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Haggar Hall
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Susan
Cannon Harris
Susan Cannon Harris
712 Flanner Hall
University of Notre Dame
Email: Susan.C.Harris.90@nd.edu
Office phone: (574)
631-5088
Website: http://www.nd.edu/~sharris2/
Web address for this
syllabus: http://www.nd.edu/~sharris2/411.htm
Books
Damrosch, David ed. The Longman Anthology of British Literature:
--Volume 1C, The
Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
--Volume 2A, The
Romantics And Their Contemporaries
--Volume 2B, The
Victorian Age
--Volume 2C, The
Twentieth Century
Bronte, Charlott. Jane Eyre. Norton Critical Edition (3rd
edition), ed. Richard J. Dunn. W.W. Norton &
Rhys, Jean. A Wide
You are responsible for reading everything mentioned
on the syllabus unless I specifically tell you otherwise. Because most of class
time will be spent working with the reading, failure to do the reading will
hurt you, your group, and the class in general. It will also lower your
in-class work grade.
You will write two 6-8 page papers.
You will also keep a reading journal which you turn in on a weekly
basis.
All assignments will be turned in at the beginning of class on the days
that the syllabus says they are due, unless I inform you that the due dates
have been changed. If you are absent on the day that an assignment is due, even
if your absence is excused, it is your responsibility to make sure it
somehow gets to me at or before
Papers
For both papers you will have the opportunity to revise and resubmit.
That is, if you are unhappy with your performance, you have one week to
work on the paper and turn it in again. The higher of the two grades will be
recorded (i.e., if you make the paper worse when you revise it, your first
grade will stand; if you make it better, your first grade is thrown out).
Papers turned in after the class period on the day they are
due will be considered half a day late and docked half a letter grade--an A
will go down to a B+, etc. Starting at dawn on the day after the paper is due,
the paper will be docked a full letter grade for every day it is late. For
instance, if a paper is due on Monday, and it is turned in at
You will
also keep a reading journal, which you will turn in every Monday. The reading
journal has two purposes: 1) to encourage you to engage with the reading
assginments before coming to class to discuss them and 2) to provide you with a
place to work out your ideas about the papers before sitting down to write
them. The reading journal requirements are as follows:
Reading
journal entries must be turned in on time or they will not be accepted.
Individual entries are graded on a pass/fail basis; you will get a credit/no
credit mark and written feedback. The amount of effort and insight you put into
your reading journal will be factored into your final course participation
grade. You will not receive credit for entries that do not meet the
requirements listed above (i.e., do not deal with that day’s text, do not show
that you are caught up on the reading, do not engage in a thoughtful manner
with the text, are less than a full page long, or are turned in late).
Your work is considered turned in when I find it. If you leave a
paper at my office Thursday night and I do not come across it until Monday
morning, it will be docked four letter grades. For this reason, if you are
turning a paper in late, it is a good idea to contact me or Taranee and arrange
a delivery time.
All written work must be typed on a word processor. Papers must be
double-spaced throughout (except for block quotations and footnotes). Include
page numbers. Margins should be no wider than 1.25" on the right and left
and 1" on the top and bottom (standard setting on most word processors).
The font size must be 12-point. Papers must be documented in either MLA or
Exams
You will take a midterm and a final exam. Dates for both are listed on
the syllabus. Together they account for 45% of your final grade.
Because this class places a tremendous importance on
student interaction, your presence and participation are crucial to the
well-being of the class as a whole. Attendance is mandatory. If you miss ten
minutes or more of a class, either at the beginning or at the end, that counts
as an unexcused absence.
The only excuses for absence that I accept are
religious holidays, physical or mental illness (verified by a doctor), or
serious personal trauma. I will allow you one unexcused absence for the
semester free of charge; after that, your in-class work grade drops 20 points
with each unexcused absence. If you accumulate six unexcused absences
(including your freebie), you will fail the course. You will be notified in writing if you are in danger of failing the
course due to unexcused absences.
I will always be available in my office during my
office hours for conferences. If you can't make those hours you can always set
up an appointment with me for another time. Taranee will hold office hours by
appointment.
Plagiarism--attempting to pass off someone else's
writing as your own--is a serious offense and will not be tolerated. This goes
for your drafts and short assignments as well as the major papers. If I find
evidence that you have plagiarized any part of any assignment, I
will turn the evidence over to the departmental honesty committee, who will
then prosecute you according to the procedure outlined in the university's
Academic Honor Code.
We will discuss plagiarism in class, and work on how
to cite sources properly to avoid confusion about what is your work and what is
someone else's. If at any point you are uncertain about whether you may have
plagiarized from a source you used, please ask me about it before
turning in the paper.
Your final grade for the course breaks down as
follows:
Paper 1: 20%
Paper
Midterm: 20%
Final: 25%
Class participation (including reading journal): 15%
Papers and exams will be assigned letter grades.
These grades will be converted into percentages at the end of the semester.
Your class participation includes your reading journal, attendance, group work,
and contributions to class discussion.
January 14
Introduction
January 16
Longman 1C: 2060-2112
(“The Restoration
and the Eighteenth Century”; Samuel Pepys, excerpts from The Diary)
January 19
Longman 1C: 2288-2356
(William Wycherly, The Country Wife)
JOURNAL DUE.
January 21
Longman 1C: 2445-2448, 2572-2585
(Jonathan Swift,
“The Lady’s Dressing Room;” Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Turkish Embassy
Letters, “Epistle from Mrs. Yonge,” “The Lover,” “The Reasons That Induced…”)
January 23
Longman 1C: 2474-2476, 2504-2522, 2396-2406,
2422-2436
(“Alexander Pope;”
Pope, The Rape of the Lock; “Periodical Personae,” “Women And Men,
Manners and Marriage”
January 26
Longman 1C: 2113-2115, 2223-2224, 2235-2276
(“Aphra Behn”;
Behn, “To The Fair Clorinda…”, Oroonoko)
JOURNAL DUE.
