ENGL 200B
Description
This course follows in sequence from ENGL 200A: Survey of British Literature 1 and introduces students to British literature dating from the late eighteenth century to the present. You do not have to take ENGL 200A before ENGL 200B, but certain elements of the course may be easier to understand if you have taken the previous course.
Students will learn to recognize some of the characteristic forms (e.g. the lyric, the dramatic monologue, the Bildungsroman) and concerns of literature in this era. They will learn to trace patterns of influence and ideas, to read with close attention to detail, and to analyse how meaning is created in language. Students will be expected to demonstrate their grasp of this knowledge by completing all course assignments; written assignments are to be thoughtful, clear, well-reasoned, and well-written.
This online course was developed from live lectures recorded on-campus with instructional design and multimedia development support provided by the Centre for Extended Learning. Some updates occurred in 2020.
Grade Breakdown
The following table represents the grade breakdown of this course.
| Activities and Assignments | Weight (%) |
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| Weekly Group Discussions | 15% |
| Midterm: Comparative Close Analysis | 20% |
| Essay Assignment | 35% |
| Final Examination | 30% |
Contact Information
Announcements
Your instructor uses the Announcements widget on the Course Home page during the term to communicate new or changing information regarding due dates, instructor absence, etc., as needed. You are expected to read the announcements on a regular basis.
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Discussions
A General Discussion topic* has also been made available to allow students to communicate with peers in the course. Your instructor may drop in at this discussion topic.
Contact Us
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Instructor
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Post your course-related questions to the Ask the Instructor discussion topic*. This allows other students to benefit from your question as well. Questions of a personal nature can be directed to your instructor. Instructor: Kate Lawson klawson@uwaterloo.ca Your instructor checks email and the Ask the Instructor discussion topic* frequently and will make every effort to reply to your questions within 24–48 hours, Monday to Friday. |
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Technical Support, Centre for Extended Learning
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learnhelp@uwaterloo.ca Include your full name, WatIAM user ID, student number, and course name and number. Technical support is available during regular business hours, Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM (Eastern Time). LEARN Help Student Documentation |
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Learner Support Services, Centre for Extended Learning
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Student Resources extendedlearning@uwaterloo.ca +1 519-888-4002 Include your full name, WatIAM user ID, student number, and course name and number. |
*Discussion topics can be accessed by clicking Connect and then Discussions on the course navigation bar above.
Course Schedule
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details.
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Week |
Lectures and Notes |
Readings (All poems can be found online) |
Activities and Assignments |
End / Due Date |
Weight (%) |
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Title |
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Week 1 |
Literature, Literary History, The Canon | William Wordsworth, "A Slumber did my spirit seal" (PDF) |
Groups for Group Discussions will be created by Technical Support |
Check after Friday, January 15, 2021 at 4:30 PM |
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| Margaret Atwood, "You fit into me" (PDF) | |||||
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Week 2 |
Romanticism- William Blake |
William Blake, “Holy Thursday" (PDF) |
Group Discussion |
Friday, January 22, 2021 at 11:55 PM |
1.5% |
| William Blake, “Nurse’s Song” (PDF) | |||||
| William Blake, “The Divine Image” (PDF) |
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William Blake,“The Human Abstract” |
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William Blake, “The Lamb” |
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William Blake,“The Tyger” |
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Week 3 |
Romanticism- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Charlotte Smith: “To Sleep” and "To Night" (PDF) |
Group Discussion |
Friday, January 29, 2021 at 11:55 PM |
1.5% |
| William Wordsworth: excerpt from Preface to Lyrical Ballads (PDF) | |||||
| William Wordsworth: “We are Seven” (PDF) | |||||
| William Wordsworth: from The Prelude, book 1, 340-414 (PDF) | |||||
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “The Eolian Harp” (PDF) | |||||
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Dejection: An Ode”, stanzas 3 & 4 (PDF) | |||||
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Week 4 |
Romanticism- Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Lord Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 3, stanzas 1, 2, 5-7, 17, 28, 36, 72, 89, 92-97, and 111-118 |
Group Discussion |
Friday, February 5, 2021 at 11:55 PM |
1.5% |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind” |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To a Sky-Lark” |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias” |
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Week 5 |
Romanticism- Mary Shelley |
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein |
Group Discussion |
Friday, February 12, 2021 at 11:55 PM |
1.5% |
| Reading Week (Saturday, February 13, 2021 to Sunday, February 21, 2021) | |||||
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Week 6 |
Romanticism- John Keats |
John Keats: “The Eve of St. Agnes” |
Midterm: Comparative Close Analysis | Friday, February 26, 2021 at 11:55 PM |
20% |
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John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn” |
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| Felicia Hemans: “Casabianca” (PDF) |
Group Discussion |
Friday, February 26, 2021 at 11:55 PM |
1.5% |
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Week 7 |
Victorian Period- Tennyson, Rossetti, Browning, and Barrett Browning |
Alfred Lord Tennyson: “Ulysses” |
Group Discussion |
Friday March 5, 2021 at 11:55 PM |
1.5% |
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Robert Browning: “Porphyria’s Lover” |
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Robert Browning: “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets 13 and 28 from Sonnets from the Portuguese (PDF) |
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Christina Rossetti: “In an Artist’s Studio” |
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Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess” |
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Week 8 |
VictorianPeriod-CharlesDickens Part1 |
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, beginning to Vol. II.10/Chapter 29 |
Group Discussion |
Friday, March 12, 2021 at 11:55 PM |
1.5% |
| Study Days (Saturday, March 13, 2021 to Tuesday, March 16, 2021) | |||||
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Week 9 |
Victorian Period- Charles Dickens Part 2 and Matthew Arnold |
Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach” |
Group Discussion |
Monday, March 22, 2021 at 11:55 PM |
1.5% |
| Charles Dickens: Great Expectations to the end |
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Week 10 |
History and Literature Romantic to Contemporary | Robert Burns, "Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn" (PDF) |
Group Discussion |
Monday, March 29, 2021 at 11:55 PM |
1.5% |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley, "England in 1819" (PDF) | |||||
| Derek Walcott, "A Far Cry from Africa" (PDF) | |||||
| Woolf, "A Room of One’s Own, Chapter 3" (PDF) | |||||
| Philip Larkin, "MCMIV" (PDF) | |||||
| Philip Larkin, "Church Going" (PDF) | |||||
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Week 11 |
Voice and Language: Gaelic, Welsh, British, Jamaican-British Romantic to Postmodern | William Wordsworth, "The Solitary Reaper" (PDF) |
Essay Assignment Due |
Saturday, April 3, 2021 at 11:55 PM |
35% |
| Sorley MacLean, "A Highland Woman" (PDF) | |||||
| Sorley MacLean, "Hallaig" (PDF) | Group Discussion | Monday, April 5, 2021 at 11:55 PM |
1.5% |
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| Gwyneth Lewis, "Mother Tongue" (PDF) | |||||
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Week 12 |
Ireland Modern to Postmodern | W.H. Auden: “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (PDF) | |||
| William Butler Yeats: “No Second Troy” (PDF) | |||||
| William Butler Yeats: "Easter, 1916" (PDF) | |||||
| Eavan Boland, "Quarantine" (PDF) | |||||
| Eavan Boland, "That the Science of Cartography is Limited"(PDF) | |||||
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Final Examination |
Will be posted: Monday, April 19, 2021. Due: Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 11:55 PM. |
30% |
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