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Topic |
Notes |
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19-Aug |
Beginning: 17th and 18th century literature
(also called Restoration and 18th century, sometimes
called The Englightenment)
- Dryden, Annus Mirabilis p. 2085;
- Wilmot, Disabled Debauchee 2168
- film excerpts
MetaPages (Overviews)
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Volume C |
R |
21-Aug |
Powerpoint
Presentation (based on Intro to Volume C)
History and Context: 18th century sites
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Note: Drop add ends Friday
DISCUSSION OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS
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26-Aug |
- Gay, The Beggar's Opera 2611-2656
Opera Links
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RS
(we'll do this one in class) |
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28-Aug |
- Swift's "Dressing Room" and Montague's
"Reasons" 2590-2595
- Astell, "Reflections" 2284-8; Preface
2833-7.
- Wilmot," Imperfect Enjoyment" 2169
- Behn, "The Disappointment" 2180-2
- Pope, Rape of the Lock, Canto I 2513-8
History and Context:
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RS
(A poem and its response or Astell's works) |
M |
1-Sep |
LABOR DAY--NO CLASS |
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T |
2-Sep |
- Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 2151-5;
- Pepys, Diary 2133-41
- Jonathan Edwards, Personal
Narrative (read the first half online)
Other links:
Presentations:
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4-Sep |
- Pope, Essay on Man 2540-2548
- Wilmot, Satire 2173-7
- Swift, Modest Proposal 2462
History and Context:
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RS
(any of the three works) |
T |
9-Sep |
Reading
- Behn, Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave
History and Context
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RS
Presentation: English Colonialism
Presentation: Women and Literacy in the Enlightenment
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R |
11-Sep |
- Old
English poetry
- Alfred's Preface 108-111
- Wanderer and Wife's Lament 111-114
- Dream of the Rood
- Audio
History and Context
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Volume A |
T |
16-Sep |
Links:
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Fifth Week Grade Reporting this week
RS
Presentation: Anglo-Saxon Art and the Sutton Hoo treasures |
R |
18-Sep |
- Exile of the Sons of Uisliu 128-36
- Marie de France, Chevrefoil 155-7
- Also read the Pangs
of Macha from the Ulster
Cycle (Wikipedia entry)
Handout: The Tain
from Kinsella's translation
History and Context
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Presentation: Norman Conquest |
T |
23-Sep |
Arthurian Legend
History and Context: Who was Arthur?
History and Context: Sir Gawain
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Presentation: Arthurian Legend |
R |
25-Sep |
History and Context
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RS
Presentation: Women and Medieval Religious Orders
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T |
30-Sep |
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Presentation: The Arab World: Crusades,
their aftermath, and beginnings of Trade |
R |
2-Oct |
Chaucer--Wife of Bath's prologue and
tale
History and Context
- Medieval Misogyny
- Medieval Misogynist Literature
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RS
(Margery Kempe)
Presentation: Printing and Literacy in the 15th-16th
centuries |
T |
7-Oct |
- Ancrene Rule 157-159
- Julian of Norwich chapters 3,7,58-61 (pp 371-377)
- Margery Kempe 383-397
History and Context
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TAKE
HOME MIDTERM ASSIGNED
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R |
9-Oct |
FALL BREAK |
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T |
14-Oct |
FALL BREAK |
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R |
16-Oct |
History and Context
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RS
Presentation: Medieval drama and stagecraft |
T |
21-Oct |
The Renaissance (aka Early Modern period)
Readings: Renaissance Prose
- Lyly, Euphues 944-6
- Bacon, Novum Organum & The New Atlantis 1565-1573
- Hobbes, Leviathan 1594-1604
- Milton, Areopagitica 1816-1825
- Williams, The
Bloody Tenet of Persecution (read online)
History and Context: The Reformation & the Renaissance
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Presenation: Protestant Reformation--Highlights
Presentation: Voyages of Discovery
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W |
22-Oct |
ADVISING DAY--NO CLASS |
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R |
23-Oct |
Paper
Topic Discussion
Renaissance Prose, continued
Renaissance Lyric
- Passionate Shepherd 1022; Nymph's reply 917;
- Shakespeare Sonnet 20 (p. 1064); 130 (p. 1074)
History and Context
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Note: Friday is last day to drop with
a W
RS any one poem
Presentation: Renaissance Science & Medicine
Presentation: Life of Queen Elizabeth
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T |
28-Oct |
Test and discussion: 1599: Year in the
Life of Shakespeare |
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R |
30-Oct |
Henry V (film) (be reading Julius
Caesar online) |
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T |
4-Nov |
READING DAY--NO CLASS |
Start studying for those finals.... |
R |
6-Nov |
"" ""; Other film
excerpts |
Presentation: Shakespeare's Stagecraft in
King James’s reign |
T |
11-Nov |
Julius
Caesar (acts I, II, and III) |
Presentation: England's Irish Wars and Settlement
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R |
13-Nov |
Continue reading Julius Caesar
Acts IV and V
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T |
18-Nov |
Court Masque and Pastoral:
Spenser and Sidney
Reading:
- Masque of Blackness (read this) 1326
- Sidney's
Arcadia (we'll discuss this; read the intro, not
the text) 949
- Spenser's Shepherd's
Calendar (Read the intro) 708
History and Context: Courtly economy and courtly forms
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Tudor and Stuart court masque |
R |
20-Nov |
Reading: Donne
- The Flea
- The Sun Rising
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Holy Sonnet 7 (1269)
- Good Friday, 1613 Riding Westward
Reading: Herbert
History and Context
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RS
(Any poem )
Presentaton: Baroque Art and Architecture |
T |
25-Nov |
Metaphysicals and Cavaliers
Cavaliers
- Herrick, The Vine 1645; Upon Julia's Clothes 1654
- A Rapture, 1661
- Marvel, To his Coy Mistress 1691
- Andrew Marvell
Metaphysical
Tradition
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Last day to drop for mental health, etc.
Presentation: The Stuart Dynasty (James I, Charles
I and II, James II)
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R |
27-Nov |
THANKSGIVING--NO CLASS |
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T |
2-Dec |
Paradise Lost: Structure and the Four
invocations (Beginnngs of Book 1, 3, 7. 9)
Reading: Book 1 (excerpts); book 2
History and Context
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PAPER DUE
Presentation: English Civl Wars and aftermath 1640-60
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R |
4-Dec |
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Paradise Lost
Reading: Book 2 cont'd; Book 9
History and Context: Milton Links
History and Context: Paradise
Lost in Context
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8-Dec |
Shakespeare final 12 PM -2:30 PM |
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10-Dec |
251 final 12 PM - 2:30 PM |
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