Overview: Class and Texts

Question 1

The Middle Ages: From Beowulf to the Canterbury Tales
- 1. Class
- 3 texts

Answer 1

1. The Wanderer (debate, but not prior to 8th century)
2. Beowulf (dated between 8th and 11th century)
3. Canterbury Tales, “General Prologue (excerpts); by Geoffrey Chaucer (1387 - 1400)

Question 2

Early Modern Period: New Worlds - New Horizons
- 2. Class
- 2 texts

Answer 2

• “diary” (excerpts); by Thomas Platter (1599)
• The Tempest; by William Shakespeare (published in 1623)

Question 3

Restoration and Early Eighteeth Century: The Paradox of Liberty, Trade and Slavery
3. Class
2 texts

Answer 3

1. Oronooko, The royal Slave; by Aphra Behn (1688)
2. Robinson Crusoe; by Daniel Defoe (1719)

Question 4

From Puritanism to American Romanticism - the New World: Political and Intellectual Independence
4. Class
5 texts/ poems

Answer 4

1. Huswifery; by Edward Taylor (around 1685)
2. In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old; by Anne Bradstreet (1678)
3. On Being Brought from Africa to America; by Phillis Wheatley (1768)
4. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer; by Walt Whitman (1865)
5. Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - (236); by Emily Dickinson (1864)

Question 5

The Slave Narrative and Dark Romanticism
5. Class
2 texts

Answer 5

1. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (excerpts); by Frederick Douglass (1845)
2. The Fall of the House of Usher; by Edgar Allan Poe (1839)

Question 6

British Romaticism: A New Way of Looking at Things
6. Class
5 texts

Answer 6

1. Mary, A Fiction (excerpts); by Mary Wallstonecraft (1788)
2. Frankenstein (excerpts), Mary Shelley (1818)
3. The Grasmere Journals (excerpts); by Dorothy Wordsworth (1800 - 1803)
4. Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth (1798)
5. Preface (excerpt), selected poems; by William Wordsworth (1800)

Question 7

Victorianism
7. Class
1 Text

Answer 7

1. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; by R.L. Stevenson (1886)

Question 8

American Modernism: Making it New!
8. Class
5 texts

Answer 8

1. Of Modern Poetry; by Wallace Stone (1942)
2. In a Station of the Metro; by Ezra Pound (1913)
3. I, too, Sing America; by Langston Hughes (1926)
4. Black Woman; by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1922)
5. The Story of an Hour; by Kate Chopin (1894)

Question 9

British Modernism: Fragments of Reality
9. Class
3 texts

Answer 9

1. Eveline; by James Joyce (1904)
2. Kew Gardens, by Virginia Woolf (1919)
3. The Waste Lands (excerpts), by T.S. Elliot (1922)

Question 10

American Postmodernism: (self)reflection on Reality and Genre
10. Class
2 texts

Answer 10

1. Recitatif; by Toni Morrison (1983)
2. The Babysitter; by Rober Coover (1969)

Question 11

Postcolonial Period: After Empire
11. Class
3 texts

Answer 11

1. Ruins of a Great house; by Derek Walcott (1953)
2. Lawley Road; by R.K. Narayan (1947)
3. Girls at War; by Chinua Achebe (1972)

Question 12

12. Post.Postmodernism in the 21st Centrury: 9/11 and Diversity
13. Class
    3 texts

Answer 12

1. On crossing Brooklyn Ferry, September 11, 2001; by Carl Stillwell
2. Citizen: An American Lyric (excerpts); by Claudia Rankine (2014)
3. Toy Boat; by Ocean Vuong (2014)