Laurel Broughton, 439 Old Mill
E-mail: lbrought@zoo.uvm.edu
Office Hours: by appointment

TEXTS: M. H. Abrams et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th ed. Vol. 1. Norton, l993.
William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing. Oxford.
Fanny Burney. Evelina. Norton. Packaged with Anthology
Packet from Print Shop.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

1. TWO ESSAYS, 1000 to 1500 words, typed. The first is due October 13, the second November 22. Drafts for peer review will be due two weeks before the essay due date. Paper topics will be discussed in class. You will turn in your papers, both drafts and final versions, at the beginning of the class on the due date. Any papers not received at this time will be late. Late papers receive no written comments. ALL DRAFTS, ROUGH AND FINAL MUST BE TYPED. HANDWRITTEN PAPERS WILL BE RETURNED UNREAD. The first essay will count 15%, the second 20% of your final grade.

2. Class discussion list and WWW site. I have set up for this class an e-mail discussion list and a Web site (http://www.uvm.edu/~lbrought). At the Web site you will find information pertaining to this pragmatics of this class, including syllabus, paper assignments, journal questions and other announcements, in addition to materials to supplement the readings. It will be your responsibility to visit this site regularly to make sure you are current with class happenings. Each student will also subscribe to the class discussion list and will post responses to both in-class and out-of-class questions to this list. To subscribe to the list, send a message to listproc@list.uvm.edu. Leave the subject heading blank and type in the message space "subscribe eng21 your name". I am assigning a question every week, list to be found on the Brit Lit WWW page, that you will answer on the list. In addition, you may keep a hard copy journal for extra credit. Should you choose to do this, you will react to each reading assignment. Journal entries should be one page long. On-line responses to discussion questions count 10% of final grade. Please save your postings and make hard copies to turn in at the end of the semester.

3. MEMORIZATION. You will learn by heart lines 1-18 of the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and Milton's "When I Consider How my Light is Spent." The first will be due September 13, and the second October 27. Memorization average counts 5% of your final grade.

4. QUIZZES, given regularly throughout the semester. The lowest quiz grade will be dropped from the semester average. Quiz average counts 15% of final grade. NO MAKE-UPS WILL BE GIVEN FOR MISSED QUIZZES. If you anticipate missing a quiz, you may arrange to take it early.

6. MIDTERM HOUR EXAM, October 20. You may be excused from this exam by only your college dean or the student health center. Exam counts 15% of your final grade.

6. FINAL EXAM. Two hours. Your absence from this exam, unless you've been excused by your college dean, means automatic failure for the course. Exam counts 20% of your final grade.

7. CLASS ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION also count toward your final grade, especially in cases where grades are borderline. Repeated, unexcused absences will lower your final grade. You will get much more out of this course if you come to class prepared and willing to discuss the material you've read. You should bring both your texts and notebook to each class meeting; notebook entries and class discussion involve reference to the text.

PLEASE NOTE: All written work must be completed and turned it. Failure to hand in any written assignment will result in
failure for the course.

ASSIGNMENTS
August 30 Introduction.
September 1 Beowulf: Intro, 1-27, text 27-37.
September 3 " 37-55.
September 8 " 56-68.
September 10 Chaucer: Intro, 76-81, and "General Prologue," ll. 1-380.
September 13 "General Prologue," ll. 381-860. MEMORIZATION 1
September 15 "Miller's Prologue and Tale," 101-117.
September 17 "Wife of Bath's Prologue," 117-135.
September 20 "Wife of Bath's Tale," 135-144.
September 22 "Pardoner's Prologue and Tale," 164-179.
September 24 Creation Plays, Print Shop packet
September 27 ESSAY 1, DRAFT, Creation plays
September 29 Shakespeare: Intro, 395-413, 801-803; Sonnets 808-822.
October 1 Shakespeare: Much Ado, Intro, Acts I-II.
October 4 " Acts III-IV
October 6 Act V
October 8 Much Ado video
October 11 Donne: Intro, 1069-1082; "Sun Rising," 1085; "Canonization," 1086-87; "Valediction: Of Weeping," 1089; Elegy 19, 1101-03. ESSAY 1, FINAL
October 13 Donne: "Flea," 1090-9l; "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "Ecstacy," 1093-97.
October 15 No class: Fall Recess
October 18 Donne: Holy Sonnets, 1114-1117
October 20 MIDTERM
October 22 Milton: Intro, 1433-35; "Lycidas," 1451-56; "When I Consider," 1472.
October 25 Milton: Paradise Lost, Book 1, 1474-95. MEMORIZATION 2
October 27 " Book 2, 1495-1518.
October 29 " Books 3-4, 1519-49.
November 1 " Books 5-8, 1549-66.
November 3 " Book 9, 1566-93.
November 5 " Books 10-12, 1593-1610. ESSAY 2 DRAFT
November 8 Aphra Behn, Intro, 1864-66; "Oroonoko," 1866-86
November 10 " 1887-1910
November 12 Swift: Intro, 2007-9; Gulliver's Travels, Pt. 1, 2039-82
November 15 Part 2, 2082-2123.
November 17 Part 4, 2136-81.
November 19 Evelina, Intro, vii-xxxv; 1-66. ESSAY 2 FINAL
November 22 " 66-164.
December 29 " 165-269
December 1 " 273-356
December 3 " 356-406
December 6 "
December 8 Wrap up