ELIT 102 Survey of English Literature II Fall 2024

Course organizer: Assist. Prof. Nina Cemiloğlu

nina.cemiloglu@yeditepe.edu.tr

Office: GSF 819; Office hours: Tuesdays 12:00-15:00

Semester schedule

Week 1: Introduction: Course contents, course requirements, reading material, academic ethics;
The Restoration period; pp. 1-19

Week 2: The Restoration Period: Samuel Pepys’s Diary; pp. 20-31

Week 3: The Eighteenth Century: Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe; pp. 32-42

Week 4: The Eighteenth Century: Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal;
pp. 43-52

Week 5: The Eighteenth Century: Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man and An Essay on
Criticism; pp. 53-59

Week 6: The Twilight of Classicism: Samuel Johnson, Horace Walpole; pp. 60-76

Week 7: Midterm Exam 10:00-11:30 (topics of Weeks 1-6)

Week 8: Early Romanticism: Robert Burns and William Blake, pp. 77-95

Week 9: The Romantic Period: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge; pp. 96-105

Week 10: The Romantic Period: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats; pp. 106-115

Week 11: The Romantic Period: Jane Austen; Mary Shelley; pp. 116-120

Week 12: The Victorian Period: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold; pp.
121-132

Week 13: The Victorian Period: Charles Dickens, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde; pp. 133-137

Week 14: Final Exam 10:00-11:30 (topics of Weeks 8-13)

Course material: Photocopies are available in Kafa Kırtasiye outside the campus opposite the
main entrance
Course requirements and determination of students' final grades:

Attendance: 80 % (missing more than three lessons without a medical report or serious reason
will result in losing the right to attend the midterm and/ or final exam and in the final grade FA)

Midterm Exam: 50%

Final Exam: 50%

Students can ask their instructor to review their exams via OBS, email, or in person. Students can
learn the result of a second review during the instructor's office hours. There are three possible
outcomes of a second review: An increase in points (rather improbable), no change in points
(probable), or a decrease in points (possible).

Students who get the final grade FF can take the Resit Exam. Students who get FA cannot take
the Resit Exam. The Resit Exam will be inclusive of the topics from Week 2 to 13. The final
grade of students who take the Resit Exam will be exclusively determined by the result of the
Resit Exam.