Schedule of Readings and Assignments

Innocent Kids

• "Prologue: The Road to Arcadia," from Humphrey Carpenter, Secret Gardens (photocopy on reserve)
• Selections from Linda Pollock, A Lasting Relationship: Parents and Children Over Three Centuries (photocopy on reserve)
• "The Discovery of Childhood," from Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood (photocopy on reserve)

1/15 Blake, "The Ecchoing Green," "The Little Black Boy," The Chimney Sweeper," "Holy Thursday," "Nurse's Song," "Infant Joy," from Songs of Innocence (Norton, 28-33); "Holy Thursday," The Chimney Sweeper," "Infant Sorrow," from Songs of Experience (Norton, 35-40); Wordsworth, "My heart leaps up," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," (Norton, 187-193); Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight," (Norton, 365-6)

1/20 Dickens, Oliver Twist
presentation (primary) : Meghan

1/22 Twist, continued
presentation (primary) : Kristel

1/27 Twist, continued
presentation (secondary): Erin

1/29 Twist, continued
presentation (secondary): Alison

2/3 A Little Princess
presentation (primary): Gillian

2/5 A Little Princess, continued
presentation (secondary) : Emily

"Half savage, and hardy, and free"--wild children

• "'Our family is a little world'," from Davidoff & Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and women of the English middle class 1780-1850, ch. 7 (on reserve)

2/12 Wuthering Heights, continued
presentation (primary) : Katie (secondary): Nicole

2/17 Wuthering Heights, continued
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
presentation (secondary): Gillian, Erin

2/19 Huck Finn
presentation (primary) : Jeff C.

2/24 Huck Finn, continued
presentation (primary) : Geoff S. (secondary): Jennifer

2/26 Huck Finn, continued
presentation (secondary): Chris

Wiser than their years

• Selection from "The Child," from James Kincaid, Child-loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture, chapter two. (on reserve)
• "Introduction," from Penny Brown, The Captured World: The Child and Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in England (on reserve)
• Packet of "dying children" readings (handout; supplements Little Women)

3/5 Alice, continued
presentation (secondary): Becky

SPRING BREAK

3/17 Little Women
presentation (primary) : Katie

3/19 Little Women, continued
RESEARCH PROPOSAL DUE
presentation (primary) : Alison (secondary): Kristel

3/24 Little Women, continued
presentation (secondary): Meghan

3/26 No Class: British Women Writers' Conference

"Hideous progeny"--demonic kids

4/2 Frankenstein, continued
presentation (secondary) : Jeff C., Geoff S.

4/7 The Turn of the Screw
presentation (primary) : Jennifer

4/9 The Turn of the Screw, continued
presentation (secondary):

4/14 Conferences/Work on Papers

4/16 Conferences/Work on Papers

4/21 Conferences/Work on Papers

4/23 Conferences/Work on Papers
Research Papers Due