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Zoom link for class meetings
Class recordings -- Google Drive link
close reading strategies
MLA Formatting Quotations
Forum discussion groups
5 September - 11 September
readings for Sun Sept 5
"Caedmon's Hymn," "The Ruin," and riddles
"The Grave" (2 versions)
The Wanderer and the Wife's Lament
The Wife's Lament, alternate version 1
The Wife's Lament, alternate version 2
Pearl
Pearl introduction
video and images of the Pearl manuscript
more images of the Pearl manuscript
class notes, Thurs Sept 9
12 September - 18 September
Forum discussion - Sun Sept 12 (Gawain, Part One)
Forum discussion -- Tues Sept 14 (Gawain, Part Two)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Gawain introduction
"The Green Knight" trailer
Forum discussion -- Thurs Sept 16 (Gawain, Part Three)
19 September - 25 September
forum discussion -- Sunday Sept 19 (Gawain, Part Four)
Chaucer, The Miller's Prologue and Tale
Chaucer introduction
background on courtly love
courtly love images
forum discussion -- Tues Sept 21 (The Miller's Tale)
forum discussion -- Thurs Sept 23 (The Miller's Tale)
26 September - 2 October
First reading response
The Book of Margery Kempe
Forum discussion -- Sunday Sept 26 (Margery Kempe)
affective piety -- images
mysticism and spiritual vision--"The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa"
Shakespeare, Sonnet 138
Donne, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Bradstreet, A Letter to her Husband
Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anne Bradstreet: Poem Guide
forum discussion -- Tuesday Sept 28 (Early Modern love poems)
Aemilia Lanyer, poems
forum discussion -- Thursday Sept 30 (poems by Lanyer)
Aemilia Lanyer introduction (British Library)
3 October - 9 October
forum discussion -- Sun Oct 3 (The Description of Cookham)
Cavendish, A True Relation / The Blazing World
Print and perception: the literary careers of Margaret Cavendish and Katherine Philips
forum discussion, Tues Oct 5 (A True Relation / The Blazing World)
Astell and Defoe
Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode
forum discussion, Thurs Oct 7 (Astell, Defoe, Hogarth)
10 October - 16 October
First Analytic Essay
Montagu, Letters
Montagu, Letter 29
forum discussion, Tues Oct 12 (Montagu)
Equiano, The Interesting Narrative
African writers and Black thought in 18th-century Britain
forum discussion, Thurs Oct 14 (Equiano)
17 October - 23 October
Burney, The Journal and Letters
"On Frances Burney and the Birth of Chick Lit"
discussion forum, Sun Oct 17 (Burney)
discussion forum, Tues Oct 19 (Burney: Encountering the King, A Mastectomy)
Blake, Introduction to the Songs of Innocence
Blake, Introduction to the Songs of Experience
Blake, The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence)
Blake, The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Experience)
Blake, The Little Black Boy
article: "Blake's Two Chimney Sweepers"
article: "William Blake and 18th-century children's literature"
article: "The title page of William Blake's Songs of Innocence"
slideshow: Blake images
slideshow: William Blake introduction
discussion forum, Wednesday Oct 20 (Blake)
24 October - 30 October
Second reading response
Barbauld, To a little invisible being
Discussion forum, Sun Oct 24 (Barbauld)
Barbauld, Washing-Day
Washing Day (with line numbers)
discussion forum, Tuesday Oct 26 (Washing Day)
D.W., Grasmere Journal
D.W., Grasmere Journal, 15 April 1802
W.W., I wandered lonely as a cloud
discussion forum, Thurs Oct 28 (Dorothy Wordsworth)
images of Dove Cottage
31 October - 6 November
Introduction to "Goblin Market"
Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market
Discussion forum, Sunday Oct 31 (Goblin Market)
Evelyn Sharp, In Dull Brown
contextual essay on "In Dull Brown" and the British women's suffrage movement
discussion forum, Tuesday Nov 2 (In Dull Brown)
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (Chapter 3)
An Introduction to A Room of One's Own
discussion forum, Thurs Nov 4 (A Room of One's Own)
7 November - 13 November
Katherine Mansfield, The Daughters of the Late Colonel
An introduction to Katherine Mansfield's short stories
discussion forum, Sun Nov 7 (The Daughters of the Late Colonel)
Viola Meynell, The Letter
Elizabeth Bowen, The Demon Lover
discussion forum, Tues Nov 9 (The Letter and The Demon Lover)
George Orwell, Animal Farm
introduction to "Animal Farm"
discussion forum, Thurs Nov 11 (Animal Farm, chapters 1-4)
discussion forum, Saturday Nov 13 (Animal Farm, chapters 5-7)
14 November - 20 November
discussion forum, Sunday Nov 14 (Animal Farm, chapters 8-10)
Third reading response
Seamus Heaney, poems
Seamus Heaney, "Casualty"
Seamus Heaney, "Digging"
Heaney, "The Grauballe Man"
discussion forum, Tues Nov 16 (poems by Seamus Heaney)
discussion forum, Thurs Nov 18 ("Punishment" and "Casualty")
21 November - 27 November
Take-Home Exam
Nadine Gordimer, The Moment Before the Gun Went Off
Jean Rhys, The Day They Burned the Books
Discussion forum, Sun Nov 21 (Rhys or Gordimer)
Derek Walcott, poems
discussion forum, Tues Nov 23 (poems by Derek Walcott)
Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
discussion forum, Thurs Nov 25 (Arimah)
28 November - 4 December
Joanna Hillhouse, The Other Daughter
Tariq Mehmood, The House
Discussion forum, Sun Nov 28 (The Other Daughter / The House)
optional reading response revision
Zadie Smith, The Embassy of Cambodia
Discussion forum, Tues Nov 30 (The Embassy of Cambodia)
Discussion forum, Thurs Dec 2 (The Embassy of Cambodia)
Second Analytical Essay
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LIT 301 British Literature FA21
Teacher:
Isaac Bainbridge
Skill Level
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Beginner