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English 309 Spring 2000


Charles II

Neoclassical Literature
Schedule of Assignments
Spring 2006 (tentative)

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Schedule of Assignments

The Stuarts and the Hanovers

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

A Journal of the Plague Year

Absalom and Achitophel

 

 

Week 1
Introduction
Peyps  and Defoe (handout, and on line)

Week 2
Congreve, The Way of the World

Week 3
Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel"
Behn, The Rover

Week 4
Behn, The Rover
Defoe, Moll Flanders (through Husband #3)

Week 5
Defoe, Moll Flanders (continued)

Week 6
Addison and Steele
Swift, Essays and minor poems (to be announced)

Week 7
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Books I and II
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Books III and IV

Week 8
Pope, "Essay on Criticism";
"The Rape of the Lock"; "Essay on Man" (Epistles I and II)

Week 9
"Essay on Man," continued
Test

Week 10
Boswell and Johnson
Johnson, Rasselas

Week 11
Voltaire, Candide

Week 12
24 Sheridan, School for Scandal
26 Sheridan, cont., and Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village"

Week 13
Walpole, Castle of Otranto

Week 14
Austen, Emma

Week 15
Austen, Emma