ENGLISH 202-B: BRITISH LITERATURE 2
COURSE INFORMATION: British Literature 2 (3 semester hours). "A
survey of British literature beginning with the Romantic period and continuing
through the works of the Twentieth Century. Major authors and their works
emphasized. Prerequisites: ENG 101 and 102."
CLASS MEETING TIMES AND LOCATIONS: 1-1:50 MWF in W004.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Jim Haughey, Associate Professor of English.
OFFICE
LOCATION AND TELEPHONE: office:
OFFICE
HOURS: MWF: 12-1; MW: 2-3; TR:
HOME
PHONE: 868-0623. No calls after
COURSE PURPOSE AND GOALS: This course is designed to acquaint students with the
work of the major authors of the Romantic, Victorian, and Twentieth Century
periods in British literature. Students will learn to identify the various
themes and literary genres of each period and be familiar with the major
historical and biographical influences of each work. Students should also be
able to locate secondary sources and correctly document any sources cited in
their essays.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: At the end of the course, students should be able to:
1.
List the three major
periods of British literature (as outlined in the
textbook).
2.
For each of these
periods, give the dates usually associated with it,
discuss its major characteristics and
emphases, list its major authors,
and describe its major genres.
3.
Discuss how each
author's work reflects the concerns of the period as
well as how that author has made a unique contribution to the
development of English language and
literature.
4.
Identify and
describe the key ideas, issues, and literary techniques in the works you have
read.
5.
Analyze (read
critically) literature from a variety of perspectives.
6.
Write a
well-organized, well-developed essay on selected aspects of a period, author,
or literary work, incorporating the results of library research and your own
analysis.
7.
Participate in
classroom discussion of the assigned material.
8.
Use the MLA documentation
format on all written assignments.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Your final grade will be determined primarily by the
grades on your paper, tests, quizzes, and final exam. Class attendance and
participation will also be considered. Final grades will be determined by the
degree of success on the following assignments:
Test
on Novel..……….100 PTS
Quizzes………………..200
PTS
Two
tests..……………..400 PTS
Final
exam..…………..300 PTS
STUDENT FEEDBACK AND GRADING SCALE: I will be glad to talk with you whenever you think I
can help, including giving advice on preliminary drafts of the essay. Don't
wait until an assignment is due the next day to get help.
Grades
will be determined by the following scale:
A:
900-1000
B:
800-899
C:
700-799
D:
600-699
F:
0-599
The
grade for your final exam essay will be determined according to how well the
essay demonstrates the characteristics of good essay form and style. A good essay effectively states and develops
a central idea. It shows originality of
thought and style, and in both instances is exceptional work. Its ideas are
clear, logical, and thought provoking. The presentation is unified, coherent,
and interesting. A good essay should contain all of the qualities of good
writing listed below.
1.
Concentration on a
central purpose with adequate development and
firm support.
2. Consistence in point of view.
3. Selection of details that will arouse
interest.
4. Selection of effective words and phrases.
5.
Effective
construction and organization of sentences
and paragraphs.
6. Careful use of effective transitional
devices.
7.
Accurately
documented secondary sources.
CONTENT OUTLINE: The essay should be at least 400 words in length.
Topics will be distributed.
Paper
deadline and exam dates:
Test
on Romanticism: Feb. 11, 2004
Test
on Victorianism: March 5, 2004
Test
on Novel: April 5, 2004
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION: Most of our time will be taken up with discussing the
reading assignments. Bring notebooks and pens to class everyday. Apart from
class discussion, time will be given to small group work and A-V presentations.
COURSE CALENDAR (tentative):
The Romantic Period (1785-1830)
Week
One:
F.
Jan. 9: Intro to the course and syllabus.
Week
Two:
M.
Jan. 12: Read the “Romantics and Their
Contemporaries”: 3-28.
W.
Jan. 14: Read intro to William Blake (74-76); intro to Songs of
Innocence and of Experience
(77-78); "The Lamb" (79);
"The
Chimney Sweeper"
(81); "Holy Thursday" (82).
