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The Literatures in English programme across the first three semesters of a student's career in the Department of English is divided into three parts, corresponding to each of the semesters. The first part is Literatures in English, 1550-1800, the second Literatures in English, 1800-1950, and the third Contemporary Literatures in English. Overall, the course draws on the Literature Section's strengths in British, American and Postcolonial Literatures. It does not divide these literatures into separately taught entities. One of its main purposes is to highlight the ways in which different literatures in English, at the same time as constituting distinct traditions, have nevertheless intersected with and influenced each other. The course balances the need to establish cultural/national/historical characteristics in the literatures of different English-speaking countries with the need to recognise the global dimension of the English language imagination. It negotiates between the need to treat a selection of major authors and genres from the several 'national' traditions while allowing for the commonality of perspective that is afforded by the inheritance and use of a common language.
Literatures in English, 1550-1800 (Autumn Semester 2006)
2 lectures a week. 2 hour seminar.
Textbooks:
- Norton Anthology of English Literature, 2 vols, 7th edition.
- Norton Anthology of American Literature, 2 vols, 6th edition
- Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (Norton Edition, ed. Albert J. Rivero)
- Shakespeare, The Tempest (Arden)
All texts are in these volumes apart from some which will be posted on the Literatures Conference in FirstClass. Students will be expected to print their own copies of the posted texts.
LECTURE PROGRAMME
N.B.: The lecture and seminar programme begins in the second week of the semester.
Lecturers: IHD (Inger H. Dalsgaard), AD (Aidan Day), TK (Tabish Khair), PM (Peter Mortensen), MS (Michael Skovmand), AW (Allan Westphall) |
Week 36 |
Semester Week
2A) |
Early Modern Perspectives (AD)
- Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder:
- 'Whoso List to Hunt'
- 'They Flee from Me'
- Christopher Marlowe, from Tamburlaine;
- Part Two, V.3.124-43, 146-59
- V.1.177-80, 216-20 (handout)
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| 2B) |
Early Modern Drama II. (TK)
- Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus
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Week 37 |
| 3A) |
Elizabethan Poetry I (PM)
- Sir Thomas Hoby, Castiglione's The Courtier, Book I
- Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder
- 'The long love that in my thought doth harbour'
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- 'The soote season'
- 'Love that doth reign and live within my thought'
- Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, 1,
- 'Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show'
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| 3B) |
Elizabethan Poetry II: Shakespeare's Sonnets (MS)
- Sonnets:
- 18, 20, 87, 97, 116, 128, 130, 138, 144, 147.
- 21 (download from conference)
- 53 (download from conference)
- 141 (download from conference)
- 149 (download from conference)
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Week 38 |
| 4A) |
Shakespeare: King Lear (MS) |
| 4B) |
Metaphysical Poetry (MS)
- John Donne:
- 'The Flea'
- 'The Canonization'
- 'The Ecstasy'
- 'Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed'
- 'Holy Sonnet 9: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree'
- 'Sonnet 14: Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you'
- George Herbert
- 'Easter Wings'
- 'The Windows'
- Abraham Cowley
- Andrew Marvell
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Week 39 |
| 5A+5B) |
Reading/Writing Week.
First written assignment to be handed in at the end of semester week 5.
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Week 40 |
| 6A) |
Shakespeare: The Tempest (MS)
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| 6B) |
Postcolonial Shakespeare: Tempest. Caliban/Carib and Ariel/Aruak: Conquests of Language (TK)
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Week 41 |
| 7A) |
War in England and War in Heaven: Milton (AW)
- John Milton:
- 'Lycidas'
- Paradise Lost, Books I, IX
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| 7B) |
Puritans and Pornographers: Restoration Voices (PM)
- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
- [Christian Sets out for the Celestial City]
- [The Slough of Despond]
- [Vanity Fair]
- [The River of Death and the Celestial City]
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
- 'The Imperfect Enjoyment'
- Aphra Behn
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Week 42 |
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AUTUMN BREAK - NO CLASSES |
Week 43 |
| 8A) |
Enlightenment Perspectives (AD)
- Alexander Pope:
- 'Windsor Forest', ll. 1-110 (download from conference)
- Essay on Man, Epistle 1
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| 8B) |
The Age of Satire (PM)
- John Dryden, A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire
- Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
- Alexander Pope
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Week 44 |
| 9A) |
The Discovery of Sameness: Swift's Satire (TK)
- Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels:
- 'A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson'
- 'The Publisher to the Reader', Part I: 'A Voyage to Lilliput'
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| 9B) |
NO LECTURE |
Week 45 |
| 10A+10B) |
Reading/Writing Week.
Second written assignment to be handed in at the end of semester week 10.
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Week 45 |
| 11A) |
Accounts of Colonial Travel and Captivity (IHD)
- Thomas Harriot, from A Brief and true Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
- 'Of the Nature and Manners of the People'
- Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson
- Introduction
- The First Remove
- The Second Remove
- Thomas Morton, from New English Canaan
- Book I, Chapter 1, The General Survey of the Country;
- Book III, Chapter XIV, Of the Revels of New Canaan
- Cotton Mather, from The Wonders of the Invisible World
- A People of God in the Devil's Territories
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11B) |
Reading Multiculturalism backwards: Dangers and Possibilities (TK)
- Extracts from Leo Africanus and Dean Mahomet (download from conference)
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Week 47 |
| 12A) |
The Rise of the Novel I (PM)
- Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
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| 12B) |
The Rise of the Novel II (TK)
- Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
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Week 48 |
| 13A) |
American Enlightenment and Revolutionary Period Literature (IHD)
- Benjamin Franklin, Information for Those Who Would remove to America
- St Jean De Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, from Letters from an American Farmer
- Thomas Jefferson, from Notes on the State of Virginia
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| 13B) |
British Enlightenment Radicals (AD)
- Tom Paine, from Rights of Man (download from conference)
- William Wordsworth, 'The Female Vagrant' (download from conference)
- William Blake, 'The Little Black Boy'
- Songs of Innocence:
- 'The Chimney Sweeper'
- 'Holy Thursday'
- Songs of Experience:
- 'The Chimney Sweeper'
- 'Holy Thursday'
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