British Texts: 17th to 18th Centuries

Date	Topic	Reading
Mon 1/7	Introduction The seventeenth century Complete the assignment listed under "Reading" (plus any online assignments listed under "Topic") before each class meeting. Skip works that spill over onto unlisted pages.
Wed 1/9	The Early Seventeenth Century: Overview Civil Wars of Ideas: Seventeenth-Century Politics, Religion, and Culture The beginnings of neoclassicism Visit the following Web page: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/17century/topic_3/welcome.htm Using the "Topics" pull-down menu on the left, choose "Introduction" and read it. Then select "Civil War of Ideas" and read the "Civil War of Ideas: Overview." Then select "Texts and Contexts" under "Civil War of Ideas." Then select "The Whitehall Banqueting House" and "James's Triumphal Arches" and read the material under those headings. Optional: you may wish to click "Summary" under the pull-down menu on the left to review the period's history. You may wish to take the online review quiz, but be aware that it covers a lot of unassigned material.	A56-A77; 1235-59; quickly scan A13-A55, just to be aware of the Norton Anthology's usefulness as a guide to further study. ("A" stands for "appendix," to be found in the back of the book.)
Fri 1/11	Ben Jonson: "Song: To Celia," "To Penshurst," "Still to Be Neat" Listen to "To Penshurst" online	1324-26; 1434--36; 1443-44.
Mon 1/14	John Donne: "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Canonization." Listen to "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" online	1260-68; 1275-78.
Wed 1/16	John Donne: " Good Friday, 1613: Riding Westward," Holy Sonnets #10 and #14 The metaphysical poets Listen to "Good Friday, 1613: Riding Westward" and "Holy Sonnet #10" online	1295-1300; C19. ("C" stands for "Color Plates.")
Fri 1/18	George Herbert: "The Collar," "The Pulley," "The Flower" Henry Vaughan: "The World" Richard Crashaw: "To the Infant Martyrs," "I Am the Door," "On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord" Quiz #1	1605-1653; 1629-30.
Mon 1/21	Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Wright State is closed for the holiday.
Wed 1/23	Thomas Carew: "An Elegy upon . . . Donne" Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress," "The Definition of Love," "The Garden," "An Horatian Ode."	1666-68; 1695-97; 1703-05; 1710-16.
Fri 1/25	The Cavalier poets Robert Herrick: "Delight in Disorder," "Upon Julia's Clothes," "Corinna's Going A-Maying"The Cavalier poets Last day to drop a class without a grade of "W"	1653-60; 1664-66.
Mon 1/28	Sir John Suckling: "Song," "Out Upon It!" Richard Lovelace: "To Althea, from Prison" Edmund Waller: "Song" Quiz #2	1676-84; 1686-87.
Wed 1/30	John Milton: Sonnets, "L'Allegro," "Il Penseroso"	1785-89; 1797-1805; 1825-29.
Fri 2/1	John Milton: Paradise Lost, Books 1 and 2.	1830-71.
Mon 2/4	John Milton: "Paradise Lost in Context" Visit the following Web page: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/17century/topic_3/welcome.htm Then click "Topics," select "Paradise Lost in Context," and "Paradise Lost in Context: Overview."
Wed 2/6	Seventeenth-century prose John Donne: Devotions Sir Thomas Browne: Chapter Five (from Urn Burial) Francis Bacon: "The Idols" (from Novum Organum), "Of Studies" Robert Burton: "Love Melancholy" (from The Anatomy of Melancholy)	1303-07; 1581-82; 1590-94; 1550-51; 1561-62; 1565-69; 1573-74; 1578-81.
Fri 2/8	Thomas Hobbes: "Of the Natural Condition of Mankind . . ." (from Leviathan) John Locke: "The Epistle to the Reader" (from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	1594-1605; 2151-55.
Mon 2/11	Midterm Examination
Wed 2/13	Overview: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century Visit the following Web page: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/18century/welcome.htm Read "The Eighteenth Century and Restoration: Topics--Introduction." Then use the pull-down menu to read "A Day in 18th Century London: Overview" and "The Plurality of Worlds: Overview." John Dryden: "MacFlecknoe," "Alexander's Feast."	2057-84; 2112-24.
Fri 2/15	Restoration drama Visit the following web page: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/18century/topic_1/playhouses.htm
Mon 2/18	Joseph Addison: Spectator 10 (the aims of the Spectator), Spectator 62 (true, false, and mixed wit), Spectator 267 (Paradise Lost), Spectator 69 ("the Royal Exchange") Visit the following web page: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/18century/topic_1/royal_exchange.htm Sir Richard Steele: Spectator 2 (the Spectator's Club).	2468-75; 2478-88.
Wed 2/20	Jonathan Swift: "A Description of a City Shower," "A Digression Concerning . . . Madness in a Commonwealth" (from A Tale of a Tub), "A Modest Proposal,"	2301-04; 2315-23; 2462-68.
Fri 2/22	Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels, parts 1 and 4. Visit the following web page: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/18century/topic_1/morning.htm Last day to drop a class with a grade of "W."	2323-65; 2418-62.
Mon 2/25	Alexander Pope: "Essay on Criticism."	2493-2513.
Wed 2/27	Alexander Pope: "Rape of the Lock."	2513-2532; A5-A6.
Fri 2/29	Alexander Pope: "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" William Hogarth: "Marriage A-la Mode," "The Enraged Musician." Visit the following web page: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/18century/topic_1/enraged.htm	2548-59: 2656-63.
Mon 3/3	Samuel Johnson: "The Vanity of Human Wishes." Quiz #3	2664-74; A7-A8.
Wed 3/5	Samuel Johnson: Ramblers 4, 60.	2743-49.
Fri 3/7	James Boswell: from The Life of Johnson. From The Life of Johnson ("a night ramble") http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/18century/topic_1/ramble.htm	2778-79; 2781-2810.
Mon 3/10	Henry Fielding and the eighteenth-century novel Novels and biographies
Wed 3/12	Later eighteenth-century poetry Thomas Gray: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" Christopher Smart: "My Cat Jeoffry" Make-up quizzes	2862-70; 2874-76; A8-A11.
Fri 3/14	The Romantic Period: Overview" Visit the following web page and read "The Romantic Period: Topics--Introduction": http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/welcome.htm Also read "Tintern Abbey, Tourism, and Romantic Landscape: Overview" at http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/topic_1/welcome.htm Question-answer review for final Course evaluation
Mon 3/17	Final Examination 10:45-12:45 (Note that the exam occurs in a different time slot!)

