English 313,
Victorian Literature, Spring 07
Weekly
Schedule of Readings and Assignments
MWF 10:25,
Weinstein 303
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Monday,
January 15 Course
introduction |
Wednesday,
January 17 Victorian Poetry Read: BABL xxxiii-xxxvi, lxvii-lxviii, lxix-lxxiii J.S. Mill, "What is Poetry?" BABL 78-85 |
Friday,
January 19 Read: Tennyson, "Mariana," "The Lady of Shalott," "The Lotos-Eaters," "Ulysses" BABL 154-166 (more L of S images here) |
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Monday,
January 22 Read: Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., 1-45 (BABL 178-192) Focus
especially on Prologue, 1-8, 11,14,19,24,27,30 Useful background: BABL xlviii-li, li-liii |
Wednesday,
January 24 Read: In
Memoriam A.H.H.,
46-90 (BABL 192-206) Focus especially on 47-50, 53-57, 59, 75, 78, 82 |
Friday,
January 26 Finish In
Memoriam A.H.H. (BABL
206-221) Focus especially on 93-96, 99, 102, 104-106, 108, 120, 124, 130, Epilogue |
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Monday,
January 29 Read: Arnold, "To Marguerite--Continued," "The Buried Life," "Dover Beach" (BABL 437-438, 446) |
Wednesday,
January 31 Read:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Aurora Leigh, Book I (BABL 124-139) |
Friday,
February 2 Read: Aurora
Leigh, from Book 2
and Book 5 (BABL
139-149) supplementary: BABL xlii-xlv |
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Monday,
February 5 Read: Robert
Browning, "Porphyria's
Lover," "My Last Duchess" (BABL 278-279, 280-281) |
Wednesday,
February 7 Read: Robert Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Andrea del Sarto" (BABL 290-295, 297-300) |
Friday,
February 9 Read: Robert
Browning, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (BABL 287-290) |
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Monday,
February 12 Realism & the Victorian Novel Read: BABL lxiii-lxvii and Dickens, Hard Times, Book the First (41-141) |
Wednesday,
February 14 Read:
Dickens, Hard Times,
Book the Second (143-244) And "On Strike," HT 372-381 |
Friday,
February 16 Read:
Dickens, Hard Times
Book the Third (245-315) |
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Monday,
February 19 The PRB Read:
Ruskin, from Modern Painters
and The Stones of Venice
(BABL 421-431) Here are some gargoyles and some gothic ruins |
Wednesday,
February 21 See also Beata Beatrix Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Blessed Damozel," "The Woodspurge" (BABL 505-507) |
Friday,
February 23 D.G. Rossetti, "Jenny" (BABL 507-512) |
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Monday,
February 26 Read: Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" (BABL
518-526) |
Wednesday,
February 28 Midterm exam (Note: this is a change) |
Friday,
March 2 Research orientation session |
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SPRING BREAK |
SPRING BREAK |
SPRING BREAK |
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Monday,
March 12 Another Victorian novel Begin George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss Book First |
Wednesday,
March 14 Continue The Mill on the Floss, Book Second |
Friday,
March 16 Continue The Mill on the Floss, Book Third |
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Monday,
March 19 Continue The
Mill on the Floss,
Book Fourth & Fifth |
Wednesday, March
21 Continue The Mill on the Floss, Book Sixth |
Friday,
March 23 Finish The Mill on the Floss, Book Seventh |
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Monday,
March 26 Children and Childhood Read: Lewis
Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch. 1-6 (49-102) See some photographs here (scroll down for Alice) Some of these are also reprinted in our text. |
Wednesday,
March 28 Finish Alice
in Wonderland See a facsimile of the original cover and first page here (The full text of Alice's Adventures Underground is appendix A in our text) |
Friday,
March 30 NO CLASS: INSTRUCTOR CONFERENCE |
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Monday,
April 2 Read: Edward Lear (selections online at BABL site) and Robert Louis Stevenson, from A Child's Garden of Verses (BABL 655-666) |
Wednesday,
April 4 Sensation Begin Ellen Wood, East Lynne |
Friday,
April 6 Continue East Lynne |
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Monday,
April 9 Continue East
Lynne |
Wednesday,
April 11 Continue East Lynne |
Friday,
April 13 Continue East Lynne |
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Monday,
April 16 Finish East
Lynne |
Wednesday, April
18 Art and Aesthetics Read: Walter Pater, from The Renaissance (BABL 604-610; also see excerpts here) and "Michael Field," "La Gioconda" and "To Christina Rossetti" (BABL 652, 653) |
Friday,
April 20 Read: Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God's Grandeur," "The Windhover," "[Not, I'll not, carrion comfort]" and "[Thou art indeed just, Lord]" (BABL 631, 637, 639, 640) |
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Monday,
April 23 Begin:
Wilde, The Importance of being Earnest (BABL 689-720) |
Wednesday,
April 25 Finish The
Importance of being Earnest |
Friday,
April 27 Last class:
Catch up and review Research proposal papers due |
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Final Exam: |
Wednesday,
May 2 2-5 p.m. |
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