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 and to always bring texts to class on the day they are to be discussed. Texts marked with a * are short films, which will be viewed in class.

Week	Tuesday	Thursday	"Key Concepts"
1	1/20 Introductions, background.	1/22 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)	• Age of Victoria • Gender
2	1/27 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)	1/29 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813); Florence Nightingale, Cassandra ch. 1-3 (on reserve); Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England (on reserve)	• Domesticity • Family • Education
3	2/3 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)	2/5 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847); Punch, "Governesses Benevolent Institution" Class Discussion: Helienna	• Class • Race • Gothic • Other
4	2/10  Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847); Elizabeth Rigby, Review of Jane Eyre. Report on the publication and reception of Jane Eyre: Jes Class Discussion: Jes	2/12 Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1854) Last date for conferences on essay topics Report on Victorian Clothing and Fashion: Marty Report on Elizabeth Gaskell: Brenda Class Discussion: Brenda	• Cities and Urbanization • Industry • Individualism • Mid-Victorian Novel
5	2/17 Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1854); Bessie Rayner Parkes, "The Condition of Working Women..." (481-490) Report on Factory Labor: Marty Class Discussion: Marty	2/19 Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1854) Report on the publication and reception of North and South: Maxwell	• Body • Religion • Social-Problem Novel
6	2/24 George Eliot (Marian Evans), "The Lifted Veil" (1859); Mary E Braddon,"Good Lady Ducayne" (1896) Report on pseudo-science (phrenology, mesmerism): Kendra	2/26 Elizabeth Gaskell, "The Old Nurse's Story" (1852); Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "The Shadow in the Corner" (1879) Report on spiritualism and the supernatural: Helienna	• Disease • Death • Science
7	3/3 Mary E. Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret (1862) Report on Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Maxwell	3/5 Mary E. Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret (1862) Report on Sensation Fiction: Helienna	• Sensation Fiction • Clothing • Pre-Raphaelitism • Sex and Sexuality
8	3/10 Mary E. Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret (1862) Report on Victorian "Madness"—Definitions and Treatment: Jes Class Discussion: Beth	3/12 Reading Day	• Gaze • Madness
*	3/17 Spring Break	3/19 Spring Break
9	3/24 Christina Rossetti, from Speaking Likenesses (1874); Frances Hodgson Burnett, "Behind the White Brick" (1879) Report on Victorian Children's Literature: Kendra	3/26 Conferences: Essay Abstracts and Bibliographies Due	• Childhood • Children's Literature
10	3/31 Amy Levy, The Romance of a Shop (1888) Report on Amy Levy: Laura Class Discussion: Laura	4/2 Amy Levy, The Romance of a Shop (1888) Report on Victorian Photography: Alison Class Discussion: Alison
11	4/7 Amy Levy, The Romance of a Shop (1888) Class Discussion: Andrew	4/9 Ella Hepworth Dixon, The Story of a Modern Woman (1894); Sarah Grand, "The New Aspect of the Woman Question" (1894; 205-11) Report on late-Victorian "New Women": Andrew Class Discussion: Maxwell	• Reform
12	4/14 Ella Hepworth Dixon, The Story of a Modern Woman (1894) Report on Victorian Publishing and Print Culture: Laura	4/16 Ella Hepworth Dixon, The Story of a Modern Woman (1894); Ella Hepworth Dixon, "Why Women are Ceasing to Marry" (1899; 260-66); Lois Weber, "How Men Propose" (film, 1913)* Report on Victorian Marriage: Brenda Report on Victorian London: Beth
13	4/21 Catherine Louisa Pirkis, "The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step" from The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1894); Baroness Emmuska Orczy, "The Woman in the Big Hat" from Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910); Alice Guy-Blaché, "Matrimony's Speed Limit" (film, 1913)* Report on Victorian Mystery and Detective Fiction: Beth	4/23 ; E. Nesbit, "Melisande; or, Long and Short Division" from Nine Unlikely Tales (1901); Dorothy G. Shore, "Land Beyond the Sunset" Part 1 and Part 2 (1912)*	• Crime and Punishment • Law • Crime Fiction
14	4/28 Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (1911) Report on Frances Hodgson Burnett: Andrew Class Discussion: Kendra	4/30 Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (1911) Report on Victorian Gardens and Gardening: Alison	• Orientalism
15	5/5 Agnieszka Holland, The Secret Garden (1993)*	5/7 Conclusions: The End(s) of Domestic Ideology Essay Due

 

 

 

 

"Fred's studies are not very deep," said Rosamund, rising with her mamma; "he is only reading a novel" (Middlemarch).