ENGL 468 Schedule




Page numbers refer to Longman Anthology of British Literature,
Volume 2B, 4th Edition
Assignment
1/5
Course Introduction; Tennyson, “Ulysses”; Arnold, “Dover Beach”

1/7
Carlyle, from Past and Present (1076-1087); Macaulay, from “A Review of Southey’s Colloquies” (1092-1094); Mill, from Autobiography (1132-1138)
(Recommended) “The Victorian Age” (1049-1073)

1/12
Tennyson, “Mariana” (1179-1180), “The Lady of Shalott” (1181-1185), “Ulysses” (1189-1191), “The Coming of Arthur” (1237-1246)

1/14
Brontë, Jane Eyre, Volume 1 (chapters 1-15) (7-151)

1/19
R. Browning, “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” (1326-1328), “My Last Duchess” (1328-1329), “Andrea del Sarto” (1358-1364)

1/21
Brontë, Jane Eyre, Volume 2 (chapters 16-26) (153-296)

1/26
Mill, from On Liberty (1115-1121); Darwin, from Origin of Species (1272-1277); Clough, selections (1301-1303)

1/28
Brontë, Jane Eyre, Volume 3 (chapters 27-38) (297-452)

2/2
Tennyson, from In Memoriam A. H. H. (1204-1235)

2/4
Midterm Examination
First Essay Due
2/9
Arnold, “Dover Beach” (1562), “The Buried Life” (1565-1566), from Culture and Anarchy (1595-1604)
NEW DUE DATE: First Essay Due
2/11
Dickens, Great Expectations, Volume 1 (chapters 1-19) (3-146)

2/16
Gaskell, “Our Society at Cranford” (1432-1447)

2/18
Dickens, Great Expectations, Volume 2 (chapters 20-39 (147-296)

2/23
C. Rossetti, “Remember” (1645), “Triad” (1647), “In an Artist’s Studio” (1647-1648), “A Birthday” (1648), “An Apple-Gathering” (1648-1649), “Goblin Market” (1650-1663)

2/25
Dickens, Great Expectations, Volume 3 (chapters 40-59 (297-442) plus Appendix A (“The Original Ending”) (443-444)

3/1
Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1778-1818)

3/3
Morris, from The Beauty of Life (1679-1683); Pater, selections from The Renaissance (1694-1700); Hopkins, selections (1701-1713)

3/8
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1829-1869)

3/10
Wilde, selections (1821-1829), excerpt from De Profundis ( 1872-1879)

3/17
Final Examination 10:45am-1:15pm
Second Essay Due