English 103

18 and 19th -century

th

Literature
Fall 2009
MW 1:30
Hearst 20

Sarah Peterson
Hearst
Office Hours:
MW 5-6 pm and by
appointment

Description

Texts:
• *Lance Newman, editor, Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British,
American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (Longman, 2006) ISBN 978-
0321217127
• Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (Penguin Classics, 2003) ISBN 978-
0141439792
• Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Penguin Classics; Revised edition,
2002) ISBN (978-0141439563)
• Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Penguin Classics, 2003) ISBN 978-
0141439594)

* You must purchase this edition. All others you may purchase any edition but
know that page numbers may differ.

Course Policies
Preparation and Participation
All students should plan to attend class regularly and be prepared to discuss the
assigned readings. Being prepared, in the context of this course, means several
things: being on time, having read, annotated, and thought about the assigned
material, and asking questions about things you did not understand. Since our
primary activity in class will be to close reading, you must bring a copy of the
reading to class with you. If you don’t bring the text(s) to class with you, you are
not prepared, even if you have read assignment, and will be counted absent.
To be successful, seminars require participation by all members of the class. Your
participation – asking and answering questions, participating in discussion, and
contributing to small group activities - will be taken into account when
calculating your final grade.

Attendance
Of course, in order to participate in class, you must be present. Therefore, I do
have an attendance policy. Each absence beyond three will lower your final
grade by one step (a B will become a B-). More than six absences will result in a
failing grade. If you must miss a class, you are responsible for obtaining the
relevant notes and information from your classmates.

Academic Integrity
Section 5 of the Oglethorpe Honor Code provides the following definitions:
Cheating:
a. The unauthorized possession of use of notes, texts or other such materials
during an examination
b. Copying another person’s work or participation in such an effort.
c. An attempt or participation in an attempt to fulfill the requirements of a
course with work other than one’s original work for that course.

Plagiarism:
“Plagiarism includes representing someone else’s words, ideas, data or
original research as one’s own, and in general failing to footnote or
otherwise acknowledge the source of such work. One has the
responsibility of avoiding plagiarism by taking adequate notes on
reference material taken off the internet or other electronic sources, used
in the preparation of reports, papers and other coursework.”

Both are a serious offense and will be treated as such by both the University and
myself. While there is no formal research paper in this class, we may consider
other people’s work in our discussion. If you find yourself including these ideas
in your papers, be sure to give credit where it is due. If you have any questions
about how to document these ideas, please see me.

Students with Disabilities

Writing Center

Assignments
Grading:
Your work in this class will be evaluated according to the content and style of
written work and the level of participation in class discussions.

For information about Incompletes, see pages 96-97 of 2008-2010 Bulletin

The last day to withdraw from this course with a “W” is October 30th

Calendar
Date Assignment Due
Monday August 24 Introductions
Literature of Public Engagement
Wednesday August 26 Burke in Transatlantic Romanticism pp 56-66
Mon Aug 31 Franklin in TR pp 25-36
Last Day drop/add
Wed Sept 2
Mon Sept 7 No Class
Labor Day holiday
Wed Sept 9 Equiano in TR pp 196-203
Mon Sept 14 Thoreau in TR pp. 1038-1052
Wed Sept 16 Carlyle in TR pp. 726-731
Literature of Individuality and Alienation
Mon Sept 21 Austen
Wed Sept 23 Austen
Mon Sept 28 Austen
Wed Sept 30 Paper 1 due
Mon Oct 5 Dickens
Wed Oct 7 Dickens
Mon Oct 12 No Class
Fall Break
Wed Oct 14 Dickens
Mon Oct 19 Dickens
Wed Oct 21 Dickens
Mon Oct 26 Catch-up Day
Wed Oct 28 Hardy
*Oct 30 Last Day to
Withdraw*
Mon Nov 2 Hardy
Wed Nov 4 Hardy
Paper 2 due
Mon Nov 9 Hardy
Wed Nov 11 Hardy
Literature and Tradition and Rebellion
Mon Nov 16 Wordsworth
Coleridge
Wed Nov 18 Blake in TR 260-267
Mon Nov 23 Whitman in TR 1178-1209
Dickinson in TR
Wed Nov 25 No Class
Thanksgiving Holiday
Mon Nov 30 Tennyson (handout)
Wed Dec 2 Hardy (handout)
Mon Dec 7 Wrap-Up
Paper 3 Due