Produce an original opinion based on assigned literature.
It has been said that an important characteristic of a piece of literature is its ability to produce in the reader a sense of confusion, of pleasure and unease. Select a British literary work, which we read this term that produces this healthy confusion. Write a response in which you explain the sources of the pleasure and unease experienced by the readers of the work.
Reading
• Romanticism
• Wordsworth
o Lyrical Ballads, Volume 1 (all) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8905
o Lyrical Ballads, Volume 2 (selected poems listed below)
? “We Are Seven”
? “Lines Written in Early Spring”
? “The Tables Turned”
? “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
? “Strange fits of passion have I known”
? “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”
? “Michael”
? “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
• Coleridge
o “The Eolian Harp”
o “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison”
o “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
o “Kubla Khan”
o “To William Wordsworth”
The Victorian Period
Wuthering Heights
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
o An Introduction to Modernism
? Virginia Woolf Biography
o Virginia Woolf
? “The Mark On The Wall”
? “A Room of Ones Own”
o Katherine Mansfield
? “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”
? “The Garden Party”
o W. Somerset Maugham “The Razor’s Edge”