ENG 205 Survey of English Literature: Restoration to Romantics

1. Name the major authors and texts and explain the major ideas and themes in English Literature from 1660 (the Restoration of the English monarchy) to the 1832 (the beginning of the Victorian era). 
2. Read a literary work at a literal level:  accurately describe genre, subject, structure, style, theme, character, and setting. 
3. Read a literary work at a figurative level:  recognize literary devices and identify their function within a particular text and among different texts. 
4. Read a literary work at a critical level:  question, interpret, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate. 
5. Situate literature from the various periods covered in this course within their socio-historical and biographical contexts. Demonstrate awareness of the importance of race, nation, class, gender, time, and place in shaping a given text. 
6. Describe the cultural, social, and political functions of literature. 
7. Identify the cultural, social, political contexts that give rise to literary critical lenses and be able to identify how different lenses affect interpretation of texts. 
8. Use discussion to create reading communities within the classroom (online or face-to-face). 
9. Articulate and defend plausible interpretations of texts and the ideas of major critics. 
10. Examine the way their own experiences, expectations, and historical moment shape their readings of texts; employ literary theory to identify their approaches to literature and understand other approaches. 
11. Write critical analyses of literary works, including at least one analytical essay that uses MLA style documentation and paper format. 

Statewide General Education Outcomes:

1. Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life. 
2. Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues.

Cultural Literacy (DPR) Outcome:

1. Identify and analyze complex practices, values, and beliefs and the culturally and historically defined meanings of difference. 

• Close Reading 
  • Attention to detail 
  • Note taking and highlighting 
  • Responding to texts informally and formally 
• Historical and Social Contexts 
  • Definitions:  England and Englishness 
  • 17th century England 
    • James I 
    • Charles I 
    • The Restoration 
    • Copernicus 
    • Print culture 
    • New notions of the individual 
  • 18th-century England 
  • Romanticism 
    • The Enlightenment 
    • The French Revolution 
    • The Napoleonic Wars 
  • Conditions of publication and copyright 
  • Literacy 
  • Gender 
  • Class 
  • Religion 
  • Science 
• Literary Terminology and Language 
  • Literary Criticism and Theory 
• Methods of Literary Analysis 
  • Discussion 
  • Conventions of the Literary Essay 
    • Establishing a thesis 
    • Incorporating details from a text, including quotes 
    • Research 
      • Scholarly sources 
      • Norton Online materials 
      • Incorporating and documenting information from other sources 
    • MLA format and style 
• The “Canon” 
  • Definitions of “major” authors and works 
  • Who decides what is English Literature? 
• Literary Periods, Movements, and Genres 
  • Restoration Writing 
    • Journalism 
    • Personal writing: Pepys 
    • Allegory: Bunyan 
    • Aphra Behn, Oroonoko 
  • Restoration Poetry 
    • Heroic couplet 
    • Dryden 
      • Occasional poetry 
      • Mock epic 
  • Restoration drama 
    • Wit 
    • Naming 
  • Restoration fiction 
    • Defoe 
  • 18th-century essays, journalism, and satire 
    • Addison and Steele 
    • Johnson and Boswell 
    • Hogarth  
    • Burney 
    • Pope 
      • The Rape of the Lock 
      • Deus ex machina 
    • Swift 
      • Selections from Gulliver’s Travels 
        • Formal satire 
        • Characterization 
        • Defamiliarization 
        • Travel literature 
  • 18th-century poetry  
    • Gray 
    • Cowper 
    • Smart 
    • Goldsmith 
  • 18th-century poetry 
  • Romantic Poetry 
    • Selected women poets 
    • Blake 
      • Mediated perception 
      • Visual texts 
      • Synaesthesia 
    • Wordsworth 
      • The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads 
      • Selected poems from Lyrical Ballads 
      • Lyrical Ballads 
      • Definition of poetry 
      • Role of Dorothy Wordsworth 
      • Tintern Abbey 
    • Coleridge 
      • “This Lime Tree Bower My Prison” 
      • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 
      • Definition of the imagination from Biographia Literaria 
      • Other selected poems 
    • Byron 
      • Selected poems 
      • Byronic hero 
    • Shelley 
      • Selections from A Defence of Poetry 
      • Selected poems 
      • Odes 
      • “Ode to the West Wind” 
        • terza rima sonnet 
    • Keats 
      • Selected poems 
      • The Great Odes 
    • Imagination 
    • Mediated perception  
    • Nature 
    • The sublime 
  • Other Early 19th-Century Literature 
    • Wollstonecraft 
    • DeQuincey, selections from Confessions of an English Opium Eater 
      • The Other 
      • Romantic Orientalism 
  • The Gothic 
    • Medieval Revival 
    • Women Authors and Readers 
    • Frankenstein 
      • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 
      • The prefaces 
      • Epistolary frame 
      • Romanticism and Gothicism 
      • Science 
      • Locke’s tabula rosa and Rousseau’s noble savage 
      • Connections to Paradise Lost