19. SCHEDULE OF ASSIGNMENTS: Before you read the assigned texts (listed below
by page numbers from our textbook), review the corresponding reading guide on
Desire2Learn to help you formulate your own ideas and judgments about the
assigned literature. Once you have read the actual selections, go to the Desire2Learn
discussion forum and initiate your original post each week (this is your main post) and
also upload a MS Word file of that same post to its corresponding dropbox. Your
objective is to show your understanding and critical analysis of the text and to engage
your classmates in further discussion. Following your main post, you will respond to at
least two other posts in order to continue further analysis that was begun by others
(these will be your response posts). The learning process in this course takes place
through a communal discussion effort in which everyone is encouraged to participate.
English 2112 Desire2Learn
Date
Readings in the Norton Anthology of British
Literature, Vol. 2
DUE
UNIT 01: Reading British Literature.
01/19
01/22
1. Barbauld (39-40), “To a Little Invisible Being Who Is
Expected Soon to Become Visible” (49)
2. Munro (2842), “Walker Brothers Cowboy” (2843-2853)
UNIT 01: Reading British Literature.
MAIN POST by
11:59pm
All RESPONSES
by 11:59pm
UNIT 02: The Romantic Era
01/26
01/29
1. Introduction & Timeline (3-31)
2. Wordsworth (270-72), “Tintern Abbey” (288-92),
“Westminster Bridge” (344), “Steamboats” (348)
3. Coleridge (437-39), “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
(443-59), “Kubla Khan” (459-62)
4. “The Gothic” (584-86), selections from The Castle of
Ortranto, Vathek, The Romance of the Forest, The
Mysteries of Udolpho, The Monk, and others (586-611)
UNIT 02: The Romantic Era
MAIN POST by
11:59pm
All RESPONSES
by 11:59pm
UNIT 03: The Romantic Poets
02/02
1. Blake (112-16), Songs of Innocence and of Experience
(118-35), “Visions of the Daughters of Albion” (140-48)
2. Byron (612-616), “She walks in beauty” (617),
“Darkness” (618), Chide Harold’s Pilgrimage (620-38)
3. P. Shelley (748-51), “Mont Blanc” (770-73),
“Ozymandias” (776)
4. Keats (901-04), “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” (906),
“La Belle” (923), “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (930)
MAIN POST by
11:59pm
02/05
UNIT 03: The Romantic Poets
All RESPONSES
by 11:59pm
UNIT 04: The Discourse of Rights
02/09
1. Paine, Rights of Man (199-203)
2. Wollstonecraft (208-211), Vindication of the Rights of
Women (211-239)
3. Austen (523-25), “Love and Friendship” (525-44)
4. M. Shelley (981-83), “The Mortal Immortal” (986-96)
02/12
UNIT 04: The Discourse of Rights
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11:59pm
All RESPONSES
by 11:59pm
UNIT 05: The Victorian Era
02/16
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Introduction and Timeline (1017-1044)
Ruskin (1335-38), “Modern Painters” (1338-42)
Gaskell (1259-60), “The Old Nurse’s Story” (1260-75)
Rossetti (1489-90), “Goblin Market” (1496-1508).
Arnold (1369-73), “Dover Beach” (1387-88), Culture
and Anarchy (1418-25)
6. Hopkins (1546-48), “God’s Grandeur” (1548); “As
Kingfishers Catch Fire” (1549); “Pied Beauty” (1551),
and “Thou art indeed just, Lord” (1556).
