English Literature 1 – SEMESTER 2
Session 2016/2017
MODULE TWO: ‘Literature and the literary: c. 1300-1700’
 the Norton Anthology of English Literature (“NEL”)

Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets
(“RWP”)
 the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (“NTC”)
Please note change of lecture hall for Semester 2.
TUESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
12.10-1.00 pm
12.10-1.00 pm
12.10-1.00 pm
Lecture Theatre 5
Appleton Tower
Lecture Theatre 5
Appleton Tower
Lecture Theatre 5
Appleton Tower
WEEK
for Eng Lit 1 only
for Eng Lit 1 only
for Eng Lit 1 only
1
Jan 17th
Jan 19th
Jan 20th
INTRODUCTION
Periodicity: Medieval
Ideas of the Literary.
Lyric Poetry.
Medieval Ideas of the
Literary:
Fable, Romance, Meditation.
MEDIEVAL
Authors, Readers, Rhetoric.
NEL, 349-354, and extra
lyric handout on Learn
Dr Sarah Carpenter
Dr Kate Ash Irisarri
th
th
2
Jan 24
Jan 26
MEDIEVAL
Chaucer,
Chaucer,
“The Miller's Tale.”
“The Knight's Tale.”
Henryson, “The Cok and the
Fox.” NEL, 501-507;
“Prologue” to the Moral
Fables on Learn
Dr Sarah Carpenter
Jan 27th
Julian of Norwich
and Margery Kempe
NEL 412-38.
NEL, 264-80.
http://www.librarius.com/
canttran/knighttrfs.htm
Dr Kate Ash Irisarri
Dr David Salter
Dr David Salter
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TUESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
12.10-1.00 pm
12.10-1.00 pm
12.10-1.00 pm
Lecture Theatre 5
Appleton Tower
Lecture Theatre 5
Appleton Tower
Lecture Theatre 5
Appleton Tower
WEEK
for Eng Lit 1 only
for Eng Lit 1 only
for Eng Lit 1 only
3
Jan 30th
Feb 2nd
Feb 3rd
MEDIEVAL
Modes of performance:
Medieval Mystery Cycles
Dramatic genres:
Everyman
Dramatic genres:
York Crucifixion
Dr Nicola McCartney
NEL, 507-29.
NEL, 439-447.
Dr Kate Ash Irisarri
Dr Sarah Carpenter
Feb 9th
Feb 10th
More: Utopia,
Shakespeare and the
Renaissance Sonnet.
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Feb 7th
RENAISSANCE Periodicity: Renaissance Ideas
of the Literary.
The Sidneys
NEL, 1046-52; 1074-83; 10845; 1562-6; 1570-1; RWP, 47-53
NEL, 572-645.
Dr Dermot Cavanagh
NEL, 1170-86.
Professor James Loxley
Dr Suzanne Trill
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Feb 14th
Feb 16th
Feb 17th
RENAISSANCE
Lyric Poetry 1:
Love and Politics
Lyric Poetry 2:
Devotional Poetry
Spenser, The Faerie
Queene,
John Donne,
Mary Sidney, Psalms,
RWP; Amelia Lanyer,
Salve Deus Rex
Judaeorum, RWP;
George Herbert, The
Temple. NEL, 1705-13.
Book 1, Canto 1.
Songs and Sonnets.
NEL, 1370-92.
NEL, 781-795.
Dr Dermot Cavanagh
Professor James Loxley
Dr Suzanne Trill
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READING
English Literature 1: Semester 2
WEEK
FEBRUARY 20th – 24th
2
TUESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
12.10-1.00 pm
12.10-1.00 pm
12.10-1.00 pm
Lecture Theatre 5
Appleton Tower
Lecture Theatre 5
Appleton Tower
Lecture Theatre 5
Appleton Tower
WEEK
for Eng Lit 1 only
for Eng Lit 1 only
for Eng Lit 1 only
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Feb 28th
Mar 2nd
Mar 3rd
Tragedy:
Comedy:
Marlowe, Dr Faustus.
Shakespeare,
Twelfth Night.
RENAISSANCE
Modes of Performance:
The Renaissance Stage.
NEL, 1128-63.
NEL, 1187-1250.
Dr Dermot Cavanagh
Dr Suzanne Trill
Dr Suzanne Trill
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March 7th
March 9th
March 10th
CIVIL WAR
The Civil Wars:
Politics, Religion and
Literature.
Cavalier Poetry.
Civil War Prose:
NEL, 1757-82.
Andrew Marvell, “The Nymph
Complaining for the Death of
Her Faun” and “An Horatian
Ode on Cromwell's Return
from Ireland.”
Dr Dermot Cavanagh
“Killing the King,” NEL
online; Lucy Hutchinson and
Anne, Lady Halkett, Memoirs
NEL, 1868-71; 1875-8.
Dr Suzanne Trill
NEL, 1794-96; 1806-11.
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Professor James Loxley
March 14th
RESTORATION Periodicity: Restoration Ideas
of the Literary
Dryden, NEL, 2210-59; NTC,
383-8; Behn, NTC, 391-5.
March 16th
March 17th
Milton, Paradise Lost 1
Milton, Paradise Lost 2
Professor James Loxley
Professor James Loxley
Dr Simon Malpas
English Literature 1: Semester 2
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TUESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
12.10-1.00 pm
12.10-1.00 pm
12.10-1.00 pm
Lecture Theatre 5
Appleton Tower
Lecture Theatre 5
Appleton Tower
Lecture Theatre 5
Appleton Tower
WEEK
for Eng Lit 1 only
for Eng Lit 1 only
for Eng Lit 1 only
10
March 21st
March 23rd
March 24th
RESTORATION
Love Poetry &
Libertine Verse
Female Wits:
Modes of Performance:
The Restoration Stage
Theatre and
Performance after
1660
Aphra Behn, “The
Marvell, “To His Coy
Disappointment,” NEL
Mistress,” Richard Lovelace 2310-13, Anne Killigrew,
“Love Made in the First Age,”
& Katherine Philips
& Rochester, “The Imperfect
(Online resources).
Enjoyment.”
Dr Suzanne Trill
NEL,
1796-7; 1782-3; 2298-300.
Dryden; Corneille,
NTC, 283-304; Behn, NTC,
305-15.
Dr Simon Malpas
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Professor James Loxley
March 28th
March 30th
March 31st
RESTORATION
Dramatic genres:
Dramatic genres:
Fiction and Narration:
Restoration Prose
Aphra Behn, The Rover.
Congreve, The Way of the
World.
Dr Simon Malpas
Bunyan,
Pilgrim's Progress, 1
NEL, 2360-2420.
Dr Simon Malpas
Dr Simon Malpas
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April 4th
April 6th
April 7th
RESTORATION
Fiction and Narration:
Restoration Prose
Fiction and Narration:
Restoration Prose
EXAM BRIEFING
Bunyan,
Pilgrim's Progress, 2
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko,
NEL, 2313-58.
Dr Simon Malpas
Dr Dermot Cavanagh
Dr Suzanne Trill
Spring Teaching Vacation: 10 to 21 April 2017
Revision Week: 24 to 28 April 2017
Final assessment period starts: Monday 1 May 2017
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