History of British Literature II
English 3352:001
Spring 2001

Thomas A. Ryan                        Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:00-11:50

202 CH                                                                     310 Preston Hall

Phone: 272-2692 or 272-2758                         Email: ryan@uta.edu

Web: http://www.uta.edu/english/TAR/tar.html

Course Web Site: http://www.uta.edu/english/TAR/britlit2.html

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 1:00-2:20

Course Prerequisites: Six hours sophomore literature

Text:The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2, Abrams et al., eds. or

        The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2, part 3, Abrams et al., eds.

Course Description: The primary focus of this course will be the literature of the British Isles in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. This semester the class will try to take advantage of the Internet and other learning and teaching aids made possible by computers. Students will be encouraged to explore the literary, artistic, musical, cultural, and historical milieus of the works we shall read and to share their discoveries with the other students in the class through email, contributions to the course web page, and short reports.

Course Learning Goals/Objectives: The goals of this course are to broaden and deepen the student's knowledge of the British literary tradition, to introduce the student to the use of the computer in literary exploration, research, and communication, and to improve the student's writing skills.

Attendance and Drop Policy: Attendance in class and class participation are important. It is extremely important that you read the assigned material before coming to class. I will give reading quizzes, if necessary, as an incentive. If for some reason you cannot continue in the class, please remember to officially drop the course. It is now against University policy for faculty members to drop students.

Course Requirements: In addition to a Midsemester and a Final Examination, four (4) explications (each three to five pages in length) will be required on poems to be assigned during the semester. These explications may be submitted electronically. Please be sure to acknowledge and correctly document the primary and any secondary sources you use. Due dates for the explications are

February 9

March 2

April 11

April 27.

Course Evaluation and Final Grade: The two examinations--which will be part machine-graded multiple choice and part essay--will count fifty percent, the four essays will count forty percent, and attendance and class participation--both in-class and online--will count 10 percent.

Student Evaluation of Teaching: Toward the end of the semester, I shall ask your opinion on the success of the course by having you complete the Student Evaluation of Teaching Survey.

Americans with Disabilities Act: The University of Texas at Arlington is on record as being committed to both the spirit and the letter of federal equal opportunity legislation; reference Public Law 93112: The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. With the passage of new federal legislation entitled Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA], pursuant to section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act, there is renewed focus on providing this population with the same opportunities enjoyed by all citizens. As a faculty member, I am required by law to provide "reasonable accommodation" to students with disabilities, so as not to discriminate on the basis of that disability. Student responsibility primarily rests with informing faculty at the beginning of the semester and in providing authorized documentation through designated administrative channels.

Academic Dishonesty: It is the philosophy of the University of Texas at Arlington that academic dishonesty is a completely unacceptable mode of conduct and will not be tolerated in any form. All persons involved in academic dishonesty will be disciplined in accordance with University regulations and procedures. Discipline may include suspension or expulsion from the University. "Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts." (Regents' Rules and Regulations, Part One, Chapter VI, Section 3, Subsection 3.2, Subdivision 3.22)

Class Schedule

Dates and Assignments are tentative.

W	Jan 17	Introduction
F	Jan 19	Blake, There is no . . ., All Religions Are One, Thel
M	Jan 22	Blake, Thel, Book of Urizen*
W	Jan 24	Blake, Book of Urizen*
F	Jan 26	Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell
M	Jan 29	Blake, Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
W	Jan 31	Blake,Songs (cont.)
F	Feb 2	Wordsworth, Early poems, Lyrical Ballads (including  Preface)
M	Feb 5	Wordsworth,"Tintern Abbey"
W	Feb 7	Wordsworth, "My Heart Leaps Up,"Ode: Intimations . . .
F	Feb 9	Wordsworth, "Resolution and Independence," "Elegiac Stanzas . . ."
M	Feb 12	Wordsworth, Prospectus to The Recluse;  The Prelude(selections)
W	Feb 14	Wordsworth, The Prelude (selections)
F	Feb 16	Wordsworth, cont.
M	Feb 19	Coleridge, Ancient Mariner
W	Feb 21	Coleridge, "Kubla Khan," "The Eolian Harp"
F	Feb 23	Coleridge, "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," "Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement"*
M	Feb 26	Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight," "Dejection: An Ode"
W	Feb 28	Byron, selections from Lara, Childe Harold, and Don Juan (The Byronic Hero)
F	Mar 2	Byron, Manfred
M	Mar 5	Shelley, "To Wordsworth,"selections from Alastor, "Mount Blanc"
W	Mar 7	Shelley, "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," "Ode to the West Wind, " "To a Sky-lark"
F	Mar 9	Keats,"The Eve of St. Agnes," "Ode to a Nightingale"
M	Mar 12	Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn," sonnets
W	Mar 14	Midsemester Test
F	Mar 16	Carlyle, from "Characteristics"*, from Sartor Resartus, "The Everlasting No"; John Stuart Mill, from Autobiography, Chapter 5.
M	Mar 19	Spring Break
W	Mar 21	Spring Break
F	Mar 23	Spring Break
M	Mar 26	Tennysson, "Mariana," "The Lady of Shalott," "Ulysses,""Locksley Hall"
W	Mar 28	Tennyson, "Locksley Hall Sixty Years Later,"  from InMemoriam
F	Mar 30	Browning, "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," "My Last Duchess," "The Bishop Orders His Tomb . . ."
M	Apr 2	Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Andrea del Sarto," "Abt Vogler"
W	Apr 4	Arnold, Marguerite poems, "The Buried Life," "Memorial Verses"
F	Apr 6	Arnold, "Dover Beach," "Stanzas from the Grande  Chartreuse," selections from prose
M	Apr 9	Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Blessed Damozel"; Walter Pater, from The Renaissance; Ernest Dowson, "Cynara"
W	Apr 11	Conrad, "Heart of Darkness"
F	Apr 13	Easter Vacation
M	Apr 16	Yeats, poems to be assigned
W	Apr 18	Yeats, poems to be assigned
F	Apr 20	T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
M	Apr 23	Virginia Woolf, "The Legacy"; James Joyce, "Araby"; D. H. Lawrence, "Odour of Chrysanthemums"
W	Apr 25	Katherine Mansfield, "The Daughters of the Late Colonel"; Stevie Smith, poems
F	Apr 27	Samuel Beckett, Endgame
M	Apr 30	Auden, poems to be assigned; Dylan Thomas, poems to be assigned
W	May 2	Gordimer, "The Moment before the Gun Went Off";  Alice Munro, "Walker Brothers Cowboy"; Edna O'Brien, "Sister Imelda"
F	May 4	Tom Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound;Recent poets, poems to be assigned
W	May 9	FINAL EXAMINATION 11:00-1:30

*available on Internet