ENGLISH LITERATURE 2: Session 2015-2016
Timetable - Semester 1
This is the lecture timetable for English Literature 2, Semester 1 – September to December 2015.
Texts referred to in the timetable should be read before the relevant lecture.
Texts that do not have one of the following annotations should be bought separately at the start of the
semester or downloaded from LEARN for the course, where available.
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(N-C) = Norton Anthology, 9th ed. volume C

(N-D) = Norton Anthology, 9th ed. volume D

(N-E) = Norton Anthology, 9th ed. volume E
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(NTC) = Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Week
THEME
MONDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
WEDNESDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
FRIDAY:
English Literature 2 only
Lecture Theatre 4,
Appleton Tower
Lecture Hall A,
David Hume Tower
Lecture Theatre G 03,
ground floor,
50 George Square
12.10 - 1 pm
12.10 - 1 pm
12.10 - 1 pm
Part I: Eighteenth Century, 1700-1800
1
The
Invention of
SEPT 21
SEPT 23
SEPT 25
Introduction to
EL2/SL2
Introduction to the 18th
Century
Gay, The Beggar's Opera
(N-C)
Dr Olga Taxidou/
Dr Rebecca Davies
Dr Robert Irvine
Professor Olga Taxidou
SEPT 28
SEPT 30
OCT 2
Swift, Gulliver's
Travels, Bk1
(N-C)
Smollett, Humphry
Clinker
Pope, Essay on Criticism;
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
(N-C)
‘Literature’
2
The Scope of
Satire
Professor Penny Fielding
Dr Simon Malpas
Dr Rebecca Davies
16 September 2015
English Literature 2: Session 2015-16
Week
THEME
3
Britishness
and English
Literature
Lecture Timetable for Semester 1
MONDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
WEDNESDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
Lecture Theatre 4,
Appleton Tower
Lecture Hall A,
David Hume Tower
12.10 - 1 pm
OCT 5
12.10 - 1 pm
OCT 7
Gray, ‘Progress of
Poesy’, and ‘The Bard’
Macpherson,
Fragments of Ancient
Poetry;
Blair, ‘A Critical
Dissertation on the
Poems of Ossian’
(in Edinburgh Anthology
of Scottish Literature)
(available on LEARN –
Primary Texts folder:
Eighteenth Century)
Professor Penny
Fielding
OCT 12
4
The Culture
Sterne,
of Sensibility A Sentimental Journey
Dr Tim Milnes
2
FRIDAY:
English Literature 2 only
Lecture Theatre G 03,
ground floor,
50 George Square
12.10 - 1 pm
OCT 9
Gray, ‘Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard’
(N-C)
Dr Jonathan Wild
Professor Penny Fielding
OCT 14
OCT 16
Mackenzie,
The Man of Feeling
Johnson,
Rasselas
(N-C)
Dr Tim Milnes
Dr Simon Cooke
5
Radical
Enthusiasm
OCT 19
OCT 21
OCT 23
Burns, poetry in
Edinburgh Anthology of
Scottish Literature;
and Paine, Common
Sense
Blake, ‘The Chimney
Sweeper’ (Songs of
Innocence); ‘The
Chimney Sweeper’
(Songs of Experience);
Visions of the Daughters
of Albion; The Marriage
of Heaven and Hell;
‘A Song of Liberty’
(N-D)
Franklin,
Autobiography
Dr Robert Irvine
Dr Keith Hughes
Dr Kenneth Millard
English Literature 2: Session 2015-16
Week
THEME
Lecture Timetable for Semester 1
3
MONDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
WEDNESDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
FRIDAY:
English Literature 2 only
Lecture Theatre 4,
Appleton Tower
Lecture Hall A,
David Hume Tower
Lecture Theatre G 03,
ground floor,
50 George Square
12.10 - 1 pm
12.10 - 1 pm
12.10 - 1 pm
Part II: Romanticism 1798-1837
OCT 26
6
Introduction Introduction to
Romanticism
to Romantic
Wordsworth, Preface to
Verse and
Lyrical Ballads,
‘Tintern Abbey’;
Drama
Coleridge, ‘Kubla
Khan’ (N-D)
OCT 28
OCT 30
Baillie,
‘Introductory Discourse’
and De Monfort
Wordsworth,
The Prelude
(N-D)
(in Edinburgh Anthology
of Scottish Literature)
Dr Tim Milnes
Dr Michelle Keown
Dr Simon Malpas
NOV 2
7
The Gothic
NOV 4
NOV 6
Shelley,
Coleridge, Biographia
Felicia Hemans
Literaria
(chapter
13),
Frankenstein (1831 ed.)
(N-D)
‘The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner’;
Dr Tom Mole
Dr Tom Mole
Keats, ‘Lamia’, ‘Ode on
a Grecian Urn’, Letters
(N-D)
Dr Tim Milnes
8
National
Narratives
NOV 9
NOV 11
NOV 13
Edgeworth,
Castle Rackrent
Austen,
Northanger Abbey
Austen,
Northanger Abbey
Dr Allyson Stack
Dr Jonathan Wild
Dr Michelle Keown
English Literature 2: Session 2015-16
Week
THEME
9
Varieties of
Romance
Lecture Timetable for Semester 1
MONDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
WEDNESDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
Lecture Theatre 4,
Appleton Tower
Lecture Hall A,
David Hume Tower
4
FRIDAY:
English Literature 2 only
Lecture Theatre G 03,
ground floor,
50 George Square
12.10 - 1 pm
NOV 16
12.10 - 1 pm
NOV 18
12.10 - 1 pm
NOV 20
Byron,
Childe Harold and Don
Juan (excerpts)
(N-D)
Irving,
‘Rip van Winkle’ and
‘The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow’ in The SketchBook of Geoffrey Crayon
Shelley, ‘To a Sky-lark’;
‘England in 1819’; ‘The
Mask of Anarchy’;
‘Adonais’
(N-D)
Dr Brian Wall
Dr Tom Mole
Dr Tom Mole
Part III: High Victorian 1837-1890
10
Signs of the
Times
NOV 23
NOV 25
NOV 27
Introduction to
Victorian Literature;
Carlyle, ‘Signs of the
Times’
Dickens,
Hard Times
Dickens,
Hard Times
Dr Paul Crosthwaite
Dr Kenneth Millard
NOV 30
DEC 2
DEC 4
Gaskell,
North and South
Gaskell,
North and South
Tennyson,
‘Mariana’, ‘Tithonus’, ‘The
Lady of Shalott’, and
‘Ulysses’
(N-E)
(in Edinburgh
Anthology of Scottish
Literature)
Dr Jonathan Wild
11
Class and
Gender
Dr Kenneth Millard
Dr Jonathan Wild
Dr Tom Mole
Revision Period: 7 to 9 December 2015
Semester 1 assessment period starts: 10 December 2015
Last day of Semester 1: Monday 21 December 2015