British Literature from Beowulf to Paradise Lost

Senior Lecturer: Professor John C. Ulreich

Teaching Assistants:
Mary Bell (email, website), Alison Betts (email, website), and Jim Wermers (email, website)

For an electronic version of the syllabus, go here.

LECTURES

Wednesday, August 22
Lecture 1: Beowulf     1
Monday, August 27
Lecture 2: Judith and the Cross 1   2
Wednesday, August 29
Lecture 3: Sir Gawain & the Green
                Knight 2
Wednesday, September 5
Lecture 4: General Prologue 1 2
Monday, September 10
Lecture 5: The Pardoner 1 2
Wednesday, September 12
Lecture 6: The Wife of Bath 1
Monday, September 17
Lecture 7: Julian and Margery
Wednesday, September 19
Lecture 8: Piers Plowman  1
Monday, September 24
Lecture 9: Mystery Plays 1 2
Wednesday, September 26
Lecture 10: Everyman 1
Monday, October 1
Lecture 11: Dr. Faustus 1 2
Wednesday, October 3
Lecture 12: Speaking Pictures 1
Monday, October 8
Lecture 13: For Profit of the Ensample
        1
Wednesday, October 10
                   MIDTERM PREVIEW 1
Monday, October 15
Lecture 14: The Defence of Poesie 1
Wednesday, October 17
Lecture 15: Sonnets Discipline Desire
                  1
Monday, October 22
Lecture 16: The Labyrinth of Desire
Wednesday, October 24
Lecture 17: John Donne   1
Monday, October 29
Lecture 18: One Donne 1
Wednesday, October 31
Lecture 19: Herbert 1 2 3
Monday, November 5
Lecture 20: Volpone  1
Wednesday, November 7
Lecture 21: The Duchess of Malfi 1 2 3
Wednesday, November 14
Lecture 22: The Gender Wars
Monday, November 19
Lecture 23: Marvell 1
Wednesday, November 21
Lecture 24: Areopagitica   1
Monday, November 26
Lecture 25: Fortunate Fall  1  2
Wednesday, November 28
Lecture 26: Sufficient to Have Stood  1
Monday, November 30
Lecture 27: Paradise Within? 1
Wednesday, December 3
                  FINAL EXAM PREVIEW