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Schedule of Assignments
Spring 2001

Remember: Late papers will not be accepted. This policy will be negotiated only in the event of documentable emergency. (Generally, car trouble, unreliable child care, and computer malfunctions are inconveniences, but they are not emergencies. Plan ahead.)

Complete all reading assignments before showing up to class.  Be sure to attend class every day to make sure that you know exactly which works to read for each author.

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WEEK
 DATE ASSIGNMENTS, ACTIVITIES, & DEADLINES
. January ..
1
 Tue 15 Jan Welcome to English 46B.
. Thu 17 Jan The Romantic Period, pp. 1-23
The French Revolution and the Spirit of the Age, pp. 117-18
2
 Tue 22 Jan William Blake
. Thu 24 Jan William Wordsworth 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3
 Tue 29 Jan John Keats 
Lord Byron
top Thu 31 Jan Anna Barbauld 
Charlotte Smith
Mary Robinson
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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 February .
4
 Tue 5 Feb Mary Wollstonecraft
Deadline: Critical Response #1
. Thu 7 Feb The Victorian Age, pp. 1043-65
5
 Mon 11 Feb Last day to drop without posting a “W” on transcripts
.. Tue 12 Feb Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
Robert Browning
. Thu 14 Feb Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • "The Lady of Shalott," p. 1204
  • "Locksley Hall," p.1219
  • From In Memoriam A. H. H., p. 1230 (read only the opening stanza and stanzas 1, 54, and 55)
  • "The Charge of the Light Brigade," p. 1280
  • "Flower in the Crannied Wall," p. 1304
  • "Crossing the Bar," p. 1304
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 Tue 19 Feb Victorian Issues: Evolution, pp. 1679-95
  • from Darwin's The Origin of the Species, pp. 1679-82.  Read just to the bottom of p. 1682.
  • from Darwin's The Descent of Man, pp. 1686-87 and 1689-90.
  • from Huxley's The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley [The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate], pp. 1690-93.
  • from Gosse's Father and Son [The Dilemma of the Fundamentalist and Scientist], pp. 1694-96.
  • Tennyson's In Memoriam A. H. H.  Starting on p. 1270, read only stanzas 106, 120, 123, and 124.
. Thu 21 Feb Victorian Issues: Industrialism, pp. 1696-1718
  • "Industrialism: Progress or Decline?" pp. 1696-97.
  • from Kingsley's Alton Locke  [A London Slum], pp. 1710.
  • "Poverty Knock," pp. 1713.
  • from Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor [Boy Inmate of the Casual Wards], p. 1714.
  • Besant's "The 'White Slavery of London Match Workers," pp. 1715-17.
Charles Dickens
  • from Hard Times [Coketown], p. 1711.
  • Charles Dickens, p. 1333.  Read the biographical sketch as well as "A Visit to Newgate."  (11 pages)
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 Tue 26 Feb Victorian Issues: The “Woman Question” 
  • the introduction to the "Woman Question," p. 1719
  • Ellis's "The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits," p. 1721
  • Patmore's "The Angel in the House," p. 1723
  • "The Great Social Evil," p. 1728
  • Mulock's "A Woman's Thoughts about Women," p. 1732
  • Nightingale's "Cassandra," p. 1734
John Stuart Mill
  • from The Subjection of Women, pp. 1155.  (about 10 pages).
top Thu 28 Feb Thomas Carlyle
  • "Queen Victoria at Eighteen," p. 1070.
  • pick one of the following:
    • "Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Fifty-Three," p. 1070
    • "William Wordsworth in His Seventies," p. 1074
    • "Alfred Tennyson at Thirty-Four," p. 1076
  • from Sartor Resartus, read "Natural Supernaturalism," p. 1096
  • from Past and Present, read "Democracy," p. 1110, and read "Captains of Industry," p. 1115.
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 March .
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 Tue 5 Mar Matthew Arnold 
  • "The Forsaken Merman," p. 1475
  • "Memorial Verses," p. 1482
  • "Dover Beach," p. 1492
Christina Rosetti
  • "In an Artist's Studio," p. 1586
  • "An Apple-Gathering," p. 1587
  • "Goblin Market," p. 1589 (the whole thing)
  • "No, Thank You, John," p. 1601
Deadline: Critical Response #2
. Thu 7 Mar Oscar Wilde 
  • The Importance of Being Earnest, p. 1761
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 Tue 12 Mar Bernard Shaw
  • Mrs. Warren's Profession, p. 1810
. Thu 14 Mar Midterm Exam
Deadline: Card Report #1
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 Tue 19 Mar The Twentieth Century, pp. 1897-1915
. Thu 21 Mar Thomas Hardy
. Fri 22 Mar Last day to drop with a “W”
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Thu 28 Mar		 No Class: Spring Break
. April .
11
 Tue 2 Apr Joseph Conrad 
The Heart of Darkness
. Thu 4 Apr Twentieth Century Issue: The rise and fall of the empire, pp. 2017-40
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 Tue 9 Apr Voices from WWI
Deadline: Critical Response #3
. Thu 11 Apr William Butler Yeats
13
 Tue 16 Apr Virginia Woolf
. Thu 18 Apr D.H. Lawrence
14
 Tue 23 Apr James Joyce
. Thu 25 Apr Katherine Mansfield
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 Tue 30 Apr Voices from WWII
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 May .
. Thu 2 May Stevie Smith
George Orwell
Deadline: Term Paper
16
 Tue 7 May W. H. Auden
Dylan Thomas
Deadline: Critical Response #4
. Thu 9 May Samuel Becket
17
 Tue 14 May Chinua Achebe 
Ted Hughes 
. Thu 16 May Alice Munro 
Tom Stoppard
Deadline: Card Report #1
Finals
 Thu 23 May Deadline: Self-evaluation (and Critical Response #5) 
Final Exam special time: 8:00 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.
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