ENGL 3000
British and American Literary History I

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August
    ( top ) 		22 Introduction—The Periods, Languages, and Cultures of British and North American Literature
     
  27 Introduction to Medieval Literature I:
  • “The Middle Ages,” 3-10 ( LABL ).
  • “Perspectives: Ethnic and Religious Encounters,” 124-139 ( LABL ).
  • “Introduction: The Research Process” and “Conducting Research in an Electronic Environment,” 1-7 ( RGUS ).

Maps of Pre-Norman England
  29 Epics as Origin Stories:
  • Beowulf , 30-69 [ll. 1-1882] ( LABL )
  • “Searching for Books,” 9-32 ( RGUS )
     
September
    ( top ) 		3 LABOR DAY MAKEUP DAY (Monday Classes Meet)
  5 Epics as Origin Stories:
  • Beowulf , 69-94 [ll. 1883-3174] ( LABL )
  • “Searching for Articles,” 33-45 ( RGUS ).
     
  10 Native American Origin Stories:
  • Andrew Wiget, “Native American Oral Literatures" and "Native American Oral Narrative," 18-24 ( HAAL ).
  • “Changing Woman and the Hero Twins after the Emergence of the People,” 38-50 ( HAAL ).
  • "The Origin of Stories," 53-55 ( HAAL ).
  12 Introduction to Medieval Literature II:
  • “The Middle Ages,” 11-26 ( LABL ).
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, "The General Prologue," The Canterbury Tales , 294-96 [ll. 1-78], 306-07 (ll. 547-68) ( LABL ).
     
  17 Middle English Satire:
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Miller's Tale," The Canterbury Tales , 313-29 ( LABL ).
  19 Medieval Travel Literature:
  • The Voyage of St. Brendan , 483-92 ( LABL ).
  • John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville , 493-500 ( LABL ).
    • PROJECT #1 DUE
         
      24 Middle English Religious Literature:
    • Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe , 502-20 ( LABL ).
      19 Two Sides of an Ocean Come Together:
    • “The Early Modern Period,” 569-88 ( LABL ).
    • “Colonial Period to 1700,” 1-17 ( HAAL ).
         
    October
        ( top )     		1 Renaissance Ideas and New World Symbolism:
    • Thomas More, Utopia , Introduction, 638-41; Book Two, 664-706 ( LABL ).
      3 Sixteenth-Century European and American Encounters:
    • “Creation of the Whites,” 64 ( HAAL ).
    • Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Relation of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca , 124-31 ( HAAL ).
    • Marcos de Niza, A Relation of the Reverend Father Fray Marcos de Niza, Touching His Discovery of the Kingdom of Ceuola or Cibola . . . , 140-43 ( HAAL ).
         
      8 Sixteenth-Century Poetics:
    • Philip Sidney, from The Apology for Poetry , 913-23 ( LABL ).
    • “ The Apology in Context: The Art of Poetry,” 946-53 ( LABL ).
      10 Sixteenth-Century Drama in Multiple Contexts:
    • William Shakespeare, Othello , 1180-1260 ( LABL ).
         
      15 FALL BREAK
      17 Sixteenth-Century Drama in Multiple Contexts:
    • William Shakespeare, Othello , 1180-1260 ( LABL ).
    • “ Othello in Context: Ethnography in the Literature of Travel and Colonization,” 1261-75 ( LABL ).
         
