By the end of the course, with some diligence you should . . .
Plus background readings (cultural contexts) drawn mostly from the Victorian Web.
Late Assignments: Papers submitted late will be penalized with a 1/3 of a grade deduction for each day (not class period) that passes after the due date. Papers more than seven days late will not be accepted.
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T 1/14
Introduction to the course;
preview of Thursday's reading
Th 1/23
Thomas Carlyle, from Past
and Present: "Midas," "Gospel of Mammonism," "Happy," "Democracy,"
and "Captains of Industry" (VP 29-31, 39-51); Henry Mayhew, Labour and
the Poor (VP 189); Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt" (BAVPPT); Eliza
Cook, "A Song for the Workers" (BAVPPT); Victorian Web pages on the Corn
Laws and Chartism.
T 1/28
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help
(VP 199); Punch, "Punch's Own Report of the Opening of the Great Exhibition"
(VP 283); The Great
Exhibition at the Crystal Palace (at Victorianstation.com); William
Morris, "How We Live and How We Might Live" (VP 393); Matthew Arnold, "The
Buried Life" (BAVPPT); M. E. Braddon, "Good Lady Ducayne" (NSW 71)
Th 1/30
Harriet Martineau, Eastern
Life, Present and Past (VP 93); Flora Annie Steele, "Mussumat Kirpo's
Doll" (NSW 463); David Cody's Introduction
to the British Empire at the Victorian Web.
T 2/4
Richard Burton, "A Day Amongst
the Fans" (VP 313); Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa (VP 439);
Rudyard Kipling, "Recessional," "The White Man's Burden" (BAVPPT)
The Woman Question
Th 2/6
Sarah Stickney Ellis, The
Women of England (VP 53); William Rathbone Greg, "Why are Women Redundant?"
(VP 157); Florence Nightingale, "Cassandra" (VP 305); excerpts from Coventry
Patmore's The Angel in the House (BAVPPT); Victorian
Theories of Sex and Sexuality at the Victorian Web.
T 2/11
Writing workshop for first
paper. Read Caroline Norton, A Letter to the Queen (VP 143).
Th 2/13
William Acton, "Prostitution"
(VP 221); Augusta Webster, "A Castaway" (BAVPPT); George Egerton, "Gone
Under" (NSW 195)
T 2/18
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon,
Reasons
for the Enfranchisement of Women (VP 377); Mary Arnold [Mrs. Humphry]
Ward, "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" (VP 417); Mary E. Coleridge,
"The White Women" (BAVPPT); Amy Levy, "Xantippe" (BAVPPT); Michael Field
(Kate Bradley [1847-1914] and Edith Cooper [1862-1913]), "Cyclamens," "A
Portrait," "It was deep April, and the morn" (BAVPPT); excerpt
from Patricia Marks's book on the New Woman.
T 2/25
Thomas Huxley, "Agnosticism
and Christianity" (VP 364); Edmund Gosse, Father and Son (VP 409);
Swinburne, "Hymn to Proserpine" (BAVPPT); Frances Thompson, "The Hound
of Heaven" (BAVPPT); Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach" (BAVPPT); A. F. Mary
Robinson, "Darwinism" (BAVPPT); Hardy, "Hap" (BAVPPT)
Th 2/27
Gerard Manley Hopkins,
"The Windhover," "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame," "Carrion
Comfort," "No worst, there is none," "My own heart let me more have pity
on," "God's Grandeur" (BAVPPT) Paper # 1 due today, at the beginning
of class
3/4 and 3/6: Spring Break
Th 3/13
Charlotte Brontë, letters
to G. H. Lewes (VP 229); George Henry Lewes, review of Shirley (VP
235); George Eliot, "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" (VP 287); Margaret
Oliphant, "A Story of a Wedding Tour" (NSW 403)
T 3/18
Walter Pater, Studies
in the History of the Renaissance (VP 401); Oscar Wilde, "The Soul
of Man Under Socialism" (VP 423); D. G. Rossetti, "Hand and Soul" (BAVPPT
1234-1242)
Th 3/20 Class cancelled.
Th 3/27
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
"A Man's Requirements," Sonnets From the Portuguese III, XXII, XXIX,
XLIII, "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point," "A Musical Instrument,"
"Lady Geraldine's Courtship," "The Cry of the Children"
T 4/1 and Th 4/3
Alfred Lord Tennyson: "The
Lady of Shalott," "Ulysses," "The Lotos-Eaters," "The Epic [Morte d'Arthur],"
Maud
T 4/8 and Th 4/10
Robert Browning: "My Last
Duchess," "Johannes Agricola in Meditation," "Porphyria's Lover," "The
Bishop Orders His Tomb . . . ," "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Andrea del Sarto,"
"The Statue and the Bust," "Two in the Campagna"
T 4/15
D. G. Rossetti, "My Sister's
Sleep," "The Blessed Damozel," "The Woodspurge," "Jenny," [Introductory
Sonnet] "A Sonnet is a moment's monument, " "Nuptial Sleep," "The Portrait,"
"Willowwood": Sonnet XLIX, Sonnet L, Sonnet LI, Sonnet LII, "Soul's Beauty,"
"Body's Beauty"
Th 4/17 and T 4/22
Christina Rossetti: "Goblin
Market," "Song: When I am dead, my dearest," "In an Artist's Studio," "No,
Thank You, John," "An Apple Gathering," "Up-Hill," "Monna Innominata"