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British Fiction: Victorian Fiction

Professor Florence S. Boos

Syllabus

August 21st, 2012 Tuesday

introduction, course content, Victorian publication

August 23rd, 2012 Thursday

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield; Mitchell, Daily Life in Victorian Britain, chaps. 1 and 2

August 28th, 2012 Tuesday

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

August 30th, 2012 Thursday

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

September 4th, 2012 Tuesday

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1st ICON posting

September 6th, 2012 Thursday

Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters; Mitchell 3 and 4

September 11th, Tuesday

Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

September 13th, Thursday

Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

September 18th, 2012 Tuesday

George Eliot, Middlemarch; Mitchell 5 and 6

September 20th, 2012 Thursday

George Eliot, Middlemarch; 2nd ICON posting

September 25th, 2012 Tuesday

George Eliot, Middlemarch

September 27th, 2012 Thursday

George Eliot, Middlemarch

October 2nd, 2012 Tuesday

George Eliot, Middlemarch

October 4th, 2012 Thursday

quiz; title, outline and bibliography of paper due

October 9th, 2012 Tuesday

Anne Bronte, Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Mitchell 7 and 8

October 11th, 2012 Thursday

Anne Bronte, Tenant of Wildfell Hall; 3rd ICON posting

October 16th, 2012 Tuesday

Anne Bronte, Tenant of Wildfell Hall; draft of paper due

October 18th, 2012 Thursday

Rudyard Kipling, Kim; Mitchell 9 and 10

October 23rd, 2012 Tuesday

Rudyard Kipling, Kim; final draft first paper due

October 25th, 2012 Thursday

George Moore, Esther Waters; 4th ICON posting

October 30th, 2012 Tuesday

George Moore, Esther Waters

November 1st, 2012 Thursday

George Moore, Esther Waters

November 6th, 2012 Tuesday

quiz; Mitchell 11 and 12

November 8th, 2012 Thursday

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland; 5th ICON posting

November 13th, 2012 Tuesday

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

November 15th, 2012 Thursday

Thanksgiving break, November 19th-23rd

November 27th, 2012 Tuesday

William Morris, News from Nowhere; Mitchell any remaining

November 29th, 2012 Thursday

William Morris, News from Nowhere, slides; 6th ICON posting

December 4th, 2012 Tuesday

William Morris, News from Nowhere

December 6th, 2012 Thursday

quiz

December 11th, 2012 Tuesday

take home exam and final course meeting