21 August 2015
English Literature 1 – SEMESTER 2
Session 2015-2016
 references to “NEL” are to the "Norton Anthology of English Literature", (9th ed.)
Volumes A-F
 references to “NTC” are to the "Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism" (“NTC”)
(2nd ed.)
Please note change of lecture hall on Thursday and Friday for Semester 2.
TUESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
12.10-1.00 pm
12.10-1.00 pm
12.10-1.00 pm
Lecture Theatre 4
Appleton Tower
Lecture Theatre 4
Appleton Tower
Change of venue
Lecture Theatre 4
Appleton Tower
Change of venue
WEEK
for English Lit 1 only
for English Lit 1 only
for English Lit 1 only
1
Jan 12th
Jan 14th
Jan 15th
INTRODUCTION
Course introduction.
Medieval Ideas of the
Literary:
Authors, Readers,
Rhetoric
Lyric Poetry:
Periodicity: Medieval
Medieval Religious Poetry
(in NEL-A pp 408 - 411);
Medieval Love Poetry (in
NEL-A pp 477 - 480)
Professor Greg Walker
Dr Sarah Carpenter
2
Jan 19th
MEDIEVAL
Medieval Ideas of the
Literary:
Henryson, The Cok and the
Fox, (NEL-A pp. 501-507);
Prologue to the Moral
Fables, text on LEARN
Jan 21st
Dr Sarah Dunnigan
Jan 22nd
Fiction and Narration: Chaucer, The Knight's Tale
Medieval
(in The Canterbury Tales)
Giraldi, NTC, 271-278
Dr Sarah Carpenter
Professor Greg Walker
Dr Sarah Carpenter
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 4
Appleton Tower
Lecture Theatre 4
Appleton Tower
Change of venue
Lecture Theatre 4
Appleton Tower
Change of venue
WEEK
for English Lit 1 only
for English Lit 1 only
for English Lit 1 only
3
Jan 26th
Jan 28th
Jan 29th
MEDIEVAL
Chaucer, The Franklin’s
Tale
Chaucer, Wife of Bath’s Modes of performance:
Prologue and Tale
Medieval Mystery Cycles
(in The Canterbury Tales) (in NEL-A pp. 282-310)
Dr Doyeeta Majumder
Dr Suzanne Trill
Professor Greg Walker
4
Feb 2nd
Feb 4th
Feb 5th
MEDIEVAL
Dramatic genres:
York Crucifixion
Dramatic genres:
The Second Shepherds'
Play
Periodicity: Renaissance
Ideas of the Literary
(in NEL-A pp. 439-447
Sidney, Astrophil and
(in NEL-A pp. 449-476) Stella, Sonnet 1 (in NEL-B
pp. 1084-1085),
Sonnet 45 (p. 1092)
Dr Doyeeta Majumder
Professor Greg Walker
Dr Suzanne Trill
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 4
Appleton Tower
Lecture Theatre 4
Appleton Tower
Change of venue
Lecture Theatre 4
Appleton Tower
Change of venue
WEEK
for English Lit 1 only
for English Lit 1 only
for English Lit 1 only
5
Feb 9th
Feb 11th
Feb 12th
RENAISSANCE
Lyric Poetry 1:
Love and Politics
Lyric Poetry 2:
Devotional Poetry
Fiction and Narration:
Renaissance
in NEL-B: Philip Sidney,
Astrophil and Stella,
Sonnets 1 and 71 (pp. 1084,
1095); Thomas Wyatt, “The
Long Love...” (648); Henry
Howard, ‘Love, that doth
Reign...’ (663); Edmund
Spenser, Amoretti 67 (988);
William Shakespeare,
Sonnets 20, 129, 130 (1173,
1183, 1184); John Donne,
‘The Flea’ (1373); Mary
Wroth, Pamphilia to
Amphilanthus 16 (1567)
in NEL-B: Donne, Holy
Sonnet 14 (pp. 14131414); Lanyer, ‘Eve’s
Apology’ (pp. 14331436); Herbert, ‘The
Altar’ (p. 1707), ‘Prayer
(1)’, ‘Jordan (1)’ (pp.
