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English 210	Divided Interests: dis-membering and re-membering the "body politic" in the culture of the Restoration
Office Hours AJVS
Required Texts	1. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, paperback. ed. Richard Tuck. 2. John Locke, Two Treatises in Civil Government. Cambridge (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought), ISBN:  0521 35730 6  (paperback). 3.John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, Oxford World Classics, ISBN:  10: 0192803611  (We will read Part I.) 4. Mary Astell, Political Writings Cambridge. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. ISBN:  0521 42845 9 (paperback). 5. Various materials available electronically, e.g., John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
Course Requirements	Attendance, participation, noteboard entries, annotated bibliography, & (if a seminar student) a paper.
Important Dates	Quarter begins: January 2 First Day of Class for our course: Wednesday, January 7 Due Dates:

Annotated Bibliographies

The audience for your annotated bibliography is the people in this course and other graduate students who might be interested.

Your goal is to explain and evaluate your material so that we (and your other readers) will know whether each book or article will be interesting and helpful to us.

MLA format for annotated bibliographies: http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/citation/mla_annotated.html
The Owl at Purdue: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/02/
Cornell Library site: http://copia.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm

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Requirement: Annotate 5 books and 10 articles.

• Begin each annotation with a full bibliographic citation (MLA).
  
  
• Articles: Approximately 150 words. Provide
  • a full statement of the writer's thesis,
  • some detail about how the argument works, and
  • a critical evaluation
    
    
• Books: Think of the book as a series of articles.
  • After providing a brief overview of the book, use the directions above for each chapter.
  • You may choose to omit one or two chapters, as lying outside our interests.
    
    
    

Due dates: Each of you should let me know when you will be turning your annotated bibliography in. Please post them on the Message Board in a forum with your name on it. We will schedule approximately 15 minutes to discuss each bibliography.