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SCHEDULE of READINGS
19th-Century British Novel
English 153b, Fall 2006
Dr. Katherine D. Harris
Syllabus subject to change
 

Legend of Symbols, etc.
VPM = Victorian Print Media, A Reader
Online = Web hyperlink
HO = Handout

 

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T/Th 3-4pm
Office:  FO 220
Phone: 408.924.4475
Email: kharris@email.sjsu.edu


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Mid-Term Exam    Final Exam    Final Essay


Date


Topic

Reading Due

Assignment Due
Thur 8/24 Introductions: Me, You, The Novel, The Nineteenth Century, Show n�Tell Greensheet Policies & Schedule

Handouts:
Research & Character Analysis Presentation/Essay Instructions

Novel Synopses
19th-Century British Timeline
How to Read Fiction
Student Questionnaire
Tues 8/29 Rise of the Novel & Social Background 
  • "The Newspaper Press" (VPM 44-47)
  • "Contemporary Literature (No. IV) Novelists" (VPM 317-322)
  • "What is the Harm of Novel-Reading?" (VPM 48-49)
  • "Reading as a Means of Culture" (VPM 61-62)

Handouts:
Reading Materials in the 19th Century


Note:
We will meet in FO 104 for the rest of the semester

3 Questions

Sign up for Presentations

Thur 8/31 No Class Meeting  Read Shelley�s Frankenstein for next week
(Since Old Curiosity Shop is long, read ahead if possible)
Intellectual Autobiography (600 words, typed, double-spaced) � counts as an In-Class Essay; email to me by 5pm 
Tues 9/5 Technology, Science, Authorship, Epistolary Form  1831 Introduction to Frankenstein (169-173)

Handouts:
Definition of Gothic Tradition & Byronic Hero
ICE Writing Tips

Note: Last day to drop courses without "W" on record

3 Questions

Character Analysis Presentations
1.  Liz
2.  Victoria

Thur 9/7   Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Vol. I  

Handouts:
Frankenstein Background & Pop Culture References
3 Questions
Tues 9/12   Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Vol. II

Handouts:
OED "dmon" vs. "demon"

Note: Last day to add courses & register late (no exceptions)

3 Questions

Character Analysis Presentations
1. Sheila
2. Stefanie
Thur 9/14   Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Vol. III 

Handouts:
"Tintern Abbey"
3 Questions
In-Class Essay

Character Analysis Presentations
1. Dan
2. Jen
Tues 9/19 Serials, Illustrations, Industrialization, Political Novel  Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop, Preface & Chps. 1-18
Be prepared to discuss illustrations from the text

Handouts:
Information on Dickens, Serials & Old Curiosity Shop (Printable or Online)

Note: Enrollment Census Date 9/20

3 Questions

Research Presentations
1. Ryan
Thur 9/21

No Class Meeting 

  In-Class Essay (Emailed by 5pm) -- instructions given in class
Tues 9/26   Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop, Chps. 19-45 

Handouts:
"We Are Seven" by W. Wordsworth

"Reading Thackeray's Vanity Fair with the Illustrations Intact" New York Times (8/30/04)
3 Questions
Thur 9/28   Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop, Chps. 46-last

Discussion:
Literary Terms: Picaresque Novel (Picaro), Sensation Novel, Sentimentalism, Realism, Allegory, Allusion
3 Questions
In-Class Essay

Character Analysis Presentations
1. Sheila
2. Janina
3. Holly
4. Tika
Tues 10/3 Bildungsroman, Feminist Novel, Woman Author Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, 1st Book - 3rd Book

Discussion & Handouts:
"Sonnet 43" from EBB's Sonnets from the Portuguese
"The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace" (1851)

Animated models of the Crystal Palace
Punch's Reaction to the Crystal Palace burning (1936)
Woolf's The Common Reader on Aurora Leigh (1932)
William Wordsworth's "The Prelude" History
Text of "The Prelude" (very long) (1850)
Coventry Patmore's Angel in the House (1854)
Woolf's Killing of that Angel (1931)
Epic Poem form*
Blank Verse*
Bildungsroman* & Kunstlerroman*
Women's Rights Game (BBC)
Women's Work Game/Article (BBC)

