VICTORIAN LITERATURE | Spring 2008
SCHEDULE
Week 1 - Preliminaries
Jan. 22 - What is this course?
Jan. 24 - What is Victorian Literature? (Altick, 1-16)
Week 2 - Defining Voices
Jan. 29 - Carlyle, Sartor Resartus; Altick, 17-50 (Meet in Milne Library, Room 104)
Jan. 31 - Carlyle, Past and Present; Mill, Autobiograpy
Week 3 - The Woman Question
Feb. 5 - Mill, On Liberty; The Subjection of Women; Altick, 50-59
Feb. 7 - C. Rossetti, "Goblin Market"; E.B. Browning, excerpts from Aurora Leigh
Week 4 - The New Woman Question
Feb. 12 - Levy, Reuben Sachs: A Sketch
Feb. 14 - Reuben Sachs: A Sketch
Week 5 - The New Woman Question (continued)
Feb. 19 - Reuben Sachs, Appendices A, B, E
Feb. 21 - Reuben Sachs, Appendices C, D
Week 6 - Evolution: A Matter of Life and Death
Feb. 26 - Selections on evolution; Newman, "Liberalism"; Huxley, "Agnosticism and Christianity"; Altick, 203-237
Feb. 28 - Arnold, "Dover Beach," "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse"; Tennyson, "Ulysses," "Tithonus"
Week 7 - Evolution: A Matter of Life and Death (continued)
Mar. 4 - Tennyson, In Memoriam
Mar. 6 - In Memoriam;Arnold, "Isolation," "To Marguerite - Continued," "The Buried Life"
Week 8 - Nonsense!
Mar. 11- Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Mar. 13 - Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
Spring Break: Mar. 17-21
Week 9 - Identity Crisis
Mar. 25 - Dickens, Great Expectations; Altick, 165-202
Mar. 27 - Great Expectations
Week 10 - Identity Crisis (continued)
Apr. 1 - Great Expectations; Altick, 238-268
Apr. 3 - Great Expectations
Week 11 - Poetry's Body and Soul
Apr. 8 - R. Browning, "Porphyria's Lover," "Fra Lippo Lippi," "The Bishop Orders His Tomb"; Altick, 269-298
Apr. 10 - Tennyson, Songs from The Princess, "The Lady of Shalott"
Week 12 - Poetry's Body and Soul (continued)
Apr. 15 - Pater, excerpts from The Renaissance; Wilde, Preface to Dorian Gray; Lear, all poems; D.G. Rossetti, "The Blessed Damozel," The House of Life; Swinburne, "Hymn to Proserpine," "The Garden of Proserpine"
Apr. 17 - Hopkins, "The Windhover," "Pied Beauty," "As Kingfishers Catch Fire," "Carrion Comfort," "No Worst," "I Wake," "Thou Art Indeed Just"
Week 13 - The Sun Never Sets . . .
Apr. 22 - G.R.E.A.T. Day - No Class
Apr. 24 - Kipling, Kim
Week 14 - The Sun Never Sets . . . (continued)
Apr. 29 - Kim
May 1 - Kim
Week 15 - Conclusions
May 6 - What have we learned?
Final Exam
Tuesday, May 13, 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Welles 24.