English 364
Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature
Fall 2007
Stephen C. Behrendt
319 Andrews; 472-1806
Office: 1030-1130 MWF
Schedule of Required Readings
The numbers in parentheses are page numbers in The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Volume Three: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century. For works or selections longer than one page, only the beginning page is given in the parentheses, but you are to read all of the work or selection. I suggest that you read the assigned works in the order listed for each day.
Aug 27 M – Introductory matters
Aug 29 W – Studying the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century in Britain
Read “Introduction” (xxix)
Aug 31 F – Bunyan, selection from The Pilgrim’s Progress (34)
Sep 3 M – Labor Day holiday — no class meeting
Sep 5 W – Dryden, “Astræa Redux” [handout],“To the Memory of Mr. Oldham” (91), Mac Flecknoe (86),
“A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” (92)
Sep 7 F – Dryden
» Last day to file a drop to remove this course from your permanent record. After today,
and through 16 November, your record will show a “W” if you withdraw from the class.
Sep 10 M – Addison, Spectator 414 (432), Spectator 224 (543), Spectator 69 (711), Spectator 119 (725),
Spectator 414 (730)
Sep 12 W – Addison
Sep 14 F – Astell, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (128 and 291)
Drake, An Essay in Defense of the Female Sex (129)
Sep 17 M – Wycherley, The Country Wife (180)
Sep 19 W – Wycherley
Sep 21 F – Wycherley
Rochester, “A Satire on Charles II” (232), “Impromptu on Charles II” (241), “A Satire
against Reason and Mankind” (233), “Love and Life: A Song” (235)
Sep 24 M – Pope, The Rape of the Lock (443)
Sep 26 W – Pope
Sep 28 F – Pope
Oct 1 M – Pope, Essay on Man: “The Design” (463), “Epistle 1" (463), “Epistle 2" (468)
Oct 3 W – Pope, “Epistle 2. To a Lady” (479)
Oct 5 F – Pope
Oct 8 M – Behn, Oroonoko (144)
» First Working Paper due in class
Oct 10 W – Behn
Oct 12 F – Behn
Oct 15 M – Fielding, Joseph Andrews
Oct 17 W – Fielding
Oct 19 F – Fielding
» Last day to change your course registration to or from “Pass/No Pass”
Oct 22 M – Fall Break – no class meeting
Oct 24 W – Fielding
Oct 26 F – Hogarth (visual material in class and on line)
Oct 29 M – Johnson, “The Vanity of Human Wishes” (560)
Oct 31 W – Johnson, Rambler 4 (565), Rambler 12 (568), Rambler 60 (571), Rambler 155(573)
Nov 2 F – Johnson, Idler 26 (576), Idler 29 (577), Idler 31 (578), Idler 49 (580), Idler 81 (581)
Nov 5 M – Johnson, selections from Lives of the English Poets: “John Milton” (593), “Alexander Pope” (597)
Nov 7 W – catching up
Nov 9 F – Gray, “Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West” (606),“Ode on a Distant Prospect of
Eton College” (603), “Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat” (604)
Smart, selection from Jubilate Agno: “My Cat Geoffrey” (675)
Nov 12 M – Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (607)
Nov 14 W – Working-Class poets:
Duck, “The Thresher’s Labour” (695)
Collier, “The Woman’s Labour:: To Mr. Stephen Duck” (699)
Leapor, “An Epistle to a Lady” (702), “To a Gentleman with a Manuscript Play” (703)
Hands, “On the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper. . .” (707)
Nov 16 F – Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village” (678)
» Second Working Paper due in class
» Last day to withdraw from this course (with “W” on your record )
Nov 19 M – Goldsmith
Nov 21 W – Thanksgiving holiday – no class meeting
Nov 23 F
Nov 26 M – Sheridan, The School for Scandal (755)
Nov 28 W – Sheridan
Nov 30 F – Sheridan
Dec 3 M – Smith, sonnets (handouts)
Dec 5 W – Blake, selections from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (handouts)
Dec 7 F – Blake
Dec 10 M – A week of review, including course evaluations
Dec 12 W – more. . .
Dec 14 F – The Big Finish
FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, 18 December – 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon