Syllabus

ENGL 8420: Early Globalism: Self and Other, 1660-1745.  With Digital Media.
Dr. Tanya Caldwell
969 GCB; Office Hours MW 1.30-2.30 & by appointment
tmcaldwell@gsu.edu; 404-413-5837

Description
This class focuses on the beginnings of globalism from an Anglo perspective, in the process examining how the English viewed themselves and imagined the other as the world rapidly opened up even to those who could not experience it first-hand.  We will study a variety of genres and a number of traditional texts and authors from this period.  Thanks to the newly available databases, we will look simultaneously at lesser known texts.  We will discuss the extent to which modern ways of thinking about nationalism and internationalism were laid in this period.

Schedule
Mon 8/20         Introduction.  Imagining new realms.  Samuel Pepys.
Mon 8/27         Aphra Behn, The Rover
Mon 9/3           LABOR DAY
Mon 9/10         Aphra Behn, Oroonoko
Mon 9/17         Margaret Cavendish, The Description of a New World Called the Blazing World
Mon 9/24         John Dryden, The Indian Emperor
Mon 10/1         John Dryden, selections from Fables; Tales from Arabian Nights
Mon 10/8         Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Mon 10/15       Gulliver’s Travels
Mon 10/22       Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock; George Cheyne, fr. The English Malady
Mon 10/29       poems, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Lady Mary Chudleigh
Mon 11/5         Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
Mon 11/12       paper discussion
Mon 11/19       THANKSGIVING BREAK
Mon 11/26      Moll Flanders
Mon 12/3        Revision FINAL RESEARCH PROJECT DUE
There will be additional readings from EEBO and ECCO for each week emailed to the class and posted to the blog.

Assignments
Besides the final research project for this class, the assignment work will consist of sharing information orally and digitally with others.  One tool I have set up to begin this process is the class blog: http://engl8420.blogspot.com/
The main function of this blog is to act as a bank of information about resources, primary and secondary, print and digital, and to enable ongoing (out-of-class) discussion on course content.

• Final project (20 page paper or equivalent digital and/or pedagogical project): 50%
• 20-minute presentation (10 pages) with secondary sources and 3 questions for discussion posted to the blog: 30%
• 2-3 page book, article, or database review (also presented to the class and posted): 10%
• Class participation: 10%

Required texts
Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders.  Oxford University Press, USA; New edition, 2011. 
Swift, Jonathan.  Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. Allan Ingram.  Broadview Press, 2012
Behn, Aphra, Oroonoko.  The Rover and Other Works.  Penguin Classics.
Cavendish, Margaret.  The Blazing World and Other Writings.  Penguin.

Attendance Policy

Anyone with 2 unexcused absences may be withdrawn at the instructor’s discretion.

Plagiarism
The internet offers lots of temptations, but you’re only cheating yourself and the consequences if you are caught are severe.  You are expected to be familiar with the plagiarism policy in the College Catalog.  Better yet, don’t even think about it!

Other hard and fast rules:

·                     Out of fairness to the class as a whole, deadlines are absolutely firm.

·                     Absolutely no texting during class, internet surfing, or leaving class to answer your phone (this disturbs the rest of the class).

·                     As in a cinema or theater, church or a funeral, turn off all cell phones or beeping devices before class.