Fall Semester 2006
Eng 222 Survey of English Literature: Blake to Beckett
Professor Gregory Castle MWF 10:40-11:30 LL 2
E-mail: Office: LL 202A; Ph. 965-0856
Off. Hrs: MW 11:30-12:30, W 3-5 & by appt.
Teaching Assistants
Shillana Sanchez Stacey Jackson Jeremy Eisenberg
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Rm. LL 150 Rm. LL 102 Rm. LL 148
Office: LL 343 Office: LL 349 Office: LL 349
Off. Hrs: 11:30-1:30 MW Off. Hrs. 11:30-12:30 MW Off. Hrs. TTh 1-3
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Course Description
This course is designed to familiarize students with the major works and the major genres (lyric poetry, the essay, the novel, drama, the short story) of the Romantic, the Victorian and the Modern periods. The large lecture format combines two pedagogical styles: lecture and discussion. The main emphasis of the lecture portion, Monday and Wednesday sessions, will be to create a social historical context for the literary works on the syllabus. While there will be significant time spent on literary interpretation and/or explanation, not every work on the syllabus will be considered in the same detail during lecture. Discussion sections on Friday typically serve two functions: to continue discussion of material in lecture and to look closely at new literary works. Discussion sections provide an opportunity for greater levels of interaction between students and instructors; it is important to regard these sections as an integral part of the course. We urge all students to keep up with the reading as it is listed in the itinerary below. Because this course is designed primarily as an introductory sequence that prepares English majors for more in-depth study later on, it is advisable to have had at least English 200 or its equivalent as a preparatory course.
Required Texts
M.H. Abrams, et al., Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 2, 8th ed.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Norton Critical Edition) (NCE)
The ASU Department of English Guide to Style (available at the Hayden library copy center)
Reserve and Reference Texts (at Hayden Library)
M. H. Abrams, Glossary of Literary Terms, 6th ed. (ref)
William Harmon and C. Hugh Holman, A Handbook to Literature (7th ed.) (ref)
Ross Murfin and Supryia Ray, Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
Ronald Carter and John McRae, The Routledge History of Literature in English (res)
Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (res)
Robert Adams, The Land and Literature of England (res)
Paul Fussell, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (res)
Websites: Literature and History
Literary Periods http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/periods/index.htm
Cambridge History of Literature http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
British Empire Studies http://pages.britishlibrary.net/empirehist/
CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts (Irish history, literature and politics) http://www.ucc.ie/celt/index.html
Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org
Romantic Circles http://www.rc.umd.edu/
Romanticism Links http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/romantic.html
Rossetti Archive http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/ history.htm
Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/
The Bloomsbury Group http://therem.net/bloom.htm
Modernism http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/dfgm/mlinks.htm
Modernism & Postmodernism http://www2.eou.edu/~nknowles/winter2002/engl322links.html
20th Century American and British Literature http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Modernists.htm
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Papers. All students will be asked to write two papers. The first paper (5pp., approx. 1700 words) will be devoted to Dickens’s Great Expectations, and will entail the use of critical essays published in the Norton Critical Edition; a thesis paragraph (approx. 200 words), with annotated bibliography, will be due in week 7. The first paper is due Monday, October 16. The second paper (7pp., approx. 2400 words) will be open to more topics and will also entail the use of critical sources; a one-page abstract (approx. 350 words), with annotated bibliography, will be due in Week 13. The second paper is due Monday, December 4. Further information will be made available with paper topics. The first paper is worth 20% of the final grade, the second paper is worth 30% (a 5% penalty will be levied in the event that a student fails to turn in either one of the paper abstracts on time). For these papers, you will be asked to follow the guidelines for formatting and citation given in the ASU Department of English Guide to Style. Students will be asked to submit a hard copy of all papers to their TA and also to submit them through SafeAssignment (via Blackboard). Late papers will be docked one-third letter grade per calendar day (including weekends); after 5 calendar days (including weekends) they will not be accepted.
