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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016): Paper #1: Romantic Co-Authors
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016). Wednesday, October 12, 2016. Paper #1: Romantic Co-Authors. The Romantic period is full of writers reading each other's works, and being influenced by the zeitgeist. For this paper, I want you to imagine TWO of the writers in class as co-authors of each other's works. Naturally, Coleridge and Austen weren't writing together- nor even knew one another- though Austen did. Read Coleridge's work and she wrote Persuasion. How can we use Coleridge to read Austen?
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016): Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016). Sunday, November 13, 2016. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. NOTE: These cover the entire book, so answer as soon as you finish reading. Questions for The Importance of Being Earnest. And War of the Worlds. Answer TWO of the following. What is "wrong" or "uncanny" with his appearance? How might this tie into the Gothic narration of a work like Frankenstein. Or the slightly later Dracula,. Q3: In his final letter, Dr. Jekyll explains th...
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016): January 2016
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016). Saturday, January 30, 2016. Paper #1 Assignment: Romantic Collaborations. Paper #1: Romantic Collaborations. Nor perchance,/If I were not thus taught, should I the more/Suffer my genial spirits to decay”. Wordsworth, “Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey”). My genial spirit fail,/And what can these avail/To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? Coleridge, “Dejection: An Ode”. Friday, January 29, 2016. Wednesday, January 27, 2016. 8220;Ode: Intimations of...
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016): April 2016
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016). Thursday, April 28, 2016. The Final Exam: Friday, May 6th @ 9:00. FINAL EXAM FOR BRITISH. I will give you a passage from each book (and maybe 2 or 3 from the Romantic Poetry. Book): you have to identify the author OR the work, and then discuss the significance of the passage—in other words, why I’m quoting it here. These will all be significant passages we discussed in class, so no surprises. Part Two: The Essay. Of the era. You must. However, if these are the ...
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016): Questions for Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016). Friday, November 18, 2016. Questions for Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Answer TWO of the following:. Q1: If you were a director, what would be your greatest difficulty in staging this play? Though this play is often performed even today, it is surprisingly tricky to bring off: why do you think this is? What element of the play would challenge modern theatergoers (or actors) the most? You might discuss a specific scene to illustrate this. Q1: One of t...
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016): November 2016
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016). Tuesday, November 22, 2016. Questions for Wells, The War of the Worlds. Answer THREE of the following:. The War of the Worlds. How does he attempt to blur fact and fiction? Q2: How does the public react to the growing threat of the Martians? 8212;or humanity in general? Q3: How might Mars and the Martians represent some of. 8217;s colonial fears, much in the same way that vampires and “Mr. Hydes” did in other stories? Q4: In Chapter 2, “From the Ruined Ho...
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016): Shelley, Frankenstein: Last Questions...
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016). Thursday, November 3, 2016. Shelley, Frankenstein: Last Questions. Answer TWO of the following. Q1: What arguments does Victor give Walton for destroying the Creature’s incomplete mate? He was earlier moved by the Creature’s loneliness, and also agreed that the Creature’s arguments were sound. Why, at the very end, does he decide not to go through with his “engagement”? Are his reasons equally sound? Q3: Is Victor a reliable narrator? November 8, 2016 at 7:17 PM.
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016): October 2016
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016). Monday, October 24, 2016. Frankenstein: Chapter V-Vol 2, Chapter 3. Answer TWO of the following. Q1: Discuss the dream that Victor has just before he beholds the Creature for the first time. What is significant about this dream, considering that it contains the two women in his life- his mother and Elizabeth? Also, why did he originally find the Creature "beautiful," but after the dream he exclaims that it is a "miserable monster"? Q4: When the Creature confron...
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016): Shelley, Frankenstein, Chs.1-4
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British Literature from 1800 (Spring 2016). Wednesday, October 12, 2016. Shelley, Frankenstein, Chs.1-4. Answer TWO of the following. Q1: Most first-time readers of Frankenstein. Are surprised to find that the novel begins with a frame narrative: that of Walton, the arctic explorer, who is writing home to his sister, Mrs. Saville. What purpose does this frame serve, especially since it could have all been narrated from Victor’s point of view? And Ode: Intimations of Immortality? Q4: Recalling his early e...