Times & Location: MWF 1:25 – 2:15 Section 5 Burruss 36 MWF 2:30 – 3:20 Section 6 Burruss 36 Instructor: Julie Sorge Way Contact: geng236 at gmail.com Office: Keezell 412 Office hours: MWF 12:15-1:20, 4:30-5:00 and by appt
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 
Other required texts: This is the authoritative dictionary for literary studies, and shows how the meanings of words change through time. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This is reference work contains short, authoritative, well researched biographies on every major person in British history. It is a very good place to begin researching any of our authors. If you are off-campus you may need to connect via the VPN Client before accessing either of these online resources. Course Documents: Course Links:
Unit One:
Norton Online Archive- Additional Relevant Texts, as printable PDFs Link to Epistle II of Pope's Essay on Man - comparative text from previous period Links to Several Manuscripts by some of our authors - Scroll down to "Manuscripts" - shows their handwriting. Maps and Paintings also.
Video of William Blake Art & Poetry - via YouTube Wordsworth's 1802 Preface to Lyrical Ballads - Searchable Online Text Inside Tintern Abbey - short tourist video Wordsworth's "Daffodills" - Video from Lakes District Commercial Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Complete Text from Bartleby
Online Audio of Rime of the Ancient Mariner - from LoudLit
Critical Abstracts on Rime of the Ancient Mariner - overviews with sources cited
Opium Addiciton and English Literature - a short article by an MD on the topic
"Kubla Khan" - audio from Norton
Byron Chronology - a very busy life
Byron's "So We'll Go No More A-roving" - performed by the King Blues
"She Walks in Beauty" - audio from Norton
Shelley's "A Defence of Poetry" - Online searchable text
Keats Images - manuscripts and portraits Keats at the British Library - webpage with letters, images, Hyperion Nightingale Song - Clip on YouTube Sosibios Vase - the urn that inspired Keats's Ode (from the Louvre)
Trailer to the Keats Movie - "Bright Star"
Unit Two:
All About the Victorian Era - BBC Education Page
Industrialism: Progress or Decline? - from Norton online
Industrialism - Further reading (Dickens, Marx, Spencer) from Norton (PDF)
Child Workers in Britain - from The Daily Mail (UK paper)
Victorian Prison FAQ - from LearningCurve.uk.gov
Treatment of Prisoners in Victorian Times - from the University of Michigan
Daze of Our Lives - Victorian parody Webcomic
Darwin Life Timeline - from AboutDarwin.com
Darwin's Complete Works - Online searchable
Matthew Arnold's "Sweetness & Light" - full text
Dickens - Great background info from The Victorian Web
Hard Times - Character List from SMU Hard Times - Bibliography of related articles from VictorianWeb
Hard Times - original serial issues as PDF from Stanford Hard Times - searchable online text The Importance of Being Earnest - Online searchable
Importance Character List - from SparkNotes
Oscar Wilde plays and essays - free online texts
Unit Three:
The Great War Archive - from Oxford
"Araby" by James Joyce - audiobook via YouTube (Part 2 here)
A Room of One's Own - Online searchable
Study Guide for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" - good details
Hear Eliot reading Prufrock - from Salon.com (MP3 download at site)
Hear Eliot reading Prufrock - YouTube montage (no download required)
T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land - Searchable Online Text
A second annotated Waste Land - online hyperlinked text
Hear Eliot reading The Waste Land - in realaudio
Hear Eliot reading Section I of the Waste Land - with youtube montage
Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" - online text
Beckett's Endgame - Searchable text
Endgame - Study Questions
Andrew Motion - discusses his role as Poet Laureate (and leaving it in 2009)
Zadie Smith - radio interview discussing the role of the novel
SpokenVerse - Searchable channel on YouTube with very good audio recordings of many of the poems covered in this class.
Paper Writing Help:
MLA Format - from the OWL at Purdue
Quoting, Summarizing, and Paraphrasing - from Purdue
Gender Questions - to get you started if you choose Paper 1, Option B
Citing Media in MLA - (CD, for song lyrics etc.)
Glossary of Poetic Terms - Great resource with cross-linked synonyms
Background Reading: The Romantic Period
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Current Unit Reading Assignments:
UNIT THREE: The Twentieth Century and After The NAEL provides brief biographical introductions to each author before their first work in the textbook, which you should include (and annotate) along with your daily readings.
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