January 28
Longman 1C:
2476-2492, 2541-2549
(Alexander Pope, An
Essay On Criticism, An Essay On Man)
January 30
Longman 1C: 2466-2473
(Jonathan Swift, A
Modest Proposal; William Petty, Political Arithmetic)
February 2
Longman 2A: 67-83, 227-249, 135-148
(Edmund Burke, Reflections
on the Revolution…; Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of
Women, introduction and chapters
1-2; “William Blake;” Blake, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”)
JOURNAL DUE.
February 4
PAPER
#1 DUE.
Longman 2A:
118-126
(Blake, Songs of Innocence; Lamb, from The Praise of
Chimney-Sweepers)
February 6
Longman 2A: 126-135
(Blake, Songs
of Experience)
Week Five:
Back To Nature
February 9
Longman 2A: 207-210, 336-349, 356-362
(Wordsworth,
“Toussaint L’Ouverture,” “Humanity,” “Letter To Mary Ann Rawson;” “William
Wordsworth/The Lyrical Ballads;” Wordsworth, “Simon Lee,” “We Are Seven,”
“Lines Written in Early Spring,” “The Thorn,” Note to “The Thorn,” “Preface to
the Lyrical Ballads)
JOURNAL DUE.
February 11
Longman 2A: 352-356
(Wordsworth:
“Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”)
February 13
Longman 2A: 520-526
(“Samuel Taylor
Coleridge;” Coleridge, “The Eolian Harp,” “This Lime-Tree Bower”)
Week Six: Dark
Angels
February 16
Longman 2A:
576-582, 528-544
(Coleridge, from
Chapter 14 of Biographia Literaria (“Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads”
and “Philosophic Definitions”), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Cowper,
“The Castaway;” “Table Talk”)
JOURNAL DUE.
February 18
Longman 2A:
546-561
(Coleridge, “Kubla
Khan,” “Christabel”)
February 20
Longman 2A: 601-638, 644-645, 650
(“George Gordon,
Lord Byron;” Byron, “She Walks In Beauty,” “So, We’ll Go No More A-Roving,” Manfred,
A Dramatic Poem; Coleridge, from The
Statesman’s Manual; Shelley, Preface to Prometheus Unbound)
Week Seven:
Sublimation
February 23
Longman 2A: 499-505, 752-758, 760,
771-775
(Edmund Burke, The
Sublime And The Beautiful; “Percy Bysshe Shelley;” Shelley, “To
Wordsworth,” “
JOURNAL DUE.
February 25
Longman 2A: 761-771, 800-810
(Shelley, The
Mask of Anarchy, “A Defence of Poetry”)
February 27
Longman 2A: 852-855, 864, 879-883
(“John Keats;”
Keats, “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer,” Pope & Chapman translations
of The Iliad, “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles,” “Ode To A Nightingale,”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”)
Week Eight:
It’s Good To Be The Queen
March 1
MIDTERM. No journal due.
March 3
Longman 2B, 1008-1032,
1540-1545,1105-1107, 1108-1112
(“The Victorian Age;” Queen Victoria, “Letters on the Position of
Women;”
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning;” Barret Browning, “Sonnets from the
Portugese;”)
March 5
Longman 2B:, 1305-1309, 1311-1312, 1321-1322,
(“Robert Browning;” Browning, “Poryphria’s Lover,”
“My Last Duchess,” “Love Among the Ruins”)
March 6-14: Spring Break. No
Class.
Week Nine:
Victoria’s Secrets
March 15
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Part I
JOURNAL DUE
March 17
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Part II
March 19
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre,
Part III
Week Ten: Half
In Love With Death
Longman 2B: 1165-1196
Longman 2B:
1243-1264,1551-1552, 1583-1593
(“Charles Darwin;”
Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle, On The Origin of Species, The
Descent of Man; Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach,” Culture and Anarchy)
Week Eleven: The War To End All Wars
March 29
Longman 2C: 1990-2014, 2167-2182
(“The Twentieth Century,” “BLAST! A Vorticist
Manifesto”)
JOURNAL DUE.
March 31
PAPER
#2 DUE.
Longman 2C:
2188-2192, 2216-2231
(Wilfred Owen; Robert Graves)
April 2
Longman 2C:
2242-2253
(“William
Week Twelve:
April 5
Longman 2C:
2344-2350, 2374-2379
(“T. S. Eliot;” Eliot,
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Tradition and the Individual Talent)
PAPER #2 DUE.
April 7
Longman 2C:
2356-2368
(T. S. Eliot, The
April 9
Good
Friday. No Class.
Week Thirteen:
Mostly Dead
April 12
Easter
Monday. No Class.
April 14
Longman 2C: 2270-2310
(“James Joyce;” Joyce, Dubliners)
April 16
Longman 2C: 2386-2438
(Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, first half)
Week
Fourteen: Shellshock
April 19
Longman 2C: 2439-2484
(conclusion of Mrs.
Dalloway)
JOURNAL DUE.
April 21
Longman 2C: 2370-2374
(Eliot, “Burnt
Norton” from Four Quartets)
April 23
Longman 2C: 2788-2797
(“W.H. Auden”;
Auden, “Musee de Beaux Arts,” “In Memory of W. B. Yeats,” “
Week Fifteen:
Writing Back
April 26
Jean Rhys, A
Wide
JOURNAL DUE.
April 28
Evaluations
TUESDAY, MAY 4:
FINAL EXAM,