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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.  

T8/31

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

R9/2

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

T9/7

Interpreting Visual Art.  Examine and think about the following paintings. (click dates to visit web images)

  • William Hogarth, The Marriage Contract from Marriage à la Mode (1743)

  • John Constable, Flatford Mill “Scene on a Navigable River” (1816-17)

  • Edwin Landsdeer Bolton Abbey in the Olden Time (1834) (1834)

  • JMW Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October 1834, (1835); The Fighting “Téméraire,” Tugged to Her Last Berth to be Broken Up. (1838); Snowstorm: Steamboat off a Harbor's Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water and Going by the Lead (1842);  Rain, Steam, and Speed—The Great Western Railway (1844)

R9/9

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

T9/14

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?)

R9/16

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

T9/21

Wuthering Heights (1847)

R9/23

Wuthering Heights

T9/28

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

R9/30

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)

T 10/5

BAVP: Browning: “A Tocatta of Galuppi’s” (1855) 240, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”(1855) 251 ESSAY 1 DUE

R10/7

Rossetti “The Blessed Damozel” (1850) 389, “My Sister’s Sleep” (1850) 391 Painting Presentations  Meet in McMike 107

T10/12

Morris “The Death of Guenevere” (1858) 438, “The Haystack in the Floods” (1858) 443 Painting Presentations  Meet in McMike 107

R10/14

Reread “The Death of Guenevere” (1858) 438, “The Haystack in the Floods” (1858) 443;  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.  Read Dickens's Letter to The Times on the Pre-Raphaelites (1851)  and Ruskins's two letters:

Painting Presentations  Meet in McMike 107

T10/19

BAVSS: Jewsbury "Agnes Lee” (1857) 163; Collins, “A Terribly Strange Bed” (1852) 105; Household Words

R10/21

Dickens: Great Expectations Chapters 1-20 (1861/68)

T10/26

FALL BREAK

R10/28

Dickens: Great Expectations Chapters 21-59 (1861/68)

T11/2

Dickens: Great Expectations ; Historical & Biographical Background 3-21; Critical History 445-62; Cultural Criticism 592-624

R11/4

C. Rossetti, “The Goblin Market” (1862) 412, “A Better Resurrection” (1862) 422, De Morgan “A Toy Princess” (1877) BVASS-265

T11/9

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

R11/11

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

T11/16

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,

R11/18

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

M11/22

Special Lecture by Perry White; View Gilbert & Sullivan’s Patience (1881); Class meets 5:30-9:00 in McMike 107. 

R11/25

THANKSGIVING

T11/30

Special Class on Railways w/History of Scotland class TBA. BAVSS. Stevenson: “Markheim”(1885) 331

R12/2

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

T12/7

BAVSS. Edwards, “Was it an Illusion? A Parson’s Story” (1881) 285; Hardy, “Interlopers at the Knapp” (1884) 303

R12/9

Review Day; BAVSS: Wilde: “The Happy Prince” (1888) 353

T12/14

FINAL EXAM, 6PM

Books

  • Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. 1847. 2nd Edition. Boston: Bedford, 2003.  ISBN 031225686–8

  • 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. Great Expectations. 1861/68. Bedford, 1996. ISBN 031208082-4

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