Seminar in Early = Modern Literature

In no way is this seminar = intended as an=20 exhaustive study of early modern British (formerly known as =93English=20 Renaissance=94) literature. =20 The topic for summer 2011 is early = modern=20 imperial England.

Place in the Curriculum:=20 For the MA in English, each student = must=20 complete two required courses and 24 credit hours of electives, = including at=20 least 18 credits of 500- or 600-level English Department = courses. =20 ENGL622 is an elective.

Learning Goals: = In=20 this course, students will be expected to demonstrate the kind of = intellectual=20 independence and sustained, critical thought required for the production = of=20 high-quality literary scholarship. The course is = designed:=20

Course grade: = Each=20 assignment gives you the opportunity to earn a certain number of points; = and the=20 total number of points available in the course is 1000. Your course = grade will=20 be calculated as follows:

940 = pts and above =3D=20 A           =             &= nbsp;  =20
910-939 =3D=20 A-           = ;            =            =20
880-909 =3D B+         &nb= sp;           &nbs= p;            = ;=20

Preparation and=20 Participation: In = this course you=20 will be engaging with complex ideas, often conveyed in challenging = poetry or=20 prose, as members of the conversation that is literary criticism. = You will=20 be expected to prepare for that conversation by carefully reading (and=20 re-reading) the assignment in advance, recording your thoughts and = questions so=20 you can contribute to discussion. This course will not = succeed in=20 creating a functioning community if you are habitually absent, = physically or=20 otherwise. Although attendance is not graded at=20 TCNJ,=20 please note that it is difficult to participate unless you are both = physically=20 and mentally present for the entire class period; therefore, absences,=20 tardiness, and leaving class early will adversely affect your grade in = the=20 course. It is = never really=20 possible to reproduce or recapture the dynamics and flow of information = for a=20 missed class meeting (even if you get notes from someone), but if you = positively=20 must miss a class, I expect you to find out what you missed and to come = fully=20 prepared to the next class meeting. I will take=20 attendance at each class, and also record your participation in the=20 discussion. If even one person in the class fails to participate, = or if=20 the participation is so general that it provides no evidence of = preparation, I=20 will assume lack of preparation and give quizzes until everyone is = preparing and=20 participating. Not only are you expected to participate, but also = to=20 enable and encourage the relevant comments of others. See = Johnston,=20 "Participating in Seminars" (www.public.asu.= edu/~jacquies/seminars.htm).

Assignments: You will write 4 response papers, two brief essays = and one=20 longer, researched essay. All sources used must be=20 acknowledged appropriately. Citation format should = follow the=20 latest MLA guidelines. The specific assignments are = given=20 below. I expect each essay to demonstrate = understanding of=20 literary theory as well as primary texts, and to provide ample relevant = support=20 cited with considerable accuracy (including use of spacing or virgule = for=20 poetry). On the date listed on the syllabus for each = essay, a=20 copy is due in your SOCS drop-box before class. The = essay=20 should be double-spaced, and headed with your name, the assignment name = or=20 number, and the essay's title. Using SOCS will give = us both a=20 record of the semester=92s work and my feedback. For the SOCS heading, = please use=20 =93Essay 1=94 and so forth.

Response papers: Response papers=20 are to be brief (four pages maximum, double-spaced) and informal. = That is,=20 a response paper need not be a polished final product as long as it is = readable,=20 coherent, and uses appropriate support.

Essay 1: Critical review. = Select one article from the list in SOCS. =20 Write a 2-3-page critical review, = including a brief=20 summary of the chapter or article,=20 using the form of a review article for an appropriate scholarly=20 journal.

Essay 2: Researched essay proposal with annotated list of works=20 consulted. Write a=20 2-4-page proposal persuading me that your early modern British topic is = relevant=20 and interesting, and that your thesis is fresh and sufficiently-focused = for a=20 20-25-page researched argument. = Attach a list of works you have consulted or intend to = consult,=20 differentiating clearly between these two categories by including a one = or two=20 sentence summary for each work consulted. =20 Works you intend to consult must be = available to you=20 before the researched essay is due.

Essay=20 3: Final Researched Essay. Based on your proposal (Essay 2), write an essay of = approximately=20 20-25 double-spaced pages, not including the required 500-word-maximum = abstract=20 and (non-annotated) list of works cited. =20 All sources used must be acknowledged = appropriately=20 using the latest (parenthetical) MLA citation style. For this essay you = are=20 expected to demonstrate an understanding of current theoretical trends = and=20 conversations in early modern British literature.

