Summer 2002, Section A01
9:30-10:45 M-T-W-Th
072 Rike Hall
Joe Law
Office: 027 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library
Office phone: 775-2155
Email: joe.law@wright.edu
Office hours: 1:00-2:00 M-T-W-Th and by appointment.
Required Texts:
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Damrosch, David, et al., eds. The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Vol. 2. New York: Longman, 1999. |
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Dickens, Charles. Hard Times. Ed. Fred Kaplan and Sylvère Monod. 3rd. ed. New York: Norton, 2000. |
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Handouts of several works not included in The Longman Anthology of British Literature are available online via library reserve and the WebCT site for this course. You should print out copies of these short texts and bring them with you to class on the day they are scheduled for discussion. Instructions for accessing these files are included with this syllabus. |
Recommended Text:
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: MLA, 1999.
Course Goals
Through close reading of a number of diverse texts representing the full chronological span of the nineteenth century in Britain, we will attempt to understand both the texts themselves and the contexts that produced them and were affected by them.
Requirements
Reading Quizzes: There will be frequent unannounced quizzes over the readings assigned for the day. These factual quizzes should be easy--provided you have read the assignment carefully. Their chief purpose is to encourage you to keep up with the reading and to reward you for it. These quizzes will be given at the beginning of the class. If you are late, you will not be permitted additional time to complete the quiz; if you miss class, you will not be allow to make up the quiz. However, I will drop the two lowest quiz scores.
Fourth Hour Project: Each of you will be given a nineteenth-century British short story and asked to write a brief essay (5-7 pages) that might be used in a reference work about shorter nineteenth-century fiction. At the end of the term, all the essays will be collected and distributed to everyone in the class. You will be asked to turn in two preliminary assignments dealing with the project as well. More detailed information will be distributed in class.
As in all upper-division English courses, all writing must conform to Modern Language Association (MLA) style. If you do not already own a copy of the MLA Handbook (listed above as a recommended text), then you should purchase one with the other texts for this course. All writing for the course should also adhere to standards for formal writing (e.g., no contractions, no conversational sentence fragments, etc.).
Course Grade
Final grades for the course will be based on the following weights:
Reading Quizzes 30%
Preliminary Essay I 15%
Preliminary Essay II 15%
Final Essay (Fourth-Hour Project) 30%
Final Exam 10%
Grading criteria for the papers are included at the end of this syllabus.
Academic Honesty
All work submitted must be your own, with outside sources properly acknowledged. Academic dishonest includes copying another's work, turning in someone else's work as your own, allowing a tutor to write part or all of your paper, or allowing someone else to use your work in this same manner. If you are unsure about your work in this respect, talk to me before you submit it, not after.
Special Accommodations
If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, if you have emergency medical information to share with me, or if you need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please make an appointment to see me as soon as possible. We should make any necessary arrangements at the beginning of the course.
University Writing Center
Writing Consultants in the Writing Center (031 Library) are available to assist you as you work on your papers. Be sure to take a copy of the assignment with you when you go. The Writing Center also has a cluster of networked computers available for student use. To get more information about summer hours and services available, call 775-4186.
Reading and Assignment Schedule
All readings should be completed by the date they are scheduled for class discussion.
Week 1
06/10/02 Introduction to Course
06/11/02 "The Romantics and Their Contemporaries" and "The Victorian Age"
(Longman 3-28 and 1033-55))
06/12/02 Revolution and Reaction I
Burke, excerpts from Reflections on the Revolution in France (58-66)--read sections titled "Liberties As an Entailed Inheritance," "The Real Rights of Man," and "The Contract of Society"
Wollstonecraft, excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Men
Paine, excerpts from The Rights of Man (76-82)--read sections titled "Man Has No Property in Man" and "The Republican System"
06/13/02 Revolution and Reaction II
Coleridge, "France: an Ode" (Online Supplemental Reading)
Wordsworth, excerpts from The Prelude--read section titled "Apostrophe to Edmund Burke" (418)
Week 2
06/17/02 Protest Poetry I
Yearsley, excerpt from A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade (168-72)
Burns, "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled" and "Is there for honest poverty" (305-06)
Moore, "The harp that once through Tara's halls" (310)
Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper" (both poems with that title--114, 122), "Holy Thursday" (Both poems--115, 120), "London" (123-24)
06/18/02 Poems and Peasants I, OR Art and Society I, OR The Country and City I
W. Wordsworth, from Preface to Lyrical Ballads (332-36), "Simon Lee" (314-16), "Expostulation and Reply," (326), "The Tables Turned" (326-27), "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" (328-32)
06/19/02 Poems and Peasants II, OR Art and Society II, OR The Country and City II
W. Wordsworth, Sonnets (359-61) and "Michael" (343-54)
06/20/02 Art and Society III, OR Protest Poetry II
P. B. Shelley, "To Wordsworth" (653), excerpt from A Defence of Poetry (695-705), "Ozymandias" (659), "England in 1819"(660)
Week 3
06/24/02 Art and Society IV
P. B. Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" (670-72)
Keats, Letters to Benjamin Bailey ("The Truth of Imagination") (794-95), to George and Thomas Keats ("Intensity" and "Negative Capability") (795-96), and to Richard Woodhouse ("The 'Camelion Poet' vs. The 'Egotistical Sublime'") (801-02)
06/25/02 Art and Society V
Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (775-76)
Tennyson, "The Palace of Art" (Online Supplemental Reading)
PRELIMINARY ASSIGNMENT I DUE
06/26/02 Angels in the House vs. Women in the World I
Wollstonecraft, excerpt from Chapter 2 of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (216-27)
Martineau, excerpt from What Women Are Educated For (1618-21)
Ellis, excerpt from The Women of England (1606-09)
Queen Victoria, Letters and Journal Entries (1623-27)
06/27/02 Angels in the House vs. Women in the World II, OR Art and Society VI
Tennyson, "The Lady of Shallott" (1189-94)
C. Rossetti, "In an Artist's Studio" (1709-10)
Siddal, "Lust of the Eyes" (Online Supplemental Reading)
Barrett Browning, "To George Sand" (both poems--1153-54)
Week 4
07/01/02 The Country and the City III, OR Work and Workers I
Engels, excerpt from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1106-18)
Macaulay, excerpt from review of Southey's Colloquies (1098-1100)
Excerpt from Parliamentary Papers (Blue Books) (1100-02)
Mayhew, excerpt from London Labour and the London Poor (1114-19)
07/02/02 Dickens, Hard Times
07/03/04 Dickens, Hard Times PRELIMINARY ASSIGNMENT II DUE
07/04/02 Independence Day (University Closed)
Week 5
07/08/02 Religion, Science, and the Higher Criticism I
Strauss, excerpt from The Life of Jesus (1318-21)
Colenso, excerpt from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined (1325-27)
Clough, three poems (1323-25)
Tennyson, excerpts from In Memoriam--read sections 50-56, 117-23, Epilogue (1226-28, 1239-41, 1242-43)
07/09/02 Religion, Science, and the Higher Criticism II
Darwin, excerpts from On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man (1293-1304)
Gosse, excerpt from Father and Son (1340-45)
07/10/02 Art and Society VII
Ruskin, "Greatness in Art" (Online Supplemental Reading)
Arnold, Preface to Poems (Online Supplemental Reading)
Pater, excerpts from The Renaissance
Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1881-82)
COMPLETED PROJECT DUE; bring #2 pencil for course evaluation also
07/11/02 FINAL EXAM
OTHER IMPORTANT DATES:
June 19--Last day to drop a class without a grade
June 25--Last day for all but freshmen to drop a class with a grade of W
Go to the Course Reserves link on the library's home page (http://www.libraries.wright.edu/), then to the Course Reserves link on that page. You will then be able to search either by course number or by my name. The password is eng353 (no spaces, no caps). The readings are saved as Word files, which you can then either open or save to a disk.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Because the texts are saved as Word files, you will find it much easier to retrieve them via Netscape Communicator than Internet Explorer (which will automatically convert them to html files).
1. Start your Web browser (Netscape Communicator) and go to wisdom.wright.edu. Click the LogonWebCT link.
2. When the dialog box appears, enter the following and click OK:
User Name: (CaTS Unix Account – e.g., w001xxx)
Password: the last four digits of your Social Security number
If you changed your password in a Wright State WebCT course after the start of the fall 2001 quarter, use the new password you created. Your WebCT password is independent of your Wright State UNIX and Novell passwords. Changing your WebCT password does not change the others.
The first time you log on, you will be asked for a “hint” to use if you forget your password. This is optional and you can add or change it later.
3. You should now see your MyWebCT page, with your name near the top. To go to your course, click the name of the course, under Courses on the left.
4. Click on the icon labeled Supplementary Readings. You will see a group of icons for the readings. When you click on the appropriate one, you will be asked if you want to open the file or save it to disk. If you open it, you can print it out just as you would any other Word document. If you choose to save the file to disk, you can open the file and print it later. (Just be sure you pay attention to where you save it!)
Quit your browser to log out.
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