F.
Jan. 16: Read "The Clod & the Pebble" (88);
"Holy Thursday" (88); "The
Chimney Sweeper" (89);
“The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers”
(83- 85).
Week
Three:
M. Jan. 19: Read "The Tyger" (88-89);
"London" (91); "A Poison Tree" (92-93).
W. Jan. 21: Read intro to Robert Burns (188-189); “To a
Mouse” (189-190);
“A Red, Red Rose” (192); “Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled”
(191-192).
F. Jan. 23: Read
intro to William Wordsworth (194-197); "Lines Written in
Early Spring" (201-202);
"The world is too much with us" (234);
Lyrical Ballads (206-212).
Week
Four:
M.
Jan. 26: Read “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (282); "The Solitary
Reaper" (289); "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,
September 3, 1802"
(234).
W.
Jan. 28: Read intro to S. T. Coleridge
(323-324); "Kubla Khan"
(342-343).
F.
Jan. 30: Read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (326-341).
Week
Five:
M.
Feb.2: Read intro to Lord Byron (356-357); "She walks in beauty"
(358);
“So, we’ll go no more a roving”
(358); “On This Day I Complete
My Thirty-Sixth Year” (390).
W.
Feb. 4: Read intro to Shelley (391-393);
"Ozymandias" (399); "Ode
to
the West Wind"
(399-401).
F.
Feb. 6: Read intro to Keats (421-423); "On First Looking into Chapman's
Homer" (423); “Ode to a
Nightingale" (438-440); “Ode on a
Grecian Urn" (440-441).
Week
Six:
M.
Feb. 9: Read "To Autumn"
(443); selected letters (444-446). Study Review
on Romanticism.
W.
Feb. 11: Test 1 on Romanticism (200 pts)
The Victorian Age (1830-1901)
F.
Feb. 13: Read Intro to The Victorian Age; read 451-473.
Week
Seven:
M.
Feb. 16: Read intro to Tennyson (583-586); "Mariana" (586-588);
"The
Lady of Shalott"
(588-593).
.
W.
Feb. 18: Read "Ulysses" (593-594); "The Charge of the Light
Brigade"
(615-616); “Crossing the
Bar” (616).
F.
Feb. 20: Read intro to Robert Browning (659-662); "Porphyria's Lover"
(662) “My Last Duchess"
(663).
Week
Eight:
M. Feb. 23: Read intro to Christina Rossetti (756-758); "Goblin
Market” (759-
771).
W.
Feb. 25: Read intro Matthew Arnold (749-751); “Dover Beach” (751);
Culture and Anarchy (752-754).
F.
Feb. 27: Read intro to Gerard Manley Hopkins (773-774); "God's
Grandeur" (774);
"The Windhover" (775)); "Pied Beauty" (775).
and "Thou Art Indeed
Just, Lord" (778).
Week
Nine:
M.
Mar. 1: Read intro to Oscar Wilde (828-830); The Importance of Being
Earnest (847-887).
W.
Mar. 3: Finish The Importance of Being Earnest and review for test.
F.
Mar. 5: Test on Victorianism (200 pts)
Week
Ten:
M.
Mar. 8: Read intro to the Twentieth Century (920-942).
W.
Mar. 10: Read intro to Thomas Hardy (1071-1073); "Hap" (1073);
"The Darkling Thrush" (1074); Channel Firing" (1077);
"The
Convergence of the Twain" (1076).
F.
Mar. 12: Read intro to T.S. Eliot (1191-1194); “The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock” (1194-1197).
Week
Eleven: No classes—Spring Break
March 13-21
Week
Twelve:
M.
Mar. 22: Read “The Great War:
Confronting the Modern” (1080); read
intro to Rupert Brooke
(1096); “The Soldier” (1098); Read intro
to Siegfried Sassoon (1099);
“Glory of Women” ( 1099) and
“Counter Attack”
(handout).
W.
