165:874 Syllabus and Course Plan:
Art and Literature in Victorian London

First week. classes meeting in EPB 4, 12:30-4:45, except for visit to Special Collections, at 12:15 on Friday the 18th (meet at Special Collections, third floor library)

introduction; Pre-Raphaelite slides

News from Nowhere, chapters 1-14; Morris slides

News from Nowhere, chapters 15-32; Morris slides

12:15 Special Collections
slides News

Assignments:
read News from Nowhere;
look at BBC Oliver Twist website;
look at British Library Alice in Wonderland site;
plan 4 projected trips to relevant London sites, with maps, and post non-visual portions to class web site;
one posting on visit to Special Collections.

Arrive in London; meet Florence by 10 a. m. at Heathrow arrival point; we’ll wait until 10:45 for late arrivals and then make our way to the Accent offices 99-103 Great Russell Street, London as cheaply as possible. They will take you to your housing.

2-4 student orientation at 99 Great Russell Street. Florence may be reached at Janet Poole House, Flat 6, 105 Gower Street, tel: 020-1291-3067.

6:30 p. m. meet for dinner at place to be arranged; dinner probably on Charlotte Street or Tottenham Court Road

Students have waking tour 9-12

Class: 2-5 p. m. Accent center, room 7
discussion of student choices for visits, if possible
historical background
reading poetry: stanza forms and metrics
D. G. Rossetti, “The Blessed Damozel”

Thursday May 24th
Class 9-12: D. G. Rossetti, “Jenny”
Alice in Wonderland, part I

afternoon, visit to British Museum

Students visit British Library and/or place of their choice

Trip to Victoria and Albert and Leighton House, meet at 11 a. m. at High Street Kensington

Trip to Kensington Palace, meet at 11 a. m. at Queensway Tube Station on Central Line

Assignments:
go to British Library to begin deciding on manuscript/rare book project;
one posting on readings for week;
one posting on first independent trip, if possible.

Second week London

Class 9-12: Alice in Wonderland Part II
William Morris, “The Defence of Guenevere”
Bank holiday, Accent center closed
Dickens House trip start at 1:30, meet in front of Museum

Class 9-12: Augusta Webster, “The Castaway”
Matthew Arnold, “Sweetness and Light”

Wednesday to Oxford and Kelmscott Manor starting at 8:20 a. m. from Victoria Tube station, corner of Terminus Street and Buckingham Palace Road.

Thursday to Ashmolean Museum 10-12, Christ College Church, Alice in Wonderland Museum, Bodleian Library, Keble College

Class 9-12:
Oliver Twist, first third
Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market”

Students to visit site of their choice (Parliament, Westminster Cathedral, tower of London, National Gallery).

To Keats’ house and Hampstead Heath, meet at 1 at Hampstead Tube Station.

Assignment:
posting on visit to site of your choice;
posting on one of readings for the week, or something we saw in Oxford;
begin on longer paper using British Library sources.

Third Week London

Class 9-12: Oliver Twist, second third
G. M Hopkins, nature sonnets and “Duns Scotus’ Oxford”
Students go see London Museum

Free day—students will visit one of the four sites they have chosen.

Class 9-12: Oliver Twist, all
G. M. Hopkins, dark sonnets
All go to Tate Gallery leaving at 1, open to 5:30 p. m.

Class –12: R. L. Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
discussion of student projects
All go to William Morris House 1-5.

Friday June 8th
Day trip to Hampton Court, 9:30 a. m. meet at Waterloo Train Station under the clock in the middle of the station hall.

Weekend free for students to take trip on their own (suggested, Stratford, Canterbury Cathedral, those mentioned earlier). This would also be a good time to work on your final paper.

Class 9-12: Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto
Students will go to the National Portrait Gallery.

Class 9-12: Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto
George Egerton, “Going Under”
All will visit the Jewish Museum in Camden Town.

morning free for students to visit one of their four sites
Class 1-4: John Ruskin, selections from Modern Painters
Sarah Grand, “A Fantasia”
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Class 9-12: John Ruskin, selections from “Modern Painters”
Oscar Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Goal”
students work on projects in library

Day trip to Cambridge—Fitzwilliam, King’s College, All Saints Church, the backs. I will get the time for this, but it will be about 7:30 a. m.

Students will visit site of their choice.

tour of Hampstead synagogue if possible

Assignments:
Students prepare draft of final paper
Student post reading response to course site
Students complete another trip and post comments to site.

Class 9-12: John Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic”
second topic
students visit their fourth site and post comments

Class 9-12: student reports on projects
a second topic, possibly Pater’s “Leonardo” and the “Conclusion”
final dinner before leaving?

flight home

Summary of assignments:

Readings and visits;
Weekly posting on an aspect of the readings;
Students visit four London sites mentioned in works we have read and post comments to the course site;
A 6-8 page paper on course-related topic using specialized materials from the British Library. I will provide sample suggestions.

165:874 Syllabus and Course Plan: Art and Literature in Victorian London

165:874 Syllabus and Course Plan:
Art and Literature in Victorian London