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English 323 Course Materials
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Syllabus
Monday, January 21 First day: introductions and overview. Introductory points of history, Defoe's True-Born Englishman. Wednesday, January 23 Reading Anderson, Gellner, and Hobsbawm (bulkpack). Assignment This assignment, in two parts, is designed to get everyone acclimated to the discussion board right off the bat: first, post a paragraph about yourself in the designated forum. You can introduce yourself however you please, and you may repeat information from the first class. Second, post a reference to a passage in the readings that prompts you to make a comment or ask a question and tell us briefly why you chose the given passage. (You do not need to type the passage. Just provide a page reference and make clear what you're talking about.) This is meant to be a short assignment, not a full response. Monday, January 28 Reading Daniel Defoe's Tour (bulkpack). Assignment Group I Response: Comment either on Defoe's writing as a nation-building project or on this travel narrative as a distinctly literary piece of non-fiction. Wednesday, January 30 Reading Poems from Gray and Collins (bulkpack). Assignment Group II Response: Choose one of the poems and discuss the intersection of literary and national interest in that poem. Reading Trumpener, "Introduction: Harps Hung Upon the Willow" (Bardic Nationalism 3-36) and Colley, "Peripheries" (Britons 101-146). Assignment Group I Response: open response. Wednesday, February 6 Reading Stafford's Introduction and the Ossianic poems (bulkpack). Assignment Group II Response: open response. Monday, February 11 Reading In this order: McGann's Introduction and chapter, then the "Dissertation Concerning the Poems of Ossian" (bulkpack). Assignment Group I Response: Respond to McGann's argument in support of the merits of Ossianic poetry, giving your own examples supporting whatever your take is on his argument. Wednesday, February 13 Reading Davis, "Introduction: Acts of Union," "Narrating the '45: Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, and the Pretense of Fiction" and "Origin of the Specious" (bulkpack). Assignment Group II Response: open response. Monday, February 18 Reading Smollett, Humphry Clinker 1-78. Assignment Group I Response: open response. Wednesday, February 20 Reading Smollett, Humphry Clinker 79-117. Assignment Group II Response: open response. Monday, February 25 Reading Smollett, Humphry Clinker 118-201. Assignment Group I Response: open response. Wednesday, February 27 Reading Smollett, Humphry Clinker 202-230. Assignment Group II Response: open response. Reading Smollett, Humphry Clinker 231-310. Assignment Group I Response: Using the library catalog, find one article or book that discusses Humphry Clinker or Smollett's novels more generally. Spend an hour or so investigating the source, and then use your response to summarize quickly what your source says about the novel. Wednesday, March 6 Reading Smollett, Humphry Clinker 310-353. Assignment Group II Response: Do what Group I did for Monday. Monday, March 11 Reading Smith, from The Wealth of Nations (bulkpack). Assignment Group I Response: open response. Wednesday, March 13 Reading None: work on your papers. In class, I'll ask you all to share your paper projects, so be ready to talk about that for a few minutes. Remember that the shorter paper is due before break.
SPRING BREAK Monday, April 1 Reading Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland. Assignment Group I Response: open response. Wednesday, April 3 Reading Thomas Boswell, Journey of a Tour to the Hebrides (selections TBA). Assignment Group II Response: open response. Monday, April 8 Reading Thomas Boswell, Journey of a Tour to the Hebrides (selections TBA) and Trumpener, Chapter 2 (67-127). Assignment Group I Response: open response. Wednesday, April 10 Reading Thomas Moore memoir and poems (bulkpack). Assignment Group II Response: open response. PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE FRIDAY, APRIL 12 Monday, April 15 Reading Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent, Marilyn Butler's Introduction and first part (1-84). Assignment Group I Response: open response. Wednesday, April 17 Reading Castle Rackrent (85-138). Assignment Group II Response: open response. Monday, April 22 Reading Owenson (Morgan), The Wild Irish Girl (1-90). Assignment Group I Response: open response. Wednesday, April 24 Reading Owenson (Morgan), The Wild Irish Girl (91-130). Assignment Group II Response: open response. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE FRIDAY, APRIL 26 Monday, April 29 Reading Owenson (Morgan), The Wild Irish Girl (131-210). Assignment Group I Response: open response. Reading Owenson (Morgan), The Wild Irish Girl (211-252). Assignment Group II Response: open response. Monday, May 6 Reading Julia Anne Miller, Acts of Union: Family Violence and National Courtship in Maria Edgeworth's The Absentee and Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl (bulkpack) and Morri Safran, dissertation excerpt (handout). Assignment Group I Response: open response. Wednesday, May 8 Last day: wrapping up. FINAL PAPER DUE 12:00, TUESDAY, MAY 14
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