Literature is fun

ELIT2152 Course Pieces (Fall 2013)

By kimme

  • London - William Blake

    1. "Songs of Experience."

  • Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - William Wordsworth

    1. First "edition" of the preface published in Jan. 1801 in the second edition of the "Lyrical Ballads," This second and more exansive preface was included in the third edition of the collection in 1802.

  • London, 1802 - William Wordsworth

    1. "Poems, in Two Volumes."

  • Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

    Late Dec 1817. Published posthumously. Not original title.

  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

    First edition published anonymously. Created as a contest for the best horror fiction among Mary/Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori.

  • Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Under the pen name 'Glirastes.' "The Examiner." In competition with Horace Smith, using the same subject matter.

  • Ode on a Grecian Urn - John Keats

    Jan 1820. One of "Great Odes of 1819."

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass

    1. Revised versions came out on later dates.

  • Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

    Originally "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography." Under pen name 'Currer Bell.'

  • Song of Myself - Walt Whitman

    Originally published as first of twelve untitled poems in first edition of "Leaves of Grass" without sections. Later titled "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" in second edition, then "Walt Whitman" on third. On the fourth, the poem was sectioned, and titled "Song of Myself" on the final edition (1881-2).

  • Much Madness is Divinest Sense - Emily Dickinson

    1. Published posthumously in collections from 1890-1945.

  • A charm invests a face - Emily Dickinson

    1. Published posthumously in collections from 1890-1945.

  • I'm nobody! Who are you? - Emily Dickinson

    1. Published posthumously in collections from 1890-1945.

  • The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

    2/14/1895 is the premiere date for the play.

  • In a Station of the Metro - Ezra Pound

    1. "Poetry."

  • Preface to Some Imagist Poets - Amy Lowell

    1. In response to "Des Imagistes," an anthology edited by Pound.

  • Sea Rose - H. D.

  • Calypso - James Joyce

    Episode 4 in "Ulysses."

  • Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown - Virginia Woolf

    Oct 1924. In response to Arnold Bennet's criticism of "Jacob's Room."

  • Tell all the truth but tell it slant - Emily Dickinson

    1. Published posthumously in collections from 1890-1945.

  • Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

    Oct 1966. A "prequel" to "Jane Eyre."

  • On the Abolition of the English Department - Ngugi wa Thiong’o et al.

  • Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction - Ann Banfield

  • Toward an Aesthetic of Reception - Hans Robert Jauss

    Sept 1982. Univ. Minnesota Press.

  • Performative Acts and Gender Constitution - Juditch Butler

    Dec 1988. "Theatre Journal."

  • Gifts - Nuruddin Farah

    1992.

  • Poetry in an Age of Revolution - P.M.S. Dawson

    1. "The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism."

  • Modernism - Peter Childs

    Second edition published in 2008.

  • A Semiprivate Room - Ellen Rooney

    Spring 2002. (Not exact date)

  • A Theory of Adaptation - Linda Hutcheon

  • Fun Home - Alison Bechdel

  • Uses of Literature - Rita Felski

    December 2008. Featured in "Chronicles of Higher Education."