Course Outline

[Daniel]

Here is a list of what we'll be studying for the remainder of the semester. Please note that these choices are subject to change and may alter slightly over the coming weeks.


The emergence of the English Language
Key Texts: Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales

Shakespeare
Key Texts: Othello, Richard II and Sonnets 1-154

Milton and the Restoration
Key Text/s: Paradise Lost, On his Blindness and On His Deceased Wife.

Swift and the Enlightenment
Key Texts: Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal

Romanticism and early Gothic Writing
Key Texts: The Rhyme of of the Ancient Mariner

The Romantics
Key Texts: The poems of William Wordsworth, Percy Shelly, John Keats

Jane Austen and Sensibility/Sentimentality
Key Text: Pride and Prejudice

Dickens and Victorian Literature
Key Texts: A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol

Urban Gothic
Key texts: Dracula and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde

‘Modern’ Poetry
Key Texts: The Poems of Dylan Thomas, Gerald Manly Hopkins and Philip Larkin

Contemporary Fiction
Key Texts: Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone

[sherry]

¡°‘Modern?Poetry¡±"2.Compare ‘The Knight’s Tale?to ‘The Miller’s Tale?in The Cantebury Tales. Which tale do you think is more effective?

3.Compare ‘Sonnet 116?to The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice. "
why are there Chinense in these sentences?

[Daniel]

I have no idea! I would guess it's something to do with your browser settings translating certain things to Chinese?

I can assure you that even if I knew Chinese(and I don't), I currently don't have the settings to even try writing it.