English 201. Major British Writers: I Fall, 1997

Professor Rebecca Bushnell
Office: 116 Bennett Hall
Office tel.: 898-8220, 898-7341
E-mail: rebecca@reality.sas.upenn.edu
Office hours: Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:30, Wed. 10-11, and by appointment

listserver for English 201: bushnell201@english.upenn.edu [use to send
messages to everyone in the class]

class homepage: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~bushnell/eng-201

Books (available at Penn Book Center)
Norton Anthology of English Literature: Vol. I,  sixth edition,
paperback ed. M.H. Abrams, et al.
John Milton,  Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, ed. 	Christopher Ricks
(NAL), paperback ed.  
Thomas Harriot, A briefe and true report of the new-found land of
Virginia (Dover)

Written assignments: OED exercise; MLA assignment; 5-pp. paper (close
reading); 10-pp paper; the keeping of a commonplace book

Class assignments:

Sept 4:  Introduction

Sept. 9: In Norton Anthology (NA): 
Introduction to "The Middle Ages," pp. 1-15
Chaucer, "General Prologue," to The Canterbury Tales
Sept. 11: Chaucer, The Miller's Prologue and Tale. OED exercise explained.

Sept. 16:  Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Sept. 18:  Chaucer, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale.

Sept. 23:  Chaucer, The Nun's Priest's Tale, Intro. to Parson's
Tale, and Chaucer's Retraction. OED exercise due. 
Sept. 25: Library research seminar [Room 502, Van Pelt library]
MLA exercise explained

Sept 30: "Introduction to the Sixteenth Century" in NA: Poems/Sonnets,
from Thomas Wyatt (pp. 438-450);compare with pages from Tottel's
miscellany (handout): Consult Poetic Forms and Literary Terminology, in
NA, pp. 2558-2571

Oct. 2:  Philip Sidney (pp. 459-473); Mary Wroth (from Pamphilia to
Amphilantus, 1689-1692.


Oct. 7:  Shakespeare, all Sonnets in NA
Oct. 9: Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene, "Letter of Authors" and Book 1,
Canto 1-3.

Oct. 14: no class (fall break)
Oct. 16: Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book 1, Cantos 4-6. MLA exercise due.
Paper 1 explained.

Oct. 21: Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book 1, Cantos 7-9
Oct. 23: Spenser, Faerie Queene, Cantos 10-12. 

Oct. 28: John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, in NA
Oct. 30: John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, cont. Paper 1 due.

Nov. 4: Thomas Harriot, A briefe and true report of the new-found land of
Virginia
Nov. 6:  Ben Jonson poems (pp. 1217-1235): Introduction to the
17th century in NA. Revision of Paper 1 due.

Nov. 11:  John Donne, poems on pp. 1082-1100. 
Nov. 13: John Donne, Holy Sonnets on pp. 1114-1117; "Hymn to God,
My God, in My Sickness", "A Hymn to God the Father," 
	and George Herbert, "Easter Wings," "The Altar," "Prayer I,"
"Jordan I and II, The Collar 

Nov. 18: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 1-2 (in Ricks edition)
Nov. 20: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 3-5. Paper 	topics/abstract
due.

Nov. 25:  Paradise Lost, Books 6-7
Nov. 27: no class (Thanksgiving)

Dec. 2:  Paradise Lost, Books 8-9 (rough draft of paper 2 due, if you are
planning on doing a rough draft)
Dec. 4:  Paradise Lost, Books 10-12.

Rough draft submitted on Dec. 2 can be picked up on Dec. 4.
Paper 2 and Commonplace books due: Dec. 11