Mar. 24: Read Intro to Wilfred Owen (1100); “Anthem for Doomed
Youth” (1100); “Strange
Meeting” (1101).
F.
Mar. 26: Read “Dulce et Decorum Est” (1102); read intro to Isaac
Rosenberg (1103); “Break of
Day in the Trenches” (1103).
Week
Thirteen:
M.
Mar.29: Read intro W. B. Yeats (1113-1117); "The Lake Isle of
Innisfree"
(1117); “No Second Troy”
(1118); "The Second Coming" (1122-
1123).
W.
Mar. 31: Read “Easter, 1916” (1119-21);
Proclamation of the Irish
Republic (1121-1122).
Chrysanthemums” (1318-1330).
Week
Fourteen:
M.
Apr. 5: Read The Remains of the Day. TEST ON NOVEL (100 pts).
W.
Apr. 7: Read The Remains of the Day.
Week
Fifteen:
M.
Apr. 12: Finish The Remains of the Day.
W.
Apr. 14: Read intro to W. H. Auden (1331-1333); “Museé des Beaux”
(1333); “September 1, 1939”
(1335-1337).
F.
Apr. 16: Read intro to Dylan Thomas (1371); "Do Not Go Gentle Into
That Good Night" (1373);
read intro to Philip Larkin (1384);
“MCMXIV” (1385).
Week
Sixteen:
M.
Apr. 19: Read selected Larkin poems (handout).
W.
Apr. 21: Read intro to Seamus Heaney (1386-1387); “A Postcard from
North Antrim” (1387-1389);
“Punishment” (1391-1392).
F.
Apr. 23: Read intro to Eavan Boland (1416); “The Pomegranate” (1417);
“A Woman Painted on a Leaf”
(1419); and Mise Eire (1419).
Week
Seventeen:
M.
Apr. 26: Last Class; Review for Final
Exam on the Twentieth Century.
FINAL
EXAM: Thursday April 29 3-5 P.M. (200 pts).
Note:
bold print indicates major assignment due. All page references are to the Longman Anthology.
TEXTBOOKS:
Ishiguro,
Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. New York: Vintage, 1990.
The Longman Anthology of British
Literature Volume B. Ed. David
Damrosch et al. New York: Pearson Longman, 2004.
COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Students are encouraged to use computers in the
college's Vandiver (101) and Watkins (104) computer facilities. The Johnston
Memorial Library is located on the front campus. Hours of operation are posted
outside the library. Personal and career counseling services are located
through Student Services, 3rd floor Merritt Bldg. Academic
Counseling is available from your academic advisor or from Mrs. Linda Carlson's
office, next door to Watkins 102, in the Academic Services Center.
COURSE POLICIES: The number of allowable absences FOR ANY REASON is 8.
When you are absent, you are still responsible for any work assigned. No
distinctions are made between excused or unexcused absences. If you exceed the
maximum number of absences you will be dropped from the course and/or receive a
failing grade for the class.
TARDINESS: Punctuality is important. Three unexcused tardies will
equal one absence.
PLAGIARISM: A serious offense, which may result in receiving an F
in the course. See student handbook.
LATE POLICIES: Any work submitted late will receive a 10% late
penalty and you must submit the work no later than one week after the due date.
After that, no late work will be accepted. Students with excused absences are
expected to bring assigned work with them the next time the class meets; no
penalty will be assessed.
WITHDRAWAL: Any student who misses more than three classes during
the first week will be withdrawn from the course. Otherwise, each is student is
responsible for initiating the withdrawal process. Last day to withdraw without
a grade is Jan 21; last day to withdraw and receive a W is March 9.
LEARNING FACILITIES: Students who require assistance with assignments should
contact the instructor and/or seek help at the college Writing Center. Hours of
operation are posted outside Watkins 102. Secondary research should be
conducted at the college library (Johnston Memorial Library). Both computer labs
(located in Vandiver and Watkins) are under the direction of Mr. Doug Davison;
contact him if you need help.