23 January 2019 English Literature 1 SEMESTER 2 Session 2018/2019 MODULE TWO: Literature and the literary: c. 1300-1700 Unless otherwise stated, all texts can be found in the Norton Anthology of English Literature (9 th or 10 th edition). Renaissance Women Poets ( RWP ) Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism ( NTC ) Jan 15 th Jan 17 th Jan 18 th 1 INTRODUCTION Periodicity: Medieval Ideas of the Literary. Authors, Readers, Rhetoric. Lyric Poetry Dr Sarah Carpenter Medieval Ideas of the Literary: Fable, Romance, Meditation. Dr Sarah Carpenter MEDIEVAL Set Texts Professor Greg Walker None. No advance reading required. NEL and extra lyric handout on LEARN Henryson, The Cok and the Fox; Prologue to the Moral Fables on LEARN English Literature 1 Semester 2 1
Jan 22 nd Jan 24 th Jan 25 th 2 Chaucer, The Knight's Tale. Professor Greg Walker Chaucer, The Miller's Tale. Dr David Salter Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe MEDIEVAL The Knight's Tale at http://www.librarius.com/ canttran/knighttrfs.htm The Miller's Tale in Norton: Volume A, pp. 282-298. Dr David Salter A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich, Norton, Volume A, pp. 432-442, and The Book of Margery Kempe, Norton, Volume A, pp. 443-456 Jan 29 th Jan 31 st Feb 1 st 3 MEDIEVAL Modes of performance: Medieval Mystery Cycles Dramatic genres: York Crucifixion. Dramatic genres: Everyman. Professor Greg Walker Professor Greg Walker None. No advance reading required. York Crucifixion Everyman English Literature 1: Semester 2 2
Feb 5 th Feb 7 th Feb 8 th Periodicity: Renaissance Ideas of the Literary The Sidneys More: Utopia, Shakespeare and the Renaissance Sonnet. 4 RENAISSANCE Philip Sidney, Defense of Poesy and Sonnet 1 from Astrophil and Stella, NEL; Mary Sidney, 'Even Now That Care,' and 'To the Angell Spirit...', 47-53, 'Psalm 150', RWP, 189-90; and Mary Wroth, 'In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn,' NEL; brief reference will also be made to The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia and The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (excerpts in NEL). Thomas More: Utopia Shakespeare Sonnets: selection in Norton Anthology English Literature 1: Semester 2 3
Feb 12 th Feb 14 th Feb 15 th 5 RENAISSANCE Lyric Poetry 1: The Anatomy of Love. John Donne, Songs and Sonnets: selection in Norton Anthology Lyric Poetry 2: Devotional Poetry. Mary Sidney, Psalms, RWP; Amelia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, RWP; George Herbert, The Temple. Spenser, The Faerie Queene Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 1 6 FLEXIBLE LEARNING FEBRUARY 18 th - 22 nd Feb 26 th Feb 28 th Mar 1 st 7 RENAISSANCE Modes of Performance: The Renaissance Stage. Renaissance Tragedy Renaissance Comedy None Marlowe, Dr Faustus. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. English Literature 1: Semester 2 4
March 5 th March 7 th March 8 th The Civil Wars: Politics, Religion and Literature Cavalier Poetry 8 CIVIL WAR Killing the King, NEL online; Lucy Hutchinson and Anne, Lady Halkett Andrew Marvell, 'An Horatian Ode on Cromwell's Return from Ireland', and Tom May s Death, online On LEARN: Robert Herrick: His Cavalier, The Argument of His Book, The Hock-Cart Richard Lovelace: To Lucasta, Going to the Warres, The Grasshopper March 12 th March 14 th March 15 th 9 Periodicity: Restoration Ideas of the Literary. Milton, Paradise Lost, 1. Milton, Paradise Lost, 2. RESTORATION Dr Simon Malpas Dryden; NTC (383-8); Behn NTC (391-5) John Milton, Paradise Lost John Milton, Paradise Lost English Literature 1: Semester 2 5
March 19 th March 21 st March 22 nd 10 Love Poetry & Libertine Verse Female Wit: Modes of Performance: The Restoration Stage, Theatre and Performance after 1660 RESTORATION Dr Simon Malpas Marvell, To His Coy Mistress, Richard Lovelace Love Made in the First Age Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment. Aphra Behn, Katherine Philips, and Anne Killigrew, in NEL and on LEARN. John Dryden, from An Essay of Dramatic Poetry (NTC 300-4 and NTC 2251-2256) Aphra Behn, Preface to The Lucky Chance (NTC 312-5) English Literature 1: Semester 2 6
March 26 th March 28 th March 29 th Dramatic genres: Dr Simon Malpas Dramatic genres: Dr Simon Malpas Fiction and Narration: Restoration Prose - Contexts of the Early Novel 11 RESTORATION Dr Rebecca Tierney-Hynes Aphra Behn, The Rover (Methuen) Congreve, The Way of the World. Astell, from Some Reflections upon Marriage (NEL); Congreve, Preface to Incognita (LEARN); Manley, Preface to Queen Zara (LEARN); Dryden, from Discourse Concerning Satire (LEARN) April 2 nd April 4 th April 5 th 12 RESTORATION Fiction and Narration: Restoration Prose 1 Dr Rebecca Tierney-Hynes Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (Norton) Fiction and Narration: Restoration Prose 2 Dr Rebecca Tierney-Hynes Aphra Behn, Oroonoko. EXAM BRIEFING Dr Carole Jones English Literature 1: Semester 2 7
Spring Teaching Vacation: 8-19 April 2019. Revision Week: 22-26 April 2019. Final assessment period: 29 April 24 May 2019. English Literature 1: Semester 2 8