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Fall 2009 English 209: British Lit 1800 to Present

Preliminary Reading and Writing Calendar

Sept 21 Sept 22 Sept 23 Sept 24 Sept 25
Introduction and reasons for writing; literary biography What is X? What does X do? What does X mean? What is X? (continued) Historical overview Romanticism Lecture
Sept 28 Sept 29 Sept 30 Oct 1 Oct 2
Blake, from Songs of Innocence: Introduction (78), The Lamb (79), The Little Black Boy (80), Chimney Sweeper (81), Holy Thursday (82) Blake, from Songs of Experience: Introduction (85), Holy Thursday (88), Chimney Sweeper (89), London (91), the Tyger (88) Blake "illumination" project Illumination project presentation Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey (202)
Oct 5 Oct 6 Oct 7 Oct 8 Oct 9
Wordsworth: World is Too Much With Us (234), Composed Upon West Minster Bridge (234), London, 1802 (235). Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner (326)

 Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (152) Vindication and It's Time--as assigned. book club formation day
Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16
Shelley: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (397), Ode to the West Wind (399) Keats: On Seeing Elgin Marbles (425), Sonnet: When I have Fears (425), Ode on Melancholy (442) Essay One Assignment and Expectations Gaskell: Our Society at Cranford  (691)  Doyle: A Scandal in Bohemia (706)
Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23
Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
 Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest Darwin: On the Origin of Species (627) and Perspectives on Religion and Science as assigned (632+)
 Writing and Research Day--Confernece in my office for those who so desire (5-157) Essay One Draft for evaluation
Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct 29 Oct 30
Seminar 1.1 101 Portfolio Readings; Book Club Work Day Seminar 1.2 Essay One due for grading Romanticism Exam
Nov 2 Nov 3 Nov 4 Nov 5 Nov 6
Perspectives: The Great War--Brooke, Sassoon, Owen, Rosenberg. (1096-1106)
 Yeats: Easter, 1916 (1119), Proclamation (1121), The Second Coming (1122) Hardy: Hap (1073), Wessex Heights (1073), Convergence of the Twain (1076), Channel Firing (1077) Book Club Work Day Midterm Book Club Presentations
Nov 9 Nov 10 Nov 11 Nov 12 Nov 13
Joyce: The Dead (1138) Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1194), Tradition and the Individual Talent (1216) Veteran's Day Holiday Independent Research and Writing; no class meeting. Book Club Work Day
Nov 16 Nov 17 Nov 18 Nov 19 Nov 20
Woolf: from A Room of One's Own (1228-1244)
 Lawrence: Odour of Chrysanthemums (1318)
 Essay Two draft due for grading evaluation
 NCTE in Philly; Book Club Work Day NCTE in Philly; Book Club Work Day
Nov 23 Nov 25 Nov 26 Nov 27 Nov 28
Seminar Two. Full Class Discussion. Essay Two due for grading Faculty Furlough Day; No Class Thanksgiving Holiday Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov 30 Dec 1 Dec 2 Dec 3 Dec 4
Book Club Prep day Book Club Presentation: Woman Who Walked into Doors Book Club Presentation: White Tiger Book Club Presentation: Pride and Prejudice Book Club Presentation: Our Mutual Friend
Dec 7 Dec 8 Dec 9 Dec 10 Dec 11
Dead Day: No classes Finals Final: 8:30-10:30 a.m. Finals Term Over!
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