Carleton University
2009-10 Fall/Winter
Department of English
Course and Section No: ENGL 3502E
Course Title: British Literature II
6:05 pm - 8:55 pm, Thursday
Location: Fall, 415 Southam
Location: Winter, 501 Southam
Please confirm locations on Carleton Central
Prerequisite: ENGL 2300 or permission of the Department
Instructor: S. Waldman
e-mail: [email protected]
Office: 1917 Dunton Tower
Phone: (613) 520-2600 x2331
Office hours: 4:45-5:45 Thursday
DESCRIPTION:
In this section of British Literature II we will pursue an investigative approach in our
reading of, and writing about, eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-century
literature. In assignment work as well as class work we will learn how to develop
original, plausible interpretations of texts and how to transform them into carefully
structured arguments and rhetorically elegant essays. Literary texts of maximal interest
and complexity have been chosen from a variety of genres for us to study. To a great
extent the class will be conducted as a seminar, and class participation will be highly
valued.
Note: English 3502 is a writing attentive course. Students will write at least one
substantial essay each term in which they will be expected to sustain an argument that is
anticipated in a thesis statement, to show they can refer to and cite texts appropriately,
and to pursue some secondary research and indicate citation skills. A number of classes
will be devoted to developing and improving writing and research essay skills.
TEXTS:
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. (Dover)
Abrams, M. H., et al, Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2 A: The Romantic
Period (W. W. Norton)
Greenblatt, Stephen et al. Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2 B: The
Victorian Age (W. W. Norton)
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Dickens, Charles. Hard Times (Longman)
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness (Dover)
Yeats, William Butler. Early Poems (Dover)
METHOD OF EVALUATION:
· Early feedback short essay (15%)
· First term essay (20%)
· Second term essay (25%)
· Final exam (30%)
· Participation (10%)
LATE PENALTIES:
Extensions must be requested at least three days before assignments are due. Late papers
will lose 1.5% of their value per day; see Carleton grade conversions for how this penalty
affects letter grades.
UNPROOFREAD PAPERS:
I reserve the right to hand back unread and unmarked any papers that display, on a given
page, more than four basic mechanical errors (typos, spelling mistakes, wrong words, and
punctuation and apostrophe errors). Such papers will be returned along with the other
papers with the expectation that they will be proofread, edited, and resubmitted within the
week. Resubmitted papers will incur a penalty of one letter grade but will otherwise be
marked without prejudice. Papers not picked up in class will be available for pick-up in
the English department office. Papers returned to students for proofreading and editing
will begin to accrue late penalties in addition to those applied to the original versions
after the passage of one week.
PLAGIARISM:
The University Senate defines plagiarism as presenting, whether intentionally or not,
the ideas, expression of ideas, or the work of others as one’s own. This can include:
reproducing or paraphrasing portions of someone else’s published or
unpublished material, regardless of the source, and presenting these as one’s
own without proper citation or reference to the original source
submitting a take-home examination, essay, laboratory report or other
assignment written, in whole or in part, by someone else
using ideas, quotations, or paraphrased material, concepts or ideas without
appropriate acknowledgement in an essay or assignment
failing to acknowledge sources through the use of proper citations when using
another’s works, and/or failing to use quotation marks
handing in substantially the same piece of work for academic credit more than
once without prior written permission of the course instructor in which the
submission occurs
Plagiarism is a form of intellectual theft. It is a serious offence that cannot be resolved
directly with the course’s instructor. The Associate Deans of the Faculty conduct a
rigorous investigation, including an interview with the student, when an instructor
suspects a piece of work has been plagiarized. Penalties are not trivial. They can include
failure of the assignment, failure of the entire course, suspension from a program,
suspension from the university, or even expulsion from the university. See the Section on
Academic Integrity in the Student Conduct Portion of the Undergraduate Calendar.
ACCOMMODATIONS:
You may need special arrangements to meet your academic obligations during the term.
For an accommodation request the processes are as follows:
Pregnancy obligation: write to me with any requests for academic accommodation during
the first two weeks of class, or as soon as possible after the need for accommodation is
known to exist. For more details visit the Equity Services website
http://www.carleton.ca/equity/accommodation/student_guide.htm
Religious obligation: write to me with any requests for academic accommodation during
the first two weeks of class, or as soon as possible after the need for accommodation is
known to exist. For more details visit the Equity Services website
http://www.carleton.ca/equity/accommodation/student_guide.htm
Students with disabilities requiring academic accommodation in this course must register
with the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities (PMC) for a formal evaluation
of disability-related needs. Documented disabilities could include but are not limited to
mobility/physical impairments, specific Learning Disabilities (LD),
psychiatric/psychological disabilities, sensory disabilities, Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and chronic medical conditions. Registered PMC
students are required to contact the PMC, 613-520-6608, every term to ensure that I
receive your Letter of Accommodation, no later than two weeks before the first
assignment is due or the first in-class test/midterm requiring accommodations. If you
only require accommodations for your formally scheduled exam(s) in this course, please
submit your request for accommodations to PMC by the last official day to withdraw
from classes in each term. For more details visit the PMC website:
http://www.carleton.ca/pmc/students/acad_accom.html
FALL TERM SYLLABUS:
FIRST TERM
UNIT ONE: THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Thursday, September 10: Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Book 1
Thursday, September 17: Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Book 2; ESSAY WRITING
SEMINAR I, PART 1: THESIS AND STRUCTURE
Thursday, September 24: Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Book 3; ESSAY WRITING
SEMINAR I, PART 2: **IN-CLASS ESSAY**
Thursday, October 1, Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Book 4; Blake, The Marriage of Heaven
and Hell, 111-12
UNIT TWO: ROMANTICISM
Thursday, October 8: Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 112-22
Thursday, October 15: Wordsworth, “Michael,” 292-301; “Ode: Intimations of
Immortality,” 308-12; “London 1802,” 319; “The world is too much with us,” 319
Thursday, October 22: Shelley, “Mutability,” 744; “Ode to the West Wind,” 772-5;
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” 766-8; “Ozymandias,” 768; “England in 1819,” 771
Thursday, October 29: Byron, Manfred, 635-69
Thursday, November 5: Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 1-10
ESSAY WRITING SEMINAR II: FINER POINTS OF STRUCTURE AND
STYLE; ASSIGNMENT OF ROMANTICISM ESSAY
Thursday, November 12: Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 11-34
Thursday, November 19: Coleridge, “Kubla Khan,” 446-9; Biographical Literaria 48890; “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 430-462
Thursday, November 26: Keats, “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles,” 883; “Ode on a Grecian
Urn,” 905-6; Letters, 887-903; “Ode on a Nightingale,” 903-5
Thursday, December 3: Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes, “ 888-98
ROMANTICISM ESSAY DUE
SECOND TERM: TBA