Res-Rev 2016 Spring

E102B | Restoration and Revolution: 1660-1700 | Spring 2016
This course is in part framed by political events. We begin in 1660--with the restoration of the monarchy after civil war, the beheading of a king (Charles I), and several years of Puritan dominance-- and end just after 1700, approximately a decade after what became known as the "Glorious Revolution." We will read aggressive wit comedy, satiric poetry, allegorical fiction, and feminist and political essays. Lectures will also provide material from scientific reports and from contemporary philosophy. Our readings invite us to ask questions about literary form, political and religious dissent, marriage, property, and the status of women. And theyinvite us to consider fundamental contrasts in a period marked both by restoration and by revolution.

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In class today
* = R&R Course Booklet

Supporting Materials

Description of the English Major

Tuesday, March 29
Week 1

King Charles I from 3 angles - Anthony van Dyck
Charles I from 3 angles

Introduction:

A king beheaded,
A Puritan Interregnum,
A king restored
Portability as a principle of analysis
John Dryden, Astrea Redux, introduction

Lecture #1
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King Charles I - Youtube feature
King Charles II - Youtube feature

The House of Stuart
Ciphers during the Early Reign of Charles I before the Civil War
Secret code
AR-L2

Thursday, March 30

Book of Common Prayer 1662

Dryden, Astraea Redux 19 June

Please find here a link to lines 1-118 and 250-end of John Dryden's "Astraea Redux."

The lecture will be on - "Astraea Redux"

The meaning & implications of " Astraea Returns"
Does anyone want to correct this Wikipedia entry--for our message board (and for participation credit)?

Poems desiring and celebrating the return of Charles II

Charles II (BBC history)

History of the Royal Family

Tuesday, April 5
Week 2

Katherine Philips

Katherine Philips (1632-1664)

“Arion to a Dolphin, On His Majesty's passage into England” *
“On the Death of my First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips” *
”In Memory of F.P.” **
”To my Lady M. Cavendish” *
”Against Love” **
”To my Excellent Lucasia” *
“Friendship’s Mystery” *
ANNOTATED HYPERTEXT OF  "FRIENDSHIP'S MYSTERYS: TO MY DEAREST LUCASIA"
“Song” *
“To One persuading a Lady to Marriage”*

IF YOUR LAST NAME BEGINS WITH "A" to "E," please write an entry on the message board on Katherine Philips.
You can respond to a study question or comment on what interests you most. Please post your entry by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 4 (day before this class session).

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Study Questions (SQ) Katherine Philips

TOP

Thursday, April 7

Willliam Wycherley

William Wycherley

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), “Satire on Charles II.” *

William Wycherley, The Country Wife, Acts I & II

IF YOUR LAST NAME BEGINS WITH "F" to "M," please write an entry on the message board in the forum on Rochester or the one on Wycherley. You can respond to a study question or comment on what interests you most. Please post your entry by 5:00 p.m. onWednesday (day before this class session).

Thomas Hobbes, Selections from The Leviathan(1651) for lecture.

You should start thinking about your paper topic. Please see the Paper Page.

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SQ "Satire on Charles II"

SQ The Country Wife

|Helen Mirren as Marjorie Pinchwife Youtube

| The China Scene Youtube

| Segment from the beginning of The Country Wife YouTube

Reviews of modern productions: 2000 | 2007 || 2007 | 2010 | 2011 |

Tuesday, April 12
Week 3

The Country Wife. Finish the play

If your last name begins with "N" to "S," Please write an entry comparing any two writers. Include your entry in whatever forum seems appropriate to you.

Rochester, "Woman's Honour"

Thursday, April 14

The Country Wife

IF YOUR LAST NAME BEGINS WITH "T" to "Z," please write an entry on the message board in the forum on Rochester and Wycherley. You can respond to a study question or comment on lecture or discussion so far or on what interests you most. Please post your entry by 5:00 p.m. Wednesday preceding the class.

Chap. XVIII of Machiavelli's The Prince.

Tuesday, April 19
Week 4
Rochester with monkey
Earl of Rochester

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), Satyr Against Reason and Mankind *

If your last name begins with C-F, please write an entry on the message board. You can respond to a study question or you can write about anything that interests you about the poem.

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SQ Satyr Against Reason and Mankind

E-text Satire Against Reason and Mankind

Rochester's Life was in a sense a parallel construction.

A view of his character

|| Encyclopedia Britannica

Review of The Libertine
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Thursday, April 21

Satyr Against Reason and Mankind *

If your last name begins with G-N, please write an entry on Satyr Against Reason and Mankind OR respond to one of he entries posted earlier.

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Great Plague of London - 1664-1666

Samuel Pepys's & John Evelyn's diary accounts of the Great Fire of London

Philosophical materialism
Fideism, Encyclopedia Britannica
Skepticism,Encyclopedia Britannica

Nominalism of Hobbes, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Plutarch, Gryllus

Tuesday, April 26
Week 5
Aphra Behn by Mary Beale
Aphra Behn

Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment*

Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

"Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven that Died Before"*
"Love Armed"*
"On Her Loving Two Equally"*
*On Desire"*
On the Death of the late Earl of Rochester
Ode, Encyclopedia Britannica

SQ The Imperfect Enjoyment

On Rochester (from the Poetry Foundation)

Aphra Behn (1640-1689), “The Disappointment”

Sir George Etheredge (1635 (?)-1692), "The Imperfect Enjoyment"
SQ Aphra Behn's poetry (by students)
Please write study questions,
and I'll post them here.

A pindarick on the death of our late sovereign with an ancient prophecy on his present Majesty / written by A. Behn (1685) EEBO (access depends on VPN or being on campus)

Aphra Behn bio

Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn, the Poetry Foundation

Thursday, April 28

John Bunyan - dream image
John Bunyan, as dreamer

John Bunyan (1628-1688), The
The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) to page 42.

(You can skim "The Author's Apology for his Book; we'll cover it later.)
***** Also read the corresponding notes: 291-7.)
Look up definition of typology. Please bring handout on typology to class.

Clarendon Code

SQ The Pilgrim's Progress

The story of Hagar & Ishmael

Hagar and Ishmael in Islamic Bulletin

Conflicting Narratives: a comparative analysis of Ishmael in the Bible and Quran

DID PROPHET ABRAHAM (pbuh) REALLY SEND HIS WIFE HAGAR AND SON ISHMAEL (pbuh) AWAY ALONE TO A BARREN LAND?

Galatians (typology)

Tuesday, May 3
Week 6

|| Midterm Exam ||
Bring bluebooks: Put your name on the back of your bluebook.
No books, computers, phones, or notes in the exam.

Thursday, May 5
The jury in The Pilgrim's Progress
Jurymen in The Pilgrim's Progress