Aug 27

M

Lecture: Introduction to the Course

M. Gubar

Aug 29

W

NO RECITATION

Sept 1

M

NO LECTURE: Happy Labor Day!

• First paper assignment available on Courseweb

Sept 5

W

Recitation

• Sharon Olds, “Sex Without Love” (1984), “Ecstasy” (1984), “Am and Am Not” (1996), “True Love” (1996)
• John Donne: “The Ecstasy” (1633) and “Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed” (1669)
• All poems are available ONLINE on the Courseweb site; please print yourself out a copy and bring it to recitation!

TFs and UTAs

Sept 10

M

Lecture

•  Margery Kempe, extracts from The Book of Margery Kempe (c.1430) [ONLINE]
• Excerpt from Rosalynn Voaden’s God’s Word, Women’s Voices (1999)

H. Johnson

Sept 12

W

Recitation

• The Book of Margery Kempe
• Voaden excerpt

Sept 14

F

First paper assignment due by 4 PM in your recitation instructor’s mailbox in 501 CL

Sept 17

M

Lecture

• William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c.1590s)

J. Twyning

Sept 19

W

Recitation

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Second paper assignment available on Courseweb

Sept 24

M

Lecture

• John Milton, Comus (1634) [ONLINE]

K. Latta

Sept 26

W

Recitation

• Comus

Oct 1

M

Lecture

•  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Christabel” (1797, 1800) [ONLINE]
• John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes” (1819) [ONLINE]

S. Carr

Oct 3

W

Recitation

• “Christabel” and “The Eve of St. Agnes”

Oct 5

F

Second paper assignment due

Oct 8

M

Lecture

• William Wordsworth: “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (1802-4) [ONLINE]
• Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843): Stave 1 and 2

M. Gubar

Oct 10

W

Recitation

• “Ode” and A Christmas Carol, Stave 1 and 2

Oct 15

M

Lecture    

• A Christmas Carol, Stave 3, 4, and 5
• Third paper assignment available

TFs

Oct 17

W

Recitation

• A Christmas Carol

Oct 22

M

Lecture

• Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
• NOTE: You do not have to read Through the Looking- Glass!

M. Gubar and UTAs

Oct 24

W

Recitation

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Oct 29

M

Lecture

• Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1897)

N. Glazener

Oct 31

W

Recitation

• The Turn of the Screw

Nov 5

M

Lecture

• Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925): pp. 1-101

M. Gubar

Nov 7

W

Recitation

• Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 1-101

Nov 12

M

Lecture

• Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 102-end

TFs

Nov 14

W

Recitation

• Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 102-end

Nov 16

F

Draft of third paper due by 4 PM in your recitation instructor’s mailbox in 501 CL

Nov 19

M

Lecture

• Derek Walcott, Pantomime (1980) [ONLINE]

S. Puri

Nov 21

W

NO RECITATION: Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov 26

M

Lecture

• We will watch a video of a production of Pantomime in lecture
• Though we’re going to be talking about Pantomime in recitation, you might want to begin reading Jesus’ Son for next week!

M. Gubar

Nov 28

W

Recitation

• Pantomime
• Third paper assignment due in recitation

Dec 3

M

Lecture

• Jesus’ Son (1992) by Denis Johnson
• Take Home Final

Jim Seitz

Dec 5

W

Recitation Seminar

• Jesus’ Son

Dec 10

M

Take-Home Final Due by 4 PM in your recitation instructor’s mailbox in 501 CL