      22 Early Modern World View—A Case Study:
    • John Donne, “Song,” 1551-52; “The Flea,” 1557-58; “The Ecstasy,” 1560-62; Elegy 19, “To His Mistress Going to Bed,” 1563-64; Holy Sonnet 6, 1566; Holy Sonnet 10, 1567-68; A Sermon Preached to the Honorable Company of the Virginia Plantation , 1569-71 ( LABL ). Holy Sonnet V, “I Am a Little World Made Cunningly” (handout).
    PROJECT #2 DUE
      24 Seventeenth-Century British Poetry:
    • Mary Wroth, Poem 68, “My Pain, Still Smothered . . . ,” 1576; Poem 74, “Song,” 1576 ( LABL ).
    • Robert Herrick, “Delight in Disorder,” 1579 ( LABL ).
    • George Herbert, “Easter Wings,” 1586; “Jordan (1),” 1588-89 ( LABL ).
    • Richard Lovelace, “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars,” 1610 ( LABL ).
    • Andrew Marvell, “Bermudas,” 1624-25; “To His Coy Mistress,” 1628-29 ( LABL ).
    • Katherine Philips, “To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at Parting,” 1650-51. ( LABL ).
         
      29 Seventeenth-Century America—From Exploration to Settlement:
    • John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and The Summer Isles , 245-50 ( HAAL ).
    • Gaspar Pérez De Villagra, The History Of New Mexico , 147-64.
      31 Seventeenth-Century American Puritans:
    • Anne Bradstreet, “The Prologue [To Her Book],” 384-85; “The Author to Her Book,” 390; “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” 394-95; “Upon the Burning of Our House July 10 th , 1666,” 397-98; “To My Dear Children,” 398-401 ( HAAL ).
    • Edward Taylor, “Huswifery,” 467-68; “Upon Wedlock, & Death of Children,” 468-69 ( HAAL ).
         
    November
        ( top )     		5 Writing A Civil War:
    • “Perspectives: The Civil War, or the Wars of Three Kingdoms,” 1698-1728 ( LABL ).
      7 England's Idea of America after the Restoration:
    • Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History , 2152-93 ( LABL ).
         
      12 England's Idea of America after the Restoration:
    • Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History , 2152-93 ( LABL ).
      14 The Eighteenth Century:
    • “The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century,” 1979-2002.
    • “Eighteenth Century,” 553-69 ( HAAL ).
    • “Perspectives: Reading Papers,” 2311-61 ( LABL ).
    (Not all items in “Perspectives: Reading Papers” will be read—the class will help select specific texts.)
         
      19 The Text As Material Object— The Periodical Press:
    • “Perspectives:Reading Papers,” 2311-61 ( LABL ).
    • Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack , handout; “The Way to Wealth,” 785-90
    • “Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions,” 1241-56 ( HAAL ).
    (Not all items in “Perspectives: Reading Papers” and “Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions” will be read—the class will help select specific texts.)
      21 English Satire in the Early Eighteenth Century:
    • Jonathan Swift, “The Lady's Dressing room,” 2370-73; A Modest Proposal , 2451-57 ( LABL ).
    PROJECT #3 DUE
         
      26 American Satire in the Early Eighteenth Century:
    • Ebenezer Cook, The Sotweed Factor; or, a Voyage to Maryland, &c. , 697-715 ( HAAL ).
    • George Alsop, “Trafique is Earth's Great Atlas,” 541 ( HAAL ).
      28 THANKSGIVING BREAK
         
    December
        ( top )     		3 Eighteenth-Century English Poetry:
    • William Cowper, “The Castaway,” 2655-57 ( LABL ).
    • James Thomson, “Rule, Britannia,” 2666-67 ( LABL ).
    • Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," 2685-88 ( LABL ).
      5 Late Eighteenth-Century American Poetry:
    • Phillis Wheatley, “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770,” 1210-1211; “On Being Brought from Africa to America," 1212; “To His Excellency General Washington,” 1217-18; “Liberty and Peace,” 1219-20 ( HAAL ).
    • Philip Freneau, from The Country Printer , “The News,” 1184-85; "On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature," 1185-86; "The Indian Burying Ground," 1188-89 ( HAAL ).
         
      10 American Ideas of the Self:
    • Benjamin Franklin, "Continuation of the Account of My Life Begun at Passy 1784," The Autobiography , 853-63 ( HAAL ).
    • Francisco Palou, Life of Junípero Serra , 685-93 ( HAAL ).
      12 Final Exam (11:00 am-1:00 pm)

     
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