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English 2476X0 Victorian Studies Dr. Patricia Rigg In this course we will discuss poetry, fiction, non-fiction prose, and drama of the Victorian Age (1837-1901). The course is organized thematically as well as chronologically to highlight the nineteenth-century preoccupation with the Victorian family and the politics of domestic life, the "ethics" of prostitution, the discord between religion and science, the effects of industrialization, the Woman Question, and the place of art and aesthetics in society. Students should come to class prepared to participate in discussion as we move through the course taking advantage of print, digital, and multi-media materials. Texts The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Victorian Age. Vol 5 Charles Dickens, Hard Times (Oxford World’s Classics) Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics) Grant Allen The Woman Who Did (Broadview) Course Package available at the bookstore Text Resources: Secondary Sources Reading List Electronic Resources: Victorian Web 6 Sept Introduction 11 Sept The Victorians and Victorian Literature Men and Women: The Politics of the Domestic Sphere 13 Sept Sarah Stickney Ellis from The Daughters of England "Character and Responsibilities" (1842) Anthology Coventry Patmore from Angel in the House (1854-63) Anthology and Package 18 Sept Elizabeth Barrett Browning from Sonnets from the Portuguese (1845-47) Anthology 20 Sept Robert Browning "Two in the Campagna" (1854) Package 25 Sept George Eliot from Brother and Sister Sonnets (1874) Anthology Augusta Webster from Mother and Daughter "Sonnet 26" and "Sonnet 27" (1895) Text Mathilde Blind "Motherhood" (1892) Text 27 Sept Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre (1846) Matthew Rees 2 Oct Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre (1846) 4 Oct Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre (1846) 9 Oct Evelyn Sharp "In Dull Brown" (1896) Package 11 Oct In Class Essay on Jane Eyre for Non-Presenters First Term The Great Social Evil: Fallen Angels and Prostitution 8 Nov Tennyson "Guinevere" (1849) Package Linda Bennett 13 Nov Christina Rossetti Goblin Market (1862) Anthology Rachel Leeman 15 Nov Augusta Webster "A Castaway" (1870) Anthology David May 20 Nov D. G. Rossetti "Jenny" (1870) Anthology Jenny Ellis 22 Nov Grant Allen The Woman Who Did (1895) Summer Robinson 27 Nov Grant Allen The Woman Who Did (1895) Science, Religion and Spirituality: The Crisis in Faith 29 Nov Tennyson from In Memoriam (1850) Anthology 4 Dec Darwin from The Descent of Man (1871) Anthology Sarah McLean Defending and Attacking Darwinism Anthology Nov Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach" (1867) Anthology Nissel DeMolitor 6 Dec Gerard Manley Hopkins "God's Grandeur" (1877) Anthology Hopkins "The Windhover" (1877) Anthology Industry and Technology: Wealth and Poverty in a Material Age 8 Jan Thomas Carlyle from Past and Present "Hero-Worship" and "Labour" (1843) Anthology Charles Dickens "A Walk in the Workhouse" (1850) Anthology Nadezhda Taylor Response: Jason Hatt 10 Jan Thomas Hood "The Song of the Shirt" (1843) Anthology and Package (Correct Version) Henry Mayhew from London Labour and the London Poor, "Boy Crossing Sweepers and Tumblers" (1861) Anthology 15 Jan Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Cry of the Children" (1844) Anthology Jenna Amirault Response: Julia Cook, David Sarty from Testimony before the 1832 committee on the Labour of Children in Factories (1857) Anthology 17 Jan Charles Dickens Hard Times (1854) 22 Jan Charles Dickens Hard Times (1854) Brianna Shambrook 24 Jan Mathew Arnold "East London" and "West London" (1867) Anthology Jason Hatt Response: Matthew Holton from Friedrich Engels the Condition of the Working Class in England (1887) James Henry "Two Hundred Men and Eighteen Killed" (1862) Package The Woman Question: Education, Work, and Suffrage for Women 29 Jan Tennyson from The Princess (1847) Package Matthew Holton 31 Feb Tennyson from The Princess (1847) Package 5 Feb In-Class Essay on The Princess for non-presenters second term 7 Feb Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" (1850) Anthology Response David May John Stuart Mill from The Subjection of Women (1869) Anthology Ethan Thomas Response Summer Robinson 12 Feb
14 Feb Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1899) Package Response Linda Bennett, Hannah Forbes, Brianna Shambrook, Richard Schie, Jenna Amirault, Ethan Thomas, Casandra Widdifield, Matthew Rees Winter Break Arts and Aesthetics: Men, Women, and Victorian Representations 26 Feb The Sappho Figure: Felicia Hemans “Sappho” (1812) Package Becky Jackson 28 Feb Letitia Elizabeth Landon "Sappho's Song" (1824) Package Caroline Norton "The Picture of Sappho" (1840) Package Christina Rossetti “Sappho” (1846) Package 4 Mar John Stuart Mill “What is Poetry?” (1833) Anthology David Sarty Ruskin from Modern Painters ( 1843) Anthology Walter Pater from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1873) Anthology 6 Mar Tennyson “The Palace of Art” (1832, 1842) Anthology Cassandra Widdifield Response David Oastler Pre-Raphaelite Poets 11 Mar D. G. Rossetti “Blessed Damozel” (1847) Anthology Mary Robinson “Unequal Souls” (1880) Text 13 Mar Christina Rossetti "In an Artist's Studio" (1856) Anthology Rick Schie Lizzie Siddal "The Lust of the Eyes" (1856) Package 18 Mar Christina Rossetti “Remember” and “After Death” (1862) Anthology 20 Mar William Morris “The Defence of Guenevere” (1858) Anthology 25 Mar Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Anthology Julia Cook Response Nissel deMoliter, Becky Jackson, Jenny Ellis, Matthew Rees 27 Mar The Importance of Being Earnest David Oastler and Hannah Forbes 1 Apr Michael Field "The Magdalen" (1892) and "La Gioconda" (1892) Anthology 3 Apr Lionel Johnson "The Destroyer of a Soul" (1892) Package Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame" (1894) Text Charlotte Mew "The Farmer's Bride" (1912) Anthology Response Rachel Leeman 8 Apr End of Term Business Assignments Independent Response Assignment 10% Presentation or In-Class Test 11 October 10% 2000 word essay due 6 December 15% Participation 10% Presentation or In-Class Test 5 February 10% 2000 word essay due 18 March 15% Final Examination 30% Please note that all assignments must be completed to pass this course. Late assignments will drop one grade (A to A-) per day late unless you have contacted me before the due date to arrange a new due date. Extensions will only be given for a valid reason--having too much work to do is not a valid reason and illness must be supported by a medical note filed with the Registrar. All assignments are posted at the beginning of each term, so please manage your time effectively. Please note the calendar with respect to plagiarism and academic integrity.
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