English 206: Syllabus & Texts

Texts:

• The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume 2. 6th edition.
• One novel (see list on Assignments page)

Note: where the assignments below do not specify works or page numbers, precise reading assignments will be given in class. If you miss class (which I DON'T encourage) you can email me to get the assignment or depend on your classmates (or read everything!).

Syllabus: Spring Term 1999

March 30 Course introduction
April 1 Victorian background 891-99; Carlyle, Portraits [Victoria & Tennyson], Past and Present

April 6 Mill, The Subjection of Women; "The Woman Question" 1595-1611
April 8 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning

April 13 Tennyson
April 15 NO CLASS - Do short paper assignment(s)

April 20 Tennyson, Morris ***PAPER DUE
April 22 Victorian background 899-910; G. Eliot

April 27 Arnold, Huxley, misc. poetry
April 29 MIDTERM EXAM ****Bring novel to class

May 4 Wilde or Shaw [TBA]
May 6 Wilde or Shaw [TBA]

May 11 Shaw or Conrad [TBA]; Twentieth century background ***PAPER DUE
May 13 Shaw or Conrad [TBA]

May 18 World War I poetry
May 20 Yeats, misc. poetry

May 25 Woolf
May 27 T.S. Eliot

June 1 Dylan Thomas, Lessing ***PAPER DUE
June 3 Beckett or Pinter or Stoppard [TBA]

Final: Thursday, June 10th, at 8 a.m. PLAN TO STAY!!