19th Century Literature -- Syllabus

English 316 Late 19th-Century Literature

Dr. Wally Hastings                                                    MWF 2-2:50
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Required Texts:
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Dover)
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (Penguin)
Maynard Mack, et. al., The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Vol. 2 (Norton)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam)
Reading Packet (Available from Bookstore)
On the schedule of readings and assignments below, highlighted links will take you to additional resources about authors and texts.

Course Objective: To develop an understanding of major currents in Western literature during the last half of the 19th century, and to explore concurrent literary developments in other parts of the world.

Course Requirements: Regular attendance and participation in class discussion; completion of a paper and three exams; quizzes on reading may be given at the instructor's discretion.

Evaluation and Grading:
         Grades will be assigned according to the following percentage weights:
                    Midterm exams:                        20 % of final grade (each)
                    Paper:                                      20 %
                    Final exam:                               25 %
                    Attendance/Participation            15 %

DATE Lecture/Discussion Topic Reading/Writing Assignment

9/2/98 Course Introduction

9/4/98 Poetry at Mid-Century Hugo, "Memory of the Night of the Fourth," p. 865; Tennyson, from In Memoriam A.H.H., p. 878; both in Mack et. al.

9/7/98 LABOR DAY HOLIDAY -- NO SCHOOL

9/9/98 New Developments in Poetry: Baudelaire Baudelaire, "To the Reader," p. 1185; "Correspondences, " p. 1186; "A Carcass," p. 1188; "Song of Autumn," p. 1190; "The Voyage," p. 1192; all in Mack et. al.

9/11/98 Baudelaire and His Heritage Baudelaire, "The Voyage," p. 1192; Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo," p. 1654; both in Mack et. al.; A. C. Swinburne, "A Forsaken Garden"; Rilke, "The Blind Man. Paris"; both in Reading Packet

9/14/98 Realism in Europe Flaubert, "A Simple Heart," p. 1077 in Mack et. al.

9/16/98 Realism in Europe Flaubert, "A Simple Heart"

9/18/98 A New World View Charles Darwin, from The Origin of Species; from The Descent of Man; Matthew Arnold, "Preface to the First Edition of Poems" and "Dover Beach"; all in Reading Packet

9/21/98 New World Views Engels,"Introduction" to The Condition of the Working Class in England in Reading Packet

9/23/98 The Natural History of Man: George Eliot Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

9/25/98 George Eliot Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

9/28/98 George Eliot Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

9/30/98 George Eliot Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

10/2/98 NO CLASS -- BOR ENGLISH CHAIRS MTG

10/5/98 MIDTERM EXAM (Covers Hugo, Tennyson, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Eliot, Intellectual History)

10/7/98 Dramatic Monologues Tennyson, "Ulysses," p. 875, and "Tithonus," p. 876; R. Browning, "My Last Duchess," p. 896, and "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church," p. 897; all in Mack et.al.

10/9/98 Dramatic Monologues Tennyson and Browning readings

10/12/98 NATIVE AMERICAN DAY -- NO SCHOOL

10/14/98 Dramatic Monologues Whitman, from Song of Myself in Mack et. al.

10/16/98 Walt Whitman and America Whitman, "When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed" in Reading Packet

10/19/98 Realism in America: Mark Twain Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

10/21/98 Mark Twain Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

10/23/98 NO CLASS -- Instructor at SD Presbytery meeting

10/26/98 Mark Twain Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

10/28/98 American Poetry: Emily Dickinson Dickinson, "I died for Beauty," p. 1044; "There's a certain Slant of light," p. 1042; both in Mack et. al.; "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church" and "I taste a liqour never brewed," in Reading Packet

10/30/98 Emily Dickinson Dickinson, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers," p. 1042; "After great pain, a formal feeling comes," p. 1044; "Because I could not stop for death," p. 1046; all in Mack et. al.; "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" in Reading Packet

11/2/98 Emily Dickinson Dickinson, "The Soul selects her own Society," p. 1043; "The Brain is wider than the Sky," p. 1046; "I dwell in Possibility," p. 1046; "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant," p. 1048; all in Mack et. al.; "This was a Poet" in Reading Packet

11/4/98 Herman Melville Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor, p. 983 in Mack et. al.

11/6/98 Herman Melville Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor

11/9/98 MIDTERM EXAM (Covers Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Twain, Dickinso, Melville)

11/11/98 VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY - NO SCHOOL

11/13/98 Realism in Theater: Henrik Ibsen Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, p. 1247 in Mack et. al.

11/16/98 Henrik Ibsen Ibsen, Hedda Gabler

11/18/98 Henrik Ibsen Ibsen, Hedda Gabler

11/20/98 Psychological Portraits: Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, p. 1203 in Mack et. al.

11/23/98 Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

11/25/98 Psychological Portrait: Fyodor Dostoevsky Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, p. 1105 in Mack et. al.

11/27/98 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY - NO SCHOOL

11/30/98 Fyodor Dostoevsky (another site) Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

12/2/98 Fyodor Dostoevsky (yet another site) Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

12/4/98 Other Voices at the Turn of the Century "The Night Chant," p. 1384, and Uo, "Geriguigatugo," p. 1390, both in Mack et. al.

12/7/98 Other Voices: Rabindranath Tagore Tagore, "Punishment," p. 1450 in Mack et. al.

