SemesterFall Semester, 2018
DepartmentJunior Class A, Department of English Junior Class B, Department of English Senior Class A, Department of English Senior Class B, Department of English
Course Name19th Century English Literature
InstructorCHEN YIN-I
Credit3.0
Course TypeSelectively
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
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1




Orientation





The Romantic Period: (1) The French Revolution and the Spirit of the Age (2) the cult of sensibility and Romantic nature (from the picturesque to the sublime) (3) individualism (4) Gothic romance





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The Romantic Period: (1)





William Blake. Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; Preface to Lyrical Ballads





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Romantic poetry





Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, The Solitary Reaper ; Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Kubla Khan; Jane Austen (student presentation on Pride and Prejudice)





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Romantic Poetry





Coleridge. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Byron: SHe Walks in Bauty, Child Harold's Pilgrimage, Don Juan. SHelley: A Defence of Poetry, Ozymandias





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Holiday





Holiday





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Romantic Poetry and Fiction





Shelley. Ode to the West Wind; the romantic sublime; Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. 2 student presentation





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Romantic poetry and prose





Keats. Letters. Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn. To Autumn. Romantic Prose: Charles Lamb, Old China.





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Romantic Prose





Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Charles Lamb, Old China; Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater; the Gothic and “strangeness in beauty” (student presentation on Ann Radcliffe and Gothic Romance)





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Mid-term





Mid-term exam





Student presentation 3



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Victorian Period





The Victorian Age. Background: Miscellaneous era; (1) industrial progress; Protestantism and Bentham’s philosophy, laissez-faire; (2)class and gender problems; decline of religion and rise of natural and human sciences; the “Condition of England” issue – Carlyle, Auden, Ruskin; the “Woman Question” – separate spheres, virgin and harlot, “New Woman”; Empire and decline; Brief survey of Victorian fiction, poetry, drama and prose; student assignments of major novels and drama





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Victorian Period





.Victorian prose: selections from Carlyle (“Sartor Resartus” “Past and Present”1005, -6, -9, 1022, -24, -27), Ruskin (“The Stones of Venice” 1317, -8, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29), Arnold (“The Function of Criticism” “Culture and Anarchy”1353, 54, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 98, 1402) Victorian Poetry. Tennyson. Ulysses. 4 student presentation on Dickens. Great Expectations





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victorian prose





Tennyson. In Memoriam. Prose: Ruskin. THe STones of Venice. The Brontes. Mid-Victorian novels. 5 student presentation on Jane Eyre





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victorian poetry





Browning. My Last Duchess. Andrea del Sarto 6 student presentation on Wuthering Heights





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Victorian





Arnold. Dover Beach. Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse. The Function of Criticism. CUlture and Anarchy. 7 student presentation on Mill on the Floss. The Woman Question





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Victorian





Pre-Raphaelites. Rossetti. The Blessed Damozel. Pater. The Renaissance. Aestheticism. Late Victorians. 8 student presentation on Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray





student presentation



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drama





Late Victorian poetry. Hopkins. The WIndhover. Late Victorian drama. Wilde and Shaw. 9 student presentation on Mrs. Warren's Profession. popular fiction.





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final





final exam





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Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

Marking papers.


Requirement/Grading

Mid-term 30%



Final 30%



Group report 20%



Mini-exams  20%


Textbook & Reference

Norton Anthology of English Literature II


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