Reading schedule for

Victorian Literature on the Internet

Preface

• British Poetry 1780-1890: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
• The Dickens Project
• Matsuhara Matsuoka's Homepage (The most extensive list of Victorian web sites--as far as I know--is provided here.
• The Rossetti Hypermedia Archive
• The Victorian Women Writers Project
• The Victorian Web
• The Victoria Research Web
• The Voice of the Shuttle
  • Voice of the Shuttle: Art and Art History Page
  • Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian Literature and Culture
• Victoriana: Resources for Victorian Living

Class Schedule

14 January: Introduction
Topics for discussion
• E-mail
• Navigating the worldwide web
• Citing sources, print and electronic
This week, after you obtain your e-mail account, you must schedule a conference with me, where we will go over these topics individually, to make sure you are ready to start.

21 January: Alice in Electronic Wonderland
• Read Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
• Optional: explore the Lewis Carroll Homepage.
• Read Landow's Hypertext, Chapter 1, or read it on the web at Table of Contents for Chapter One. Hypertext and Critical Theory.
• Explore New Tools for Teaching: J.J. O'Donnell.
  • Be sure to read the sample chapter from R. Lanham's The Electronic Text
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• Explore Hypertext: Theory and Practice, by P. Dyck.
• We'll also hear a few reports about the Victoria listserv.
• Outline for this week's class

28 January: Victorian Poetry and Hypertext
• Read Landow, Hypertext, Chapter 2.
• Read the selections from Tennyson's In Memoriam and the selections of D.G. Rossetti's verse from The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse.
• Look for "The Blessed Damozel" at The Rossetti Hypermedia Archive, being sure to study the painting associated with it. Explore more of the archive on your own.
• Read "My Last Duchess," "Andrea del Sarto," and "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" in The NOBVV, and then find out as much about Browning and these poems as you can at The Victorian Web and Robert [Hypermedia] Browning.
• We'll also hear a few more reports about the Victoria listserv.
• Outline for this week's class

4 February: Dickens and "Author"-ity
• Read Landow, Hypertext, Chapter 3.
• Read Dickens, A Christmas Carol and The Haunted Man.
• Go to the The Dickens Project, read "A Little Book About A Christmas Carol," and look at the illustrations for A Christmas Carol. You might also wish to take a tour of the "virtual" Dickens Museum.
• See what The Victorian Web has to tell you about Dickens.
• We might hear yet a few more reports about the Victoria listserv.
• Outline for this week's class

11 February: Lewis Carroll Revisited
• Read Through the Looking Glass.
• Go to the WWW version of "The Hunting of the Snark," at the British Poetry 1780-1890: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions, and enjoy its presentation of the illustrated text.
• Read Landow, Hypertext, Chapter 4.
• Outline for this week's class

18 February: Holmesian and Hypertextual Narrative
• Read the following stories and essays in Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays:
  • Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle: "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-Headed League," "The Speckled Band," and "The Musgrave Ritual."
  • Essays by the following critics: Martin Priestman, Peter Brooks, Gian Paolo Caprettini, John A. Hodgson.
• Outline for this week's class

25 February: You Can Go Holmes again.
• Read Landow, Hypertext, Chapter 5.
• Read the following in Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays
  • Stories by Conan Doyle: "The Dancing Men," "Charles Augustas Milverton," "The Second Stain."
  • Essays by the following critics: Alastair Fowler, Catherine Belsey, Rosemary Hennessy and Rajeswari Mohan.
• Investigate the websites connected with the Sherlock Holmes phenomenon. For example, compare the following: 221B Baker Street and Sherlock Holmes Web Page.
• Here you can get the midterm exam, which will be due in two weeks.
• Outline for this week's class

4 March: Victorian Poetry Revisited
• Read Arthur Hugh Clough's Amours de Voyage in The NOBVV.
  • Visit The Amours de Voyage Web.
• Browse in The NOBVV or in WWW sources for Victorian poetry to add to our reading list for next week. Some good websites:
  • The University of Toronto English Library: "Representative Poetry"
  • British Poetry 1780-1890: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
  • The Victorian Women Writers Project
• Once you have found some poetry you would like to add to the reading list, create some links for us to the poet/poetry. Your sources of information can be books, journal articles, or e-texts.

18 March: Exploring Victorian Poetry
• Read the texts and links chosen and supplied by the class.
• Take-home midterm will be due this week.

25 March: Exploring Victorian Poetry II
• Read more of the texts and links chosen and supplied by the class.
• You will break up into groups at this week's meeting and begin to formulate and work on your group project.

1 and 8 April
• These weeks will be devoted, both in class and out, to your group projects.

15 and 22 April
• These weeks will be devoted to the presentation to the class of your group project.

Your final essay, reflecting on course and group project, will be due on 29 April, the date of our Final Exam.