CLASS MEETINGS Spring 2014
Week 1
Tues. Jan. 14 Introduction to the Course and Requirements
View Simon Schama’s History of Britain: Victoria and Her Sisters PLEASE VIEW THIS EPISODE -- 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. 16 Last Day to Add/Drop
Jane Eyre Chapters 1-4
Week 2
Assignment of Presentation Topics and Schedule
Tues. Jan. 21
Jane Eyre Chapter 5-15
Thurs. Jan. 23
Jane Eyre Chapter 16-26
Week 3
Tues. Jan. 28
Jane Eyre Chapters 27-33
1. Seminar: Phrenology and Victorian Racial/Cultural Theory Leigh Brown
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"
Due Today: Send me an email of your Works Cited page in proper MLA format for your forthcoming essay. In addition to the novel itself you should be citing at least 3-4 peer-reviewed academic sources from books and periodicals available on JSTOR or PROJECT MUSE.
Thurs. Jan. 30
Jane Eyre Chapters 34-38
2. Seminar: Victorian Attitudes to Suttee and Suicide (See Victorian Web) Mary Yadgir
Week 4
Tues. Feb. 4
Great Expectations Vol. 1 Chapters 1-9
Thurs. Feb. 6
READ Great Expectations Vol. 1 Chapters 10-20
3. Seminar: Victorian Transportation of Convicts to Australia and the Case of George Barnwell Kate Janas
Week 5
Tues. Feb. 11
Great Expectations Vol. 2 Chapters 1-15
4. Seminar: Darwin's ideas of evolution and Samuel Smiles's philosophy of Self-Help: Can a gentleman be made? Kari Jensen
Thurs. Feb. 13 FIRST ESSAY DUE
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. 18
Great Expectations Volume 3 Chapters 8-20 and Appendix A: Original Ending
Thurs. Feb. 20 NO CLASS
Week 7
Tues. Feb. 25
MID-TERM EXAM
Thurs. Feb. 27
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone Prologue and First Period
WEEK 8
Tues. March 4
The Moonstone First Period
5. Seminar: Constance Kent Roadhouse Murder Case of 1860 (Broadview Appendix B) and The Major Murry/Northumberland Street Case of 1861 (Broadview Appendix C) Olivia Del Viscio
Thurs. March 6
The Moonstone Second Period: First and Second Narratives (Miss Clack and Matthew Bruff)
6. Seminar: Exeter Hall and the Philanthropic Movements of the mid-Victorian period Lizzie Sweet
Week 9
Tues. March 11 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"
Thurs. March 13
The Moonstone Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Narratives and Epilogue and "A Sermon for Sepoys" (Appendix D)
Background reading: Selection from Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors Margaret Oliphant "The Grievances of Women" and Helen Taylor "Women and Criticism"
SPRING BREAK MARCH 17-21
Week 10
Tues. March 25
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
7. Seminar: Victorian Attitudes to Psychology -- The Science of Split Personalities (Broadview Appendix K) Helen Cramer
WEDNESDAY MARCH 26 LUNCHTIME MAKEUP CLASS 12:45-1:30 and Seminar presentations
Thurs. March 27
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
8. Seminar: Ideas of Degeneration and Crime and the Jack the Ripper Case Julia Huss
Week 12
Tues. April 1
Arthur Morrison Child of the Jago
9. Seminar: London's East End Slums in the 1890's compared to London of the 1880s Carolina Sampieri
APRIL 3
Arthur Morrison Child of the Jago
Week 13
Tues. April 8
Arthur Morrison Child of the Jago
Thurs. April 10
The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapters 1-4
Week 14
Tues. April 15
The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapters 5-10
10. Seminar: Victorian Attitudes to Homosexuality (Appendix F) including Codes and Covers in a Homophobic age: Pater, Huysman and Wildean Languor (Broadview Appendices D, E, G). Giulia Spizzichino
Thurs. April 17
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")
SECOND ESSAY DUE
Week 15
Monday Lunchtime -- Makeup class -- Review for final
Tues. April 22
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"
Thurs. April 24
Meet at the Protestant Cemetery 10:15 am Summing Up