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The schedule for this class is very much a work in progress--I'll be editing it as we progress through the course, adding essays and shifting dates as our interests carry us along.  

Date/Cook Readings Mini-presentations Paintings

T8/28

BAVP: Tennyson: “Mariana” (1830), “The Lady of Shalott”(1832); Landon: “The Factory” (1835).

   

R8/30

BAVP: Tennyson, “The Palace of Art”(1832); BAVSS. Carleton, “Wildgoose Lodge” (1832).

First Reform Bill (1832)
Megan

 

 

T9/4

Interpreting Visual Art.  Examine and think about the following paintings.

View slideshow of 18th-century and early 19th-century art.

Factory Act (1833)
Erik

Houses of Parliament burn (1834)
Josh

Landseer, Bolton Abbey in Olden Times (c.1834)

Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834 (1835)

Constable, Arundel Mill and Castle (1837)

R9/6

Paige

BAVP: Tennyson: “The Epic” [Mort D’Arthur] (1842), “Mort D’Arthur” (1842), “Locksley Hall” (1842); Cook: “A Song for the Workers” (1855)

New Poor Law (1834)
Morgan

Chartist Movement begins (1836) Luke

Free Trade League Founded (1839)
Raleigh

 

T9/11

BAVP: Landon: “Infanticide in Madagascar” (1838); Norton: “The Creole Girl” (1840) E Browning: “The Cry of the Children” (1844), “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1848/1850?)

Emancipation Act (1833) Erik

Regular Atlantic Steamship service begins (1838) Elizabeth

Turner, Slave Ship (1840) Raleigh

R9/13
Anne

BAVP: Browning: “Pictor Ignotus” (1845), “The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s” (1845), “The Laboratory” (1844)

ESSAY 1 DUE MONDAY 9/17 BY 5 PM

Oxford Movement (1833-45) Paige  

T9/18

Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapters 1-14.

Daguerre and Fox Talbot (1839) Shannon Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed -- The Great Western Railway (1844) Teresa

R9/20
Josh

Wuthering Heights (1847) Chapters 15-34

Illustrated London News (1842) Anne

Potato Famine (1845-6)
Morgan

 

T9/25

Wuthering Heights "Critical History" 333-347, "Cultural Criticism & WH" 411-450; All Emily Bronte Poems in BAVP. 

Copyright Act (1842)
Aubrey

Mudie's lending libraries (1842-) Elizabeth

 

R9/27
Shannon

BAVP: Arnold: “To a Gipsy Child by the Sea-Shore” (1849), “To Marguerite--Continued” (1852), “Dover Beach” (1867[51]), “The Scholar-Gipsy” (1853); Clough: “Duty—that’s to say complying” (1849), “The Latest Decalogue”(1850), Tennyson: “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1854)

Crimean War (1853-6)
Luke
Millais, Peace Concluded (1856)
Anne

T 10/2

Gaskell, Mary Barton (1847-8) Bedford College founded (1849) Missy Redgrave, Semptress (1846) Mitt

R10/4
 

Gaskell, Mary Barton (1847-8)    

T10/9
Mitt

Gaskell, Mary Barton (1847-8) Telegraph cable under English Channel (1850) Raleigh

Great Exhibition (1851)
Megan

The Light of the World (1851-3) Missy

R10/11
Teresa

Gaskell, Mary Barton (1847-8)    
T10/16 FALL BREAK    

R10/18
Ariana

BAVP: Browning: “A Tocatta of Galuppi’s” (1855) 240, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”(1855) 251 Civil Service Commission Appointed (1851) Paige

First Flush Toilet in London (1851) Anne

 

T10/23
Morgan

BAVP: Read Siddal “The Lust of the Eyes” (1899) 410, “Worn Out” (1899/56) 410, “At Last” (1899 (61) 411, “Love and Hate” (1906) (57) 411.  Click links, print, and read Coventry Patmore's "The Woodman's Daughter" ;Read Dickens's Letter to The Times on the Pre-Raphaelites (1851)  and Ruskins's two letters:

 

