Office Hours

11:30-12:30, Mondays, McCain 2193; 2:30-3:30, Wednesdays, McCain 3043; or by appointment (e-mail is the best way of reaching me).

Required Texts

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. Allan Ingram. Peterborough: Broadview P, 2012.

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ed. Norman Page. Peterborough: Broadview P, 1998.

Wright, Julia M., ed. Irish Literature, 1750-1900: An Anthology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

 
Assignments
Short Essay, 1200 words (20%); due January 29th
Research Essay, 2000 words (40%); due March 9th
Mid-term (10%), in class on February 8th
Final Exam (30%), as scheduled by the university

Note: Assignments are due at the start of class and are subject to penalties of 3% per day of lateness, including weekends. I reserve the right not to accept assignments more than one week late. See “On Lateness” below, near the end of General Guidelines. If you have to submit your assignment late, you should a) drop it off in my essay drop-off box (see the metal set of drop-off boxes on the first floor of the McCain building); b) e-mail me right away to let me know that it is there, so that I can note the date it was received as soon as possible.

Reading Schedule

This schedule is subject to change. I am happy to spend more time on some texts and more on others if class interest so inclines, and there may need to be adjustments because of bad weather or other disruptions.   
You are required to read material before the class in which it will be discussed and come to class with questions and/or comments about the material. If you do not read material before class, expect to have trouble following the conversation: no potted summaries or plot descriptions will be provided.
            The readings for January 6th-8th are on BbLearn; the rest are in a required textbook.

Satire, 1700-1755

• January 4: Introduction
• January 6-8:  Thomas Parnell, The Horse and the Olive, “On the Castle of Dublin” and “Bacchus or the Drunken Metamorphosis”; Swift, “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” (for notes, click here)
• January 11-15:  Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Books I & II
• January 18: Thomas Sheridan, The Brave Irishman

 The Age of Sentiment, 1755-1780

• January 20: Sheridan, Brave Irishman (cont.); Frances Sheridan, “Ode to Patience”; Ryves, “Ode to Sensibility”
• January 22: Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village”
• January 25-27: Burke, selections from Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas on the Sublime and the Beautiful; Leslie, “Killarney”

 Satire and Early Nationalism, 1780-1813

• January 29:  O’Brien, both selections; Porter, all excerpts from Billy Bluff and the Squire
• February 1-3: Drennan, “Wake,” “Erin,” and “Glendalloch” [no class Feb 5: university closed]
• February 8:  mid-term
• February 10: Moore, excerpts from Intercepted Letters
• February 12: Edgeworth, “Limerick Gloves”

 
February 15^th-19^st:  Reading Week

 Romanticism, 1807-1840: The Ballad and the Gothic 

• February 22-24: Moore, selections from Irish Melodies; Callanan, “The Convict of Clonmel” and “The Outlaw of Loch Lene”
• February 26:  Carleton, “Wildgoose Lodge”
• February 29: Banims, “The Church-Yard Watch”
• March 2: 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 4-7: Mangan, “The Warning Voice,” “Dark Rosaleen,” “A Vision of Connaught in the Thirteenth Century,” and “The Lovely Land”
• March 9:  Ferguson, “Thomas Davis: An Elegy” and “Willi Gilliland”
• March 11: MacCarthy, “The Living Land” and “Walk by the Bay of Dublin”
• March 14: MacCarthy (cont.); Jane Wilde, “The Famine Year” and “Ruins”

Fin-de-Siècle Discontents with Realism

• March 16:  Oscar Wilde, “The Selfish Giant” and anthology excerpt from The Decay of Lying
• March 18-28:  Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray (no class March 25: university closed)
• March 30:  Guest Lecture: Tynan, “The Unlawful Mother” and “The Wild Geese”
• April 1: class cancelled: use the time to review &  prepare questions for final class
• April 4:   Sigerson, “Man’s Discontent” and “The Flight of the Wild Geese”; Yeats, from A Book of Irish Verse
  
  April 6: review for exam.