Week 1
Tues. Jan. 16 Introduction to the Course and Requirements
View Simon Schama’s History of Britain: Victoria and Her Sisters
Please view this episode if you miss the first class -- ON RESERVE in LIBRARY
Read: Jane Eyre Chapters 1-4 for Thursday
Optional background reading for essays, from Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors (ON RESERVE in LIBRARY) Anna Brownwell Jameson's "The Milliners" and Margaret Oliphant's "The Condition of Women"; view of the governess in Harriet Martineau's "Female Industry"
Thurs. Jan. 18 Last Day to Add/Drop
Jane Eyre Chapters 1-4
Week 2
Assignment of Presentation Topics and Schedule (to be determined based on enrollment after Add/Drop)
Tues. Jan. 23
Jane Eyre Chapter 5-15
Thurs. Jan. 25
Jane Eyre Chapter 16-26
Week 3
Tues. Jan. 30
Jane Eyre Chapters 27-33
Seminar: Phrenology and Victorian Racial/Cultural Theory
Background reading: Selection from Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors Frances Power Cobbe "What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids" and " vs. Marriage" and "Wife Torture in England"
Thurs. Feb. 1
Jane Eyre Chapters 34-38
Due Today: Send please me an email of your Works Cited page in proper MLA format which includes the research materials you intend to use for your forthcoming essay. In addition to the novel itself, you should include at least 3-4 peer-reviewed academic sources from books and periodicals available on JSTOR or PROJECT MUSE. Please talk to me if you have any doubts about the quality of your sources. Remember to title your attachment with your last name (e.g. Works Cited, Russell)
Seminar: Victorian Attitudes to Suttee and Suicide (See Victorian Web)
Week 4
Tues. Feb. 6
Great Expectations Vol. 1 Chapters 1-9
Thurs. Feb. 8
Great Expectations Vol. 1 Chapters 10-20
Seminar: Victorian Transportation of Convicts to Australia and the Case of George Barnwell
Week 5
Tues. Feb. 13 FIRST ESSAY DUE
Great Expectations Vol. 2 Chapters 1-15
Seminar: Darwin's ideas of evolution and Samuel Smiles's philosophy of Self-Help: Can a gentleman be made?
Thurs. Feb. 15
Great Expectations Vol. 2 Chapters 16-20; Vol. 3 Chapters 1-7
Background reading: Selection from Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors Frances Power Cobbe's essay "Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors"
Week 6
Tues. Feb. 20
Great Expectations Volume 3 Chapters 8-20 and Appendix A: Original Ending
Thurs. Feb. 22
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone Prologue and First Period
Seminar: Constance Kent Roadhouse Murder Case of 1860 (Broadview Appendix B)
Week 7
Tues. Feb. 27 MID-TERM EXAM
Please note, this exam will be proctored by a colleague, as I will be in Cairo attending a conference.
Thurs. March 1
The Moonstone First Period (cont.)
Seminar: The Major Murry/Northumberland Street Case of 1861 (Broadview Appendix C)
Week 8
Tues. March 6
The Moonstone Second Period: First and Second Narratives (Miss Clack and Matthew Bruff)
Seminar: Exeter Hall and the Philanthropic Movements of the mid-Victorian period
Thurs. March 8
The Moonstone Third Narrative (Franklin Blake)
Background reading: Selection from Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors Margaret Oliphant "The Grievances of Women" and Helen Taylor "Women and Criticism"
Week 9
Tues. March 13
The Moonstone Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Narratives and Epilogue and "A Sermon for Sepoys" (Appendix D)
Thurs. March 15
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Seminar: Victorian Attitudes to Psychology -- The Science of Split Personalities (Broadview Appendix K)
Week 10
Tues. March 20
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Seminar: Ideas of Degeneration and Crime and the Jack the Ripper Case
Thurs. March 22
Arthur Morrison Child of the Jago Chapters 1-12
Seminar: What does Africa have to do with London? Construction of the poor as foreign others.
Week 11
Tues. March 27
Arthur Morrison Child of the Jago Chapters 13-25
Seminar: London's East End Slums in the 1890's compared to London of the 1880s.
March 29
Arthur Morrison Child of the Jago Chapters 26-end
Due Today: Please send me an email with your Works Cited page in MLA format with a list of references you will be consulting for your final research paper. Remember to title your attachment with your last name.
Week 12
SPRING BREAK April 2-7
Week 13
Tues. April 10
The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapters 1-4
Seminar: The Decadence Movement
Thurs. April 12
The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapters 5-10
Seminar: Victorian Attitudes to Homosexuality (Appendix F), including codes and covers in a homophobic age: Pater, Huysman and Wildean Languor (See Broadview Appendices D, E, G for codes).
Week 14
Tues. April 17 SECOND ESSAY DUE
The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapters 11-15
(See selections from Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors, including Eliza Lynn Linton "The Girl of the Period," "The Modern Revolt," "The Wild Women: as Politicians," The Wild Women: as Social Insurgents")
Seminar: The New Woman: How to smoke and ride a bicycle
Thurs. April 19
The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapters 16-20
Background Reading: Selection from Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors Mona Caird "Marriage," "A Defence of the So-called Wild Woman" Millicent Garret Fawcett "The Emancipation of Women"
Week 15
Tues. April 24
Dorian Gray and After
Seminar: Wilde's trial, conviction, and "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Thurs. April 26
Review and Summing Up
Meet at the Protestant Cemetery for field trip
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