English 202-02, Survey Brit Lit I, Schedule*
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| Week 1 | Medieval Period | |
| 1/13 | Introductions;
Syllabus; Anglo-Saxon
culture and history Bede (131-137) Study questions |
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| 1/15** | Caedmon's
Hymn
(A-S side by side with modern English) Wanderer (150-153); Wife's Lament (153-155) |
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| Week 2 | Anglo Saxon Epic | |
| 1/20 | Beowulf
(27-73) Study questions Kennings in Beowulf |
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| 1/22 | Beowulf (73-91) | |
| Week 3 | Arthurian Romance | |
| 1/27 | Marie de France,
"Prologue" & "Lanval" (176-192) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (192-218) Study Questions |
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| 1/29*** | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (218-248) | |
| Week 4 | Estates Satire | |
| 2/3 |
Canterbury
Tales, "General
Prologue" (1st 40 lines + profiles of Knight, Squire, Prioress, Monk, Friar, and Wife of Bath) (begins on 301) Miller's "Prologue" and "Tale" (321-337) (Note: You may read the translation, instead of the original, in the companion Penguin volume, The Canterbury Tales, which was bundled with your anthology) |
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| 2/5 | Wife of Bath's
"Prologue" and "Tale" (337-364) (Note: You may read the translation, instead of the original, in the companion Penguin volume, The Canterbury Tales, which was bundled with your anthology) Midterm I (take home) |
Essay #1 |
| Week 5 | Renaissance
Period; Renaissance Poetry |
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| 2/10 | Intro to Renaissance period Intro to sonnet form: Wyatt "WLH" (621); Petrarch 90 (622) Surrey: Intro & "Love that doth reign," "Set me whereas," "Alas, So all things" (679-681) Background (best viewed in Internet Explorer) Poetry |
Midterm I due |
| 2/12 | Sidney: Intro (967-8) & sonnets 1 (1043); 71 (1045-6) | |
| Week 6 | Renaissance Poetry | |
| 2/17 | Shakespeare sonnets
(1222-37)
1, 73 , 130 |
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| 2/19 | Shakespeare sonnets (1222-37) 138, 144, 20 | |
| Week 7 | Renaissance Poetry | |
| 2/24 | Elizabeth I
(1078-1082) Lanyer, "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" (1098-1103) Donne, "The Flea" (1655) |
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| 2/26 | Donne,
"Sun Rising" (1650); Donne, "Holy Sonnets 6 & 10" (1664, 1666) |
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| Week 8 | Renaissance Drama | |
| 3/2 | Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (Acts I &
II) |
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| 3/4 |
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (Acts III &
IV) |
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| Week 9 | (Spring
Break 04) |
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| 3/9*** | Spring Break--Have fun! |
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| 3/11 | Spring Break--Have fun! | |
| Week 10 | Renaissance Women | |
| 3/16 |
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (Act V) Quotations |
Essay #2 |
| 3/18 |
Finish
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
(Act V) Midterm II (take home) |
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| Week 12 | Restoration & 18th Century: Public and Private Expressions | |
| 3/23 | Diaries &
Journals: Pepys (+Evelyn, Carlton)
(2085-2122); Defoe (2380-86) Newspapers: "The Fire of London" (2389-90); "Vampires in London" (2393-96); "Introducing Mr. Spectator" (2400-02); "The Spectator and its Readers" (2406-8) |
Midterm II
due |
| 3/25**** | Poetic
Conversations Part I: Rochester "Intro" and "Imperfect" (2277-8; 2280-2) & Behn (2213-18) |
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| Week 13 | Gendered Perspectives | |
| 3/30 | Behn, "To the Fair
Clarinda" (2138)
; Finch, "The Introduction" (2226-8); Leapor,
"An Essay
on Woman" (2232-3) |
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| 4/1 |
Poetic
Conversations Part II: Swift (2445-48)
& Montague "Reasons" (2583-85)
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| Week 14 | Slavery and Exoticism | |
| 4/6 | Behn, Oroonoko
(2235-2259) Study Questions |
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| 4/9 | Behn, Oroonoko (2260-2277) | |
| Week 14 | Satire | |
| 4/13 | Pope, Intro
&Rape of the Lock
(2474-5 & 2504-23) |
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| 4/15***** | RoL (cont) Swift, A Modest Proposal & Petty (2466-73) |
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| Week 15 | Satire : Essays and Drama | |
| 4/20 | Gay, "Intro" & The Beggar's Opera Act I (2585-2602) | |
| 4/22 | Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act II (2602-2617) | |
| Week 16 | ||
| 4/27 | Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act III
(2617-2635) Quotations |
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| 4/29 |
Final Exam Test
Review |
Essay #3 |
| Finals
Week 5/4-5/11 |
Tuesday, May 11, 1-3pm | |