Survey of English Literature I

Dr. Margaret Hannay

Spring 2009

 

Office hours:              Mon 9:30-11:30                      Kiernan Hall 230

                                    TR 11:30-12:30                       783-4282

                                    Wed 3:35-4:35                        http://lw.siena.edu/hannay

                                    and by appointment                Email: hannay@siena.edu

                                                           

Texts:

 

Norton Anthology of English Literature, Major Authors, Volume 1 (eighth edition)

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (trans. Coghill)

Hacker, A Pocket Style Manual

 

Jan 22             Introduction; Beowulf opening (Norton 31-33)

Jan 27              Anglo-Saxon England (Norton 3-7); Beowulf: Grendel (Norton 33-58) [Cultural Studies approach] Beowulf assignment; one-page bio

Jan 29              Beowulf: Another Attack (Norton 58-77)

Feb 3               Beowulf: Dragon (Norton 77-97); "The Dream of the Rood" (Norton 24-26)

Feb 5               Marie de France:  "Lanval" (Norton 98-111); Anglo-Norman England (Norton 7-9);

                        Chaucer (Norton 165-70)

Middle English Literature

Feb 10             Chaucer (trans. Coghill): The General Prologue

Feb 12             Chaucer: The Miller's Tale; The Second Nun's Tale [Gender Theory Approach]

                        Extra credit films:  “Prologue to Chaucer,” “Women in the Middle Ages”

Feb 17             Chaucer: Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

Feb 19             Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Parts 1 and 2 (Norton 112-37)

Feb 24 and 26 WINTER BREAK

Mar 3               Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Parts 3 and 4 (Norton 137-65)

 

Early Modern Literature

Mar 5               Queen Elizabeth (Norton 357-65); Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (handout and Norton 456-58)

                        topics Due

Mar 10             Sir Philip Sidney #1, 31, 52, 71, 108 (Norton 449-54); Lady Mary Sidney Wroth (650-54)

Mar 12             Shakespeare sonnets #18, 29, 55, 73, 116, 129, 130 (Norton 493-507)

Mar 17             MIDTERM EXAM

 

            Extra credit:  Write a sonnet expressing subjectivity, either your own or that of a character in a work we have read for class

 

Mar 19             Donne, Holy Sonnets # 10 and 14, “Good Friday. 1613” (Norton 623-26)

                        Lyrics: Donne, "The Flea” and "The Good Morrow" (Norton 603-4); Marvell, "To his Coy Mistress” (Norton 677-78)

                        MLA bootcamp

 

Mar 24             Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Acts 1-3

Mar 26             RSA—Film of Twelfth Night in L26; read Twelfth Night, Acts 4-5

 

Mar 31             Shakespeare, Twelfth Night performances

 

Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Apr 2               Anne Finch, “The Introduction”; Montagu, “The Lover”

                        PROSPECTUS DUE

Apr 7               Milton: Sonnets (Norton 693-97, 721-23)

                        Paradise Lost Book I, lines 1-270 (Norton 723-32); Book 4, lines 1-113 (778-80)

                        Milton assignment

Apr 9               Genesis 2 and 3 (any Bible, in print or on-line)

                        Paradise Lost Book 9, lines 1-411 (Norton 811-19)

Apr 14             Areopagitica (Norton 711-14)

                        Paradise Lost Book 9, lines 412- end (Norton 819-35)

                        Lanyer, "Eve's Apology" (Norton 630-33); Milton assignment

Apr 16             Paradise Lost Books 10-12 (selections—see handout)

Apr 21             Cavendish, The Description of a New Blazing World (Norton 686-92);

                        Swift, Gulliver’s Travels  (see handout) [Post-Colonial]

Apr 23             Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Swift, "A Modest Proposal" (Norton 1114-19)

                        literary analysis paper due

Apr 28             Preview of Romanticism and beginnings of the novel

Apr 30             Review for final exam