Week 1: Introduction 

M, Jan 27 Introduction 

W, Jan 29 No class 

Week 2: From the Old World to the New World

M, Feb 3 Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688, all)

W, Feb 5 Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (continued discussion), Critical introduction , Context,

Week 3: Enlightenment and the Print Culture

M, Feb 10 Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
File 1: from The Tatler (1709); No.1 [Introducing the Tatler]; The Spectator (1711-12), No. 1 [Introducing Mr. Spectator]
File 2: from The Spectator (1711-12), No. 10 [The Aims of the Spectator], No. 11 [Inkle and Yarico], No. 62 [Wit: True, False, Mixed], No. 69 [The Royal Exchange]
Introductory YouTube
Anthony Pollock’s article
Manushag N. Powell’s article

W, Feb 12 No class 

Week 4: Popular Fiction & Satire

T, Feb 18 [Monday Schedule] Eliza Haywood, “Fantomina” 

W, Feb 19 Fantomina continued

Week 5: Commerce & Dictionary

M, Feb 24 Bernard Mandeville, from The Fable of the Bees (1714); David Hume, from Of Commerce (1752); Adam Smith, Book I, Chapter 2 from The Wealth of Nations (1776)

Introductory Youtube on Mandeville (optional)

W, Feb 26 Samuel Johnson. “Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language“

Midterm project brainstorming: Freewriting & Workshop

Keywords: Liberalism (American), University (American), Sports (Gender), Gesture (American), Taste (Media)

Week 6: Mock-Travel

M, Mar 3 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (Book 1), Audiobook

W, Mar 5 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (Book 2)

Th, Mar 6 [Wednesday schedule] Asynchronous: Midterm project Workshop

Week 7: Orientalism

M, Mar 10 Edward Said, from Orientalism

W, Mar 12 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters (1716 and 1718); Keyword Orientalism

Week 8: Midterm 

M, Mar 17 Midterm Presentation sign up

W, Mar 19 Midterm Project

Submit Midterm Project by Sunday, Mar 23

Week 9: Sensibility, Sympathy, and the Sublime

M, Mar 24 Raymond Williams. “Structures of Feeling”; Keyword: Sentiments

Samuel Johnson’s definition of “pity,” “sensibility, ” passion”

W, Mar 26 Adam Smith. from The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759, audiobook); Edmund Burke, from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) 

Week 10: Sensibility, Sympathy, and the Sublime

M, Mar 31 No Class

W, Apr 2 David Hume. “Of the Standard of Taste.” (1757); Keyword Taste

Week 11: The Elegiac

M, Apr 7 No Class (conference)

W, Apr 9 Thomas Gray. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (1751); Raymond Williams; “Sensibility”

Week 12

M, Apr 14 Spring Break

W, Apr 16 Spring Break

Week 13: The Sentimental

M, Apr 21 Laurence Sterne. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768); Lynn Festa. “The Great World Without.”

W, Apr 23 Laurence Sterne. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768); Lynn Festa. “Sterne’s Snuffbox”

Week 14: The Sympathetic

M, Apr 28 Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (1789; chs. 1-3, including “dedication,” “preface”)

W, Apr 30 Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (chs. 4-6); Ramesh Mallipeddi. “Kinship and Sentiment in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative”

Week 15

M, May 5 Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (chs. 7-9)

W, May 7 Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (chs. 10-12); Lisa Lowe. “Autobiography Out of Empire.”; Final Survey

Week 16

M, May 12 Final Paper Conference signup

W, May 14 Final Paper Conference

Week 17 

Submit Final Paper by Wednesday, May 18