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Victorian Women Poets
Professor Florence S. Boos
Syllabus
August 24th Monday Introduction
course content, metrics
August 26th Wednesday
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: her life, Aurora Leigh, book I
August 31st Monday
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, books II and III
September 2nd Wednesday
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, book IV and V
September 7th Monday
Labor Day
September 9th Wednesday
Aurora Leigh, books VI and VII
September 14th Monday
Aurora Leigh, books VIII and IX
September 16th Wednesday
Aurora Leigh, final discussion
September 25th Tuesday
finish Auora Leigh, final discussion
September 27th Thursday
Augusta Webster, "The Castaway"
October 2nd Tuesday
popular literature: women's ballads
rsday
working-class literature: Janet Hamilton and Ellen Johnston
October 9th Tuesday
popular literature: Eliza Cook
October 11th Thursday
instructor will be away at a conference; students should use the time to plan their research paper
October 16th Tuesday
title of research paper and 8 item bibliography due; should include articles, books and other reference materials
Christina Rossetti
October 18th Thursday
Christina Rossetti
October 23rd Tuesday
Christina Rossetti
outline or first draft due
October 25th Thursday
research paper due
Amy Levy
October 30th Tuesday
Michael Field
You should start to choose the poet for your special presentation.
November 1st Thursday
student led classes: each student will choose an author and poem to present. We'll try to stick to a schedule of 4 poems/students per class.
Suggested poets include: *Toru Dutt, *Alice Meynell, Edith Nesbit, *Mary Coleridge, Jean Ingelow, May Kendall, George Eliot, *Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Dora Greenwell, Violet Fane, Mathilde Blind, Emily Pfeiffer, Agnes Robinson, Dollie Radford.
Others may be found in Victorian Women Poets, ed. Leighton and Reynolds, and Nineteenth-Century Women Poets, ed. Armstrong and Bristow.
November 6th Tuesday
student choices of poet
November 8th Thursday
student choices of poet
November 13th Tuesday
student choices of poet
November 15th Thursday
student choices of poet
November 20th and 22nd Thanksgiving break
student choices of poet
November 27th Tuesday AM
student choices of poet
November 29th Thursday
student choices of poet
December 4th Tuesday
poets of the fin de siecle
December 6th Thursday
Rosamund Marriott Watson
December 11th
Charlotte Mew
December 13th
Charlotte Mew, final discussion