Kent-Drury
English 421
Spring 1999
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Date |
Topic/ Reading Assignment |
| Week 1 | Backgrounds to Revolution and Restoration |
| 1/11 | Introductions; syllabus; historical background |
| 1/13 | The Revolution in Context: Ballads and newsbooks, A (1-8); Gauden, A (21-25); Milton, A (51-53) |
| 1/15 | Views of Government: Filmer, A (12-14); Locke, A (389-396) |
| Week 2 | Poetics of Public Life: Milton's Paradise Lost as Restoration poem |
| 1/18 | Martin Luther King Day Holiday |
| 1/20 | Addison & Steele, The Spectator, A (667-673); Johnson, Life of Milton (930-941); Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 1 & 2, A (56-100) |
| 1/22 | Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 3 & 4, A (101-143) |
| Week 3 | Poetics of Public Life: Dryden |
| 1/25 | II Samuel; Dryden Absalom and Achitophel, CP |
| 1/27 | Dryden, A&A (continued) |
| 1/29 | Pepys Diary, A (394-400); Defoe J. of the Plague Year, CP; Dryden, Annus Mirabilis (CP) |
| Week 4 | Private Poetics: Gender Politics |
| 2/1 | Phillips, A (358, 364, 367; Killigrew, A (528, "Herodias" CP); Behn, A (411, 418); Rochester A (473, 462); Swift, A (652); Montagu A (779) |
| 2/3 | Behn, The Rover, Part I, Acts I & II, CP |
| 2/5 | Behn, The Rover, Part I, Act III, CP |
| Week 5 | Slavery, Exoticism, and Travel Narrative |
| 2/8 | Addison & Steele, The Spectator, A (664-667); Montagu, Letters, A (769-775); Behn, Oroonoko, A (421-440) |
| 2/10 | Behn, Oroonoko, A (440-461) |
| 2/12 | Midterm #1 |
| Weeks 6-9 | Satire, Parody, and Burlesque: The Scriblerians |
| Week 6 | The Scriblerians: Pope |
| 2/15 | President's Day Holiday |
| 2/17 | Pope, Excerpt from Essay on Criticism, CP; Rape of the Lock, A 701-722 |
| 2/19 | Pope, Rape of the Lock (continued)
Out-of-Class Midterm Due |
| Week 7 | The Scriblerians: Swift |
| 2/22 | Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Introduction and Book 1 |
| 2/24 | Swift, GT, Books 2 & 3 |
| 2/26 | Swift, GT, Book 4 |
| Week 8 | The Scriblerians: Gay |
| 3/1 | Select Trials, "Jonathan Wild," CP; Gay, BOOECP, Beggar's Opera, Act I |
| 3/3 | Gay, Beggar's Opera, Act II |
| 3/5 | Bay, Beggar's Opera, Act III |
| Week 9 | Scriblerus Secundus: Fielding's Drama |
| 3/8 | Fielding, BOOECP, Tragedy of Tragedies, Preface & Act I |
| 3/10 | Fielding, ToT, Acts II and III |
| 3/12 | Midterm 2 (in-class only) |
| 3/15-3/20 | Spring Vacation |
| Weeks 10-14 | Bourgeois Sensibility and Sentimentalism |
| Week 10 | Public and Private Conduct |
| 3/22 | Fielding, "Essay on Conversation," A824-833; Jane Collier, "Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting," A 949-957 |
| 3/24 | Burney, Journals (1144-1147); Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1095-1109; Johnson, A, Life of Savage (836-843); Rambler (852-863); Excerpts from Prefaces (922-930) |
| 3/26 | Library Time |
| Week 11 | Defoe |
| 3/29 | Excerpts from Select Trials, CP; excerpt from London Journal, CP; Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1-120) |
| 3/31 | Defoe, MF (121-240) |
| 4/2 | Defoe, MF (241-343) |
| Week 12 | Bourgeois Tragedy |
| 4/5 | Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, "Ballad of George Barnwell," CP; Lillo, BOOECP, The London Merchant; or, The History of George Barnwell , Acts I & II |
| 4/7 | Lillo, LM, Acts III & IV Paper Due |
| 4/9 | Lillo, LM, Act V |
| Week 13 | Richardson |
| 4/12 | Richardson, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded(1-200) |
| 4/14 | Richardson, Pamela (201-400) |
| 4/16 | Richardson, Pamela (401-end) |
| Week 14 | Burney |
| 4/19 | Burney, Evelina or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (1-150) |
| 4/21 | Burney, Evelina (151-300) |
| 4/23 | Burney, Evelina (301-end) |
| Week 15 | Goldsmith |
| 4/26 | Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village," A (1054-1063; BOOECP, She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night, Acts I & II |
| 4/28 | Goldsmith, SSTC, Acts III & IV |
| 5/3 | Goldsmith, SSTC, Act V |
| 5/5-5/14 | Finals Week |