ENG 211: Survey of British Literature 2
Fall 2002
Dr. Berglund
Office: Ketcham 322; mailbox in KH 326; 878-4049
Electronic
addresses: berglul@bscmail.buffalostate.edu;
www.lisaberglund.com
Office Hours: MWF 12-1:50 p.m.; Tuesdays by appointment. The best way to reach me is via email. I will respond immediately to email received during my office hours and within 48 hours to other messages.
Course Objective: To study representative British writers of the Eighteenth Century, the Romantic and the Victorian periods. Two themes of the course will be education and encounters with foreign places, people and ideas. We also will focus on learning to recognize literary styles and to attribute them to the proper period or author.
Texts: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Alexander
Pope, Essay on Man and other poems
Samuel Johnson, Rasselas
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. I ordered the Penguin edition. If you use a different edition, it must be
the 1831 text (not 1818) and include both the 1818 and the 1831
prefaces.
Charles
Dickens, Great Expectations
English
Romantic Poetry
English
Victorian Poetry
I have mainly ordered Dover Thrift Editions. The one drawback of these books is the
limited number of notes. I will post
some essential notes on Blackboard and will provide links to good websites,
which you should consult if you have questions.
We also will access some poems entirely on
line. These poems are identified [BB]
on the syllabus. A link will be
available on Blackboard and you should print out the poems and bring them to
class. Alternatively, you can find most
of these poems in any good English literature anthology.
Course
Requirements: A midterm examination (20%), a final
examination (35%), three 150-250 word commentaries (10% each), three short
in-class essays (5% each), and recitation from memory of two poems (5% each).
You must complete all work assigned in order to pass.
The course covers three literary periods: the
Eighteenth Century, the Romantic Era and the Victorian Era. Before each class meeting, I will post two
or three study questions. You must choose
one question from each literary period and write a 150-250 word response on each. These responses must be submitted, via
Blackboard, before we discuss the questions in class. Late submissions will receive "0"
credit.
I recommend that you check the study questions
before each class, since they will give you a sense of the direction our
discussion will take. They also will
indicate which passages you will need to know for the exams.
Attendance is not required, but at five class
meetings you will be required to write a short essay (100-150 words),
responding to one of the study questions for that day. The three best essays will count toward your
final grade. These in-class essays will not be announced in advance. If you
miss class on an in-class writing day, you will receive a "0" for
that day's assignment. If you write all
five essays and earn at least a C on all five, you will receive extra credit of
10 points.
Grades for all writing assignments will be based the
originality of your ideas, your ability to interpret literary evidence, and
your adherence to rules of grammar and mechanics.
In your written work, if you use any secondary
material, you must credit the author, using the format guidelines posted on the
class website. Submitting someone
else's words or ideas as your own is plagiarism and violates college academic regulations.
If you hand in plagiarized work, you will receive a "0" on the assignment
and may fail the course.
The midterm will consist of quotation
identifications and brief commentaries on some of the quotations. The final exam will consist of quotation
identifications (on material read since the midterm), brief commentaries, and
an essay. The quotations will be taken
from passages covered in the study questions and from poems analyzed line by
line in class.
You must recite from memory two poems, by different
poets—the first by 25 October and the other before CEP. The recitations must be of at least 14 lines
and taken from works on the syllabus.
If you recite a section of a poem it must be structurally coherent
(i.e., don't stop in the middle of a sentence or stanza). We will spend some class time in September
on memorization and recitation techniques.
Classroom protocols: 1) Turn off all cell phones
before entering the classroom. 2) Do not leave the room during class except in
an emergency. 3) Always bring the
book(s) with you to class.
If you have or may have a disability that requires
accommodation to fulfill the requirements of the class, contact the Office of
Special Services Students with Disabilities, at 878-4450.
Monday,
26 August Introduction
The
Eighteenth Century
Wednesday,
28 August Swift,
Gulliver's Travels, Book 1
Friday,
30 August Swift, Gulliver's
Travels, Book 2
Monday,
2 September Labor Day; no
class
Wednesday,
4 September Swift, Gulliver's
Travels, Book 3
Friday,
6 September Swift, Gulliver's
Travels, Book 4
Monday, 9 September Swift, "The Lady's Dressing
Room" and Montagu, "The Reasons that induced Dr. S____ to
write…" [BB]
Wednesday,
11 September Finch, poems [BB]
Friday,
13 September Finch, poems
[BB]
Monday,
16 September Pope, The Rape
of the Lock, Canto 1
Wednesday,
18 September Pope, The Rape of
the Lock, Cantos 2 & 3
Friday,
20 September Pope, The
Rape of the Lock, Canto 4
Monday,
23 September Johnson, Rasselas
Wednesday,
25 September Johnson, Rasselas
Friday,
27 September Johnson, Rasselas
Monday,
30 September Johnson,
"Death of Levet" [BB]; midterm review
The
Romantic Period (1789-1837, more or less)
Wednesday,
2 October Blake, Songs of
Innocence and Experience
Friday,
4 October Blake, Songs
of Innocence and Experience
Monday,
7 October Blake, Songs
of Innocence and Experience
Wednesday,
9 October Wordsworth, Lines
Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
Friday,
11 October Wordsworth, Lines
Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
Monday,
14 October Columbus Day; no
class
Wednesday,
16 October Wordsworth, "The
world is too much with us"
Friday,
18 October midterm exam
Monday,
21 October Coleridge, The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Wednesday,
23 October Coleridge, The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Friday,
25 October M. Shelley, Frankenstein
Monday,
28 October M. Shelley, Frankenstein
Wednesday,
30 October M. Shelley, Frankenstein
Friday, 1 November Keats, "On first looking
into Chapman's Homer" and "When I have fears that I may cease to
be"
The
Victorian Era (1837-1901)
Monday,
4 November Tennyson,
"The Lady of Shalott"
Wednesday,
6 November Tennyson, from In Memoriam A. H. H.
Friday, 8 November Tennyson,
from In Memoriam A. H. H.
Monday,
11 November Veterans' Day; no
class
Wednesday,
13 November C. Rossetti, Goblin
Market
Friday, 15 November C. Rossetti, Goblin
Market
Monday,
18 November Dickens, Great
Expectations
Wednesday,
20 November Dickens, Great
Expectations
Friday,
22 November Dickens, Great
Expectations
Monday,
25 November Gilbert &
Sullivan, selections from Utopia Limited [BB]
Wednesday,
26 November Thanksgiving Recess: no
class
Friday,
28 November Thanksgiving
Recess: no class
Monday,
2 December Kipling, poems
Wednesday,
4 December exam review
Wednesday,
11 December CEP—final examination
1:40-3:30 p.m.