Course
Syllabus--Fall 2006
Eng 241: Survey of the Literature of England
Professor: D. F.
Felluga
Office Hours: M, W, F 1:30-2:20
HEAV 430; telephone: 43770
E-mail: felluga@purdue.edu
Classes:
241 = M, W, F 12:30-1:20; HEAV 101
241H = M, W, F 2:30-3:20; HEAV 101
Required Texts (at University Bookstore):
Norton Anthology of British Literature
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (packaged with the Norton Anthology)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Dover Edition)
Course Description
Can poetry survive in our modern age? What are the generic parameters of poetry as a form of expression? What debt do we owe to the poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? In the course of responding to such questions, this class will come to understand the development of literature through the last two centuries. The class will also seek to understand and appreciate three novels and a novella; the emphasis, however, will be on poetry: in fact, the prose works are in many ways about the ideals of Romantic poetry.
In this web site, you'll find a number of things that will aid you through this course, including chronologies, a sample 'A' paper, and a course Web page that includes definitions of terms that we will discuss over the course of the semester. The Guide to Terms can be found at the following URL :
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/eng241/guide241.html
WEEK ONE:
whatever is, is right
Monday, August 21
- William Blake, "The Tyger"; Alexander Pope, "Essay on Man" (Epistle 1, lines 233-94)
Wednesday, August 23
- Introduction to Blake in Norton
- William Blake, "London"
Friday, August 25
- Introduction to Wordsworth in Norton
- William Wordsworth, "Composed on Westminster Bridge"
- William Wordsworth, "London, 1802"
- William Wordsworth, "The world is too much with us"
- William Wordsworth, "Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways"
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
WEEK TWO:
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting
Monday, August 28
- William Wordsworth, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
- William Wordsworth, "Strange fits of passion"
- William Wordsworth, "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
- William Wordsworth, "Three years she grew"
- William Wordsworth, "A slumber did my spirit seal"
- William Wordsworth, "I travelled among unknown men"
- William Wordsworth, "Lucy Gray"
Wednesday, August 30
- William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
Friday, September 1: Class Canceled in favor of silent film (8 p.m., Long Center)
WEEK THREE:
Beware! Beware! / His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Monday, September 4: Labor Day
Wednesday, September 6
- Introduction to Coleridge in Norton
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Eolian Harp"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight"
Friday, September 8
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Kahn"; The Statesman's Manual (The Satanic Hero)
WEEK FOUR:
Thou has a voice, great Mountain, to repeal/Large codes of fraud and woe
Monday, September 11
- Introduction to Byron in Norton
- Lord Byron, Manfred
Wednesday, September 13
- Introduction to P. B. Shelley in Norton
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mont Blanc"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"
Friday, September 15
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To Wordsworth"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "England in 1819"
WEEK FIVE:
feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes
Monday, September 18
- Introduction to Keats in Norton
- John Keats, "When I have fears that I may cease to be"
- John Keats, "Why did I laugh tonight?"
- John Keats, "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art"
Wednesday, September 20
- John Keats, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
- John Keats, "Sonnet to Sleep"
- John Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes "
Friday, September 22
- John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"
- John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
- John Keats, "Ode on Melancholy"
WEEK SIX:
I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper
Monday, September 25
- Introduction to the gothic (Norton 577-79)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Preface vii-xii)
- Mary Shelley's 1831 introduction to Frankenstein
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Preface and Volume 1
Wednesday, September 27
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume II
Friday, September 29
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume III
WEEK SEVEN:
I am Heathcliff!
Monday, October 2
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Wednesday, October 4
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Friday, October 6
NOTE: FIRST ESSAY DUE
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
WEEK EIGHT:
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
Monday, October 9: October Break
Wednesday, October 11
- Class Canceled in favor of a September visit to the Frankenstein exhibit in HIKS
Friday, October 13
- Mid-Term Exam (in-class)
- be sure to purchase and bring exam booklets
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
WEEK NINE:
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
Monday, October 16
- Introduction to Tennyson in Norton
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Lady of Shalott"
Wednesday, October 18
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Lotus-Eaters"
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Mariana"
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"
Friday, October 20
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Coming of Arthur"
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Passing of Arthur"
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
WEEK TEN:
This world's no blot for us
Monday, October 23
- Introduction to R. Browning
- Robert Browning, "Porphyria's Lover"
- Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
Wednesday, October 25
- Robert Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi"
- Robert Browning, "Andrea Del Sarto"
Friday, October 27
- Robert Browning, "'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'"
WEEK ELEVEN:
this is living art
Monday, October 30
- Introduction to E. B. Browning in Norton
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "To George Sand: A Desire"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "To George Sand: A Recognition"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
Wednesday, November 1
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
Friday, November 3
- Introduction to Hopkins in Norton
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God's Grandeur"
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring"
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Windhover"
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Carrion Comfort"
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, "No Worst, There Is None"
WEEK TWELVE:
A sonnet is a moment's monument
Monday, November 6
- Introduction to D. G. Rossetti in Norton
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life
Wednesday, November 8
- Introduction to C. Rossetti in Norton
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Blessed Damozel"
- Christina Rossetti, "In an Artist's Studio"
Friday, November 10
- Christina Rossetti, "Dead Before Death"
- Christina Rossetti, "Cobwebs"
- Christina Rossetti, "Winter: My Secret"
- Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
WEEK THIRTEEN:
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold
Monday, November 13
- Introduction to Yeats in Norton
- William Butler Yeats, "No Second Troy"
- William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan"
- Poems in Progress: "Leda and the Swan"
Wednesday, November 15
- William Butler Yeats, "The Stolen Child"
- William Butler Yeats, "Easter 1916"
- William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"
- William Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium"
Friday, November 17
NOTE: SECOND ESSAY DUE
- William Butler Yeats, "A Dialogue of Self and Soul"
- William Butler Yeats, "Byzantium"
- William Butler Yeats, "Lapis Lazuli"
- William Butler Yeats, "The Circus Animals' Desertion"
WEEK FOURTEEN: THANKSGIVING BREAK (November 20-24; class canceled November 20)
We have had enough of action, and of motion we
WEEK FIFTEEN:
"the changes take place inside, you know"
Monday, November 27
NOTE: SECOND ESSAY DUE
- Introduction to Conrad in Norton
- Modernist Manifestos (Norton 1996-2019)
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1st Section
Wednesday, November 29
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 2nd Section)
Friday, December 1
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 3rd Section
WEEK SIXTEEN:
One could almost write a whole chapter on [Okonkwo]. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph at any rate
Monday, December 4
- Introduction to Achebe in Norton
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Wednesday, December 6
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Friday, December 8
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Course Policies
Guide to Terms
Introductory Guide to Critical
Theory
Last Revised: November 7, 2006
Paintings courtesy of
Carol L.
Gerten
Morris prints courtesy of
The William Morris
Gallery