Preliminary Information for ENGL3040 (2013-14)

**Please note: a final syllabus will be made available via BbLearn before the start of classes, and will include details on assignments, course policies, and so on. This is provided for informational purposes only, primarily to help those students who want to start the readings early (e.g., Books I & II of Gulliver's Travels).**

• Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Ed. Roger Luckhurst. New York: Oxford UP, 2011. [also available in Kindle]
• Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. New York: Oxford UP, 2005. [also available in Kindle)
• Wright, Julia M., ed. Irish Literature, 1750-1900: An Anthology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

The readings for January 8^th will be made available via BbLearn. All other readings are in one of the required textbooks. Students are required to finish the readings before the class in which they will be discussed.

Satire, 1700-1755
January 6^th: Introduction
January 8^th: Thomas Parnell, “To ---,” “On the Castle of Dublin” and “Bacchus or the Drunken Metamorphosis”; Swift, “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”
January 13^th-15^th: Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Books I & II
January 20^th: Thomas Sheridan, The Brave Irishman, or Captain O’Blunder: A Farce

The Age of Sentiment, 1755-1780
January 22^nd: Frances Sheridan, “Ode to Patience”; Ryves, “Ode to Sensibility”; Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village”
January 27^th-29^th: Burke, selections from Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas on the Sublime and the Beautiful; Leslie, “Killarney”

Satire and Early Nationalism, 1780-1805
February 3^rd: O’Brien, both selections; Porter, excerpts from Billy Bluff and the Squire
February 5^th-10^th: Drennan, “Wake,” “Erin,” and “Glendalloch”; Edgeworth, “Limerick Gloves”

Romanticism, 1805-1840: Satire, the Ballad, and the Gothic
Feb. 12^th: Moore, excerpts from Intercepted Letters; mid-term (7:30-8:25)
February 17^th-21^st: Reading Week
February 24^th: Moore, selections from Irish Melodies; Callanan, “The Convict of Clonmel” and “The Outlaw of Loch Lene”
February 26^th: Carleton, “Wildgoose Lodge”; Banims, “The Church-Yard Watch”
March 3^rd: Banims (cont.); J. Sheridan LeFanu, “A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family”

High Romanticism and Cultural Nationalism, 1840-1880: Sentimental Elegy and the Rise of the Lyric
            March 5^th: Mangan, “The Warning Voice,” “Dark Rosaleen,” “A Vision of Connaught in the Thirteenth Century,” and “The Lovely Land”
            March 10^th: Mangan (cont.); Ferguson, “Thomas Davis: An Elegy” and “Willi Gilliland”
            March 12^th-17^th: MacCarthy, “The Living Land” and “Walk by the Bay of Dublin”; Jane Wilde, “The Famine Year” and “Ruins”; Kavanagh, “The Pearl Fountain”

Fin-de-Siècle Discontents with Realism
March 19^th-26^th: Stoker, Dracula
March 31^st: Stoker (cont., if necessary); Oscar Wilde, “The Selfish Giant” and from The Decay of Lying
April 2^nd: Tynan, “The Unlawful Mother”; Sigerson, “Man’s Discontent”
April 7^th: Tynan, “The Wild Geese”; Sigerson, “The Flight of the Wild Geese”’; Yeats, from A Book of Irish Verse; review for exam.