr. S to Write a Poem Called the Lady's Dressing Room"; Jonathan Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room," "Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to her Husband," and "The Spectator No. 573".
Selections from Samuel Johnson in The Rambler, The Idler and the Dictionary; and excerpt from James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
Seminar: Hogarth: Pictures of Life
WEEK 5 Oct 19-22
Mon.
Jonathan Swift Selection from Gulliver's Travels
Seminar: Political references in Gulliver's Travels. Who was Walpole and how did he change English government?
Weds.
Paper discussion and catch up day
Modules on how to write a paper
WEEK 6 Oct 26-29 Paper #1 due this week
Mon.
Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano(Restoration Anthology)
Mary Prince The History of Mary Prince A West Indian Slave Related by Herself (Romantics Anthology)
Background reading: “Colonization and Slavery” on the Website and Contexts: The Abolition of Slavery in the next Anthology Age of Romanticism
Seminar: Slavery and the Anti-Slavery Movement in Britain
Weds. Paper #1 due today
Alexander Pope "The Rape of the Lock"
Seminar: Pope’s social circle and his complicated background. The real-life story behind the poem.
WEEK 7 New Voices Nov 2-6 (Friday makeup for Weds. classes)
Mon.
Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto
Weds.
The Labouring Class Poets: Read excerpts from Stephen Duck, Mary Collier, Mary Leapor and Elizabeth Hands
Robert Burns "To a Mouse," "A Man's a Man for A' That," "Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn," A Red, Red Rose," "Auld Lang Syne"
Cowper from The Task Book 1: The Sofa
Oliver Goldsmith "The Deserted Village"
Thomas Gray "Elegy on a Country Churchyard"
Seminar: What are Land Enclosures and what was their social impact on the changing social landscape of 18th century Britain?
Fri.
William Blake "Songs of Innocence and Experience"
Background Reading: French Revolution and Napoleonic Era (Website)
View excerpt from Simon Schama's History of Britain series: Forces of Nature
WEEK 8 Nov 9-12
Mon.
Mary Wollstonecraft "Maria or the Wrongs of Women"
Recommended reading: selections from Anna Laetitia Barbauld "The Rights of Women", "Washing Day," "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem"; Charlotte Smith "Beachy Head"; Felicia Hemans "The Homes of England," "Women and Fame"; Mary Robinson "A Letter to the Women of England," "The Negro Girl"; Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) "Love's Last Lesson".
Background reading: Women and Society p. 100ff
Mary Wollstonecraft Read selections in the anthology
Seminar: Mary Wollstonecraft and Tom Paine during the French Revolution -- ideas on the Rights of Man and the Rights of Women
Weds.
Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Frost at Midnight”
WEEK 9 Nov 16-19
Mon.
Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"; "Michael"; "I wandered lonely as a cloud";
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality"; "My heart leaps up"
Weds.
Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"; "Michael"; "I wandered lonely as a cloud";
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality"; "My heart leaps up"
WEEK 10 Nov 23-25 Thanksgiving
Mon.
Read Selections from John Keats: "La Belle Dame San Merci," "Eve of St. Agnes," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightingale," "To Autumn," "Ode on Melancholy"
Weds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley "Mask of Anarchy" "Adonais"
Seminar: The Peterloo Massacre and what it meant in terms of shifting political and class relations
WEEK 11 Nov 30-Dec3
Mon.
Deflating romantic pretensions
Lord Byron -- selection from Don Juan
Seminar: Byron’s love life and death
Weds,
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
WEEK 12 Dec 7-10 Last week
Mon.
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Weds.
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Final Paper will be due the day of the final exam
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