1711-1712), ‘Jordan
(2)’ (pp. 1716-1717);
[Mary Sidney – handout
to be posted on
LEARN]
in NEL –B: Sidney,
‘Defense of Poesy’ (pp.
1045-1083); Wroth, The
Countess of Montgomery’s
Urania (pp. 1562-1565);
Bacon, The New Atlantis
(pp. 1681-1686;
[Sidney, The Countess of
Pembroke’s Arcadia –
handout to be posted on
LEARN]
Professor James Loxley
Professor James Loxley
Professor James Loxley
LEARNING
WEEK
FEBRUARY 15th – 19th
7
Feb 23rd
Feb 25th
Feb 26th
RENAISSANCE
More: Utopia,
in NEL-B pp. 572-645
Spenser, The Faerie
Queene,
Book 1, Canto 1,
in NEL-B pp. 781-795
Modes of Performance:
The Renaissance Stage
INNOVATIVE
6
Dr Dermot Cavanagh
Dr Doyeeta Majumder
Dr Dermot Cavanagh
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 4
Appleton Tower
Lecture Theatre 4
Appleton Tower
Change of venue
Lecture Theatre 4
Appleton Tower
Change of venue
WEEK
for English Lit 1 only
for English Lit 1 only
for English Lit 1 only
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March 1st
March 3rd
March 4th
RENAISSANCE
Tragedy:
Comedy:
The Civil Wars: Politics,
Religion and Literature
Marlowe, Dr Faustus,
Shakespeare,
Twelfth Night,
Dr Suzanne Trill
Andrew Marvell, 'The
Nymph Complaining for
the Death of Her Faun' and
'An Horatian Ode on
Cromwell's Return from
Ireland',
in NEL-B pp. 1794-1796 &
1806-1811
in NEL-B pp. 1128-1163
in NEL-B pp. 11871250
Dr Dermot Cavanagh
9
March 8th
March 10th
Professor James Loxley
March 11th
RENAISSANCE /
RESTORATION
Cavalier Poetry
Milton, Paradise Lost 1
Milton, Paradise Lost 2
in NEL-B pp. 1757-1782
NEL-B, from p. 1945
NEL-B, from p. 1945
Dr Dermot Cavanagh
Professor James Loxley
Professor James Loxley
10
March 15th
March 17th
March 18th
RESTORATION
Periodicity: Restoration
Ideas of the Literary
Love Poetry &
Libertine Verse
Modes of Performance:
The Restoration Stage Theatre and Performance
after 1660
Dryden, in NEL-C pp. 2212 Marvell, ‘To His Coy
and 2251-58;
Mistress’ in NEL-B pp.
Behn, NTC 304-312
1796-7; Richard
Lovelace, ‘Love Made
in the First Age’ NEL-B
pp. 1782-1783, and
Rochester, ‘The
Dr Simon Malpas
Imperfect Enjoyment’
NEL-C pp. 2298-2300
Dryden, NTC 300-304;
Corneille, NTC 288-300;
Behn, NTC 312-315
Dr Simon Malpas
Professor James Loxley
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 4
Appleton Tower
Lecture Theatre 4
Appleton Tower
Change of venue
Lecture Theatre 4
Appleton Tower
Change of venue
WEEK
for English Lit 1 only
for English Lit 1 only
for English Lit 1 only
11
March 22nd
March 24th
March 25th
RESTORATION
Dramatic genres:
Dramatic genres:
Fiction and Narration:
Restoration Prose
Aphra Behn, The Rover
Congreve, The Way of
the World,
Dr Simon Malpas
12
March 29th
RESTORATION
Bunyan,
Pilgrim's Progress. (2)
Bunyan,
Pilgrim's Progress. (1)
in NEL-C pp. 23602420
Dr Simon Malpas
Dr Simon Malpas
Mar 31st
April 1st
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko,
EXAM BRIEFING
Dr Suzanne Trill
in NEL-C pp. 23132358
Dr Simon Malpas
Dr Suzanne Trill
Spring Teaching Vacation: 4 to 15 April 2016
Revision Week: 18 to 22 April 2016
Final assessment period starts: Monday 25 April 2016
English Literature 1: Semester 2
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