CLASS POLICIES

1. Avoid late arrivals, please; they are disruptive and distracting.. If you arrive late on the day of a pop quiz, I will not delay the class by allowing you to start late. Arriving late means that you missed the quiz but may take the scheduled make-up. Repeated late arrivals will lower your course grade. (Two late arrivals equals one absence in the attendance grading scale.)

2. Absence during the first two class meetings of the quarter means that you may be dropped from the course.

3. After six recorded absences, which may include days that you arrived late but failed to have me correct the attendance record (see policy #8, below), you will receive an automatic F for the course.

4. Please do not offer excuses for absences. There is no such thing as an "excused absence" in this course, because I assume that students will miss class only for good reasons. All absences are figured according to the scale given under "Evaluation" (above). If you wish to be evaluated according to a different attendance policy, or if you know that you must miss class on specific dates, I will work out an attendance policy just for you as long as you arrange that policy during the first two days of classes. After the first two days of classes, please do not give me any excuses for absences unless you provide documentation to show that a genuine emergency has taken place--such as a subpoena for a court appearance or a funeral notice for a family member with documentation to show your relationship to the deceased. Exception: If you have an instructor or employer who does not release you in time to make it to my class on time, I will allow you to arrive late occasionally without penalty after I have spoken to your instructor or employer.

5. No make-up quizzes will be given except on the one make-up day indicated above. The midterm and final examination will be given only once. There will be no make-ups.

6. I normally do not grant "I" grades. If you miss an assignment, your grade will be computed on the basis of the work you completed, with the missing assignment counted as zero.

7. Please do not ask me what you missed. You are responsible for making arrangements with a classmate to supply you with information about classes you missed. If questions remain, see me.

8. I take attendance at the beginning of the hour. If you arrive late, your attendance will not be recorded unless you see me after class to have me mark you as present. Absences and late arrivals can affect your course grade, particularly in marginal cases.

9. This is a traditional, lecture-based course, with grades based on multiple-choice quizzes and exams. The way to succeed is to take extensive, detailed notes--usually two or more full pages of notes per lecture--and to review those notes and the reading selections daily and at the end of each week.

10. Online reading assignments are listed under the "Topic" heading instead of the "Readings" heading. They should be completed on the days indicated. (You are responsible only for the pages assigned, plus the enlargements of thumbnail pictures on those pages.) The online readings are supplementary materials that may or may not be discussed in class. Quiz and exam items may be drawn from them. Not having a computer or online account at home is not an excuse for missing these assignments, since computer facilities are abundantly available on campus.

11. Due to the continuing decline of courtesy in American life, it is necessary to mention some things that should normally go without saying. a) It is rude to e-mail someone anonymously, using only a screen name. b) It is rude to leave voice mail messages without identifying yourself. ("I am a student in your morning class" is not adequate self-identification.) c) It is rude to bring a beeping watch, or cell phone, or other digital device to class without turning it off first. d) It is rude to bring a child to class with you, especially if you have not asked for the instructor's permission.

12. My office is 441 Millett, telephone 775-2639. You may leave messages for me with the department secretaries at 775-3136. Another convenient way to have individual conferences is via e-mail. My e-mail address is listed at the top of the syllabus. I check my account daily. Note, too, that this syllabus is posted on the Web at the address listed below, under "Resources."

RESOURCES

Online Syllabuses:
http://www.wright.edu/cola/Dept/eng/maner/maner.htm

Norton Topics Online:
http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/

Women and Eighteenth-Century British Literature:
http://www.wright.edu/~martin.maner/18cwom99.html

Links to Resources in Literature and the Humanities:
http://www.wright.edu/cola/Dept/eng/lit_links.htm

E-Mail Links:
Martin Maner
Erica Clay (Humanities Reference Librarian)

Evaluation:
	Participation and attendance (see below)	8%
	3 quizzes	30%
	Midterm exam	30%
	Final exam	32%

Participation and attendance portion of course grade:	0-1 absence	A
	2 absences	B
	3 absences	C
	4 absences	D
	5 absences	F
	6 absences will result in an F for the entire course.