English 241 – Restoration & 18th-Century Literature
Winter Term 2010
Instructors:
11 January-17 February
Christopher Fanning
Office: 536 Watson
Office Hours: by appointment only
Phone: 613-533-6000 x74440
Email: [email protected]
1 March-7 April
Breanne Oryschak
Office: 421 Watson Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday 10:30-12:30 or
by appointment
Phone: 533-6000 x74407
Email: [email protected]
Course Webpage: http://post.queensu.ca/~cjf1/ENGL241.html
Required Texts for Winter term (please use these editions and bring them to class with
you):
Damrosch, The Longman Anthology of British Literature Volume 1C: The Restoration
and the Eighteenth Century 4th Edition (Longman)
Fairer, Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology 2nd Edition (Blackwell)
Richardson, Pamela (Oxford) [Winter Term]
Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (Oxford) [Winter Term]
Various photocopies to be distributed in class
Requirements for Winter term:
2 short essays (1000 words each), due 10 February and 22 March
In-class Midterm, 17 February
Quizzes [Fall/Winter]
Final exam (covering Fall term and Winter term 1 March-7 April)
30%
10%
10%
30%
Students are expected to attend classes regularly and to keep up with the assigned
readings. All students are strongly encouraged to take part in class discussion. Essays are
due at the beginning of class on the due date, and no electronic submissions will be
accepted. Late essays will lose 2% per day (including weekends), dated to the time of
receipt. No essays will be accepted after two weeks; a grade of zero will be assigned in
such cases. Late papers may forfeit the right to full commentary. If you are affected by
unforeseen circumstances (such as ill health) you must document these circumstances.
Extensions are not normally granted. For all matters pertaining to essays, consult your
TA well in advance of the due date.
Please also see the Department of English Statement on Academic Integrity,
attached to the fall syllabus.
A New Aesthetic: Poetry of Nature / Poetry of the Imagination
This unit of the course will survey developments in poetry from 1709-1783 that diverge
from the dominant Neoclassical tradition represented by Dryden, Pope and Swift.
SCHEDULE OF READINGS
B = Blackwell; L = Longman
M
11
Jan:
Anne
Finch,
“The
Spleen”
(B
22),
“A
Nocturnal
Reverie”
(B
33),
“To
the
Nightingale”
(B
35);
[Background
reading
on
Neoclassical
ideas
about
“Nature”:
Alexander
Pope,
“An
Essay
on
Criticism,”
lines
1‐200
(L
2602),
“Windsor‐Forest,”
lines
1‐288
(B
102)]
W
13
Jan:
Joseph
Addison,
from
“The
Pleasures
of
the
Imagination”
(The
Spectator,
Nos.
411‐14,
416,
418)
(Handout)
M
18
Jan:
James
Thomson,
from
“Winter.
A
Poem,”
lines
1‐103,
253‐300
(L
2826);
“Spring,”
lines
1‐630
(B
212)
W
20
Jan:
Duck, The Thresher's Labour (B 260); Collier, The Woman's Labour: An
Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck (B 268)
M
25
Jan: Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (B 354)
W
27
Jan: Joseph Warton, “The Enthusiast: Or The Lover of Nature” (B 383), “Ode to
Evening” (B 390); Thomas Warton, “The Pleasures of Melancholy” (B 392)
M
1
Feb: William Collins, “Ode on the Poetical Character” (B 369), “Ode to Evening” (B
372), “Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Thomson” (L 2840)
W
3
Feb: Thomas Gray, “The Progress of Poesy” (B 358), “The Bard” (B 363); James
Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry, 7 and 8 (B 448)
M
8
Feb: Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village” (B 459)
W
10
Feb: Crabbe, The Village, Book I (B 470). ESSAY (1000 words) DUE AT THE
BEGINNING OF CLASS.
M
15
Feb:
FAMILY
DAY—NO
CLASS
W
17
Feb:
MIDTERM
IN­CLASS
EXAM
22‐27
Feb:
READING
WEEK
2
Novel Ideas: Constructing Genius, Class, and Values
March 1 (M) – Edward Young, “Conjectures on Original Composition” (Handout); Johnson,
From The Life of Pope, Lives of the Poets and Rambler No. 4 [On Fiction] (Longman)
March 3 (W) – Richardson, Pamela (Oxford)
March 8 (M) – Pamela cont’d
March 10 (W) – Pamela cont’d
March 15 (M) – Pamela’s Legacy: Fielding, From Shamela; and Burney, From Evelina
(Longman)
March 17 (W) – Mary Leapor "Crumble Hall", "Man the Monarch," and “An Epistle to a Lady”
(Blackwell)
March 22 (M) – Johnson, From Preface The Plays of Shakespeare (Longman); From The Life of
Milton, Lives of the Poets; and From Preface A Dictionary of the English Language and
some Entries (Longman). ESSAY (1000 words) DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF
CLASS.
March 24 (W) – Johnson, “Vanity of Human Wishes” (Longman)
March 29 (M) – Sterne, A Sentimental Journey, Vol. 1 (Oxford)
March 31 (W) – Sterne, A Sentimental Journey, Vol. 2
April 5 (M) – Sheridan, The School for Scandal (Longman)
April 7 (W) – REVIEW
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