EL2_Lecture_Timetable_2012-13_Semester_1
ENGLISH LITERATURE 2: Session 2012-2013
Timetable - Semester 1
This is the lecture timetable for English Literature 2, Semester 1 – September to December 2012. Texts referred to in the timetable should be read before the relevant lecture.
Texts that do not have one of the following annotations should be bought separately at the start of the semester or downloaded, where available.
?(N1) = Norton Anthology, 8th ed. volume 1
?(N2) = Norton Anthology, 8th ed. volume 2
?(NT) = Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Week THEME MONDAY:
Core
Lecture Theatre 5,
Appleton Tower
12.10 - 1 pm
WEDNESDAY:
Core
Lecture Theatre 5,
Appleton Tower
12.10 - 1 pm
FRIDAY:
English Literature 2
Lecture Theatre 5,
Appleton Tower
12.10 - 1 pm
Part I: Eighteenth Century, 1700-1800
1
The
Invention of
‘Literature’SEPT 17
Introduction to
EL2/SL2
Dr Anna Vaninskaya/
Dr David Farrier
SEPT 19
Introduction to the 18th
Century
Dr Robert Irvine
SEPT 21
Gay, The Beggar's Opera
(N1)
Dr Olga Taxidou
2
The Scope of
Satire SEPT 24
Swift, Gulliver's
Travels, Bk1 (N1)
Dr Simon Malpas
SEPT 26
Smollett, Humphry
Clinker
Dr Robert Irvine
SEPT 28
Pope, Essay on Criticism;
The Dunciad (N1)
Dr Simon Malpas
Core Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton Tower
12.10 - 1 pm
Core
Lecture Theatre 5,
Appleton Tower
12.10 - 1 pm
English Literature 2
Lecture Theatre 5,
Appleton Tower
12.10 - 1 pm
3
Britishness
and English
Literature OCT 1
Gray, ‘Progress of
Poesy’, and ‘The Bard’
Dr Penny Fielding
OCT 3
Macpherson,
Fragments of Ancient
Poetry;
Blair, ‘A Critical
Dissertation on the
Poems of Ossian’
(course anthology)
Dr Penny Fielding
OCT 5
Gray, ‘Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard’ (N1)
Dr Jonathan Wild
4
The Culture
of Sensibility OCT 8
Sterne,
Sentimental Journey
Prof Randall Stevenson
OCT 10
Mackenzie,
Man of Feeling
Dr Robert Irvine
OCT 12
Johnson,
Rasselas (N1)
Dr Andrew Taylor
5
Radical
Enthusiasm OCT 15
Burns, poetry in course
anthology; and
Paine, Common Sense
Dr Robert Irvine
OCT 17
Blake, ‘The Chimney
Sweeper’ (Songs of
Innocence);‘The
Chimney Sweeper’
(Songs of Experience);
Visions of the Daughters
of Albion; The Marriage
of Heaven and Hell;
‘A Song of Liberty’ (N2)
Dr Keith Hughes
OCT 19
Franklin,
Autobiography
Dr Andrew Taylor
Core Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton Tower
12.10 - 1 pm
Core
Lecture Theatre 5,
Appleton Tower
12.10 - 1 pm
English Literature 2
Lecture Theatre 5,
Appleton Tower
12.10 - 1 pm
Part II: Romanticism 1798-1837
6
Introduction
to Romantic
Verse and
Drama OCT 22
Introduction to
Romanticism
Wordsworth, Preface to
Lyrical Ballads,
‘Tintern Abbey’;
Coleridge, ‘Kubla
Khan’ (N2)
Dr Simon Malpas
OCT 24
Baillie,
‘Introductory Discourse’
and De Monfort
(course anthology)
Dr Robert Irvine
OCT 26
Wordsworth,
The Prelude (N2)
Dr Simon Malpas
7
The Gothic OCT 29
Brockden Brown,
Wieland
Dr Kenneth Millard
OCT 31
Shelley,
Frankenstein (1831 ed.)
Dr Martin Philip
NOV 2
Coleridge, Biographia
Literaria (chapter 13), ‘The
Rime of the Ancient
Mariner’;
Keats, ‘Lamia’, ‘Ode on a
Grecian Urn’, Letters (N2)
Dr Simon Malpas
8
National
Narratives NOV 5
Edgeworth,
Castle Rackrent
Dr Allyson Stack
NOV 7
Austen,
Northanger Abbey
Dr Jonathan Wild
NOV 9
Austen,
Northanger Abbey
Dr Jonathan Wild
9
Varieties of
Romance NOV 12
Scott,
Ivanhoe
Dr Robert Irvine
NOV 14
Irving,
‘Rip van Winkle’ and
‘The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow’ in The Sketch-
Book
Dr Kenneth Millard
NOV 16
Shelley, ‘To a Sky-lark’;
‘England in 1819’; ‘The
Mask of Anarchy’;
‘Adonais’ (N2)
Dr Simon Malpas
Core Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton Tower
12.10 - 1 pm
Core
Lecture Theatre 5,
Appleton Tower
12.10 - 1 pm
English Literature 2
Lecture Theatre 5,
Appleton Tower
12.10 - 1 pm
Part III: High Victorian 1837-1890
10
Signs of the
Times NOV 19
Introduction to
Victorian Literature;
Carlyle, ‘Signs of the
Times’
(in course anthology)
Dr Jonathan Wild
NOV 21
Dickens,
Hard Times
Dr Andrew Taylor
NOV 23
Dickens,
Hard Times
Dr Andrew Taylor
11
Class and
Gender NOV 26
Gaskell,
North and South
Dr Jonathan Wild
NOV 28
Gender and women
writers (N2);
Oliphant, Hester
Dr Claire McKechnie
NOV 30
Tennyson,
‘Mariana’, ‘Tithonus’, ‘The
Lady of Shalott’, and
‘Ulysses’ (N2)
Dr Kenneth Millard
Revision W eek: 3 t o 7 D ecember 2012 Semester 1 a ssessment p eriod s tarts: 10 D ecember Last d ay o f S emester 1: F riday 21 D ecember