READING AND ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE
This schedule is tentative, and students will be responsible for any changes announced in class or over e-mail. Though we will by necessity discuss long works over several class periods, please plan to have each work read in its entirety by the first day of discussion. To receive participation credit, texts must be brought to class on the day they are to be discussed.
Week |
Monday
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Wednesday
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1 |
1/17 Martin Luther King Day |
1/19 Introductions, nineteenth-century background |
2 |
1/24 Class and Culture: Charles Darwin, from On the Origin of Species (1272-77); Friedrich Engels, from The Condition of the Working Class in England (1101-08); Henry Mayhew, from London Labour and the London Poor (1108-13); Charles Dickens, "A Walk in the Workhouse" (1425-29). |
1/26 Charles Dickens, from Hard Times (1098-1100); A Christmas Carol (1376-1425) |
3 |
1/31 Ideologies of Gender: Florence Nightingale, Cassandra (1511-19); Frances Power Cobbe, from Life of Frances Power Cobbe (1522-24); Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England (1525-27). |
2/2 Industrialization and Labor: Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (Volume I ch. I-XX) |
4 |
2/7 Gaskell, North and South (Vol. I ch. XXI-Vol. II ch. VII) |
2/9 Gaskell, North and South (the rest of Vol. II) |
5 |
2/14 Victorian Childhood(s): Parliamentary Papers (1094-96); Moral Verses: "Table Rules for Little Folks," "The Mouse and the Cake," "The Story of Augustus...," "The Watercress Seller" (pdf) |
2/16 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
6 |
2/21 Secrets and Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret (Vol. 1) |
2/23Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret (Vol. 2) |
7 |
2/28 Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret (Vol. 3) |
3/3 Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" (1650-63) |
8 |
3/7 Midterm Exam |
3/9 Midterm Conferences |
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3/14 Spring Break |
3/16 Spring Break |
| 9 | 3/21 Crime and Criminality: Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1780-1818). |
3/23 Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
10 |
3/28 Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1467-82). |
3/30 Catherine Louisa Pirkis, "The Black Bag Left on a Door-step" from The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (pdf). |
11 |
4/4 The Fin de Siècle and the New Woman: Amy Levy, The Romance of a Shop ch. I-XV (pp. 51-154) |
4/6 Levy, The Romance of a Shop ch. XVI-Conclusion (pp. 155-194). |
12 |
4/11 Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1829-69). |
4/13 Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest |
13 |
4/18 Exploring the Unknown: Braddon, "The Shadow in the Corner"(online) |
4/20 Essay Due; Bram Stoker, Dracula (ch. 1-6) |
14 |
4/25 Stoker, Dracula (ch. 7-12) |
4/27 Stoker, Dracula (ch. 13-18) |
15 |
5/2 Stoker, Dracula (ch. 19-"Note"); Degeneracy Theories, Appendix F (468-472). |
5/4 Conclusions: The End(s) of Victorianism |
Exam Week |
5/9 Final Exam (8:00-9:55 am) |
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