Fall Semester 2004
12-047 History
of English Literature
MWF 10am
Taught by Brother Anthony (An Sonjae) in English.
This course mainly
surveys the poetry (with some mention of fiction and drama) written in England
before Romanticism (1789). It will include study of the main aspects of English
social and political history, which form the background reflected in the
literary works. The main text-books will be the Norton Anthology of English
Literature Volume 1 (seventh edition) and Brother Anthony's books on
Literature in English Society : (1) The Middle Ages
and (2)The Renaissance (Sogang University Press). All students
are expected to have access to the World Wide Web and to know how to explore it
for useful resources. Brother Anthony's Home Page offers a list of some of the
main sites for medieval, renaissance and 18th-century
literature and culture.
Detailed Course Description
Students should read
the following pages in the two volumes by Brother Anthony, focusing on
the writers and works listed, as preparation for class. The Norton Anthology
will provide the full text of the works we study.
August 30
Week 1
Introduction to the history of English Literature
Reading : The Middle Ages pages 1 - 33 (Old English period) Beowulf
September
6 Week 2
Chaucer
Reading : The Middle Ages pages 123 - 149
Work : Chaucer, The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Extracts)
September
13 Week 3
Chaucer
Work: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
September
20 Week 4
The Renaissance
Reading : The Renaissance 61 - 101
Renaissance Sonnets: Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (extracts)
September 27
Week 5 (no class Monday and Wednesday, Chusok)
Renaissance poetry
Shakespeare, Sonnets
October 4
Week 6
Shakespeare
Reading : The Renaissance pages 103 - 129
Drama before Shakespeare : Christopher Marlowe
October 11
Week 7
Drama: Shakespeare and Ben Jonson
Week
8: Mid-term
Exams
October 25
Week 9
17th-century Poetry (1) Donne and Jonson
Reading : The Renaissance pages 177 - 178 (society), 189 - 234 (Donne
& Jonson),
Works : John Donne 'Song', 'The Sun Rising', 'Batter My Heart'; 'A
Valediction Forbidding Mourning'; etc. Ben Jonson 'On my First Daughter',
'On my First Son', 'To Celia,' .
November 1
Week 10 - November 8 Week 11
17th-century Poetry (2) Herbert, Marvell, Milton
Reading : The Renaissance pages 178 - 187 (society) 253 -263 (Herbert),
294 - 301 (Marvell), 303 - 325 (Milton)
Works : George Herbert 'The Pulley', 'The Altar', 'Easter Wings', 'Love 3' etc.
Andrew Marvell 'To His Coy Mistress'. John Milton 'L'Allegro' and 'Il
Penseroso,' 'Paradise Lost'
Novermber
15 Week 12 - November 22 Week 13
18th Century : Nature and Society
Works : Ann Finch 'Nocturnal Reverie'. Thomson's The Seasons: from 'Autumn'.
Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Oliver Goldsmith
'The Deserted Village'. George Crabbe The Village Book 1.
November
29 Week 14
18th Century : The Novel
A survey of the early history of the novel
December 9
Week 15
Final Exams begin Thursday
Reports
1. Midterm: (due on the Monday after the Midterm Exams) Write an
illustrated account of the main developments in English history and culture
between the years 1000 and 1600 (Norman Conquest, Magna Carta, Black Death,
Peasants’ Revolt, Wars of the Roses, development of printing, Renaissance and
Reformation, Elizabethan Era, Armada), with notes on 8 of the most significant
works or writers of English and European literature in that period. The
illustrations (xeroxed from books or copied from the Internet) should show
buildings, paintings, books, objects from each of the centuries, especially
explaining the difference between manuscript and printed book. Some pictures
should also show the difference in buildings and clothing between the Middle
Ages and the Renaissance periods. Use a binder with transparent pockets. The
captions to each picture should be short and hand-written.
.
2. Final: (due on the Monday after the Final Exams)
Write an illustrated account of the main developments in English history and
culture between the years 1600 and 1800 (Shakespeare’s theatre, Stuart England,
the Civil War, the Commonwealth, the Restoration, the Glorious Revolution,
Whigs and Tories, Walpole, the origins of the novel, the Industrial Revolution,
the French Revolution, William Blake, ‘Lyrical Ballads.’) Also, write a
3-page essay on the differences between the ways Gray's Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard. Oliver Goldsmith 'The Deserted Village'. George
Crabbe The Village Book 1 portray rural life.
Any parts of your
papers which are taken from books or from the Internet MUST be indicated by
quotation marks and a clear indication of the source.
Grading
Grading will be
based on the 2 reports and the result of the Mid-term and Final Exams, which
will test students' detailed knowledge of what has been taught. Reports and
exams are of equal weight.