Syllabus, Winter 2016

About the Student Presentations

Restoration and Eighteenth Century Overview

Intro. to Mac Flecknoe — satire video

Lecture on John Dryden

Discussion starter for Aphra Behn's "The Disappointment"

Discussion starter for Rochester's "The Imperfect Enjoyment"

On Swift's "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift"

Discussion Question on Swift v. Montagu

Discussion Questions on Swift's A Modest Proposal.

A few comments on some possible subjects for student presentations.

Discussion Questions on The Spectator

Notes on the Discussion of The Spectator

Notes on Pope's An Essay on Criticism

Notes for an Introduction to the Comedy of Manners of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.

Notes for a Lecture on The School for Scandal

Comedy of Manners Discussion Question

Schedule of Student Presentations on Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Cleveland's Julia . . .

Sample Questions for the First Test

Excellent Answer to an Essay Question on Joseph and Charles Surface

Notes for a Lecture on Early Novels

Table of Contents of Samuel Richardson's "little volume of Letters, in a common style, on such subjects as might be of use to those country readers, who were unable to indite for themselves." [PDF]

Study Questions for Sense and Sensibility

Jane Eyre Study Questions

Comparing Sense and Sensibility and Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre reading notes.

Sample Test on the Novel, Sense and Sensibility, and Jane Eyre.

Notes for a Lecture on Romanticism

Comments on some possible subjects for student presentations on texts of the Romantic Era.

On Blake's Chimney Sweeper Poems

On Blake's "The Tyger"

On Robert Burns

On Wordsworth

Student Presentations: The Romantic Era

Coleridge's "Eolian Harp"

On Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Shelley's "Mont Blanc": Lecture Notes

Keats Lecture Notes

Romantic Era Test: Sample Questions