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TOPICS | READ | DUE |
| WEEK 1 | Introductions: Syllabus, Course, Professor, Students
The Restoration: What is That, Even?
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Register with the Commons
“About Me” page to course site Make a Twitter account if you don’t have one |
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| WEEK 2 | The Known World
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· Sir Isaac Newton, “A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Professor of the Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, Containing His New Theory about Light and Colours” (1671)
·Margaret Cavendish, from Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, To Which Is Added, The Description of a New Blazing World (1666): read all links: link 1, link 2, link 3, link 4, skim through this last one · Mary Astell, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694)
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Twitter Posts by midnight on Sunday, February 4 (and during class time)
Twitter Leader: Silva
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| WEEK 3
Monday, February 12
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NO CLASSES: LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY | No classes | |
| WEEK 4
MONDAY SCHEDULE! |
Utopias and Gender | Cavendish, The Blazing World (1666)
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Twitter Posts by midnight on Sunday, February 18
Blog #1: Quill-Making (due by midnight 2/19)
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| WEEK 5 | Gender Trouble | Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675) | Twitter Posts by midnight on Sunday, February 25
Fulfill your hybrid requirement by watching the BBC version of the play. Report back on your thoughts about how it compares to reading the text (you can talk about costume, staging, editing, performance, for instance) by posting a short informal blog (app. 300 words). |
| WEEK 6 | Love Stories | Haywood, Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze (1725)– with group notes!
Please go to BB for the file if link is not working
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Twitter Posts by midnight on Sunday, March 4
Twitter leaders/group presentation
Fulfill your hybrid requirement by watching this short video on women’s dressing routines (1) and this one (2) and post a short informal blog (app. 300 words) reporting on the videos and comparing them with our own modern clothing/fashion practices (think about what our clothes say about personality, class, practicality, gender) before class (1pm Monday) |
| WEEK 7 | Sex and Ballads | Gay, The Beggar’s Opera (1728)
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Twitter Posts by midnight on Sunday, March 11
Project 1 draft before midnight to BB Fulfill your hybrid requirements by going through the instructions in this page
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| WEEK 8 | Ghost Stories! | Wolpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764) read all; we’ll focus on the preface and chapters 1-2 | Twitter Posts by midnight on Sunday, March 18
Twitter leaders/group presentation
Project 1 due before midnight Friday, 3/23 |
| WEEK 9 | …Isabella, no!
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Wolpole, Otranto (cont.) discussion of chapters 3-5 |
Blog #2: Candle Reading due by midnight 3/26
Twitter Posts by midnight on Sunday, March 25
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| WEEK 10
Monday, April 2
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NO CLASSES: SPRING BREAK! |
SPRING BREAK! |
SPRING BREAK! |
| WEEK 11 | Letter Writing and Seduction
Instructions for Project |
Richardson, Pamela_excerpts_ (1740) Come to class prepared to bring up 2-3 of your favorite letters/diary entries in detail |
Twitter Posts by midnight on Sunday, April 8
Blog #3: Journaling/Letters due by midnight 4/9 Twitter leaders/group presentation:
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| WEEK 12
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Media Events | Pamela, cont.
Fielding, Shamela (1741) |
Twitter Posts by midnight on Sunday, April 15
Twitter leaders/group presentation:
Hybrid Requirement: Read the instructions for Project 2 and the final Original Covers assignment. Leave comments and questions. |
| WEEK 13 | Periodicals |
Selected publications from The Tattler and The Spectator –make sure you read it alongside the group notes: ENG 333 Periodical Annotations |
Twitter Posts by midnight on Sunday, April 22
Blog #4: Your Own Periodical due by midnight 4/23 Twitter leaders/group presentation:
Thesis statement and first two topic sentences due in class (bring 3 hard copies) |
| WEEK 14 | Polite society |
Burney, Evelina (1778) |
Twitter Posts by midnight on Sunday, April 29
Project 2 draft due before midnight to BB Twitter leaders/group presentation:
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| WEEK 15 | Non-sense and Sensibility | Evelina, cont. | Twitter Posts by midnight on Sunday, May 6
Hybrid requirement: post your revised outline and offer feedback to 3 peers |
| WEEK 16
Monday, May 14
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Assessing the Period | Final Paper Due to Blackboard before midnight Monday, May 14 | |
| WEEK 17
Monday, May 21 |
Final Exam | Cover Presentations |
