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(Due by Midnight) Week 1 English 514 Monsters and Machines: British Literature 1800 to the present May 21-July 13 James Krasner [email protected] MODULES DATES LECTURES ASSIGNMENTS READINGS (due by Midnight) Week 1: Happy May 21 Introduction Introduction Romanticism May 22 William Wordsworth: The Prelude Romanticism Book 1, lines 300-645, "I Wandered Wordsworth Lonely as a Cloud," "Lines Composed a few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" May 23 Percy Shelley: "Mont Blanc" The Sublime and Mont Blanc Reading Analysis: William Wordsworth's "Nutting" May 24 Fantasy Landscapes Opium, Orientalism S. T. Coleridge: Kublah Kahn,” "Christabel" Thomas DeQuincy selections from Confessions of an English Opium- Eater (on Bboard) May 25 John Keats: "Ode on Melancholy," La Belle Dame Discussion Post: Post- "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" Melancholy Apocalyptic Dreams Lord Byron, “Darkness” Apocalypse Week 2: Dark May 28 Memorial Day Romanticism May 29 Coleridge: “Rime of the Ancient Rime of AM Curse Reading Analysis: Mariner” Rime of AM Redemption "Melancholy's" missing stanza Mary Shelley Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Villa Diodati May 30 Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Monster’s Birth Discussion Post: The Monster on the Mountain Surprising Frankenstein May 31 Mary Shelley: Frankenstein R The Monster's Argument Discussion Post: evenge and Horror Genres Horror or Science Fiction? June 1 Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Northwest Passage Romanticism Exam Week 3: June 4 Bronte: Jane Eyre Victorianism Victorian Gothic The Gothic June 5 Bronte: Jane Eyre Jane Childhood June 6 Bronte: Jane Eyre Thornfield (parts 1 & 2) Reading Analysis: Rochester Rochester June 7 Bronte: Jane Eyre Jane Monster Discussion Post: Jane Religion Vampires and Jane Eyre Ferndean June 8 Stevenson: Jekyll and Hyde Jekyll Architecture Week 4: June 11 Stevenson: Jekyll and Hyde Hyde Reading Analysis: Jekyll v. Victor Victorian The Case Monstrosity June 12 Stoker :Dracula East Meets West June 13 Stoker :Dracula Sexuality and Vampirism June 14 Stoker: Dracula Recording Angel June 15 Stoker :Dracula Loss of Self Discussion Post: Campy Dracula Victorianism Exam Week 5: June 18 WWI Poets All poems by Sassoon, Modernism Modernist Rosenberg and Owen The Trenches Brutality June 19 WWI Poets All poems by Sassoon, Ghosts on the Battlefield Discussion Post: The Legacy of WWI Rosenberg and Owen Poetry June 20 Conrad Heart of Darkness HOD Colonialism June 21 Conrad Heart of Darkness Reading Analysis: Heart of HOD Primitivism Disillusionment June 22 Conrad Heart of Darkness Modernist Bodies Primitivism and Cultural Appropriation Week 6: June 25 Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse Stream of Consciousness Modernist Desire (selections), James Joyce: Ulysses (selections) June 26 WB Yeats: “The Second Coming,” Ancient Dreams “Byzantium,” “Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop,” “Leda and the Swan” June 27 DH Lawrence: “Tortoise Shout,” Tortoise Shout "Snake," “Whales Weep Not” June 28 DH Lawrence: “The Horse-Dealer’s The Horse Dealer's Daughter Daughter,” June 29 Modernism Exam Week 7: July 2 Angela Carter: "The Tiger's Bride," Postmodernism Reading Analysis: Carter and Postmodernism "Wolf Alice," "The Company of Beauties and Beasts Lawrence Animal selves Wolves" July 3 Seamus Heaney: Bog poems Primitive Identities July 4 NO CLASS July 5 Film: The Last Wave (dir. Peter The Last Wave Weir) July 6 Ted Hughes: Poems Animal Weirdness Discussion Post: Animals and Us Week 8: July 9 Film: Alien (dir Ridley Scott) Alien Postmodernism Monster selves July 10 Film: Alien (dir Ridley Scott) Medicine and Reproduction Discussion Post: Alien July 11 Film: 28 Days Later (dir. Danny Zombies R Us Boyle) July 12 Film: 28 Days Later (dir. Danny Remaining Human Boyle) July 13 Postmodernism Exam .
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