Assessment
A student's course grade will be determined by five factors: exams, a research paper, presentations, a reading journal, and class participation.
Exams (45%): There will be three exams, each worth 15% of the course grade. The first exam, on 15 February, will cover material from the beginning of the course through the Romantics. The second exam, on 16 March, will be on material from the early and middle Victorian eras. The third exam, given during the final exam period (8 May), will cover the late Victorian and Modern texts. Each exam will include two sections: quotation identifications and short essays.
Research Paper (15%): The only paper will be a 3000-word research paper utilizing MLA research and citation methodology. Various "stepping-stone" assignments—a proposal, an annotated secondary bibliography, and an outline—will be due during the semester (see the course schedule for due dates). Your paper must relate to post-1750 British literature, but otherwise you are free to choose a topic that you find interesting.
Presentations (20%—online schedule): Each student will perform research to give two 10-minute presentations before the rest of the class. One presentation will cover a literary figure not on the syllabus, and one presentation will discuss a movement or idea related to course texts. The presentations may take a variety of forms, including overhead displays, dioramas, maps, chronologies, simple lectures, or any number of other approaches. Presentations that require unusual materials must be cleared with the instructor beforehand.
Reader Response Journal (10%): For each day of assigned readings, students will write a 200- to 250-word journal entry covering the material to be discussed on that day. Journal entries must be typed/word-processed and will be collected at the end of each class. You are free to write whatever comes to mind provided that it pertains to the reading assignment. Entries will be graded check plus (superior), check (satisfactory), check minus (marginal), or zero (uncollected).
Class Participation (10%): Regular participation in class discussions is absolutely essential to help hone critical thinking and communication skills. To participate effectively in these discussions, students must come to class having closely read and seriously considered the day's readings.

Attendance Policy
I take attendance at the beginning of every class period. Students are permitted three absences, taking no account of whether or not they are excused. For every unexcused absence beyond the third, students are assessed full-letter penalties to their final course grades. Students who arrive after I have taken attendance but not more than fifteen minutes from the beginning of the class period will be considered tardy, two tardies being the equivalent of one absence. Students who arrive more than fifteen minutes late for class will be considered absent.

Reading Schedule

18 Jan	Introductions; "Romanticism"
20 Jan	Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France (58); Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Man (67); Blake, "All Religions Are One" (106), "The Chimney Sweeper" (114)*
25 Jan	Blake, "The Tyger" (120), "London" (123), "The Human Abstract" (124); Burns, "To a Mouse" (302), Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled" (305), "Auld Lang Syne" (307)*
27 Jan	Wordsworth, "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" (328), preface to Lyrical Ballads (332), "The world is too much with us" (360), "London, 1802" (361), "I wandered lonely as a cloud" (433), "My heart leaps up" (434)*
1 Feb	Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (484), "Kubla Khan" (501); P.B. Shelley, from Defence of Poetry (695)*
3 Feb	P.B. Shelley, "Ozymandias" (659), "To a Sky-Lark" (672); Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" (748), "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (775), letter to Benjamin Bailey (794), letter to George & Thomas Keats (795)*
8 Feb	M. Shelley, Frankenstein*
10 Feb	M. Shelley, Frankenstein*
15 Feb	Exam I Proposal Due
17 Feb	"Victorianism"; Carlyle, "The Everlasting No" (1059), "Centre of Indifference" (1063), "The Everlasting Yea" (1070)*
22 Feb	Tennyson, "Mariana" (1187), "The Lady of Shalott" (1189), "Locksley Hall" (1204), "Tears, Idle Tears" (1211), "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1243), "Crossing the Bar" (1281)*
24 Feb	Dickens, from "Sunday Under Three Heads" (1315); Clough, "Epi-strauss-ium" (1323), "The Latest Decalogue" (1324), from "Dipsychus" (1324); Newman, from Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1328); Huxley, from Evolution and Ethics (1335)*
29 Feb	E.B. Browning, "A Year's Spinning" (1154), "A Musical Instrument" (1183); R. Browning, "Porphyria's Lover" (1348), "My Last Duchess" (1351), "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" (1355), "Andrea Del Sarto" (1378)*
2 Mar	Carlyle, "Midas" (1082); Macaulay, from "A Review of Southey's Colloquies" (1098); Engels, from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1106); Mayhew, from London Labour and the London Poor (1114)*
7 Mar	Dickens, Hard Times*
9 Mar	Dickens, Hard Times*
14 Mar	Ruskin, from "Definition of Greatness in Art" (1554), from "Of Modern Landscape" (1556), from The Stones of Venice (1560); Arnold, "Dover Beach" (1634), from Culture and Anarchy (1673)*
16 Mar	Exam II Secondary Bibliography Due
21 Mar	SPRING BREAK
23 Mar	SPRING BREAK
28 Mar	D.G. Rossetti, "The Burden of Nineveh" (1700); C. Rossetti, "Goblin Market" (1712); Morris, from "The Beauty of Life" (1739); Pater, "Preface" to The Renaissance (1759)*
30 Mar	Stevenson, "Thrawn Janet" (1468); Doyle, "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1495)*
4 Apr	Wilde, from "The Decay of Lying" (1858), "Preface" to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1881); Gilbert, "If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line" (1938); Symons, from "The Decadent Movement in Literature" (1954); Le Gallienne, "A Ballad of London" (1956)* Outline Due
6 Apr	Conrad, Heart of Darkness*
11 Apr	Conrad, Heart of Darkness*
13 Apr	"Modernism"; Hardy, "Hap" (2081), "The Darkling Thrush" (2083), "On the Departure Platform" (2084), "The Convergence of the Twain" (2084), "Channel Firing" (2086), "In the Time of the Breaking of Nations" (2087)*
18 Apr	Brooke, "The Soldier" (2226); Sassoon, "Glory of Women" (2240); Owen, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" (2241), "Dulce Et Decorum Est" (2242); Rosenberg, "Break of Day in the Trenches" (2244)*
20 Apr	Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (2308), "Easter 1916" (2310), "The Second Coming" (2312), "Sailing to Byzantium" (2315), "Lapis Lazuli" (2327), "The Circus Animals' Desertion" (2328)*
25 Apr	Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (2420), "The Waste Land" (2429), "Journey of the Magi" (2442), "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (2447)*
27 Apr	Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway*
2 May	Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Research Paper Due
8 May	Exam III (8:00 AM)

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This page last updated 14 January 2000 by Dr. J. Pierce.