Schedule


Week 1: The Beginnings of Literature in England

T Aug 24: Introduction

Week 2: Heaven, Hell, and Hall

T Aug 31: Bede, An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, pp. 35-50; The Wanderer, pp. 50-52

Week 3: Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics

T Sep 7: Beowulf, pp. 57-105 (lines 1-1887)

Week 4: The Later Middle Ages

T Sep 14: Introduction to the Later Middle Ages; Reading Chaucer

Week 5: Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

T Sep 21: Quiz (see Study Guide); Geoffrey Chaucer, The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, pp. 214-235; The Miller's Tale, pp. 269-281

Week 6: The Miller's Tale and Social Satire

T Sep 28: The Miller's Tale (continued)

Week 7: Studying Chaucer's Language

T Oct 5: Digital Humanities Experiment

Week 8: Digital Humanities Work

T Oct 12: Digital Humanities Experiment

Week 9: The Renaissance

T Oct 19: Introduction to the Renaissance; Renaissance Lyric Poetry: Poems to be assigned

Week 10: Renaissance Lyrics

T Oct 26: Renaissance Lyric Poetry: Poems to be assigned

Week 11: The Devil is in the Drama

T Nov 2: Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, pp. 736-737, 750-779

Week 12: Renaissance Epic

T Nov 9: Milton, Paradise Lost, pp. 975-977, 996-1009 (Book 1)

Week 13: Civil and Religious Unrest

T Nov 16: Paradise Lost (cont)

Week 14

T Nov 23: The Restoration; Restoration Poetry: Poems to be assigned

Week 15

T Nov 30: Restoration Poetry: Poems to be assigned

Week 16

T Dec 7: Review

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