T1/18

Wilde Video

R1/20

Course introduction—two poems

T1/25

Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (complete)

R1/27

Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

T2/1

Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Decay of Lying (from Beckson)

R2/3

Bierce, from In the Midst of Life (AKA Tales of Soldiers and Civilians) 5-56

T2/8

Bierce, from In the Midst of Life (AKA Tales of Soldiers and Civilians) 57-121

R2/10

Bierce, from Can Such Things Be? 127-87

T2/15

Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s: All poems by Barlas, Beardsley, Custance, Douglas, and Dowson. 

R2/17

Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s: All poems by Field, Gray, Johnson. 

T2/22

Read the following poems from Edwin Arlington Robinson's collection The Children of the Night (print the individual poems from Bartleby.com and bring them to class)

R2/24

Continue discussion of Robinson's collection The Children of the Night  Essay 1 Due

T3/1

Doyle, "A Scandal in Bohemia,"  "The Red-Headed League,"

R3/3

Doyle "The Speckled Band," "The Blue Carbuncle'  Art of Aubrey Beardsley (Kat)

SPRING BREAK

T3/15

Doyle "The Silver Blaze," "The Naval Treaty," "The Greek Interpreter," Drug Use in the 1890s (Schrodt)

R3/17

Hardy "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion" and "Barbara of the House of Grebe" London in the 1890s (Michelle)

T3/22

Hardy "For Conscience Sake" "The Son's Veto" and "On the Western Circuit"

R3/24

Hardy "The Fiddler of the Reels" and "An Imaginative Woman" Psychology in the 1890s (Josie)

3/25-28

EASTER BREAK

T3/29

Jewett  The Country of the Pointed Firs complete story cycle pp. 1-133

R3/31

Jewett continued Sherman Anti-trust Act (Shayna)

T4/5

British Poems from Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s: LeGalliene all poems; Symons all poems 

R4/7

British Poems from Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s: Wilde all poems; Kipling poems (handout) Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (Lindsey)

T4/12

Am Poems Dunbar and Crane (handout)

R4/14

The Chicago Exposition (Kaitlin)

T4/19

FOUNDERS' DAY

R4/21

McTeague Spanish American War (Brandon)

T4/26

McTeague

R4/28

McTeague  Popular Music of the 1890s in England and America (Andrea)

T5/3

Read Symons "The Decadent Movement in Literature" 134-51; Prefaces to Silhouettes and London Nights 161-65; Read "Introduction " to Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s xxi-xliv.  Trials of Oscar Wilde (Karen)  BRING ALL OF YOUR BOOKS

R5/5

Bierce, "The Short Story" 253-9 TBA BRING ALL OF YOUR BOOKS

EXAM