Week 1

Tuesday, 8/29

Thurs. 8/31

Course Intro.
Blake , Songs Of Innocence and Songs of Experience.1789, 1794

Blake , Songs Of Innocence and Songs of Experience.1789, 1794

 

 

 

Week 2

Tuesday, 9/5

Thurs. 9/7

Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads. 1798
The Ballads: Rime of Ancient Mariner, The Female Vagrant, Goody Blake, Simon Lee, The Thorn, Last of the Flock, The Mad Mother, The Idiot Boy.

Lyrical Ballads
Preface of 1800. Lines Left upon a Seat, The Nightingale, Lines Written at Small Distance, Anecdote for Fathers, We are Seven, Lines Written in Early Spring, The Dungeon, Lines Written Near Richmond, Expostulation and Reply, The Tables Turned, Old Man Travelling, Tintern Abbey

 

 

 

Week 3

Tuesday, 9/12

Thurs. 9/14

Hamilton, Madison, Jay, The Federalist Papers. 1788. 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 23, 37, 39, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51,  57,  84, 85

De Tocqueville Democracy in America. 1835

 

 

 

 

Week 4

Tuesday, 9/19

Thurs. 9/21

 

Jane Austen,  Pride and Prejudice, 1813.  Ch. 1-23.

 

Pride and Prejudice,   Ch. 24-45.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 5

Tuesday, 9/26

Thurs. 9/28

Pride and Prejudice,   Ch. 46-end.

Charlotte Bronte,  Jane Eyre, 1847

Ch. 1-15

 

 

 

Week 6

First Thesis Due this Week

Tuesday, 10/3

Thurs. 10/5

Jane Eyre
Ch. 16-27.


Jane Eyre
Ch 28-38.

 

 

 

Week 7

Tuesday, 10/10

Thurs. 10/12

FALL RECESS

Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling.  Preface-Ch2.   1843

 

 

 

Week 8

Tuesday, 10/17

Thurs. 10/19

Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling.  Ch3-4.

Darwin, The Origin of Species . 1859

Ch. 1,3,4,

 

 

Week 9

Tuesday, 10/24

Thurs. 10/26

Darwin, The Origin of Species .

Ch. 6, 7, 13, 14.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. 1880
Part I,  Books I, II, III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 10

Tuesday, 10/31

Thursday, 11/2

The Brothers Karamazov
Part II, Book 4, Book 5, Ch. 1-4.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.
Part II,  Book 5, 5-7, Book 6
Part III, Book 7.

 

 

 

 

Week 11

Second Thesis Due this Week

Tuesday, 11/7

Thurs. 11/9

The Brothers Karamazov
Part III, Book 8 ,Book 9, Ch 1-5.

The Brothers Karamazov

Part III, Book 9, Ch 6--9.

Part IV, Book 10, Book 11

 

 

 

 

Week 12

Tuesday, 11/7

Thurs. 11/9

The Brothers Karamazov
 Part IV Book 12 .

Epilogue

 

Nietzsche Thus Sprach Zarathustra  Part I: Prologue; 1. Three Metamorphoses; 3. Afterworldly; 15. Thousand and One Goals, 16. Neighbor Love; 21 Voluntary Death; 22. Bestowing Virtue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 13

Tuesday, 11/21

Thurs. 11/23

Nietzsche Thus Sprach Zarathustra Part II: 24. In the Happy Isles; 25. The Pitiful; 34. Self-surpassing; 37. Immaculate Perception; 42. Redemption.  Part III:  46-2. The Vision and The Enigma;  48. Before Sunrise; 54-1. Three Evil Things; 56-2. Old and New Tables;  57-2. The Convalescent; 59-3 The Second Dance Song.  Part IV: 79-11 The Drunken Song.





THANKSGIVING RECESS

 

Week 14

Tuesday, 11/28

Thurs. 11/30

Thomas Hardy,  Tess of the d'Urbervilles. 1891.
Phases First, Second, Third.

 

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Phase the Fourth to end.

 

Week 15

Third Thesis Due this Week

Tuesday, 12/5

Thurs. 12/7

Tolstoy, "The Kreutzer Sonata". 1889

Tolstoy. "How Much Land Does a Man Need?”1886 , "God Sees the Truth but Waits"

 

FINAL EXAM

Sat 12/9, 9:00 AM