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Brit Lit Survey: 1790 to Modern Day
Readings for Research and Writing ("Path 2")

“badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and
that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty’” (44).
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962)



 
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
 

George Orwell's 1984 (1949)

Alan Moore's & David Lloyd's V for Vendetta (1982-85, 1988)

P. D. James's The Children of Men (1992)

Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962)

Dave Gibbons's The Originals (2006)

Dorris Lessing's The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974)

 John Wyndham's The Chrysalids (1955)

Brian K. Vaughan & Niko Henrichon's The Pride of Baghdad (2008)

Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons' Watchmen (1995)

Frank Miller's and David Mazzucchelli's Batman: Year One (1988)
Week Four
book/part 1
chps 1-8
ACO: Part 1
pgs 3-63
chps 1-6
Watchmen,
chps 1-4
Week Five
book/part 2
chps 9-16
ACO: Part 2
pgs 63-108
chps 7-12
Watchmen,
chps 5-8
Week Six
book/part 3
chps 17-26
ACO: Part 3
pgs 108-160
chps 13-17
Watchmen,
chps 9-12

Week Seven
V for Vendetta
chps 27-33
The Originals
pgs 160-23
The Pride of Baghdad
Batman:
Year One

Weeks 7 & 8
TERM PAPERS due at the beginning of Week Eight
at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, March 1
(send Word File with .doc extension via email to "pmarchba@calpoly.edu")
Week Nine
participation in optional film screenings at Dr. M's
for a point of extra credit



"Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) -- The Morning After the Deluge" (1843)
J. M. W. Turner



Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu