8:224 Aesthetic and Social Issues in Victorian Literature
Syllabus
January 23rd, 2008 Wednesday
introduction to course, list of some critical works on period
January 28th, 2008 Monday
Tennyson, "In Memoriam," reading by *Christ on Victorian poetry
January 30th, 2008 Wednesday
Alfred Tennsyon, "The Holy Grail," "The Last Tournament," reading by *Maxwell on visuality
February 4th, 2008 Monday
Robert Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi," reading by *Slinn on dramatic monologue
February 6th, 2008 Wednesday
Robert Browning, "Pompilia," reading by *Maynard on sexuality and poetry
February 11th, 2008 Monday
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Cry of the Children," "Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point," also read "Mother and Sons"; reading by Armstrong on women poets (c)
February 13th, 2008 Wednesday
John Ruskin, selections from The Seven Lamps of Architecture and Modern Painters (c)
February 18th, 2008 Monday
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Blessed Damozel," "Jenny," selections from "The House of Life," reading on the Pre-Raphaelites by * Riede
February 20th, 2008 Wednesday
Augusta Webster, "The Castaway," William Morris, "The Defence of Guenevere," reading by Armstrong on Morris (c)
February 25th, 2008 Monday
slides of Pre-Raphaelite art
February 27th, 2008 Wednesday
Christina Rossetti, "In an Artist's Studio"; "Goblin Market," reading on Victorian illustration by *Kooistra
March 3rd, 2008 Monday
two stories: Thomas Cooper, "Merrie England" and Ernest Jones, "The Working-Man's Wife"; background reading in Broadview introduction, "Poverty and Work" (c); reading by Sussman on industrialism (c)
March 5th, 2008 Wednesday
Hamilton, Johnston and other working-class poets; readings in Armstrong on working-class poetry (c), Boos on working-class women poets (h)
March 10th, 2008 Monday
Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, Schor on fiction (c)
March 12th, 2008 Wednesday
Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, readings in Boyd and McWilliam on "Class and Society"
March 24th, 2008 Monday
John Ruskin, Unto this Last; readings in Boyd and McWilliam on "Politics High and Low"
March 26th, 2008 Wednesday
John Stuart Mill, Essays on Sex Equality, readings in Boyd and McWilliam on "Gender"
Eleanor Marx, The Woman Question, readings in Boyd and McWilliam on "Sexuality"
William Morris, News from Nowhere, slides
April 7th, 2008 Monday
William Morris, News from Nowhere, posting on slides of art galleries
April 9th, 2008 Wednesday
William Morris, News from Nowhere, readings on socialism
April 14th, 2008 Monday
Walter Pater, The Renaissance; Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Triumph of Time"
April 16th, 2008 Wednesday
Margaret Oliphant, "The Open Door," "The Portrait," readings in Boyd and McWilliam on religion
April 21st, 2008 Monday
Amy Levy and Lionel Johnson, reading by McCormack on 1890s poetry (c), by Frankel on Rhymers' Club books (c)
April 23rd, 2008 Wednesday
Rosamund Marriot Watson and Michael Field, reading by Hughes on Watson (c), readings in Boyd and McWilliam on "Public Spaces"
April 14th, 2008 Monday
Olive Schreiner, The Story of An African Farm; readings on "Race, Empire and National Identity" in Boyd and McWilliam
April 16th, 2008 Wednesday
Olive Schreiner, The Story of An African Farm, reading by *Lindley on empire
April 21st, 2008 Monday
Olive Schreiner, The Story of An African Farm, reading on national identity by James Buzard (c)
April 23rd, 2008 Wednesday
Israel Zangwill, The Children of the Ghetto, introduction by Rochelson and Part I
April 28nd, 2008 Monday
Israel Zangwill, The Children of the Ghetto, part II
April 30th, 2008 Wednesday
student presentations
May 5th, 2008 Monday
student presentations
May 7th, 2008 Wednesday
student led class on "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
final 12-15 page papers due May 16th, 2008