Examinations. All students will be asked to write one mid-term and one final examination. All exams are closed-book. There will be no make-up examinations. The midterm examination will account for 20% of your final grade, the final examination for 30%.
Attendance. Attendance is mandatory. Students are allowed 2 unexcused absences from lecture and one unexcused absence from section; absences in excess of this number can lead to grade reductions of up to one full letter grade. Excessive absence (e.g., 20% of class time) can lead to a failing grade. Excused absences will be considered only on a case-by-case basis. Habitual tardiness can produce the same effects on your grade as unexcused absence.
Caveat Emptor. A definition of plagiarism can be found in the ASU Department of English Guide to Style. If you have any questions, see the instructor or your T.A. Disciplinary action can range from a failing grade to suspension from the University.
Nota Bene. No tape recording for any reason (without prior permission) or notetaking for off-campus companies allowed in this course.
University Deadlines
Late Registration and Drop/Add Aug 25
Course Withdrawal Deadline (in person) Oct. 27
Course Withdrawal Deadline (ASU Interactive & Sun Dial) Oct 29
Complete Withdrawal Deadline Dec 5
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SCHEDULE OF READINGS
Please read all headnotes, time lines and period introductions. Page numbers are to the Norton Anthology (8th ed.)
Week One Diabolical Discourse
Mon. 8/21 Course Introduction.
Wed. 8/23 Introduction to Romanticism (1-23).
Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell (111-20)
Fri. 8/25 Blake, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (81-97)
Week Two The Language of Nature
Mon. 8/28 Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (262-74), “Simon Lee” (245-8)
“Lines Written in Early Spring,” “Expostulation and Reply,” “The Tables
Turned” (250-2)
Wed. 8/30 “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” (258-62)
Fri. 9/1 Smith, from Elegiac Sonnets (40-2)
Week Three Cold Pastoral
Mon. 9/4 Labor Day
Wed. 9/6 Coleridge, “Eolian Harp” (426-8); “Frost at Midnight” (464-6)
Fri. 9/8 Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (903-6)
Letters (942-52)
Week Four The Viewless Wings of Poesy
Mon. 9/11 Shelley, A Defence of Poetry (837-50); “Mont Blanc” (772-5)
Wed. 9/13 Shelley, “Stanzas Written in Dejection,” “A Song: ‘Men of England,’”
“England in 1819,” “To Sidmouth and Castlereagh” (769-72)
Fri. 9/15 Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” (166-92)
Barbauld, “The Rights of Woman” (35-6)
Barbauld, “To a Lady with Some Painted Flowers” (www.rc.umd.edu/editions/contemps/barbauld/poems1773/painted_flowers.html)
Week Five Laborare est Orare
Mon. 9/18 Introduction to the Victorian Period (979-99)
Carlyle, from Sartor Resartus (1006-24)
Wed. 9/20 Carlyle, from Past and Present (1024-33)
Mill, from On Liberty (1051-60)
Fri. 9/22 Mill, “Subjection of Women” (1060-70)
“The Woman Question” (1581-3); Ellis (1584-6, Patmore (1586-7),
Martineau (1589-92), Nightingale (1598-1601), Caird (1601-5)
Week Six Heroes, Fairies, Painters, Bishops & Sad-Eyed Poets
Mon. 9/25 Tennyson, “The Lotus Eaters,” “UIysses” (1119-25)
Wed. 9/27 Browning, “The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church”
