English 10B-1 - Winter, 2012

Literatures in English II: 1700-1900

Class Information

Instructor: Simpson, David
CRN: 32469
Time: TR 12:10-1:30
Location: 105 Olson

Description

This course is designed to prepare you for upper division English classes. We will work on reading and writing skills and explore how literature may be conceptualized in historical and formal frameworks (period, topic, genre). To that end there will be a focus on texts that reflect issues of self-discovery and geographical exploration.

This will be a 'paper' and discussion classroom and no laptops will be permitted in class unless you have a documented need.

Please use the assigned texts so that we are all (literally) on the same page. Books will be at the UCD Bookstore. Additional materials will be available in a course reader to be purchased at the Davis Copy Shop (on Third St between A and B).

Grading

Midterm 15%
Paper One 20%
Final Paper 25%
Final exam 30%
Participation 10%

Texts

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
The Pioneers, James Fenimore Cooper
Bartelby and Benito Cereno, Herman Melville
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
The Sign of Four, Arther Conan Doyle
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
The Pioneers, James Fenimore Cooper
Bartelby and Benito Cereno, Herman Melville
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
The Sign of Four, Arther Conan Doyle