UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS at URBANA/CHAMPAIGN
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
FALL 2010

COURSE: ENGLISH 210 PLACE: Armory 101
TIME: Lectures MW 12:00am; Discussion sections: F 11:00 and 12:00 noon
LECTURER: Prof. Julia F. Saville
TEACHING ASSISTANTS: Norah Dick, Carrie Dickison, Esther Nadolski, Terra Walston Joseph
OFFICE HOURS: Saville: MW 3:30-5:00 pm, and by appointment (please use e-mail).
OFFICE: 313 EB; Office Phone: 333-0026
E-MAILS: saville@illinois.edu , dick1@illinois.edu , cdickis2@illinois.edu , dettmar2@illinois.edu , twalston@illinois.edu
WEBSITE: http://faculty.las.illinois.edu/saville/  

BRITISH LITERATURE FROM 1798-Present

BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Our purpose in this course will be to construct a reader's map designed to negotiate three principle periods of British literature: Romantic (1785-1830); Victorian (1830-1901); and Twentieth Century, and within these, various literary movements, such as Early Romanticism, Realism, Aestheticism, Modernism, and Post-Colonialism. We will consider ways in which specific literary forms and genres (for instance, the serialized novel, the dramatic monologue, the treatise, the ode) function to reflect as well as produce or alter cultural perceptions within a specific period. We will devise some initial paths through this vast expanse of literature, on the understanding that we can return to make more thorough inroads into each period in more advanced courses and at a later date .

SET WORKS:
-- The Norton Anthology of English Literature Volumes D, E, and F, Eighth Edition. Used Seventh Editions will be accommodated, but avoid buying these new, and avoid older editions too. For those using the Seventh Edition, you will be missing three texts, all for the lecture on Monday: December 1, "Colonizing in English and English Colonized." Electronic copies of these will be on reserve for you to access and print out from the Main Library website. Just look for my name and the course number.
--Jane Austen, Persuasion (The lecturer will use the Oxford World Classics edition; others are acceptable)
--Charles Dickens, Hard Times (The lecturer will use the Oxford World Classics edition; others are acceptable)
--Study Sheets available on the course website (see address above).

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READING AND LECTURE SCHEDULE

[Pages in Bold & Square Brackets=Eighth Edition ; Pages in Regular Type & Square Brackets =Seventh Edition; DATES of each work in Round Brackets]

Week 1: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
Lecture 1: Monday: August 23
--Course Introduction
--Introduction to Romanticism

The Romantic Poets: First Generation:
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: [ 243ff /219ff] "We Are Seven" (1798) ; "A slumber did my spirit seal" (1800)
Recommended Reading : "Introduction" to the Romantic Period, including "Texts and Contexts": Volume D, pages 1-22 /2A, pages 1-23

Lecture 2: Wednesday: August 25
WORDSWORTH (cont.): "Tintern Abbey" (1798) ; "Preface to Lyrical Ballads " (1802)

REMEMBER ON FRIDAYS YOU HAVE DISCUSSION SECTIONS WITH YOUR TA. THEY ARE COMPULSORY AND ATTENDANCE WILL BE TAKEN.

Week 2:
Lecture 3: Monday: August 30
WORDSWORTH (cont.): "My heart leaps up" (1807) ; "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" (1807) .

Lecture 4: Wednesday: Sept. 1
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: [ 424ff /416ff] "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798) ; "Kubla Khan" (1816)

Week 3:
Monday: Sept 6 [LABOR DAY, NO CLASSES]

Lecture 5: Wednesday: Sept 8
Women of the Romantic Period
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: [ 167ff /163ff] from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
JANE AUSTEN: Persuasion (1818)

Week 4:
Lecture 6: Monday: September 13
AUSTEN: Persuasion

Lecture 7: Wednesday: September 15
AUSTEN: Persuasion

Week 5:
Lecture 8: Monday: September 20
The Romantic Poets: the Second Generation
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: [ 741ff /698ff] "Mutability" (1816) ; "Ozymandias" (1818) ; "Ode to the West Wind" (1820) .

Lecture 9: Wednesday: September 22
JOHN KEATS: [ 878ff /823ff] "Ode to a Nightingale" (1819) ; "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad" (1820); Letters: [ 942-43 /889-90, To George and Thomas Keats—Negative Capability (1817) ]; [ 947-48 /894-5, To Richard Woodhouse—A Poet has no identity (1818) ].

