English 222. Major British Writers --Course Description.
Semester 11., 1997-98 Professor Thomas Bontly
MW 3:30-4:45 Curtin 525; 229-4530

Allison, Barrows, eds, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, shorter edition. (W.W. Norton)
Emilie Bronte, Wuthering Heights (Penquin)
Frederick Karl, ed., The Signet Classic Book of British Short Stories. (Signet)
George Bernard Shaw, Plays. (Signet)
David Lodge, Paradise News. (Penquin)

Brief Description of Syllabus:

First five weeks: Romanticism
Its origins, achievements, and historical significance. Poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats
Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

Second five weeks: Victorian to Early Modern Literature
Social and Philosophical Issues in the later 19th C.
Poems by Tennyson, Browning, Rosetti, Hardy, Hopkins
Stories by Dickens, Eliot, Collins, Hardy, Stevenson, Kipling, Conrad

Third five weeks: Modern and Contemporary Literature
Defining characteristics of Modernism
Poems by Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Auden, Thomas, Smith, Kavanaugh, Larkin, Heaney
Stories by Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Mansfield, Huxley, O'Connor, Greene, Beckett, Lessing, O'Brien
Shaw's "Man and Superman"
Lodge's Paradise News

Requirements and Grading Policy

Class attendance and participation are required. Frequent absences (more than three unexcused cuts) will adversely affect your final grade. There will be a one-hour exam after each unit. Exams will include essay and objective questions based on the reading. Students will write one 7 - 10 page paper, due the last week of class. For this paper, students should read one book by and one book about one of the authors covered in the course. Preliminary drafts may be submitted before the deadline for critiques.

Grades: 10% class participation; 60% exams; 30% paper.