NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 英國文學:浪漫與維多利亞時期(4524)
(Eng.) English Literature:Romantic and Victorian Periods
Offering Dept Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Required Credits 3 Teacher 鄭仁隆
Department Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures(N)Undergraduate Language English Semester 2024-FALL
Course Description English Literature (II) covers the periods from Romantic, via Victorian and Modernist (WWI), to Post-colonial (since WWII). The range is indeed too wide for this one-year survey course. The goal is to constantly keep the Englishness in view, while not losing sight of its various manifested facets, a result of its interaction and confrontation with major historical issues.


Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course N
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
To Help Students Learn to Appreciate the Major Works and Analyze them through the Literary Perspective!
topic Discussion/Production
Exercises
Discussion
Lecturing
Networking/Distance Education
Written Presentation
Attendance
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Quiz
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 1. The Romantic Period 1785-1832
2. Robert Burns (1759-1796): Auld Lang Syne (Balladry) p.192
3. The Three Ravens (Balladry) p.35
4. Charlotte Smith (1749-1806): Elegiac Sonnets, “Written at the Close of Spring” p.55
Week 2 Anna Letia Barbauld (1743-1825): “The Mouse Petition” p.40

William Cowper (1731-1800): “The Negro’s Complaint” p.102

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832):
“The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Introduction” (p.425)

William Blake (1757-1827): Songs of Innocence:
Introduction p.127
The Echoing Green p.129
The Lamb p.129
The Little Black Boy p.130
Infant Joy p.133
The Chimney Sweeper p.131
The Divine Image p.131
Holy Thursday p.132
Week 3 Songs of Experience:
Introduction p.134
The Sick Rose p.138
Infant Sorrow p. 143
The Chimney Sweeper p.137
The Tyger p.139
Holy Thursday p.137
London p. 141
A Poison Tree p.143
A Divine Image p. 145
To Tirzah p. 144
The Human Abstract

William Wordsworth (1770-1850):
“Goody Blake & Harry Gill” p.282
“Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman ” p.285
“We Are Seven” p.288
Week 4 “Lines Written in Early Spring” p.289
“Expostulation and Reply” p.296
“The Tables Turned” p.297
“My heart leaps up” p.346
“I wandered lonely as a cloud” p.345
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798” p.299
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802), p. 303
“The Thorn” p.290
Week 5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): 448
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Part 1+2
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Part 3+4
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Part 5+6+7
Week 6 Horace Walpole: From The Castle of Otranto (From Chapter 1) p.516

John Keats (1795-1821): “Ode to a Nightingale” p.977
Week 7 George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824): Darkness
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822):
Prometheus Unbound: Preface & Act 1 p.808
Week 8 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: The Mortal Immortal, p. 1036
Week 9 Midterm exam: The Romantic Period
Week 10 The Victorian Age (1830-1901)
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Sartor Resartus, p.33
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) , “What is Poetry?” p.74
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892): “The Lotus Eaters” 152
Week 11 Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865): “The Old Nurse’s Story” p.246
Robert Browning (1812-1889):
”Porphyria’s Lover” p.324
”My Last Duchess” p.328
Week 12 John Ruskin (1819-1900): From Modern Painters p.384
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888): ”Dover Beach” p.433
George Eliot (1819-1880): From Silly Novels by Lady Novelists p.407
Week 13 Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol p.264

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) “Science and Culture” (Lecture)
Industrialism: Progress vs. Decline? p.626 (Lecture)
Friedrich Engels: From the Great Towns p. 635 (Lecture)
Empire and National Identity p.682 (Lecture)
Thomas Babington Macaulay: Minute on Indian Education p. 686 (Lecture)
Week 14 “Beacons of the Future”? Education in Victorian England p.713
Charles Dickens: From Hard Times p. 718
Lewis Carroll: From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland p. 724
Thomas Hardy: From Jude the Obscure p. 752
Week 15 Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde p.765
Week 16 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray p. 822
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930): “The Speckled Banner” p.921
Week 17 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) “The Man Who Would be King” p.943
Week 18 Final Exam: The Victorian Age
Evaluation
Midterm exam: 25%
Final Exam: 25%
Oral Report+ 簡報資料: 20%
Response to one of the works (One-Page Paper): Demonstrate your understanding and insight. 15%
Response to this course (感想心得) (One-Page Paper): (Must be written in English) 15%
平時小考:做為出席判讀、分數作為加分參考
Textbook & other References
Greenblatt, Stephen. General Editor. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Tenth Edition. The Romantic Period. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018
Greenblatt, Stephen. General Editor. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Tenth Edition. The Victorian Age. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018



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