Syllabus ENGLISH LIT. OF THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES - 44310 Last update 01-01-2014 HU Credits: 4 Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor) Responsible Department: English Academic year: 2 Semester: 1st Semester Teaching Languages: English Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Leona Toker, Eynel Wardi Coordinator Email: toker@mail.huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Wedn. 12:15-13:00 Teaching Staff: Prof Leona Toker page 1 / 5
Dr. Eynel Wardi Course/Module description: Introduction to the Period of Enlightenment, the Romantic Period, and the Victorial Perios in Engliah Literature. Discussion of chronologically arranged texts representative of these major trends in English literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The texts are examined in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Course/Module aims: To build a narrative of the major developments in English Literature in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, in relation to cultural history, inviting the students to complement and revise this narrative upon further exposure to literary works of the periods discussed. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: Enjoy, understand, and interpret eighteenth- and nineteenth-century text whose cultural codes are remote from our own. Recognize the features of these texts that are characteristic of their periods. Recognize the typical features of the work of each writer discussed. Analyze the details of the texts for their own sake as well as in terms of what they represent. Build up their own schema of the development of English literature and use it as a platform for futher literary studies. Attendance requirements(%): at least 75 Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Two two-hour meetings a week for one semester. Students are required to read assigned texts in advance of the discussions, and to write a number of short assignments as well as a 1200-1500-word termpaper. Course/Module Content: Representative works of the Eighteenth Century, mainly satirical works. Selected (most famous) Romantic poetry. Influential works of Victorial poetry and, time allowing, essays. page 2 / 5
Required Reading: Joseph Addison (16721719) Sir Roger at Church, Jonathan Swift (16671745) Gullivers Travels, Book 4 Alexander Pope (16881744) The Rape of the Lock "Essay on Criticism," Parts 1 and 2 "Windsor Forest," lines 1-42 Samuel Johnson (17091784) On Cowley William Wordsworth (17701850): The Prelude, Bk. 1, 357-424 (and opt.: 425-474); Bk. 6, 524-641 (Crossing the Alps) Tintern Abbey Preface to Lyrical Ballads The Solitary Reaper Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Frost at Midnight Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822) Ode to the West Wind A Defence of Poetry John Keats (1795 1821) Ode to a Nightingale Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) The Lady of Shalott In Memoriam (esp. 50, 54-56, 95, 104-6) Robert Browning (18121889) My Last Duchess Andrea del Sarto Matthew Arnold (18221888) Dover Beach Additional Reading Material: John Dryden,A Song for St. Cecilias Day Joseph Addison,The Aims of the Spectator" Alexander Pope, "Essay on Man" Samuel Johnson The Vanity of Human Wishes, Rasselas William Blake (17571827) Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Marriage of page 3 / 5
Heaven and Hell William Wordsworth The World is Too Much with Us My Heart Leaps Up The Lucy poems Surprised by Joy Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, esp. ch. 13, 14 The Eolian Harp Kubla Khan Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci Ode on a Grecian Urn Letters Robert Browning, The Bishop Orders his Tomb Fra Lippo Lippi Matthew Arnold, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse Gerard Manley Hopkins (18441889) As Kingfishers Catch Fire John Ruskin (1819 1900) Of the Pathetic Fallacy Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 50 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 0 % Project work 50 % Assignments 0 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % Additional information: Class grade (50%) is based on the term paper and short assignments. Up to 5 page 4 / 5
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