Course Name: British Literature II
<br>Instructor: Yi-Chuang Lin (林宜莊)
<br>3 credits
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<br>Course Description: 
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<br>    The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the major literary works by British writers from the Romantic Period to the present. Students are expected to gain a better understanding of various aesthetic and philosophical trends behind a work of art. Through the texts, students would be guided to read in-depth, to appreciate English literary works of different genre, to distinguish each writer’s style and technique and to make personal and critical response to these works. Students are advised to finish their assigned reading beforehand. Apart from midterm and final, students would be asked either to recite a poem individually or to perform a play in group. 
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<br>Teaching Method: 
<br>    lecture, seminar discussion, assignment, performance
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<br>Textbooks: The Norton Anthology of English Literature 8th edition, vol. 2. 
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<br>Schedule: 
<br>Fall Semester
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<br>Session One:  Introduction to British Literature
<br>              The Romantic Period
<br>              Anna Letitia Barbauld 
<br>              Charlotte Smith
<br>              Mary Robinson
<br>              William Blake: Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience
<br>                             The Lamb
<br>                             The Chimney Sweeper
<br>                             The Little Black Boy  
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<br>Session Two: Robert Burns: My Luve Is Like A Red Red Rose
<br>                           To A Mouse 
<br>                           My Hearts in the Highlands
<br>                           Auld Lang Syne
<br>                           Tam o'Shanter: A Tale            
<br>             Thomas Paine: Rights of Man
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<br>Session Three: Mary Wollstonecraft 
<br>               A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
<br>               Joanna Baillie: A Winter's Day
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<br>Session Four: William Wordsworth 
<br>              Lyrical Ballads
<br>              A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
<br>              The Prelude 
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<br>Session Five: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
<br>             The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
<br>             Kubla Khan 
<br>             Biographia Literaria
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<br>Session Six: George Gordon, Lord Byron 
<br>              Byronic Hero
<br>              Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 
<br>              Manfred                                     
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<br>Session Seven: Percy Bysshe Shelley
<br>               A Defense of Poetry
<br>                Prometheus Unbound  
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<br>Session Eight: John Keats
<br>               La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
<br>               Ode to Psyche
<br>               Ode to Nightingale
<br>               Ode on a Grecian Urn 
<br>               Ode on Melancholy
<br>               Letters
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<br>Session Nine: Midterm
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<br>Session Ten: Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
<br>             William Hazlitt: Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
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<br>Session Eleven: Jane Austen: Love and Friendship
<br>                Ann Radcliffe
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<br>Session Twelve: Charles Lamb 
<br>               On the Tragedies of Shakespeare 
<br>             Thomas De Quincey
<br>               Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 
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<br>Session Thirteen: Thomas Carlyle
<br>                Sartor Resartus 
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<br>Session Fourteen: John Henry Cardinal Newman
<br>                  The Idea of a University
<br>               John Stuart Mill
<br>                 What is Poetry
<br>                 The Subjection of Women
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<br>Session Fifteen: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
<br>                Sonnets from the Portuguese
<br>                Aurora Leigh
<br>                Robert Browning
<br>                 My Last Duchess 
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<br>Session Sixteen: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
<br>                 The Lady of Shalott 
<br>                Elizabeth Gaskell 
<br>                  The Olde Nurse’s Story 
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<br>Session Seventeen: Charles Dickens
<br>                  Christmas Carol 
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<br>Session Eighteen: Final 
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<br>Evaluation
<br>           Performance and recital 20%
<br>           Participation and contribution 20%
<br>           Midterm Paper (2500 words) 30%
<br>           Final Exam 30%
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