CSUS English Department

2006 READING LIST

I. BRITISH LITERATURE

Beowulf

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Marie de France, "Lanval"

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales: "General Prologue," "Nun's Priest's Prologue, Tale, and Epilogue,"
"Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"

Malory, Le Morte Darthur: "Sir Lancelot and Queen Guenevere," "The Tale of the Death of
Arthur"

Everyman

Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Sonnets (1, 3, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20, 29, 30,
33, 35, 55, 60, 65, 71, 73, 74, 87, 94, 97, 98, 106, 107, 110, 116, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130,
135, 138, 144, 146, 147)

Donne, Holy Sonnets, "Love's Alchemy," "The Canonization," "Valediction Forbidding
Mourning"

Milton, Paradise Lost: Books 1, 2, and 9

Swift, Gulliver's Travels: Book 4

Fielding, Tom Jones

Wycherly, The Country Wife

Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey"

Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightingale"

Dickens, Great Expectations

Tennyson, Idylls of the King: "The Coming of Arthur," "Guinevere"

Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Caliban on Setebos," "My Last
Duchess"

Yeats, "The Second Coming," "Easter 1916," "Leda and the Swan," " Sailing to Byzantium,"
"Lapis Lazuli"

Joyce, Dubliners

Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Rushdie, Midnight's Children

Gordimer, "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off"

II. American Literature

Melville, Billy Budd

Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Emerson, "The American Scholar," "Self Reliance," "The Divinity School Address," "The Over-
Soul"

Thoreau, Walden, "Civil Disobedience"

Whitman, "Song of Myself," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloom'd"

Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The Waste Land

Stevens, "Sunday Morning," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a
Blackbird," "The Idea of Order at Key West"

Frost, "Mending Wall, "The Death of the Hired Man," "After Apple-Picking," "Birches," "Fire
and Ice," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Two Tramps in Mud Time,"
"Desert Places"

Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Ellison, Invisible Man

Morrison, Beloved

Tan, Joy Luck Club

III. Critical/Theoretical Works

Sidney, Apology for Poetry

Pope, Essay on Criticism

Wordsworth, "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads

Wolf, A Room of One's Own

Scholes, Protocols of Reading

Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera

Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction

PDF copy of Prof. Madden's "Taking Notes" handout here.


	2006 READING LIST I. BRITISH LITERATURE Beowulf Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Marie de France, "Lanval" Chaucer, Canterbury Tales: "General Prologue," "Nun's Priest's Prologue, Tale, and Epilogue," "Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" Malory, Le Morte Darthur: "Sir Lancelot and Queen Guenevere," "The Tale of the Death of Arthur" Everyman Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Sonnets (1, 3, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20, 29, 30, 33, 35, 55, 60, 65, 71, 73, 74, 87, 94, 97, 98, 106, 107, 110, 116, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 135, 138, 144, 146, 147) Donne, Holy Sonnets, "Love's Alchemy," "The Canonization," "Valediction Forbidding Mourning" Milton, Paradise Lost: Books 1, 2, and 9 Swift, Gulliver's Travels: Book 4 Fielding, Tom Jones Wycherly, The Country Wife Austen, Pride and Prejudice Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey" Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightingale" Dickens, Great Expectations Tennyson, Idylls of the King: "The Coming of Arthur," "Guinevere" Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Caliban on Setebos," "My Last Duchess" Yeats, "The Second Coming," "Easter 1916," "Leda and the Swan," " Sailing to Byzantium," "Lapis Lazuli" Joyce, Dubliners Woolf, To the Lighthouse Rushdie, Midnight's Children Gordimer, "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off" II. American Literature Melville, Billy Budd Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Emerson, "The American Scholar," "Self Reliance," "The Divinity School Address," "The Over- Soul" Thoreau, Walden, "Civil Disobedience" Whitman, "Song of Myself," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The Waste Land Stevens, "Sunday Morning," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "The Idea of Order at Key West" Frost, "Mending Wall, "The Death of the Hired Man," "After Apple-Picking," "Birches," "Fire and Ice," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Two Tramps in Mud Time," "Desert Places" Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Ellison, Invisible Man Morrison, Beloved Tan, Joy Luck Club III. Critical/Theoretical Works Sidney, Apology for Poetry Pope, Essay on Criticism Wordsworth, "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads Wolf, A Room of One's Own Scholes, Protocols of Reading Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction PDF copy of Prof. Madden's "Taking Notes" handout here.
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