8:225 Victorian Literature: New Women and Decadent Men

Syllabus

August 21st, 2012 Tuesday

introduction to course, handouts, critical works on period

August 23rd, 2012 Thursday

Short fiction: Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee

August 28th, 2012 Tuesday

Short fiction: Arthur Morrison, Margaret Oliphant

August 30th, 2012 Thursday

George Gissing, The Odd Women

September 4th, 2012 Tuesday

George Gissing, The Odd Women

September 6th, Thursday

Poets: Mary Coleridge; Rosamund Marriott Watson

September 11th, 2012 Tuesday

Poets: Michael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper)

September 13th, 2012 Thursday

Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto

September 18th, 2012 Tuesday

Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto

September 20th, 2012 Thursday

Frances Power Cobbe, "Wife-Torture in England"; Eleanor Marx, "The Woman Question"

September 25th, 2012 Tuesday

Annie Wakeman, The Story of a Charwoman (Elizabeth Dobbs)

September 27th, 2012 Thursday

Annie Wakeman, The Story of a Charwoman (Elizabeth Dobbs)

October 2nd, 2012 Tuesday

Sarah Grand, The Beth Book

October 4th, 2012 Thursday

Sarah Grand, The Beth Book

October 9th, 2012 Tuesday

poets: W. H. Henley, "In Hospital"

October 11th, 2012 Thursday

poets: Symons, Johnson, Dowson

October 16th, 2012 Tuesday

Wilde, "Ballad of Reading Gaol," "The Sphinx"

October 18th, 2012 Thursday

George Moore, Esther Waters

October 23rd, 2012 Tuesday

George Moore, Esther Waters

October 25th, 2012 Thursday

William Morris, "The Lesser Arts," "The Beauty of Life," slides

October 30th, 2012 Tuesday

William Morris, News from Nowhere

November 1st Thursday

William Morris, News from Nowhere

November 6th, 2012 Tuesday

Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

November 8th, 2012 Thursday

Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure Emily Symonds, A Writer's Life

November 13th, 2012 Tuesday

Emily Symonds, A Writer's Life

November 15th, 2012 Thursday

Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession; Thanksgiving break November 19th-23rd

November 27th, 2012 Tuesday

poets: Thomas Hardy

November 29th, 2012 Thursday

Poets: William Butler Yeats; A. E. Housman

December 4th, 2012 Tuesday

Poets: Toru Dutt, Charlotte Mew

December 6th, 2012 Thursday

student presentations

final 15-20 page papers due December 14th, 2012