Hoberman, Ruth

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Eastern Illinois UniversityThe KeepSummer 1997 1997Summer 6-15-1997ENG 3010C/3970/5970: Study Abroad atHarlaxtonRuth HobermanEastern Illinois UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/english_syllabi_summer1997Part of the English Language and Literature CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 1997 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in Summer 1997 by an authorizedadministrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact tabruns@eiu.edu.Recommended CitationHoberman, Ruth, "ENG 3010C/3970/5970: Study Abroad at Harlaxton" (1997). Summer 1997. 11.http://thekeep.eiu.edu/english_syllabi_summer1997/11e N{:::> ao tCJc_/ ~ q, tD/ 5C(7{) REVISED SYLLABUS ( 5/27 /97) .f+vt-rt#~x-krv\ ENG 3010C: Literary Masterworks (3 sem. hrs.) ENG 3970: Study Abroad (3 sem. hrs.) Literary Masterworks with credit in the major by special permission of the Department. ENG 5970: Study Abroad ( 1-4 sem. hrs.) Independent study by special permission of the Department Graduate Studies Committee. Harlaxton College at Harlaxton Manor, Grantham, England summer 1997: June 9 to July 10 Instructors: Ruth Hoberman and Richard Sylvia ENG 3010C: Literary Masterworks (3 sem. hrs.) Course description: This course is an opportunity to read and discuss great works of British literature while resident in the British Midlands. We will read works by Midland writers and/or works set in this area of the country and have ample opportunity to visit literary sites and experience British culture firsthand. Trips to the Bronte parsonage, Newstead Abbey, and Stratford-on-Avon will be planned in advance, but many other sites of literary and cultural interest will be close by, including those in Eastwood, Somersby, Lincoln, Cambridge, and London. Class time will be devoted both to close reading of the assigned material and placement of it in sociohistorical context. Writers to be studied are Shakespeare, Byron, Emily Bronte, Tennyson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and D.H. Lawrence. Texts: Byrons Poetry, ed. Frank D. McConnell. 1978. New York: Norton, Wuthering Heights, ed. Linda Peterson. Boston: St. Martin's, 1992. Tennyson's Poetry, ed. Robert Hill, Jr. New York: Norton, 1971. The Hound of the Baskervilles, A. C. Doyle. New York: Viking Penguin, 1981. Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence. New York: Viking Penguin. Hamlet, ed. Susanne L. Wofford. Boston: St. Martin's, 1994. Books have been shipped to Harlaxton by TRS and will be distributed when we arrive. Requirements: careful preparation of the assigned readings regular participation in class discussions a class and travel journal -- 30% one brief paper on assigned topics -- 40% (undergraduates only) a final exam -- 30% research paper or presentation (graduate students only) Tentative Schedule Mon. June 9: leave O'Hare via British Airways 5:35 pm Tues. June 10: arrive Heathrow; travel to Harlaxton 7:20 am Wed. June 11: Lawrence, Sons and Lovers chapters 1-8 9:00-12:00 am Thurs. June 12: Lawrence, Sons and Lovers chapters 9-15 9:00-12:00 am Fri. June 13: visit to University of Nottingham Library; visit to Lawrence birthplace and setting for Sons and Lovers, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire (travel times not yet established) Wed. June 18: Byron, selected poems pp. 3-24; Letters and 9:00-12:00 Journals pp. 321-339; Images of Byron pp. 459-475 Thurs. June 19: Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the 9:00-12:00 First; Don Juan, Canto the First Fri. June 20: visit to Byron's ancestral home, Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire (travel times to be announced) Wed. June 25: Tennyson, selected poems pp. 1-111. 9:00-12:00 Thurs. June 26: Hamlet 9:00-12:00 Fr i. June 27: visit to Stratford-on-Avon; Hamlet performance (travel times to be announced) Wed. July 2: Bronte, Wuthering Heights, chapters 1-17 9:00-12:00 Thurs. July 3: visit to Bronte parsonage (travel times to be announced) Fri. July 4: 9:00-12:00 Mon. July 7: 9:00-12:00 Tues. July 8: 9:00-12:00 Bronte, Wuthering Heights, chapters 18-34; undergraduate papers due Tennyson, Maud; A Monodrama Doyle, Hound of the Baskervilles Wed. July 9: graduate student presentations to class; exam 9:00-12:00 Thurs. July 10: leave Harlaxton Manor (as arranged) 

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