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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013): September 2013
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013). Monday, September 30, 2013. For Wednesday (Last Day of the Sonnets): "My Name is Will," Sonnets Day 6. For Wednesday: “My Name is Will” (The ‘Dark Lady’ Sonnets): Nos. 127, 129, 130, 135, 136, 138 (and 138a), 144. Answer TWO of the following…. 1 In general, what is the poet’s relationship with the “dark lady,” his mistress? Does he talk about love differently with a woman than with a man? Is this love sexual—or also idealistic/platonic? How does she inspire him?
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013): For Wednesday: Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Chs.3-10 (pp.109-155)
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013). Tuesday, November 12, 2013. For Wednesday: Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Chs.3-10 (pp.109-155). Answer TWO of the following:. 1 Sense and Sensibility. Was originally an epistolary novel entitled Elinor and Marianne. Which Austen revised thoroughly to suit a more 19. 2 In some ways, Sense and Sensibility. Do they seem out of place? 3 In William Deresiewicz’s book, A Jane Austen Education. He writes, “For Austen, before you can fall in love with someone else,...
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013): For Monday: Sense and Sensibility, Chs.11-Ch.4 (Vol.3) & Paper #3
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013). Friday, November 15, 2013. For Monday: Sense and Sensibility, Chs.11-Ch.4 (Vol.3) and Paper #3. NOTE: For Monday, there are no questions- just read up to Ch.4 of Volume III of Sense and Sensibility. An in-class writing will probably await you! The Paper #3 assignment follows:. Paper #3: A Sense of Sensibility. Choose ONE of the following options. 1 Discuss how contemporary audiences understood or tried to make sense of both Otranto. And Sense and Sensibility. What ...
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013): For Wednesday/Friday: Sense and Sensibility, Chs.V-XIV
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013). Monday, November 18, 2013. For Wednesday/Friday: Sense and Sensibility, Chs.V-XIV. Answer TWO of the following…. 1 Clarie Tomalin, in her biography of Jane Austen, quotes a letter from Austen’s mother to her new daughter-in-law: “I look forward to you as a real comfort to me in my old age, when Cassandra is gone into Shropshire and Jane—the Lord knows where! 2 One of the most interesting scenes in the novel is the reappearance of Willoughby and his conversation wit...
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013): November 2013
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013). Sunday, November 24, 2013. For Monday: Early Views and Modern Views of S and S. You can turn this in any time this week. For Monday: Early Views and Modern Views of Sense and Sensibility. Unsigned Review (Feb.1812). Unsigned Review (May 1812). Pollock, from British Novelists (1860). Anonymous, from Miss Austen (1866). Meynell, from The Classic Novelist (1894). Farrer, from Jane Austen (1917). Fergus, First Publication (1991). Answer TWO of the following…. 1 Clarie ...
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013): For Monday: Early Views & Modern Views of S & S
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013). Sunday, November 24, 2013. For Monday: Early Views and Modern Views of S and S. You can turn this in any time this week. For Monday: Early Views and Modern Views of Sense and Sensibility. Unsigned Review (Feb.1812). Unsigned Review (May 1812). Pollock, from British Novelists (1860). Anonymous, from Miss Austen (1866). Meynell, from The Classic Novelist (1894). Farrer, from Jane Austen (1917). Fergus, First Publication (1991). Answer TWO of the following…. For Monda...
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013): October 2013
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013). Monday, October 28, 2013. For Wednesday: The Castle of Otranto: Preface to the First and Second Edition (17-25), and Chapters 1-2. Answer TWO of the following…. 2 The Castle of Otranto. You might also consider how it supports Goya’s maxim that “the sleep of reason produces monsters.”. For example, Shakespeare modeled most of his plays on old histories or romances, yet modernized them for his audience. How might Walpole be doing much the same thing? A work about the...
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013): August 2013
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013). Friday, August 30, 2013. Seeing the 14th century: Les tres riches heures du Duc de Berry. A Bonus Post (don't worry, there is no work for class here- so read or ignore without peril):. For Wednesday: Reading the Pearl Poet. Close Reading Questions for. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Part I-II (pp.3-30). Click Read More under the picture for questions]. Thursday, August 29, 2013. For Friday: The World of the 'Pearl Poet'. In which case, you should finish it! BONUS...
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013): Extra Credit Questions: 2007 Adaptation of Northanger Abbey
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British Literature to 1800 (Fall 2013). Monday, December 2, 2013. Extra Credit Questions: 2007 Adaptation of Northanger Abbey. This film is an excellent adaptation (though taking certain liberties) of Austen’s early novel, which was written in 1798 along with the first versions of Pride and Prejudice. And Sense and Sensibility. Then entitled First Impressions. And Elinor and Marianne. However, like Sense and Sensibility,. Answer TWO of the following…. In the opening chapter of Northanger Abbey. Austen...
