English 351: Literature in English after 1660--Pictures of
Modern Identity (Winter 2002)
Professor Tobin Siebers
Lecture: T, TH, 2:30-4:00
Room: Angell Aud C
Individual sections are listed in the time table.
Tobin Siebers
2015 Tisch Hall
Hours: TBA and by appointment
Phone: 763-2351
tobin@umich.edu
Books
available at:
Shaman Drum Bookshop,
315 S. State Street |
Requirements for a passing grade:
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Attendance
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Participation
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Three papers (3-5, 5-7, 5-7 pages)
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Midterm and final exams
No
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Late work
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Extensions
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Inc's
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Course Description:
A survey of English and American literature during the
last three centuries.
Emphasis: the concept of identity
Major models of the self:
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The castaway
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The genius
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The solitary
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The victim
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The moral superior
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The criminal
Questions:
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Who invented you?
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Where and when were you conceived?
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What does it mean to be you, or any one person, apart
from others of your kind?
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How do the answers to these questions change over time?
Course Methodology:
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Lecture and discussion section
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Student participation. Heavy Emphasis
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Written participation:
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Three papers (3-5, 5-7, 5-7 pages)
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Midterm and final exams
General Resources:
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January 1.02
1.8 Introduction
1.10 Daniel Defoe
1.15 Daniel Defoe (Cont.)
ROBINSON CRUSOE (1719),
pp.
190-299.
1.17 Jonathan Swift
1.22 Jonathan Swift (Cont)
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (1726),
pp.
149-63, 223-305.
1.24 Horace Walpole
1.29 William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge
1.31 Wordsworth (Cont.)
THE LYRICAL BALLADS (1798-1802)
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Wordsworth's A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT
SEAL (154)
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SHE DWELT AMONG THE UNTRODDEN WAYS
(154)
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TINTERN ABBEY (113-)
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NUTTING (196-)
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MICHAEL (226-)
1.31 FIRST PAPER DUE (3-5 pp.)
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2.5 Jane Austen
2.7 Jane Austen (Cont.)
MANSFIELD PARK (1814), chaps.
19-34.
2.12 Jane Austen (Cont.)
MANSFIELD PARK (1814), chaps.
35 to end.
2.14 Emily Brontë
2.19 Emily Brontë (Cont.)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1847),
pp. 165-338.
2.21 Edgar Allan Poe (1839-49)
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"The Man of the Crowd"
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"William Wilson"
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"The Tell- Tale Heart"
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"Hop-Frog"
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"The Fall of the House of Usher"
2.21 Second Paper Due
VACATION February 23-March 4
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3.5 Midterm Exam
3.7 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835-51)
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"Ethan Brand"
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"Wakefield"
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"Young Goodman Brown"
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"Egotism; or, the Bosom Serpent"
Resource
3.12 Henry Thoreau
WALDEN (1854)
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"Economy"
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"Sounds"
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"The Bean-Field"
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"The Ponds"
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"House-Warming"
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"The Pond in Winter"
Resource
3.14 Henry Thoreau (Cont.)
WALDEN (1854)
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"Solitude"
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"The Village"
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"Higher Laws"
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"Brute Neighbours"
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"Former Inhabitants"
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"Conclusion"
3.19 Robert Louis Stevenson
3.21 Virginia Woolf
3.26 Ralph Ellison
3.28 Ralph Ellison (Cont.)
THE INVISIBLE MAN (1952), pp. 151-332
April 4.02
4.2 Ralph Ellison (Cont.)
THE INVISIBLE MAN (1952), pp. 333-581
4.4 Truman Capote
4.9 No Class
4.10 THIRD PAPER DUE (5-7 pp.)
4.11 No Class
4.16 Truman Capote (Cont.)
IN COLD BLOOD (1965), pp. 156-343
4.19 4:00-6:00 p.m. FINAL EXAM
GRADING
Methodology:
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Grades will be determined according to individual
effort, the goal being to give you the best grade for the best work you
can do.
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To be successful your work must reflect excellence
in the following areas:
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Expressiveness and clarity in style
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Grammar
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Intellectual issues
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Neatness
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Spelling
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The most important advice for writing papers (and
answering essay questions) is:
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Have an argument; that is, tell a story in which
something happens or changes. You should know your beginning,
middle, and conclusion before you begin your paper.
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Do not list a series of events of a similar nature
or compare characters merely for the sake of comparison. Have an argument.
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Do your work in advance, allowing as much time
to revise as to compose your original drafts; if your work is hurried,
it will be unorganized and unintelligible.
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If you discover, during composition, new ideas
that are better, plan a new paper around them; do not merely add your discoveries
in passing.
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Read your final draft in hardcopy and not on the
screen and reprint your work if you find mistakes rather than making corrections
in pen and ink.
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Use a spellchecker, but do not rely on it solely;
don't let a machine make the final decisions about your work.
Books are available at Shaman
Drum Bookshop, 315 S. State Street:
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Daniel Defoe, ROBINSON CRUSOE (1719),
Penguin $7.95
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Jonathan Swift, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
(1726), World Classics $3.95
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Horace Walpole, THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO
(1764), World Classics $5.95
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William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge,
THE LYRICAL BALLADS (1798-1802), Routledge $12.00
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Jane Austen, MANSFIELD PARK
(1814), Everyman $5.95
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Emily Brontë, WUTHERING HEIGHTS
(1847), Penguin $6.95
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Henry Thoreau, WALDEN (1854),
Everyman $4.95
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, CELESTIAL RAILROAD
AND OTHER STORIES, Signet $4.95
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Edgar Allan Poe, GREAT TALES, Simon
& Schuster $5.99
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Robert Louis Stevenson, DR. JEKYLL
AND MR. HYDE (1886), Vintage, $7.00
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Virginia Woolf, A ROOM OF ONE'S
OWN (1929), Harcourt $5.95
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Ralph Ellison, THE INVISIBLE MAN
(1952), Vintage $11.00
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Truman Capote, IN COLD BLOOD (1965),
Vintage $12.00