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English 10B-2 - Spring, 2014
Literatures in English II: 1700-1900
Class Information
Instructor:
Frederickson, Kathleen
CRN:
22427
Time:
TR 10:30-11:50
Location:
115 Wellman
Description
English 10B is the second course in the required three-part Literatures in English sequence. This is a reading- and writing-intensive class designed to prepare you for upper-division classes in the English major. This course is designed to improve your close reading and research skills and to give you an outline of some of the key themes emerging in the literatures of this period. To that end, we will read prose, poetry, and drama written in English between1700-1900 by authors who lived in a number of different geographical locations.
Grading
Participation: 10%
In-class writing and quizzes: 10%
Paper 1: 20%
Paper 2: 30%
Revision Assignment: 5%
Group Presentation: 5%
Final Exam 20%
Texts
Robinson Crusoe
, Daniel Defoe
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
, Olaudah Equiano
Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
, Edgar Allan Poe
Mrs. Warren's Profession
, George Bernard Shaw
The Cenci
, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Story of an African Farm
, Olive Shreiner
Phyllis Wheatley
, Complete Writings
Leaves of Grass
, Walt Whitman