English 364

Restoration and 18th-Century
       British Literature                                         

Fall 2016

Stephen Behrendt
319 Andrews; (402) 472-1806
Office: 1230- 230 MWF
and by appointment
sbehrendt1@unl.edu

             Rowlandson, The Exhibition Stare Case

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, second edition. To help you plan your reading time, I have given the inclusive page numbers for the entire work (or selection) you are to read for class. I suggest that you read the assigned works – in advance – in the order listed for each day.

Aug                  22  M  – Introductory matters
                        24  W – Studying the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century in Britain
                                                Read “Introduction” (xxxvi - lxxi), “Mind and God, Faith and Science” (143-45)
                        26   F  – John Bunyan, selection from The Pilgrim’s Progress (34-68)
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                        29  M –  John Dryden, “Astræa Redux” [handout],“To the Memory of Mr. Oldham” (91), Mac Flecknoe (86-90),  “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” (92-93)
                        31  W  – Dryden
Sep                    1   F  –  Joseph Addison, Spectator 414 (538 -39 and 938-39), Tatler 224 (661-63), Spectator 69 (914-16), Spectator 119 (928-29)
                                                “Eighteenth-Century Periodicals and Prints” (668-70 and 703-07)
                        ☞           Last day to file a drop to remove this course from your permanent record. After today, and through 11 November, your record will show a “W” if you withdraw from the class.
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                           5  M  – Labor Day Holiday
                           7  W – Addison
                           9   F  – Mary Astell, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (190-92 and 356-61)
                                       Judith Drake, An Essay in Defense of the Female Sex (192-94)
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                        12  M  – William Wycherley, The Country Wife (239-89)
                                                Read from “Print Culture, Stage Culture” (651-57)
                                                “Town and Country” (904-05)
                        14  W – Wycherley
                        16   F  – Wycherley
                                                John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of  Rochester, “A Satire on Charles II” (291-92), “Impromptu on Charles II” (300), “A Satire against Reason and Mankind” (292-94), “Love and Life: A Song” (294-95)
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                        19  M  – Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (555-68)
                        21  W –  Pope
                        23   F –  Pope
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                        26  M  – Pope, Essay on Man: “The Design” (575), “Epistle 1” (575-79), “Epistle 2” (579-83)
                        28  W –  Pope, “Epistle 2. To a Lady” (591-96)
                        30   F  – Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal (523-28) and “In Context” (528-32)
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Oct                    3  M  – Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (201-37)
                        ☞           First Working Paper due in class
                          5  W – Behn          
                                      Richard Ligon, from True and Exact History (827-28)
                                      John Woolman, from “Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes” (828-30)
                                      Hannah More, “Slavery: A Poem” (830-34)
                          7   F  – Behn
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                        10  M  – Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
                        12  W – Fielding
                        14   F  – Fielding
                        ☞                 Last day to change your course registration to or from “Pass/No Pass”
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                        17  M  –  Fall Break – no classes
                        19  W –  Fielding
                        21   F  –  William Hogarth (visual material in class and on line)
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                        24  M   – Samuel Johnson, “The Vanity of Human Wishes” (761-65)
                        26  W  –  Johnson, Rambler 4 (766-69), Rambler 12 (769-71), Rambler 60 (771-74), Rambler 155 (774-76)
                        28   F   –  Johnson, Idler 26 (776-77), Idler 29 (778-79), Idler 31 (779-80), Idler 49 (780-82), Idler 81 (782-83)
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                        31  M   – Johnson, selections from Lives of the English Poets: “John Milton” (793-97), “Alexander Pope” (797-99)
Nov                   2  W  –  catching up
                          4   F   –  Thomas Gray, “Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West” (807),“Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” (805-06), “Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat” (806-07)
                                         ChristopherSmart, selection from Jubilate Agno: “My Cat Geoffrey” (823-24)
                                         William Cowper, “The Retired Cat” (887-88)
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                          7  M  –  Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (807-09)
                          9  W –  Laboring-Class poets:
                                                Stephen Duck, “The Thresher’s Labour” (891-94)
                                                Mary Collier, “The Woman’s Labour:  To Mr. Stephen Duck” (894-97)
                                                Mary Leapor, “An Epistle to a Lady” (898), “To a Gentleman with a Manuscript Play” (899)
                                                Elizabeth Hands, “On the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper. . .” (902-03)
                         11  F  –  Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village” (873-78)
                        ☞                 Second Working Paper due in class
                        ☞         Last day to withdraw from this course (with “W”)
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                        14  M  – Goldsmith                                                                     
                        16  W –  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal (972-1015)
                        18   F  – Sheridan
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                        21   M   – Sheridan
                        23   W  – Thanksgiving holiday – no classes
                        25    F  –  Holiday
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                        28  M   – Charlotte Smith, sonnets (handouts)
                        30  W  –  William Blake, selections from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (handouts)
Dec                    2   F  –
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                          5  M  –  A week of review, including course evaluations
                          7  W –  More. . .
                          9   F  – The Big Finish

FINAL EXAM:        Friday, 16 December – 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon