WEEK 1:
August 31: Preliminaries: Addison, Spectator #69
WEEK 2:
September 7: Politics and Landscape: Virgil's Georgics.Latin text here Raymond Williams, The Country and the City, chs. 1-4. Heinzelman on pastoral/georgic, Texas Studies in Language and Literature 33, 2 (Summer, 1991)
WEEK 3:
September 14: Sir William Petty, Political Arithmetick John Denham, "Cooper's Hill" (1642, 1655, 1668) Williams, The Country and the City, ch. 4-8
WEEK 4:
September 21: Joseph Addison, "Pleasures of the Imagination" (1712), Spectators 409, 411-421 (Photocopy provided) See also: Mark Akenside, "Essay on the Pleasures of the Imagination"
WEEK 5:
September 28: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko or, The Royal Slave (1688). Complete text on-line. Essays on Oroonoko in Laura Brown, Ends of Empire,
Moira Ferguson, Subject to Others.
WEEK 6:
October 5: "Inkle and Yarico," Richard Steele, Spectator # 11 (1711). Peter Hulme, Colonial Encounters ch. 5.
WEEK 7:
October 12: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters (1716-18)
WEEK 8:
October 19: James Thomson, The Seasons: Spring (1728) & Summer (1727)
WEEK 9
October 26: Thomson, The Seasons: Autumn (1730) & Winter (1726). John Barrell, English Society in Literature, ch. 1, pp. 50-79; Williams, ch. 8.
WEEK 12:
November 16: James Grainger, The Sugar-Cane (1764). Photocopy provided.
THANKSGIVING
WEEK 13:
November 30: William Cowper, The Task (1784)
WEEK 14:
December 7: Cowper, The Task (1784)
12 DECEMBER: FINAL PAPER DUE IN CLASS
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
Regular attendance and active participation are prerequisites for this class.
One short class presentation (about 4 pages) of a text under discussion for that week.
One final paper of about 18-25 pages.