FRIDAY: SEPTEMBER 24: FIRST PAPER DUE

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END OF NINE LECTURES ON THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

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Week 6: THE VICTORIAN AGE
Lecture 10: Monday: September 27
The Poet Laureate
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON: [ 1109ff /1198ff] "The Lady of Shalott" (1832/42) ; In Memoriam A. H. H. : Lyrics: 5; 7 with 119; 11; 13; 72 with 99 (1850) ; "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854)
Recommended Reading : "Introduction" to the Victorian Age, including "Texts and Contexts": Volume E 979-999 /2B, pages 1043-1065

Lecture 11: Wednesday: September 29
The Dramatic Monologue
ROBERT BROWNING: [1248ff/1345ff] "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" (1842) ; "My Last Duchess" (1842) ;
TENNYSON: [1213] "Ulysses" (1842) ;

Week 7:
Urban Industrialism
Lecture 12: Monday: October 4
CHARLES DICKENS, Hard Times

Lecture 13: Wednesday: October 6
CHARLES DICKENS, Hard Times

Week 8:
Lecture 14: Monday: October 11
CHARLES DICKENS, Hard Times

Lecture 15: Wednesday: October 13
Religious Convention/Religious Controversy
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS : [ 1513ff /1648ff] from Journal (1866, 1870)
"God's Grandeur" (1877) ; "The Windhover" (1877) ; "As kingfishers catch fire ... " (1877) ; "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day' (1885) ; "No worst, there is none..." (1885) ; "Carrion Comfort" (1885) ; "Thou art indeed just, Lord" (1889) .

Week 9:
Lecture 16: Monday: October 18
The Woman Question: Gender and Sexuality
SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS: [ 1583ff /1721] From The Women of England ... (1839)
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING: [ 1077-1104 /1180-1192] "The Cry of the Children" (1843).

Lecture 17: Wednesday: October 20
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI: [1466 /1589] "Goblin Market" (1862)
JOHN STUART MILL: [ 1060-1070 /1155-1165] From The Subjection of Women (1869)

FRIDAY, October 22, MID-TERM EXAM IN DISCUSSION SECTION TIMES

Week 10:
Lecture 18: Monday: October 25
OSCAR WILDE: [ 1698ff /1761ff] The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Lecture 19: Wednesday: October 27
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW [ 1743ff /1808ff]: Mrs. Warren's Profession (1898)

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END OF TEN LECTURES ON THE VICTORIAN AGE

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Week 11:
Lecture 20: Monday: November 1 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
THOMAS HARDY: [ 1851ff /1934ff] "Hap" (1898) ; "The Darkling Thrush" (1901) ; "The Ruined Maid" (1901) ; "The Voice" (1914)
Recommended Reading : "Introduction" to the Twentieth Century, including "Texts and Contexts": Volume F /2C, pages 1827ff /1897ff.

Lecture 21: Wednesday: November 3
Voices from World War I
RUPERT BROOKE: [ 1955 /2050] "The Soldier" (1914)
EDWARD THOMAS: [ 1956 /2053] "The Cherry Trees" (1917)
SIEGFRIED SASSOON: [ 1960 /2055] "They" (1917)
IVOR GURNEY: [ 1965 /2060] "To His Love" (1919)
WILFRED OWEN: [ 1971 /2066] "Anthem for Doomed Youth" (1920)
MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN: [ 1981ff /2074] From Grey Ghosts and Voices (1976)

Week 12:
Lecture 22: Monday: November 8
The Modernists
T. S. ELIOT: [ 2286ff /2360ff] "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1910-11) ; "The Hollow Men" (1925); "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919)

Lecture 23: Wednesday: November 10
VIRGINIA WOOLF: [ 2092ff /2153ff] A Room of One's Own (1929)

Week 13:
Lecture 24: Monday: November 15
Irish Rebellion/Irish Renaissance
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS [ 2019ff /2085ff]: "No Second Troy " (1910) ; "The Wild Swans at Coole" (1917) ; "Easter 1916" (1916) ; "The Second Coming" (1920/21) .

Lecture 25: Wednesday: November 17
JAMES JOYCE: [ 2172ff /2240ff] "The Dead" (1914)

FRIDAY, November 19: SECOND TERM PAPER DUE

THANKSGIVING RECESS: Saturday November 21– Sunday November 28

Week 14:
Lecture 26: Monday: November 29
D.H. LAWRENCE : [ 2258ff /2330] "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" (1922)

Lecture 27: Wednesday: December 1
Colonizing in English and English Colonized
NGUGI WA THIONGO:[ 2535 /And on E-Reserve] From Decolonizing the Mind (1986)
JOHN AGARD: [2542 /And on E-Reserve] “Listen Mr Oxford don” (1985)
SALMAN RUSHDIE: [ 2540ff /And on E-Reserve] “English is an Indian Literary Language” (1983) and [ 2854ff /2842ff] "The Prophet's Hair" (1981)

Week 15:
Lecture 28: Monday: December 6
More of Our Post-Colonial Contemporaries
J. M. COETZEE [ 2838ff /2829ff] From Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
NADINE GORDIMER: [ 2574ff /2572ff] "The Moment before the Gun Went Off" (1991) 

Lecture 29: Wednesday: December 8:
EAVAN BOLAND: [ 2848ff /2834ff] "That the Science of Cartography is Limited" (1994) ; "The Dolls Museum in Dublin " (1994)
PAUL MULDOON: [2868ff /2856ff] "Milkweed and Monarch" (1994)

COURSE REVIEW & DISCUSSION OF FINAL 

FINAL EXAM: Our exam is scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, December 14, from 7:00 – 10:00pm, in our usual lecture room (Armory 101)  

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