English 3307:
Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Literature
Eighteenth Century Literature: Culture in the Marketplace
TR 9:30 -- 10:50
Fall 2013
Course description
Learning Outcomes and Methods of Assessment
Required Texts
Required Work
NB: students must complete all assignments in order to pass the course. Consult
the detailed handouts for each assignment for specific guidelines.
Short paper (4-7 pp) | 20% |
Longer (8-10 pp.) researched paper | 30% |
Proposal and annotated bibliography for researched paper | 10% |
Midterm exam | 15% |
Final exam | 15% |
Participation | 10% |
Schedule of Readings and Assignments
(subject to change)Week 1 | T 8/27 | Introduction to the course; introduction to Longman Anthology |
R 8/29 | Dryden: Mac Flecknoe and preface to Fables Ancient and Modern | |
Week 2 | T 9/3 | Wycherley: The Country Wife |
R 9/5 | Behn: "The Disappointment"; Rochester: "The Imperfect Enjoyment" | |
Week 3 | T 9/10 | Perspectives: Coterie Writing |
R 9/12 | Rochester: "Upon Nothing" and A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind | |
Week 4 | T 9/17 | Behn: Oroonoko |
R 9/19 | Astell: Some Reflections Upon Marriage; printing demonstration | |
Week 5 | T 9/24 | Swift: "A Description of the Morning," "A Description of A City Shower," and "The Lady’s Dressing Room" |
R 9/26 | Pope: An Essay on Criticism | |
Week 6 | T 10/1 | Pope: Essay on Man |
R 10/3 | Pope: Epistle to a Lady; Leapor: An Essay on Woman | |
Week 7 | T 10/8 | Haywood: Fantomina Short paper due |
R 10/10 | Gay: The Beggar’s Opera | |
Week 8 | T 10/15 | Midterm exam |
R 10/17 | Thomson: The Seasons;
Young: The Complaint Paper topics due |
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Week 9 | T 10/22 | Johnson: Rasselas (online) |
R 10/24 | Gray: "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" and "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" | |
Week 10 | T 10/29 | More: "Sensibility" (online) |
R 10/31 | Goldsmith: The Deserted Village Proposals and annotated bibliographies due |
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Week 11 | T 11/5 | Equiano: Interesting Narrative (online) |
R 11/7 | Sheridan: The School for Scandal (online at MyLiteratureKit) | |
Week 12 | T 11/12 | Workshop day: draft of long paper due
(2 copies) Print and bring to class 2 copies of peer workshop sheet |
R 11/14 | Austen: Pride and Prejudice through vol. I ch. 13 | |
Week 13 | T 11/19 | Austen: Pride and Prejudice through vol. II ch. 11 |
R 11/21 | Austen: Pride and Prejudice
through end of vol. II Research papers due |
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Week 14 | T 11/26 | Austen: Pride and Prejudice through vol. III ch. 8 |
R 11/28 | Thanksgiving holiday; no class | |
Week 15 | T 12/3 | Austen: Pride and Prejudice through end |
Finals | M 12/9 | 7.30am–10:00am: final exam |