02/19
UNIT 05: The Victorian Era
MAIN POST by
11:59pm
Essay 1 (10%)
and all
RESPONSES by
11:59pm
UNIT 06: Industry, Liberty and The Woman
Question
02/23
02/26
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Introduction to The Woman Question (1607-10)
Shaw (1780-83), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1783-1830)
Mill (1086-88), On Liberty (1095-1104)
Industrialism (1580-82)
Engels: From The Great Towns (1589-97)
MAIN POST by
11:59pm
UNIT 06: Industry, Liberty and The Woman
Question
All RESPONSES
by 11:59pm
UNIT 07: Late Victorians
03/02
1. Introduction to Late Victorians, (1668-71)
2. Stevenson (1675-77), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde (1677-1720)
3. Empire and National Identity (1636-1640)
Kipling (1851-53), “The Man Who Would Be King”
(1853-77)
MAIN POST by
11:59pm
03/05
03/08
UNIT 07: Late Victorians
All RESPONSES
by 11:59pm
MIDTERM EXAM (10%) taken online in D2L today.
Once you start the exam, you will have 1 non-stop
hour to complete it. This is an open book exam; you
may use any resources available to help you complete
it.
MIDTERM EXAM
(10%)
12:01am–
10:59pm
UNIT 08: The Aesthete
03/09
1. Wilde (1720-22), Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
(1732-33), The Importance of Being Earnest (1733-77),
from De Profundis (1777-80)
MAIN POST by
11:59pm
03/12
UNIT 08: The Aesthete
All RESPONSES
by 11:59pm
03/16
Spring Break
No main post
due today
UNIT 09: Modernism and Empire
03/23
03/26
1. Introduction and Timeline (1887-1914)
2. Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (1880-82)
3. Conrad (1947-49), “Heart of Darkness” (1951-2011)
UNIT 09: Modernism and Empire
MAIN POST by
11:59pm
Essay 2 (10%)
AND all
RESPONSES by
11:59pm
UNIT 10: The Modernist Poets
03/30
04/02
1. “Modernist Manifestos” (2056-58)
2. Flint and Pound, “Imagisme; A Few Don’ts by an
Imagiste” (2064-68)
3. Blast, “Long Live the Vortex!”, “Blast 6” (2070-77)
4. Yeats (2082-85), “The Second Coming” (2099), “Sailing
to Byzantium” (2102)
5. Eliot (2521-24), “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
(2524-57), “The Waste Land” (2529-2543), and “The
Hollow Men” (2543-46)
UNIT 10: The Modernist Poets
MAIN POST by
11:59pm
All RESPONSES
by 11:59pm
UNIT 11: The Modernist Storytellers
04/06
1. Woolf (2143-45), “The Mark on the Wall” (2145-50)
2. Joyce (2276-78), “Araby” (2278-2282), “The Dead”
(2282-2313), “Penelope” (2474-81)
3.
04/09
UNIT 11: The Modernist Storytellers
MAIN POST by
11:59pm
Final Essay
Proposal (1%)
AND All
RESPONSES by
11:59pm
UNIT 12: Voices from World War I
04/13
04/16
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Voices from WWI (2016-18)
Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1235)
Brooke, “The Soldier” (2019)
Sassoon (2023), Sassoon’s war poems (2023-28)
Rosenberg (2029), Rosenberg’s war poems (2029-34)
Owen (2034), Owen’s war poems (2034-43)
UNIT 12: Voices from World War I
MAIN POST by
11:59pm
All RESPONSES
by 11:59pm
UNIT 13: Postcolonialism and Postmodernism
04/20
04/23
1. Rhys (2591), “The Day They Burned the Books” (259296)
2. Pinter (2815), “The Dumb Waiter” (2816-36)
3. Rushdie (3000), “The Prophet’s Hair” (3002-12)
UNIT 13: Postcolonialism and Postmodernism
UNIT 14: Then and Now
04/27
1. Stoppard (2879), Arcadia (2880-2948)
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11:59pm
Essay 3 (10%)
AND all
RESPONSES by
11:59pm
MAIN POST by
11:59pm
04/30
UNIT 14: Then and Now
All RESPONSES
by 11:59pm
05/03
Final Essay (9%)
Final Essay (9%)
by 11:59pm
05/04
FINAL EXAM (20%) Taken on campus in
Academic 109 during a continuous (i.e. nonstop) two-hour period Thurs., May 4, 5:00 pm –
7:00 pm.
FINAL EXAM
(20%)
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