I think I need your help again

[Monica]

As next year at my university is pretty difficult (which one isn't? :D ) I would like to read most of the stuff during holidays. The problem is that I haven't taken the list of books I need to read :rage: Do you happen to remember what books are usually read from English literature - 17th, 18th and 19th centuries? :confused: Thanks... :D

[Sitaram]

EVERYONE SHOULD visit this link, it is not what was asked for in this post
but it has some very interesting things about Derrida and Borges

http://literature.sdsu.edu/2005/spring/210/derrida.html

Even better! Google on LITERATURE TIMELINE

http://www.studyguide.org/brit_lit_timeline.htm
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/timefram.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0313040/littl.html

http://itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bdavis/ENGL2120timeline.htm

http://webpages.shepherd.edu/slinds01/literature%20timeline.htm

http://athena.english.vt.edu/~brinlee/TIMELINE.HTML

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/1850.htm

http://www.literatureclassics.com/ancientpaths/timeline.html

http://itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bdavis/WorldLitTimeline.htm

http://www.heidelberg.edu/~dkimmel/american/timeline.html

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I am always search google for various things regarding titles and authors, and I frequently encounted web pages for actual college courses, written by the professor, for the convenience of the students, outlining the books to be read, assignments, grading and attendence policies, etc. I shall do some searching right now, and post any links which appear promising.

Here is the search arguments I used in google. I should have used SYLLABUS also, I suppose:

"english literature" readings attendance papers analysis

http://www.pitt.edu/~englit/syllabus0500.htm

Hey, neat! This sounds like our literary forum:


Many students write "to" the teacher, trying to
show an "answer" or to get something "right" and, in many classes,
that is exactly what students are expected to do. But not in this class.
First of all, in the kind of interpretive and critical writing we perform,
there is no correct answer but there are more or less persuasive cases
for interpretation of the text. Therefore, you will have many things to
say about our readings which can be incorporated into a persuasive
argument for an interpretation based on textual evidence, reasoning,
and the work of other critics. Further, you will find your argument for
an interpretation undergoing constant revision which, in turn, will
produce re-reading and re-writing. Second, you are writing back to
other critics whose work you use and you are addressing and trying to
persuade both your peers and instructor--because your fellow
students and I will be reading and commenting on your work, as you
will theirs.



http://www.english.umd.edu/courses/fall2005100200.html


LITERATURE OF THE WESTERN
WORLD II: RENAISSANCE TO MODERN. The principal endeavor of the
past five hundred years in the West, it can be argued, has been to
assert the primacy of human will and intellect in the world and to gain
technological dominance on the material plane. The rise of this
modern outlook has been at the expense of an older world-view that
situated human beings at the midpoint on a scale that reached from
the void at its low end to God at its apex. We shall be exploring the
tension between these two ways of looking at the world, with
particular reference to the rise of the Faust tradition during the
Reformation and its recasting in the Romantic and modern eras. The
writers we shall be dealing with include Marlowe, Shakespeare,
Donne, Blake, Goethe, Hoelderlin, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Mann, Rilke,
Beckett, Camus, and Sebald. Students will take mid-term and final
examinations and do 10-12 pages of writing, which may include
personal as well as critical essays.






This course is a
survey of the first four periods of English Literature: Medieval
(Anglo-Saxon and Middle English), Renaissance (16th Century),
Baroque (17th Century), and Augustan (18th Century). Covered will be:
Beowulf, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, Chaucer, Thomas More,
Shakespeare, Milton, Defoe, Swift, and Dr. Johnson. Required: Twenty
pages of writing, 5 exams, and attendance at a play at the
Shakespeare Theater in D.C.


http://hosting.uaa.alaska.edu/afdtk/Engl203.htm

This link mentions one of the Norton Anthologies
Abrams, M.H., gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol.
1. 6th ed. New York:
Norton, 1993.

http://www.english.umd.edu/courses/fall2004grad.html


THE ROMANTIC
LYRIC AS MODERN POEM . The simple sense of this seminar is to
focus on the English poets of the Romantic period who most bring
forward those elements of lyricism and aesthetic theory we associate
with Modernism and which interrogate post-Modernism. Four poets, in
both their poetry and prose, will constitute our primary study.
Wordsworth and Coleridge represent the first generation, Shelley and
Keats the second. We will read closely such works as “Lines / Tintern
Abbey,” The Two-Part Prelude of 1799 , the “Immortality Ode,”
“Elegiac Stanzas” (Wordsworth); Coleridge's “conversational” poems
as well as the “Dejection Ode”; Shelley's “Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty,” “Mont Blanc,” “Lines / Euganean Hills,” “Ode to the West
Wind,” “To a Skylark,” the fragment “Triumph of Life”; and Keats's
spring odes, “To Autumn,” and The Fall of Hyperion. A Dream. We will
take note of various sonnets and parts of related poems. The prose
will include selections from critical and theoretical writings, to wit
“Preface” to Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth and Coleridge), Biographia
Literaria , Table Talk and Letters (Coleridge), “A Defence of Poetry”
(Shelley), and some of Keats's Letters.
Text: Romanticism: An Anthology (2 nd Ed.) Duncan Wu (Blackwell)
Requirements: Presentations; One Final (Major) Paper. (The paper
might want to engage connections


Here is a page of links to sites on Universities, Comparative Literature etc
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/Eclat/

[Scheherazade]

Wuthering Heights

Great Expectations

Moll Flanders

Pride and Prejudice

Jude the Obscure

Scarlet Letter

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Julius Caesar

Merchant of Venice

Importance of Being Earnest

The Secret Agent

Sons and Lovers, Mrs Dalloway, Free Fall, The Plague, The Trial - from the 20the century

These are the ones I read at university... I will add to the list if I remember more.

Good luck! :)

[mono]

Wow, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries! :eek:
That seems a lot to cover, but specific works that come to mind: Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, selected plays of William Shakespeare, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre, Of Human Bondage.

[PeterL]

You might see if the syllabi of the courses that you will be taking is online. Even if it is for a different section or professor there probably will be some correspondence with the course that you will be taking. You might also get a copy of The Norton Anthology and see what is included, reading everything from that period in Norton will, almost certainly, cover whatever you will be assigned, and some of it is great reading (Swift will be included).

[PeterL]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Audience: Many students write "to" the teacher, trying to show an "answer" or to get something "right" and, in many classes, that is exactly what students are expected to do. But not in this class. First of all, in the kind of interpretive and critical writing we perform, there is no correct answer but there are more or less persuasive cases for interpretation of the text. Therefore, you will have many things to say about our readings which can be incorporated into a persuasive argument for an interpretation based on textual evidence, reasoning, and the work of other critics. Further, you will find your argument for an interpretation undergoing constant revision which, in turn, will produce re-reading and re-writing. Second, you are writing back to other critics whose work you use and you are addressing and trying to persuade both your peers and instructor--because your fellow students and I will be reading and commenting on your work, as you will theirs.



That is some good advice. I have created a character in my mind which I use as my theoretical audience.

[Monica]

Thanks guys. It seems I'll have a lot of reading during holidays :goof: But that's OK actually :D I'm finishing "Wuthering Heights" and I even enjoy it, although the plot is pretty complicated at times.