(1259-62) “Fra Lippo Lippi” (1271-80)
Fri. 9/29 C. Rossetti, “Goblin Market” (1466-78)
Week Seven Bildung für Ehrenmänner
Mon. 10/2 Dickens, Great Expectations (chaps i-xix)
Brooks, “Repetition, Repression and Return” (679-89, Dickens NCE)
Wed. 10/4 Dickens, Great Expectations (chaps xx-xxxix)
Walsh, “Bodies of Capital” (709-20, Dickens NCE)
Fri. 10/6 Dickens, Great Expectations (chaps xl-lix)
One or two essays: Ginsburg, Raphael, Walsh (see Norton Dickens)
Abstract for paper one due Fri., Oct. 6
Week Eight The Uses and Uselessness of Art
Mon. 10/9 Midterm Examination
Wed. 10/11 Arnold, “Function of Criticism” (1384-97)
Pater, from The Renaissance (1507-13)
Wilde, “The Critic as Artist” and (1689-97)
Fri. 10/13 Wilde, Preface, Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest (1697-40)
Week Nine “To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not to Yield”
Mon. 10/16 Introduction to Twentieth Century (1827-47)
Empire and National Identity: Macaulay (1610-12), Froud (1621-23),
Chamberlain (1630-2), Hobson (1632-4)
Conrad, The Heart of Darkness (1890-1912)
First paper due Monday, Oct. 16
Wed. 10/18 Conrad, The Heart of Darkness (1912-47)
Fri. 10/20 Conrad, The Heart of Darkness (1912-47)
Achebe, “An Image from Africa” (2709-14)
Week Ten From Starlit Stonehenge to the Dim Sea
Mon. 10/23 Hardy, “Hap” (1868-9), “The Darkling Thrush” (1871), “Channel Firing”
(1877-8), “The Walk” (1881); Thomas, “Adlestrop (1956-7)
Wed. 10/25 Yeats, “The Stolen Child” (2022-23), “Lake Isle of Innisfree” (2025),
“Who Goes with Fergus” (2026), “Easter 1916” (2031-3)
Anon., Proclamation of an Irish Republic (1618-19)
Fri. 10/27 Owen, “Dulce Et Decorum Est” (2069-70)
Sassoon, “The Rear-Guard,” “The General,” “Glory of Women” (1961-2)
Week Eleven “Why then Ile fit you”
Mon. 10/30 Modernist Manifestos (1996-2019)
Eliot, “Tradition and Individual Talent” (2319-25)
The Waste Land (2295-2308)
Wed. 11/1 The Waste Land (2295-2308)
Fri. 11/3 The Waste Land (2295-2308)
Week Twelve Terrible Beauties
Mon. 11/6 Yeats, “Second Coming” (2036-7), “Leda and the Swan” (2039), “Sailing
to Byzantium” (2040)
Wed. 11/8 Yeats, “Prayer for my Daughter” (2037-9), “Among School Children”
(2041-2)
Fri. 11/10 Veteran’s Day
Week Thirteen The Triumph and the Jingle and the Strange High Singing
Mon. 11/13 Woolf, “Modern Fiction” (2087-92)
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Wed. 11/15 Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Fri. 11/17 Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Week Fourteen Ineluctable Modalities
Mon. 11/20 Joyce, “Araby” and “The Dead” (2168-99)
Wed. 11/22 Joyce, from Ulysses, “Proteus” (2200-13)
Abstract for second paper due Wed., Nov. 22
Fri. 11/24 Class excused for Thanksgiving weekend
Week Fifteen Hell in a Handbasket
Mon. 11/27 Auden, “Lullaby” (2423-4), “Musée des Beaux Arts” (2428-9), “Spain”
(2424-7)
Wed. 11/29 Auden, “September 1, 1939” (2432-4)
Larkin, “Church Going” (2566-8), “Aubade” (2573-4)
Fri. 12/1 Seamus Heaney, “ Digging,” “Punishment,” “Casualty” (2834-30)
Eavan Boland, “That the Science of Cartography is Limited,” “Dolls
Museum in Dublin” (2849-51)
Paul Muldoon, “Meeting the British,” “Gathering Mushrooms” (2869-71)
Week Sixteen Happy Days!
Mon. 12/4 Beckett, Endgame (2394-2420)
Second paper due, Monday, Dec.4
Wed. 12/6 Reading Day