Dr. Lisa Hammond  University of South Carolina Lancaster  213 Bradley Building  803-313-7044 ENGL 289-013 Fall 2006

lhammond@gwm.sc.edu http://web.comporium.net/~lghammond http://blackboard.sc.edu Dr. Hammond's course schedule TTH 11:00AM-12:15PM, BRAD 121

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All reading assignments include the introduction to the author.  Please note also that this syllabus is subject to change as necessary to create a course environment that's flexible and responsive to particular class needs.  You are responsible for keeping up with such changes, which are generally announced at the beginning or end of class; if absent, please check with a classmate or with me, as additional assignments may be made at any time. 

Date	Readings/ In-Class Activities	Assignments
	Romantic Period
Th 8/24	Introduction to course and policies	(All readings from Vol. D)
T 8/29	Introduction to the Romantics Anna Letitia Barbauld “The Mouse’s Petition” (27-28) “The Rights of Woman” (35-36) “To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible” (36-37)	W 8/30: Last day to drop without a grade of W being assigned
Th 8/31	William Blake from Songs of Innocence & Experience (81-97)
T 9/5	Mary Wollstonecraft from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (170-89) William Wordsworth “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” (258-62)
Th 9/7	William Wordsworth “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” (306-12)
T 9/12	Samuel Taylor Coleridge “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” (428-30) “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (430-46)
Th 9/14	George Gordon, Lord Byron “She walks in beauty” (612) “When we two parted” (613-14) Manfred (635-69)	9/14: Last day to order a diploma
T 9/19	Percy Bysshe Shelley “Mutability” (744) “To William Shelley” (772) “Ode to the West Wind” (772-75) John Keats “La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad” (899-900) “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (905-06)
Th 9/21	Mary Shelley Frankenstein (5-156)
T 9/26	Frankenstein continued
Th 9/28	Exam	Romantics Exam
	Victorian Period
T 10/3	Introduction to the Victorians John Henry Cardinal Newman from The Idea of a University (1035-41) Charles Darwin from The Origin of Species (1539-45)	(All readings from Vol. E)
Th 10/5	No class:: Dr. Hammond attending a conference off-campus	F 10/6: Last day to drop without a grade of WF being assigned
T 10/10	Alfred, Lord Tennyson “The Lady of Shalott” (1114-18) In Memoriam (1138: read Obiit and sections 1, 3, 30, 55, 56, 95, 106, 118, 124, 130, Epilogue) “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1188-89)
Th 10/12	Elizabeth Barrett Browning from Sonnets from the Portuguese (1084-85) “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1085-92) “Mother and Poet” (1106-09) Robert Browning “Porphyria’s Lover” (1252) “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” (1253) “My Last Duchess” (1255)	Research Project Proposal due
T 10/17	Elizabeth Gaskell “The Old Nurse’s Story” (1222-36) Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach” (1368-69)
Th 10/19	No class	10/19 & 20: Fall Break
T 10/24	Dante Gabriel Rossetti “The Blessed Damozel” (1443-47) Christina Rossetti Goblin Market (1466-78) William Morris “The Defense of Guenever” (1483-91)
Th 10/26	Pre-Raphaelites continued
T 10/31	Exam	Victorian Exam
	Modern Period
Th 11/2	Introduction to the Modern Period Thomas Hardy “Hap” (1868-69) “The Darkling Thrush” (1871) “The Ruined Maid” (1872) “A Trampwoman’s Tragedy” (1872-75) “Channel Firing” (1877-78)	(All readings from Vol. F)
T 11/7	Rupert Brooke “The Soldier” (1955-56) Siegfried Sassoon “Glory of Women” (1962) Isaac Rosenberg “Break of Day in the Trenches” (1967) “Louse Hunting” (1967-68) Wilfred Owen “Anthem for Doomed Youth” (1971-72) “Dulce Et Decorum Est” (1974)
Th 11/9	Research paper library work on your own No class: Dr. Hammond attending a conference off-campus
T 11/14	William Butler Yeats “No Second Troy” (2029) “The Second Coming” (2036-37) “A Prayer for My Daughter” (2037-39) Virginia Woolf “A Room of One’s Own” (2092-2104, 2116-18) “The Legacy” (full-text available online)
Th 11/16	James Joyce “Araby” (2168-72) D. H. Lawrence “Snake” (2278-80)	Research paper due
T 11/21	T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (2289-93)
Th 11/23	No class	11/22-24: Thanksgiving Holiday
T 11/28	W. H. Auden “Musée des Beaux Arts” (2428-29) “The Unknown Citizen” (2431-32) Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (2450) Doris Lessing “To Room Nineteen” (2542-64)
Th 11/30	Edith Sitwell “Still Falls the Rain” (2453-54) Henry Reed from “Lessons of the War” (2455-56) Claude McKay “If We Must Die” (2464) Wole Soyinka “Telephone Conversation” (2529-30)
T 12/5	Philip Larkin “Church Going” (2566-68) Eavan Boland “That the Science of Cartography is Limited” (2849-50)
Th 12/7	Catch-up and exam review
T 12/12	11:30-1:30 p.m. Final Exam Session	Modern Exam