Syllabus
Week by Week Syllabus
Term One
Week 1: Introduction
Drama
Week 2: Centlivre, Bold Strike for a Wife
Week 3: Gay, The Beggar’s Opera
Week 4: Sheridan, The Rivals
Week 4: Inchbald, Lovers' Vows
Week 6: READING WEEK
The Novel
Week 7: Richardson, Pamela
Week 8: Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Week 9: Burney, Evelina
Week 10: Inchbald, A Simple Story
Term 2
Week 1: Tess and David: Wiki workshop
Satire
Week 2: Swift, "Description of a City Shower" and “The Lady’s Dressing Room”; Montagu, “The Reasons that Induced Dr. S— to write a Poem called the Lady’s Dressing Room”
Week 3: Pope, "The Rape of the Lock" and “Epistle to a Lady”; Anne Ingram, "An Epistle to Mr. Pope"
Week 4: Swift, Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal
Week 5: Visual satire: Hogarth, A Harlot's Progress; Gillray, Un petit souper a la Parisienne, The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver, Sin, Death, and the Devil, and Very Slippy Weather.
Week 6: READING WEEK
Space and Landscape
Week 7: Thomson, The Seasons (“Spring”); Duck, The Thresher’s Labour; Collier, The Woman’s Labour
Week 8: Johnson, Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland; Boswell, Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides
Week 9: Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”; Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village”; Crabbe, “The Village”
Week 10: Austen, Mansfield Park
Term Three
Week 2: revision class