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E335: Literature of Victorian England Syllabus Page for Spring 2003 Al Drake | Classroom | Wed. 3-4 | 714-434-1612 Note: Other sites are available from my Portal. Course Policies and Required Texts. Please review this information. Audio Note: Lectures were made available online after class. [Audio has been removed since the class is no longer current.] Paper 1 (due
3/12 -- please note change; was 3/5) General: College | Internet | Lit. Theory | Sample | Grammar | Deductive | Citation | Analysis | Editing | Plagiphrasing | Bad English | Rubric | Links C19 Period: Intro* | Characteristics | Liberalism | Topics | Backgrounds | Milton | Darwin | Organicism | Nature | What Good is Poetry? | Marxism Questions: Carlyle | Newman | Mill | Tennyson | Ruskin | Darwin | Arnold | Rossetti, D.G. | Rossetti, C. | Hopkins | Wilde Schedule of Assignments: WEEK 1 (January 29) 1st. half: Intro to Course / Victorian Period WEEK 2 (February 5) 1st half: Carlyle.
"Signs of the Times." WEEK 3 (February 12) 1st: Carlyle. Past and Present. 2nd: Newman. Idea of University; Apologia. WEEK 4 (February 19) 1st: Mill. On Liberty. 2nd: Mill. Subjection of Women; Autobiography. WEEK 5 (February 26) 1st: Tennyson. In Memoriam. 2nd: Tennyson. In Memoriam A.H.H. WEEK 6 (March 5) 1st: E. Barrett Browning. "Sonnets from the Portuguese"; "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point." Also Martineau -- all selections, and Nightingale -- Cassandra; Notes on Nursing. WEEK 7 (March 12) 1st: Ruskin. Stones of Venice; Unto this Last; Storm-Cloud; Praeterita. [Paper #1 Due.] WEEK 8 (March 19) 1st: Midterm Exam. 2nd: Darwin. Voyage of the Beagle; Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography. As introductory science material, read also Lyell (50-52) and Chambers (58-62). WEEK 9 (March 26) 1st: Arnold. "Preface to Poems, 1853"; "The Buried Life"; "Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse"; "Dover Beach." 2nd: Arnold. "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time." WEEK 10 (April 2) 1st: D.G. Rossetti. All selections. "Damozel"; "Woodspurge"; House of Life. 2nd: Christina Rossetti. All selections. WEEK 11 (April 9) 1st: Hopkins. All selections. 2nd: Hopkins. All selections. WEEK 12 (April 16) 1st: no class, spring break. WEEK 13 (April 23) 1st: Wilde. "The Decay of Lying." 2nd: Wilde. "Decay" (cont.); Lady Windermere's Fan. WEEK 14 (April 30) 1st: Wilde. Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome. WEEK 15 (May 7) 1st: Hardy. Jude the Obscure. FINALS WEEK (May 14) 4:15-6:45 PM Wednesday May 14, same location.
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