Dr. Yoder
English 7360.01     4 Literary Icons     Fall 2007

Week 1 (Aug. 20-24)
M     Intro / Syllabus
W     Byron and the Byronic Hero
         John Milton, Satan's Address to the Sun (Paradise Lost IV:1-113; available here or here.)
         Lord Byron, Manfred III:ii, first 30 lines (Available here.)
         Lord Byron, "Prometheus" (Available here.)

Week 2 (Aug. 27-31)
M     Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Doc Yoder's Frankenstein Notes available here)
W     Oral Report: Alchemy and Science:

Week 3 (Sept. 3-7)
M     LABOR DAY
W     Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; See also Paradise Lost 8:250-560 (available here)

Week 4 (Sept. 10-14)
M     Oral Report: Frankenstein and Pop Culture:
W     Richard Brinsley Peake, Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (Available here or here.)
         Thomas Edison's Frankenstein (1910). See it here.

Week 5 (Sept. 17-21)
M     Edgar Allan Poe, "The Purloined Letter" (Available here or here.)
          --->Frankenstein paper due
W     Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

Week 6 (Sept. 24-28)
M     Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
        Oral Report: London around 1890:
W     

Week 7 (Oct. 1-5)
M     No Class
W     Doyle, "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Man with the Twisted Lip"

Week 8 (Oct. 8-12)
M     Doyle, "The Gloria Scott""The Greek Interpreter,"
W     Doyle, "The Final Problem"
        Oral Report: Sherlock and Pop Culture:

Week 9 (Oct. 15-19)
M     Lord Byron, The Giaour (ll. 675-788; available here)
W     Bram Stoker, Dracula (Doc Yoder's Dracula Notes are here.)

Week 10 (Oct. 22-26)
M     Stoker, Dracula
        Oral Report: Empire and Xenophobia:
W     

Week 11 (Oct. 29-Nov. 2)
M     Stoker, Dracula
W     

Week 12 (Nov. 5-9)
M     Stoker, Dracula
W     Oral Report: Dracula and Pop Culture:

Week 13 (Nov. 12-16)
M     Doyle, "The Adventure of the Empty House,""The Adventure of the Cardboard Box"
W     Doyle, "His Last Bow""The Sussex Vampire"

Week 14 (Nov. 19-23)
M     Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
W     Oral Report: Exploration of Africa:

Week 15 (Nov. 26-30)
M     Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
W     Oral Report: Tarzan and Pop Culture

Week 16 (Dec. 3-5)
M     Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan
W     LAST DAY OF CLASS

--->Friday Dec. 7 FINAL PAPERS DUE BY 12 NOON (Writing assignments are here.)

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