Schedule

Relevant Materials

Unit 1: Introduction

Feb. 19

Week 1: Introduction: The history/setting of the Restoration period.

For preparation, read the introduction to the period in the Norton, 1767-85.

World Religion & Cultures (FJU):

http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/world_religion.htm

Articles:

Charles I: Regicide and Republicanism

The Trial of Charles I: A new Perspective

Why Charles I was executed in 1649

The Trail of Charles I

Charts:

Chart 1: Rise of Protestantism

Chart 2: Affiliations

Unit 2: The Poet Laureate

Feb. 26

Week 2: Dryden, the Poet Laureate

An Essay in Dramatic Poesy,  1838-42

Absalom and Achitophel, 1791-1815 (before reading, also read in the Bible, 2 Samuel 13-18 for understanding)

Annus Mirabilis, 1838-42

Unit 3: Rakes and Cavaliers

Mar. 4

Week 3:  Earlier Poets

All the poetry is available through EngSite.

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (caution, might offend some readers)*

        "The Disabled Debauchee" 1990

        "A Satyr on Charles II"

        "Satire on Mankind"

        "A Song: To this moment a rebel I throw down my arms"

        "A Song: Absent from thee…"

        "The Imperfect Enjoyment"

Aphra Behn

        "On Her Loving Two Equally"

        "To the Fair Clarinda"

        "The Disappointment"

        "On Desire"

Charles Sackville

        "A Ballad When at Sea"

        "Four Poems on the Countess of Dorchester"

        "On the Countess Dowager of Manchester"

Article:

Rochester and the History of Sexuality

Mar. 11

Week 4: Masters of Comedy

Etherege, Man of Mode

Wycherley, Plain Dealer

Unit 4: The Serious Side

Mar. 18

Week 5: The "Other" Restoration Literature

Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, 1856ff

Milton, Paradise Lost (selections TBA)

Mar. 25

Weeks 6: Milton, Paradise Lost, con't

Apr. 1

Week 7: Philosophy

Locke, An Essay on Human Understanding, 1756-61

Astell, Some Reflections on Marriage, 1971-75

Unit 5: Political Satire

Apr. 8

Week 8: The Early Jonathan Swift

Tale of a Tub (1697), 2023ff

"A Description of a City Shower" (1710), 2009

"Abolishing Christianity in England", 2031ff

PAPER DUE ※

Apr. 15

Week 9: The Political Essayists

Defoe "True Born Englishman," (1701), "Shortest Way with the Dissenters" (1702)

Manley, "The New Atalantis" (1709), "Queen Zarah" (1705) (all available on-line)

Apr. 22

Week 10: The Masters of the Essay

Addison and Steele, all the essays in the Norton

Unit 6: Drama and Reform

Apr. 29

Week 11: Examples of Drama

Congreve, The Way of the World, 1912

Pix, The Beau Defeated*

May 6

Week 12: Moral Reformers

Collier, "A Short View" TBA

Rowe, Jane Shore*

TBA

Unit 7: Satire’s Apotheosis

May 13

Week 13: Pope

The Rape of the Lock 2233

An Essay on Criticism 2216

Essay on Man 2263

Eloisa to Abelard 2255

Epistle 2: To a Lady 2270

Unit 8: Narratives to Novel

May 20

Week 14: Aphra Behn’s Narrative

Oroonoko, 1866

The Fair Jilt available on EngSite

May 27

Week 15: An Early Novel

Defoe, Roxana

June 3

Week 16: Final Papers and Discussions Due ※