Lecture Material

English 3313 -- British Literature Lecture Material
Introduction to the Course	Why Study British Literature? Issues in Interpretation Asking Questions of Texts
Beowulf	Elements of the Epic Ethics in the Heroic Society Orality vs. Writing in Beowulf The Historical Elements in Beowulf Structure in Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	The Traditional Epic and the Medieval Romance The Code of Chivalry and the Cult of Love
Philip Sidney	Characteristics and Conventions of Petrarchan Sonnet Astrophil as Performance Sidney's Aristotelian Design in the Defense
Edmund Spenser	Summary of Book One Allegorical Elements in Book One Views of Spenser's Style Edmund Spenser's Didactic Purpose in Book One of The Faerie Queene
William Shakespeare	Pictures and Drawings of The Globe Theatre (optional) The Elizabethan Theatre Playhouse (optional) Themes & Characterization King Lear and Tragic Insight
John Donne	Defining and John Donne's Poetry Donne's Love Poetry Donne's Religious Poetry
George Herbert	Introduction to The Temple Herbert's View of Salvation Herbert on Truth and Poetry
Andrew Marvell	Nature, Sublimation, and Intellectual Synaesthesia The Structure of "Upon Appleton House"
Aemilia Lanyer	The Pastoral Elegy and Lanyer
Ben Jonson	Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Ideal Jonson's Epigrams The Country House Poem Genre
John Milton	Paradise Lost: The Invocations 12 Great Themes The Arguments (summary of the poem) War in Heaven: Questions
Aphra Behn	The Rise of the Novel
Alexander Pope	The Rape of the Lock and the Mock Heroic Pope's Mock Theodicy and its Milton Allusions
Samuel Johnson	The Wisdom of Rasselas
Christopher Smart	Selections from Jubliate Agno
Archives of Past Semesters
Piers Plowman	Allegory in Piers Plowman
John Webster	The Duchess of Malfi -- Genre(s) and (De)faults
Addison & Steele	The Social Situation of The Tatler and The Spectator