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Session Date Topic Reading Presentation
1 Oct. 23, 2007 Course Outline. 2007-08 BM1: Session 1
2 Oct. 30, 2007 The Invention of History

— Different views on the periodization of literature.

William Salmon, The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694 (1694). EEBO

Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733). ECCO

2007-08 BM1: Session 2
3 Nov. 6, 2007 The Rise of Literature, Part I

— What the term literature meant in Defoe's days and how our modern meaning of the word developed.

Memoirs of Literature containing a weekly account of the state of learning (1711). ECCO

The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature (1774). ECCO

2007-08 BM1: Session 3

Literature:
Olaf Simons, A short history of the literary debate (2001), Anglistik Oldenburg

4 Nov. 13, 2007 The Rise of Literature, Part II

— The complex discourse about literature: literary histories, national philologies and an exchange supported by the media.

Pierre-Daniel Huet, The history of romances [1670] (1715 ECCO, Anglistik Oldenburg).

Hippolyte Taine, Introduction to the History of English Literature (1863). Bartleby

2007-08 BM1: Session 4

Literature:
On Huet's Treatise de.wikipedia

5 Nov. 20, 2007 Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part I

— The "rise of the novel".

Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales (1386-1400). Virginia e-text (you may try to read the Shipman's tale with a translation into modern English)

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719). ECCO, Marteau

2007-08 BM1: Session 5
6 Nov. 27, 2007 Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part II

— The order of Fictions

George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871/72). 19thNovels.com 2007-08 BM1: Session 6
7 Dec. 4, 2007 Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part III

— The modern novel, a field of intense debate

Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988). 2007-08 BM1: Session 7
8 Dec. 11, 2007 Drama, Part I

— From the middle ages to Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603). EEBO, Marteau 2007-08 BM1: Session 8
9 Dec. 18, 2007 Drama, Part II

— From the restoration to the present.

William Congreve, The Country Wife (1675). ECCO

Edward Bond, Saved (1965)

2007-08 BM1: Session 9
10 Jan. 8, 2008 Poetry

— Once a broad field comprising epic, drama and smaller genres, today a subsection of literature.

William Blake, Jerusalem (1804). Anglistik Wiki Oldenburg

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922). Wikisource

2007-08 BM1: Session 10
11 Jan. 15, 2008 Literary Theory, Part I

— What is literature? Different debates and different answers.

2007-08 BM1: Session 11
12 Jan. 22, 2008 Written Test 2007-08 BM1: Session 12
13 Jan. 29, 2008 Feedback on Test and Look Ahead 2007-08 BM1: Session 13
14 Feb. 5, 2008 Literary Theory, Part II

— Debate or field of learning?

2007-08 BM1: Session 14