{"id":9824,"date":"2025-08-18T21:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/shakespeare\/?page_id=9824"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:42:27","slug":"olli-fall-2025-syllabus-mon-at-mab2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/shakespeare\/olli-fall-2025-syllabus-mon-at-mab2\/","title":{"rendered":"OLLI Spring 2026 Syllabus – Tue. at MAB2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Commentaries: <\/strong>Introduction<\/a> | Carlyle<\/a> | Mill<\/a> | E. B. Browning<\/a> | Bront\u00eb<\/a> | Tennyson<\/a> | Mayhew<\/a> | Ruskin<\/a> | R. Browning<\/a> | Arnold<\/a> | Stevenson<\/a> | Pre-Raphaelites Intro<\/a> | D. G. Rossetti<\/a> | C. Rossetti<\/a> | Hopkins<\/a> | Pater<\/a> | Wilde<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time:<\/strong> Spring 2026. Tuesdays 9:00 a.m. \u2013 10:30 a.m.
Dates:<\/strong> Feb. 3 \u2013 April 14.
Location:<\/strong> Maryland Pkwy campus, 4350 S. Maryland Pkwy. MAB2. Room 139.
Instructor: <\/strong>Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D.
Email:<\/strong> ajdrake@ajdrake.com<\/a> | Web:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Required Text <\/strong>(*Editions can sometimes be bought used at lower cost.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Norton Anthology of English Literature,<\/em> Volume E, the Victorian Age.<\/em> 11th edition. ISBN-13: 978-0-393-54332-2. (*Suggestion: Norton\u2019s \u201cPackage 2\u201d consists of vols. D, E, and F and doesn\u2019t cost much more than the single Victorian volume, so it may be a better value.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course Description:<\/strong> The British Victorian Period (1837-1901) follows the overlapping Romantic and Regency Eras, and offers students of literature, society, and politics an almost inexhaustible amount of material from which to learn. The Victorian Period was a time of vertiginous changes in the United Kingdom, a time in which faith in progress was high, and yet the old problems\u2014poverty, suffering, violence at home and abroad\u2014continued to take their toll. We will study texts by excellent authors in key genres: poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General Databases: <\/strong>Online Books Page ( U-Penn)<\/a> | HathiTrust<\/a> | Project Gutenberg<\/a> | Internet Archive<\/a> | Perseus Project – Classics (Tufts)<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victorian-Specific Sites: <\/strong>The Victorian Web (G. Landow)<\/a> | British Lit: Victorian Era (Credo)<\/a> | Victoria Research Web (Leary)<\/a> | Victorian Lit. Resources (S. Connecticut SU)<\/a> | Britain, Representation, and C19 History (BRANCH)<\/a> | Charles Booth\u2019s London (LSE)<\/a> | Historical Population Reports (HISTPOP)<\/a> | Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913<\/a> | Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana U)<\/a> | Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality (Harvard)<\/a> | At the Circulating Library: Victorian Fiction (Vict. Research)<\/a> | Internet Lib. of Early Journals (Oxford, Defunct)<\/a> | 19th<\/sup>-Century Serials Edition<\/a> | Science in the C19 Periodical (SCIPER)<\/a> | The Workhouse<\/a> | Carlyle Letters<\/a> | Works of Darwin<\/a> | Darwin Correspondence (Cambridge U)<\/a> | Dickens Project (UC Santa Cruz)<\/a> | D. G. Rossetti Archive (U. Virginia)<\/a>  | Shelley-Godwin Archive<\/a> |<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 1<\/strong>     Feb. 03<\/strong>     Course Introduction and Introduction to the Victorian Age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 2     Feb. 10<\/strong>     Thomas Carlyle<\/span>. From Signs of the Times <\/em>(88-97), from Past and Present <\/em>(97-106), from \u201cOccasional Discourse on the Negro Question\u201d (42-45).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 3     Feb. 17<\/strong>     J. S. Mill<\/span>. From What Is Poetry? <\/em>(138-45), from On Liberty <\/em>(145-57), from The Subjection of Women <\/em>(157-67), from The Negro Question <\/em>(46-50).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 4     Feb. 24     <\/strong>Elizabeth B. Browning<\/span>. \u201cThe Runaway Slave \u2026\u201d (175-82), from Aurora Leigh, <\/em>Bk. 5 (195-97). Emily Bront\u00eb<\/span>. \u201cI\u2019m happiest when most away\u201d (457), \u201cThe Night-Wind\u201d (457-58), \u201cStars\u201d (459-60), \u201cNo coward soul is mine\u201d (462-63). Alfred Tennyson<\/span>. \u201cMariana\u201d (206-08), \u201cLady of Shalott\u201d (208-13), \u201cLotos-Eaters\u201d (213-17), \u201cUlysses\u201d (217-19), \u201cTithonus\u201d (219-21), from In Memoriam A. H. H. <\/em>(231-80; 2, 5, 7, 27, 39, 54-56). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 5     Mar. 03    <\/strong>Henry Mayhew<\/span>. From London Labor <\/em>(332-46). John Ruskin<\/span>. From Modern Painters <\/em>(465-69), from The Stones of Venice <\/em>(469-79), from \u201cThe Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century\u201d (326-29).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 6     Mar. 10    <\/strong>Robert Browning<\/span>. \u201cThe Bishop Orders His Tomb\u201d (416-19), \u201cCaliban upon Setebos\u201d (443-50). Matthew Arnold<\/span>. \u201cThe Buried Life\u201d (564-66), \u201cDover Beach\u201d (574-75), Preface to Poems <\/em>(575-85), from Culture and Anarchy <\/em>(585-92), from Literature and Science <\/em>(592-605).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 7     Mar. 24    <\/strong>Robert Louis Stevenson<\/span>. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde <\/em>(741-83).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 8     Mar. 31    <\/strong>Section on Pre-Raphaelitism<\/span>: Dickens, Ruskin, W. M. Rossetti, Buchanan (606-16), Dante Gabriel Rossetti<\/span>. \u201cThe Blessed Damozel\u201d (617-21), from The House of Life <\/em>(632-34). Christina Rossetti<\/span>. \u201cSong 1\u201d and \u201cSong 2\u201d (635-36), \u201cIn an Artist\u2019s Studio\u201d (638), \u201cWinter: My Secret\u201d (639-40), \u201cUp-Hill\u201d (640-41), \u201cNo, Thank-You, John\u201d (654).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 9     Apr. 07     <\/strong>Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/span>. \u201cGod\u2019s Grandeur\u201d (722), \u201cAs Kingfishers Catch Fire\u201d (723), \u201cThe Windhover\u201d (724), \u201cPied Beauty\u201d (725), \u201cBinsey Poplars\u201d (726), \u201cI wake and feel the fell of dark, not day\u201d (729), \u201cThat Nature is a Heraclitean Fire \u2026\u201d (730), \u201cThou art indeed just, Lord\u201d (730-31). Walter Pater<\/span>. From Studies in the Histories of the Renaissance <\/em>(712-19). Oscar Wilde<\/span>. From \u201cThe Critic as Artist\u201d (787-96). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 10   Apr. 14     <\/strong>Oscar Wilde<\/span>. \u201cPreface to The Picture of Dorian Gray <\/em>(796-97), The Importance of Being Earnest<\/em> (797-841).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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