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Assignments: The Pre-Raphaelites in Prose and Poetry

M W 5:30-6:45 p. m., Room 469 EPB

Instructor: Florence Boos florence-boos@uiowa.edu

http://english.uiowa.edu/~boosf/2013Pre-Raph432/index.html

Office: 319 EPB, office phone 335-0434 (answering machine)

Office hours: most evenings after class until 8:30 p. m.; Thursdays 2:30-3:30 and 5:15-6:15 p. m., and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons by appointment

Texts:

At UI Bookstore:

The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites, ed. Elizabeth Prettejohn (2012).

Ruskin, John. The Genius of John Ruskin, ed. John Rosenberg.

Lang, Cecil. The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle.

selections from Christina Rossetti may be found in Angela Leighton and Margaret Reynolds, Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology, and elsewhere.

Morris, William. News from Nowhere, ed. Clive Wilmer. Also http://www.uiowa.edu/~wmorris/NewsFromNowhere/.

Morris, William. The Water of the Wondrous Isles.

Pater, Walter. The Renaissance.

Pater, Walter, Marius the Epicurean.

Handouts of essays and other critical material by Walter Pater and possibly Chirstina Rossetti; and of more recent authors, William Fredeman, David Riede, Elizabeth Helsinger, Anthony Harrison, myself and others; scans of D. G. Rossetti's "A Last Confession" and Augusta Webster's "Medea," from Webster, ed. Christine Sutphin.

On marxists.org site: "Manifesto of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings," "The Lesser Arts," "The Beauty of Life," "Art Under Plutocracy"

On Morris Online Edition site: Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, "The Lovers of Gudrun," Sigurd the Volsung, Bk. III

On Rossetti Archive site, "Hand and Soul," "St. Agnes of Intercession"

Course Requirements:

1. contributions to class discussion: please read the assignment carefully and come prepared to ask questions and comment on unusual features of the text.

2. I will also ask students to prepare information on authors or critical essays, or to lead class discussion on a text or part thereof.

3. journal/reading responses: please prepare 6 reading responses, the equivalent of two double-spaced typed pages each, to be posted on Icon so that your fellow students may read them. Of the six, at least one should comment on some aspect of Victorian art or book design.

You should follow an informal schedule of posting at least one entry each two weeks.

4. In addition to posting these responses to the class web site, you will be asked to write a fifteen + page critical/research paper, to be due December 20th. However you should choose a tentative topic by Thanksgiving and give me a first rough draft by December 11th.

5. You will be asked to present a precis of the substance of your essay in class December 11th or 16th. Final essays are due December 20th, 2013.