Schedule

Please note that most of the texts assigned for the first three class meetings can be found in the Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A. If the text is identified as "online only", use the hyperlink below to view the text. (Two lengthy readings for 10/8, "The Brothers" and "The Waggoner", are only available online.)

Date	Reading	Notes
9/24	Romantic Poetry: Wordsworth and the Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth, “Simon Lee”, “Anecdote for Fathers”, “We are seven”, “Lines written in early spring”, “The Thorn”, “Expostulation and Reply”, “The Tables Turned”, “Old Man Traveling”, “Animal Tranquility and Decay” (1800)” (online only), “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Chapter 14 from Biographia Literaria”
10/1	Romantic Poetry: Byronic Romanticism Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner George Gordon, Lord Byron, Manfred Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ode to the West Wind” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Chapter 17 from Biographia Literaria”	Short Paper (2 pages) Due
10/8	Romantic Poetry: Wordsworthian Realism William Wordsworth, “There was a boy”, “The Brothers” (online only), “Three years she grew in sun and shower”, “It was an April morning” (online only), “There is an eminence” (online only), “A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags” (online only), “Michael”, “The Waggoner” (online only)
10/15	Gothic Critique: Austen, Northanger Abbey
10/22	Gothic Realism: Brontë, Jane Eyre	First Paper Due
10/29	Jane Eyre and Esther Summerson Finish Jane Eyre Dickens, Bleak House (chapters 1-10)
11/5	Gothic and Real: Dickens, Bleak House (chapters 11-38)	Short Paper (2 pages) Due
11/12	Gothic and Real: Dickens, Bleak House (chapters 39-67)
11/19	Comic Realism: Gaskell, Cranford
11/26	Wordsworthian Realism: Eliot, "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton" (pdf)
12/3	No Class Meeting	Second Paper Due in my office or in my mailbox by 6pm
12/5		Take-home Final Due in my office or in my mailbox by noon; or by email