*
for better definitions of the above 4 literary terms, consult a literary terms dictionary -- I suggest Abrams
3 Questions

Research Presentations
1. Liz (see Godey's Lady's Book)
Thur 10/5   Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, 4th Book - 6th Book

Discuss Mid-Term

Discussion & Handouts
Austen's "Plan of a Novel"

Group Work: Answering some of your 3 questions
Group Work: Women's Rights
Etymology of "picaresque" (OED)
3 Questions

Character Analysis Presentations
1. Jen
2. Tika
Tues 10/10   Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, 7th Book - 9th Book 3 Questions

Character Analysis Presentations
1. Liz
2. Holly
Thur 10/12

Mid-Term Exam (Bring exam booklets)

Tues 10/17 Researching the Final Essay No reading assignment
Bring all 3 questions & In-Class Essays for discussion

Discuss Final Essay (see instructions)
 
Thur 10/19 Triple-Deckers, Sensation (Gothic) Fiction, Female Detectives Collins, Woman in White, First Epoch 3 Questions
In-Class Essay -- cancelled

Research Presentations
1. Holly (PPT Images)
2. Stefanie
Tues 10/24   Collins, Woman in White, Second Epoch 3 Questions

Character Analysis Presentations
1. Victoria
2. Stefanie
Thur 10/26   Collins, Woman in White, Third Epoch 3 Questions
In-Class Essay

Character Analysis Presentations
1. Sheila
2. Holly
Tues 10/31   Collins, Woman in White � Concluding Thoughts 3 Questions
PROJECT PROPOSAL

Character Analysis Presentations

1. Ryan
2. Janina
Thur 11/2 Discussion Day
  • "False Morality of Lady Novelists" (VPM 50-54)
  • "Sensation Novels" (VPM 55-57)
  • "Sensation Novels" (VPM 58-60)
  • "The Rise and Fall of the Three Decker" (VPM 156-161)

Seen in Class
Cylinder Press & Another
Caricature of the Dandy
Printing During the 19th Century (British Library)
Historical Context (British Library)
"Ballade of Railway Novels" by Andrew Lang

3 Questions
In-Class Essay
Tues 11/7 Fantasy, Children�s Novel Carroll, Alice�s Adventures in Wonderland, Chps. 1-6

Seen in Class
"Turning the Pages," original Alice notebooks

Carroll Timeline, Library of Congress
"Who Shall Deliver Me," Christina Rossetti in Dodgson Scrapbook
"The Owl and the Pussycat," Edward Lear
Euclidean Geometry
3 Questions

Research Presentations
1. Victoria
2. Janina
Thur 11/9   Carroll, Alice�s Adventures in Wonderland, Chps. 7-12 3 Questions
In-Class Essay

Character Analysis Presentations
1. Ryan
2. Tika
Tues 11/14 Englishness, Failure of Colonialism, Adventure Novel Haggard, She, Chps. 1-8

Pre-Discussion
Original Illustrations from serialized version

History of the British Empire (BBC)
Filmography of Haggard's Work

Handouts
Timeline
Lang's Parody
3 Questions
FIRST DRAFT
(via email)

Research Presentations

1. Dan
2. Sheila
Thur 11/16   Haggard, She, Chps. 9-17 3 Questions
In-Class Essay

Character Analysis Presentations

1. Liz
2. Jen
Tues 11/21   Haggard, She, Chps. 18-28 3 Questions

Character Analysis Presentations

1. Dan
2. Ryan
Thur 11/23

 

Thanksgiving - No Class

 

Tues 11/28 Author as Narrator, Eroticism, Decadent Novel Bram Stoker, Dracula Chps. 1-9 3 Questions

Research Presentations

1. Tika
2. Jen
Thur 11/30   Bram Stoker, Dracula Chps. 10-18 3 Questions
In-Class Essay

Character Analysis Presentations

1. Dan
2. Janina
Tues 12/5   Bram Stoker, Dracula Chps. 19-27 3 Questions

Character Analysis Presentations

1. Victoria
2. Stefanie
Thurs 12/7 Review for Final Exam  Student Presentations of Final Essays (5-10mins each) FINAL DRAFT of ESSAY 

FINAL EXAM: Wednesday, December 13, 7:15-9:30am (Bring exam booklets)

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