Millais, Woodman's Daughter (1850-1) Aubrey

Millais, Mariana (1851) Megan

Siddal, Lady Clare (1854-7) Elizabeth 

R10/25
Gut

BAVP: Rossetti “The Blessed Damozel” (1850) 389, “My Sister’s Sleep” (1850) 391 Morris “The Death of Guenevere” (1858) 438, “The Haystack in the Floods” (1858) 443

India Mutiny (1857-8)
Shannon
Origin of the Species (1859) Josh
Rossetti, Blessed Damozel (1871-79) Luke
Morris, La Belle Iseult  (AKA Queen Guenevere) (1858) Paige

T10/30

BAVSS: Jewsbury "Agnes Lee” (1857) 163; Collins, “A Terribly Strange Bed” (1852) 105; TOPIC FOR RESEARCH PAPER DUE

"Champagne Charlie" AKA George Leybourne first appears on stage (1867) Güt  

R11/1
Megan

BAVP: C. Rossetti, “The Goblin Market” (1862) 412, “A Better Resurrection” (1862) 422; BAVSS: De Morgan “A Toy Princess” (1877) 265

Second Reform Bill (1867) Mitt

Forster's Elementary Education Act (1870) Güt

Dadd, The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke (1858-64) Erik

T11/6
Missy

Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret Volume I (1862)

   

R11/8
Raleigh

Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret Volume II (1862)

Matrimonial Causes Act (1857) Aubrey  

T11/13
Luke

Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret Volume III (1862): BAVP: Munby “A Serving Maid” (1865) 404, D Rossetti “Jenny” (1870)392, Webster: “A Castaway” (1870) 475,

Married Women's Property ActS (1870, 1882) Teresa Rossetti, Venus Verticordia (1864-68)

R11/15
Aubrey

BVASS: Swinburne: “Dead Love” (1863)  215.  BAVP: Swinburne“Itylus” (1866) 452, “Anactoria” (1866) 453; Lear: “The Owl and the Pussycat” (1871) 308; and Swinburne “A Forsaken Garden” (1878) 464, “At a Month’s End” (1878) 465 FIRST DRAFT RESEARCH PAPER DUE

First Impressionist Art Exhibit in Paris (1874)
Teresa

Ruskin-Whistler libel trial (1878) Ariana

Burne-Jones, Merlin and Vivien (1870-4)
 

Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (c. 1875) Ariana

M11/19

Special Lecture-Sarah Graham; View Gilbert & Sullivan’s Patience (1881).

   

R11/22

THANKSGIVING BREAK

   

T11/27

BAVSS. Edwards, “Was it an Illusion? A Parson’s Story” (1881) 285; Hardy, “Interlopers at the Knapp” (1884) 303 BAVSS. Stevenson: “Markheim”(1885) 331; Kipling: "Lispeth" (1886)

Rational Dress Society founded (1881) Mitt Alma-Tadema, A Reading from Homer (1885) Morgan

R11/29
Elizabeth

BAVP: Wilde “Impressions” (1881) 514, “Helas” (1881) 513, “Requiescat” (1882) 513, “La Mer”(1882) 514; and Hopkins “As kingfishers catch fire,” (1881) 500, “The Windhover”(1882) 499, “No worst, there is none”(1885)502. RESEARCH PAPER DUE

Victoria's Golden Jubilee (1887) Ariana Clausen, Stone Pickers (1886-7) Güt

T12/4

BAVSS: Wilde: “The Happy Prince” (1888) 353; Doyle, "The Red Headed League" (1891) HANDOUT

Jack the Ripper (1888)
Missy
 

R12/6
Erik

Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843);

   
T12/ 11 Review Day    

 

FINAL EXAM TBA

   

Books

  • Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. 1847. 2nd Edition. Boston: Bedford, 2003.  ISBN 0312256868

  • Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Lady Audley's Secret. 1862. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2003. ISBN 1551113570

  • Collins, Thomas J and Vivienne Rundle. Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory Concise Edition. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, ISBN 155111366X

  • Denisoff, Dennis. Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2004. ISBN 1551113562

  • Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. 1843. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1991. ISBN 0486268659

  • Gaskell, Elizabeth.  Mary Barton. 1848. New York: Penguin, 1997. ISBN 014043464X

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