ENGLISH LITERATURE 2: Session 2015-2016
Timetable - Semester 2
This is the lecture timetable for English Literature 2, Semester 2 – January to April 2016.
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-D) = Norton Anthology, 9th ed. volume D
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(N-E) = Norton Anthology, 9th ed. volume E

(N-F) = Norton Anthology, 9th ed. volume F
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Week
(NTC) = Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
THEME
MONDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
WEDNESDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
FRIDAY:
English Literature 2
only
Lecture Hall A,
David Hume Tower
Note change of venue
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 III: High Victorian Culture 1837 - 1890
1
Culture
JAN 11
JAN 13
JAN 15
Arnold, from Culture
and Anarchy
Thomson, The City of
Dreadful Night
(excerpt in N-E)
(available on LEARN –
Primary Texts folder:
High Victorian)
Ruskin, from Modern
Painters, The Stones of
Venice (N-E);
Pater, from Studies in the
History of the
Renaissance
(N-E, also NTC)
and
Anarchy
Dr Anna Vaninskaya
Dr Anouk Lang
Dr Tom Mole
6 January 2016
English Literature 2: Session 2015-16
Week
THEME
2
Realism
and
Romance
WEDNESDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
FRIDAY:
English Literature 2
only
Lecture Hall A,
David Hume Tower
Note change of venue
Lecture Hall A,
David Hume Tower
Lecture Theatre G.03,
ground floor,
50 George Square
12.10 - 1 pm
JAN 18
12.10 - 1 pm
JAN 20
12.10 - 1 pm
JAN 22
James, ‘The Art of
Fiction’ (in NTC)
and Stevenson, ‘A
Humble Remonstrance’
[on LEARN – Primary
Texts folder: High
Victorian]
Eliot, Silas Marner
James, Daisy Miller
(in Tales of Henry James)
Rossetti, ‘Goblin
Market’
(N-E)
Victorian
Fantasy
2
MONDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
Dr Anna Vaninskaya
JAN 25
3
Lecture Timetable for Semester 2
Dr David Farrier
Dr Kenneth Millard
JAN 27
JAN 29
MacDonald, Phantastes
Lear and Carroll
Dr Sarah Dunnigan
[available on LEARN–
Primary Texts folder:
High Victorian]
Dr Anouk Lang
Dr Jonathan Wild
Part IV: From Victorian to Modernist 1890-1918
4
Naturalism
FEB 1
FEB 3
FEB 5
Introduction to 18901918;
Brown, The House with
Green Shutters
Hardy, Jude The Obscure
and
the
Hardy, Jude The
Obscure
Novel
Dr Anna Vaninskaya
Dr Anna Vaninskaya
Dr Simon Cooke
English Literature 2: Session 2015-16
Week
THEME
5
Fin de
Lecture Timetable for Semester 2
3
MONDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
WEDNESDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
FRIDAY:
English Literature 2
only
Lecture Hall A,
David Hume Tower
Note change of venue
Lecture Hall A,
David Hume Tower
Lecture Theatre G.03,
ground floor,
50 George Square
12.10 - 1 pm
FEB 8
12.10 - 1 pm
FEB 10
12.10 - 1 pm
FEB 12
Perkins Gilman, The
Yellow Wallpaper
Wilde, The Picture of
Dorian Gray
Wilde, The Picture of
Dorian Gray and
‘The Soul of Man Under
Socialism’;
Siècle
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1017
William Morris, ‘How I
Became a Socialist’ (N-E)
Anxieties
Dr Katherine Inglis
6
Dr Anna Vaninskaya
Dr Anna Vaninskaya
INNOVATIVE LEARNING WEEK
FEB 22
7
FEB 24
Stevenson, ‘The Beach Conrad, Heart of Darkness
(N-F)
Modernity of Falesa’, ‘The Bottle
Imp’, ‘Ebb Tide’ and
‘The Isle of Voices’
and
in South Sea Tales
Empire
Dr Keith Hughes
Dr David Farrier
8
Popular
Fiction
and War
FEB 29
MAR 2
Conan Doyle, The
Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes
World War I poetry
(Brooke, Sassoon,
Rosenberg, Owen)
(N-F)
Dr Paul Crosthwaite
Dr Lee Spinks
FEB 26
Kipling, ‘The Man Who
Would Be King’, ‘Danny
Deever’, ‘The Widow at
Windsor’, ‘Recessional’,
‘The White Man's
Burden’, ‘If – ’
(N-E)
Dr Paul Crosthwaite
MAR 4
Wells, The War of the
Worlds
Dr Katherine Inglis
English Literature 2: Session 2015-16
Week
THEME
Lecture Timetable for Semester 2
4
MONDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
WEDNESDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
FRIDAY:
English Literature 2
only
Lecture Hall A,
David Hume Tower
Note change of venue
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 V: Post-war Modernism
9
Making
It
MAR 7
MAR 9
Introduction to
Modernism;
MacDiarmid, ‘A Drunk
Man Looks at the Thistle’
Eliot, The Waste Land
(N-F)
New
Dr Keith Hughes
10
MAR 14
Yeats, ‘Easter 1916’,
‘September 1913’, ‘No
Second Troy’, ‘The
Second Coming,’ ‘Leda
Form
and the Swan’,
‘Byzantium’, ‘Sailing to
and
Byzantium’, ‘To A
Shade’
Subjectivity
(N-F)
Dr David Farrier
MAR 11
Flint and Pound,
‘Imagisme; ‘A Few
Don'ts by an Imagiste’;
Hulme, ‘Autumn’;
in MacDiarmid, Selected
Pound, ‘In a Station of the
Poetry
Metro’; H.D., ‘Oread’,
‘Sea Rose’; ‘Blast’,
‘Long live the Vortex!’;
‘Blast 6’
Dr Alex Thomson
(N-F)
MAR 16
Dr David Farrier
MAR 18
Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
(N-F)
Mansfield, ‘The
Daughters of the Late
Colonel’; ‘The Garden
Party’
Dr Lee Spinks
1 to 2 pm
(N-F)
also in Lecture Hall A,
David Hume Tower
(to be confirmed)
ENTRY TO HONOURS
BRIEFING
Dr Simon Malpas, Dr
Andrew Taylor
Dr Carole Jones
English Literature 2: Session 2015-16
Week
Lecture Timetable for Semester 2
5
MONDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
WEDNESDAY:
Core lecture
shared with Scot Lit 2
FRIDAY:
English Literature 2
only
Lecture Hall A,
David Hume Tower
Note change of venue
Lecture Hall A,
David Hume Tower
Lecture Theatre G.03,
ground floor,
50 George Square
12.10 - 1 pm
MAR 21
12.10 - 1 pm
MAR 23
12.10 - 1 pm
MAR 25
Nation,
Joyce, Ulysses
Joyce, Ulysses
Beckett, Endgame
Myth,
(1)
(2)
and Beyond
Dr Lee Spinks
Dr Lee Spinks
Professor Randall
Stevenson
MAR 28
MAR 30
APR 1
EL2 / SL2
Achebe, Things Fall
Apart
Culture
Auden, ‘In Memory of
W. B. Yeats’, ‘Shield of
Achilles’
and
(N-F)
THEME
11
12
EXAMINATION
BRIEFING
Dr Aaron Kelly and
Dr Rebecca Davies
Politics
Dr Dorothy Butchard
Spring Teaching Vacation: 4 to 15 April 2016
Revision Week: 18 to 22 April 2016
Final assessment period starts: Monday 25 April 2016
Dr David Farrier