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9/22

What is Literary History?

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9/27

Dryden, “MacFlecknoe” (A.903-909); Behn, Oroonoko (A.918-963)

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9/29

Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (A.969-1012, 1067-1113)

Response #1 Due

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10/4

Pope, “The Rape of the Lock” (A.1134-1153)

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10/6

Johnson, from The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (A.1207-1241), “Rambler No. 60” (A.1246-1248); Hogarth, “Marriage a la Mode” (A.1190-1196)

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10/11

Wordsworth, selections (B.1427-1431), “The Ruined Cottage” (B.1453-1464), “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (B.1478)

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10/13

Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” (B.1432-1435); Coleridge, “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” (B.1578-1580), “Kubla Khan” (B.1596-1598)

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10/18

Blake, from Songs of Innocence: “The Lamb” (B.1351), “The Chimney Sweeper” (B.1352), “Holy Thursday” (B.1353); from Songs of Experience: “The Tyger” (B.1359-1360), “London” (B.1361-1362)

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10/20

Byron, from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto III [Waterloo, Lightning Storm, Farewell] (B.1651-1658)

Draft of 1^st Paper Due

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10/25

Shelley, “Ozymandias” (B.1719-1720), “England in 1819” (B.1721), “Ode to the West Wind” (B.1723-1725); Keats, “When I have fears that I may cease to be” (B.1803), “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (B.1820-1822)

Revision of 1^st Paper Due

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10/27

MIDTERM

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11/1

Carlyle, “[Captains of Industry]” (B.1888-1892);  
Eliot, Silas Marner (first five chapters or so)

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11/3

Eliot, Silas Marner

Response #2 Due

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11/8

Browning, “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” (B.2026-2028), “My Last Duchess” (B.2028-2030); Tennyson, “Ulysses” (B.1929-1931), selection from Idylls of the King (B.1994-2005)

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11/10

C. Rosetti, “Goblin Market” (B.2140-2152)

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11/15

Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (B.2176-2177), The Importance of Being Earnest (B.2177-2221)

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11/17

To be announced

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11/22

Joyce, “The Dead” (B.2496-2524); Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (B.2607-2611)

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11/24

Thanksgiving Holiday

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11/29

Pinter, The Servant (film)

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12/1

Endings

Revision of 2^nd Paper Due

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12/8

FINAL
1:30 PM-4:00 PM