Course Requirements

Required Texts

Diane Hacker, The Bedford Handbook for Writers. 5^th Edition. Boston: St. Martin’s, 1998.

Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Edition)

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci

All other course readings are available on line. YOU MUST PRINT OUT OR PHOTOCOPY ALL ASSIGNMENTS AND BRING THEM TO CLASS. FAILURE TO DO SO WILL ADVERSELY AFFECT YOUR CLASS PARTICIPATION GRADE.

Readings

Poetry, available online at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/lion.html

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Year’s Spinning”

Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market” (An inexpensive edition is available at Papyr

us)

Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Leper”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”; “Ulysses”

William Wordsworth, “The Reverie of Poor Susan”; “We Are Seven”

Plays, available at Papyrus Bookstore

Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Short Stories, available on the course web page

Sheridan LeFanu, “Green Tea”

Margaret Oliphant, “The Open Door”

Mary Shelley, “Transformation”

Critical Prose, available in the Library reserves

Mary Poovey, “’My Hideous Progeny’: The Lady and the Monster” (excerpt)

Earl Wasserman, “Sad Reality and Self-Knowledge: The Cenci” (excerpt)

Attendance: Regular attendance and participation are mandatory. Two absences are allowed. Please notify me in advance by e-mail if you are unable to attend class. Departmental policy states that each subsequent absence will result in your grade being lowered by 1/3 (e.g., from an A to and A-). Students who miss more than five classes automatically fail the course. Lateness may also result in a reduction in the final grade. The easiest way to do well in this class is to show up and participate.

Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the most serious academic offense a student can commit at Columbia, and is punishable by failure, suspension, or dismissal. Please familiarize yourself with Columbia’s policy, which may be found in the Columbia University Bulletin. Plagiarism includes but is not limited to the handing in of essays or portions thereof not one’s own, and/or ailing to acknowledge ideas or expressions not one’s own through the use of quotations or footnotes.