Responsible use of = sources: Only sources that are scholarly are = appropriate for use=20 in this course. If you have any questions about the = appropriateness or=20 correct citation of any source, you are welcome to ask me before the = due-date of=20 the assignment. Whenever a source=20 of information, ideas, and/or words is used, a list of works cited is=20 required, using the latest MLA format. On the essays, = that includes information from course textbooks and = OED,=20 information which otherwise may be identified in = parentheses=20 only (e.g., OED 1b). =

Plagiarism is the appropriation of = the word=20 and/or ideas of others. It is intellectual theft, and a serious=20 infraction of the college's Academic Integrity Policy (http://www.t= cnj.edu/~academic/policy/integrity.html) as well as the laws of our = nation. In=20 accordance with the policy, plagiarism and all other suspected = deliberate=20 violations of the Academic Integrity Policy will be reported to the Dean = of the=20 School of Culture and Society. If you plagiarize or commit any other form of academic = dishonesty,=20 I will seek the most strenuous penalties available to me. Not only is = academic=20 dishonesty an intellectual crime, it is also an insult to me and to all = your=20 peers. Any=20 assignment with an unintentional failure to acknowledge one or more = sources will=20 be given a zero.

Accommodations: Anyone requiring special = adaptations or=20 accommodations will benefit from contacting the Office of Differing = Abilities=20 Services (differingabilities.pag= es.tcnj.edu/). If you require = special=20 assistance, I will make every effort to accommodate your needs and to = create an=20 environment where your special abilities will be = respected.

In = exceptional=20 circumstances such as illness, please contact me immediately (771-3233 = or graham=20 (at) tcnj (dot) edu). Such notification does not necessarily guarantee = that=20 absences will be excused. (See TCNJ=92s attendance and absence = policies:=20 http://www.tcnj.edu/~academic/policy/attendance.html and http://www.tcn= j.edu/~academic/policy/absence.html.) Unless the circumstances are both = compelling=20 and documented, each essay submitted = later than=20 5:00 PM on the due-date will be marked down 10%; at each subsequent 5:00 = PM=20 (including weekends), the grade will go down another 10%. =20 Note=20 that TCNJ's attendance policy states that "the=20 student has the responsibility to initiate arrangements for makeup=20 work." =20 If a day of religious observation or similarly = compelling=20 planned absence interferes with an assignment, I will be glad to discuss = an=20 earlier due date if given advance notice; also note that TCNJ holds = students=20 responsible for "avoid[ing] outside conflicts (if=20 possible)."

Electronics: For=20 this class, you must be able to use SOCS (socs.tcnj.edu/), and you must read = your=20 TCNJ email=20 regularly. If you need assistance with either, please let me know = during=20 the first week of class. If you prefer, you may = forward your=20 TCNJ email to=20 another email account: log into SOCS, click the "Email" tab, and there = you will=20 find instructions about how to forward your mail. Bookmark our website and SOCS on your computer. I = will be=20 updating both periodically, posting assignments, resources, and other=20 information. You will not receive paper copies of course materials; if = you wish=20 to have paper copies, you will have to print them out = yourself.Grades and attendance will be = recorded in=20 SOCS; leaving early will be marked as "tardy" since SOCS provides no = other=20 option for missing part of a class period. Electronic devices such = as=20 laptops and cell phones are to be kept off--or silent and unused--during = class;=20 their use during discussions or lectures distracts the user and is rude = to=20 everyone else.

Submission of=20 Assignments: On the date listed on the syllabus for each = assignment, a=20 copy is due in your SOCS drop-box before class unless some other method = of=20 submission is specified. Using SOCS will give us both a record of your work, = including the=20 date and time of submission. = The assignment is to be headed with your name, = the=20 assignment name, and (for essays only) a title. = More mundane matters: formal essays and brief response papers should be = submitted=20 double-spaced and formatted for 8.5" x 11" pages, using 1" margins left = and=20 right, top and bottom. You should use 12-point Times New Roman = font in=20 black, and number pages after the first. Abstracts should be=20 single-spaced; otherwise, expectations are the same. = SOCS is set up to receive documents in Microsoft Word = (.doc or=20 .docx) or saved in rich text format (.rtf); other formats cannot be = interpreted=20 using SOCS. If the essay = is=20 submitted in a format I cannot read (or if a blank document is = submitted), it=20 will be treated as late until a readable essay is submitted; you are = responsible=20 for submitting essays in a readable format (see=20 "Absences and Late Work," above). =20 Essays will not be accepted via email or on paper in = place of SOCS.=20

Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko. Ed. Joanna = Lipking. New=20 York: Norton, 1997. ISBN 9780393970140

Herbert, George. The Complete English = Poems. =20 Ed. John Tobin. London and New York: Penguin, 2005. ISBN=20 0140424555.

Jonson, Ben. Ben Jonson=92s = Plays and=20 Masques. 2^nd ed. = Ed.=20 Richard Harp. New York and London: Norton, = 2001. =20 ISBN 0393976386.

Milton, John. The Complete Poems. Ed. John = Leonard.=20 London and New York: Penguin, 1998. ISBN 10140433635. =

Shakespeare, = William. The=20 Tempest. Ed. Gerald Graff and James Phelan. 2nd = ed. =20 Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 2008. ISBN 0312457529

Shakespeare, = William. =20 Titus Andronicus. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul = Werstine. =20 New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005. ISBN 9780671722920

Shakespeare, William, = and Elizabeth=20 Cary. Othello and The Tragedy of=20 Mariam. Ed. Claire=20 Carroll. New York: Longman, 2003. =20 ISBN 0321096991. =

Spenser, Edmund. = Edmund=20 Spenser's Poetry. Ed. Hugh Maclean and Anne Lake = Prescott. New=20 York: Norton, 1992. ISBN 0393962997

Schedule. Reading assignments should be completed before the = class for=20 which they are listed, including the first class. =

R 7/7 Sources and Context (in The Tempest); = Colonizers=20 and Settlers (in Oroonoko); Harriot, Thomas, and John White, "A = Briefe=20 and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia"; Bacon, Francis, "Of=20 Plantations"; Drayton, Michael, "To the Virginian Voyage"; = Marvell,=20 Andrew, "Bermudas"; Mollineux, Mary, "Meditations on = Persecution" =20 (SOCS)

M 7/11 Donne, John, "Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going = to=20 Bed," "The Good-Morrow," "The Sun Rising," and "Valediction of=20 Weeping" (SOCS)

Raman, Shankar. "Can't Buy Me Love: Money, Gender, = and=20 Colonialism in Donne's Erotic Verse." Criticism 43 (spring 2001): = 135-68. (library)

Donne. =
From "A Sermon Preached to the Honorable Company of the Virginia =
Plantation."  (SOCS)

Sandler, Florence. "'The Gallery to the New World': = Donne,=20 Herbert, and Ferrar on the Virginia Project." John Donne Journal = 19=20 (2000): 267-97. (SOCS)

from Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe (Project=20 Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/521)

Response paper 2 due:=20 Paradise Lost or=20 Robinson Crusoe compared with earlier reading(s)

Response paper 3 due: The Masque of = Blackness=20 compared with Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue or Titus=20 Andronicus

R 7/21 Barnfield, Richard, = "Cherry-lipped=20 Adonis"; Campion, Thomas, songs IV and XIX; Carew, Thomas, "The = Comparison";=20 Herrick, Robert, "How Came the Roses Red" and "Upon Her Eyes"; Lovelace, = Richard, "To Amarantha" and "The Scrutiny"; Oxlie, Mary, "To William = Drummond";=20 Randolph, Thomas, "A Mask for Lydia"; Shakespeare, sonnets 127-54; = Sidney,=20 Philip, sonnets 7, 91, 103 from Astrophil and Stella; Suckling, = sonnet=20 II; Wroth, Mary, "Like to the Indians"; Watkyns, Rowland, "The = Blackamoors"=20 (SOCS)

R 7/28 Herbert, George, "The British Church," = "The=20 Son," and "The Church Militant"; Sidney, Philip, sonnet 30 = from=20 Astrophil and Stella (SOCS)

ENGL62201, summer 2011, session B = (July 5-Aug.=20 4)

MTR 5:00-7:45, Bliss 145

Dr. Jean E. Graham

graham (at) tcnj (dot) edu

Office hours by appointment

Bliss 225, x3233