12/9/98 Inertia at Century's End: Joseph Conrad Conrad, Heart of Darkness

12/11/98 Joseph Conrad Conrad, Heart of Darkness

12/14/98 Review Day

12/21/98 FINAL EXAM - 12:00 Noon - JC 106 (Covers Ibsen, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Conrad, "Other Voices"; Comprehensive Essay Question)

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*DATE*	*Lecture/Discussion Topic*	*Reading/Writing Assignment*
9/2/98	Course Introduction
9/4/98	Poetry at Mid-Century	Hugo, "Memory of the Night of the Fourth," p. 865; Tennyson, from In Memoriam A.H.H., p. 878; both in Mack et. al.
9/7/98	LABOR DAY HOLIDAY -- NO SCHOOL
9/9/98	New Developments in Poetry: Baudelaire	Baudelaire, "To the Reader," p. 1185; "Correspondences, " p. 1186; "A Carcass," p. 1188; "Song of Autumn," p. 1190; "The Voyage," p. 1192; all in Mack et. al.
9/11/98	Baudelaire and His Heritage	Baudelaire, "The Voyage," p. 1192; Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo," p. 1654; both in Mack et. al.; A. C. Swinburne, "A Forsaken Garden"; Rilke, "The Blind Man. Paris"; both in Reading Packet
9/14/98	Realism in Europe	Flaubert, "A Simple Heart," p. 1077 in Mack et. al.
9/16/98	Realism in Europe	Flaubert, "A Simple Heart"
9/18/98	A New World View	Charles Darwin, from The Origin of Species; from The Descent of Man; Matthew Arnold, "Preface to the First Edition of Poems" and "Dover Beach"; all in Reading Packet
9/21/98	New World Views	Engels,"Introduction" to The Condition of the Working Class in England in Reading Packet
9/23/98	The Natural History of Man: George Eliot	Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
9/25/98	George Eliot	Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
9/28/98	George Eliot	Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
9/30/98	George Eliot	Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
10/2/98	NO CLASS -- BOR ENGLISH CHAIRS MTG
10/5/98	MIDTERM EXAM	(Covers Hugo, Tennyson, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Eliot, Intellectual History)
10/7/98	Dramatic Monologues	Tennyson, "Ulysses," p. 875, and "Tithonus," p. 876; R. Browning, "My Last Duchess," p. 896, and "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church," p. 897; all in Mack et.al.
10/9/98	Dramatic Monologues	Tennyson and Browning readings
10/12/98	NATIVE AMERICAN DAY -- NO SCHOOL
10/14/98	Dramatic Monologues	Whitman, from Song of Myself in Mack et. al.
10/16/98	Walt Whitman and America	Whitman, "When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed" in Reading Packet
10/19/98	Realism in America: Mark Twain	Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
10/21/98	Mark Twain	Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
10/23/98	NO CLASS -- Instructor at SD Presbytery meeting
10/26/98	Mark Twain	Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
10/28/98	American Poetry: Emily Dickinson	Dickinson, "I died for Beauty," p. 1044; "There's a certain Slant of light," p. 1042; both in Mack et. al.; "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church" and "I taste a liqour never brewed," in Reading Packet
10/30/98	Emily Dickinson	Dickinson, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers," p. 1042; "After great pain, a formal feeling comes," p. 1044; "Because I could not stop for death," p. 1046; all in Mack et. al.; "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" in Reading Packet
11/2/98	Emily Dickinson	Dickinson, "The Soul selects her own Society," p. 1043; "The Brain is wider than the Sky," p. 1046; "I dwell in Possibility," p. 1046; "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant," p. 1048; all in Mack et. al.; "This was a Poet" in Reading Packet
11/4/98	Herman Melville	Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor, p. 983 in Mack et. al.
11/6/98	Herman Melville	Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor
11/9/98	MIDTERM EXAM	(Covers Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Twain, Dickinso, Melville)
11/11/98	VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY - NO SCHOOL
11/13/98	Realism in Theater: Henrik Ibsen	Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, p. 1247 in Mack et. al.
11/16/98	Henrik Ibsen	Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
11/18/98	Henrik Ibsen	Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
11/20/98	Psychological Portraits: Leo Tolstoy	Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, p. 1203 in Mack et. al.
11/23/98	Leo Tolstoy	Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
11/25/98	Psychological Portrait: Fyodor Dostoevsky	Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, p. 1105 in Mack et. al.
11/27/98	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY - NO SCHOOL
11/30/98	Fyodor Dostoevsky (another site)	Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
12/2/98	Fyodor Dostoevsky (yet another site)	Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
12/4/98	Other Voices at the Turn of the Century	"The Night Chant," p. 1384, and Uo, "Geriguigatugo," p. 1390, both in Mack et. al.
12/7/98	Other Voices: Rabindranath Tagore	Tagore, "Punishment," p. 1450 in Mack et. al.
12/9/98	Inertia at Century's End: Joseph Conrad	Conrad, Heart of Darkness
12/11/98	Joseph Conrad	Conrad, Heart of Darkness
12/14/98	Review Day

12/21/98	FINAL EXAM - 12:00 Noon - JC 106	(Covers Ibsen, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Conrad, "Other Voices"; Comprehensive Essay Question)

Last updated August 27, 1998