Date

Topic

Handouts
Hints for Reading Poetry & Fiction
Timeline & Reading Materials
Presentation Instructions

Refer to Norton Literature Online to contextualize each period

• Introduction & Timeline (1-25)
• "The Revolution Controversy" (148-9)
• Burke, Reflections (152-157)
• Wollstonecraft, Introduction to Vindications of Rights of Woman (170-174)
• Barbauld, "The Rights of Woman" (35-36)
• Hemans, "Casabianca" (868-70)
• British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution

Handouts
Wollstonecraft�s Vindications Summary

• Hemans, "Casabianca" (868-70) (moved from 8/31)
• Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (305), "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (259-262)
• Keats, Letter to George & Thomas Keats (942), "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (905)
• Smith, "On Being Cautioned" (41) (deleted 8/31)
• Wollstonecraft, Letters Written (196-202)
• Coleridge, "The Eolian Harp" (426-28)
• Shelley, "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (766-68)

Recommended Readings
Guide to the Lakes
Rap of Wordsworth�s "Daffodils"
New Yorker Cartoon
D. Wordsworth, Alfoxden & Grasmere Journals (389-402)

Relevant Websites
Literary Landscapes
A Picture of Britain, a Tate Museum exhibit of landscape artists from over 300 years
Lyrical Ballads, Renascence Editions
Lyrical Ballads: A Concordance
Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition
Images of the Aeolian Harp
The Life & Death of Dr. Syntax (BBC)

No class meeting

Contd from last week

• Wordsworth, "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (259-262)
• Keats, Letter to George & Thomas Keats (942), "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (905)

• Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper" in SoI & SoE (85 & 90), "The Little Black Boy" (84)
• More, "The Sorrows of Yamba"
• Edgeworth, "The Irish Incognito" (228-42)
• Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (262-74)
• Coleridge, Chps.13 & 14 of Biographia Literaria (477-483)
• Shelley, Defense of Poetry (837-50)

Relevant Websites
The Blake Archive
Holy Soul Jelly Roll by Allen Ginsberg
Portrait of William Blake from the National Portrait Gallery, London
Blake Exhibit at the Tate Britain Museum
William Blake Online, a learning exhibit by the Tate Britain Museum

• "The Gothic & the Development of a Mass Readership" (577-79)
• Coleridge, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (430-46), "Kubla Khan" (446-49), Illustration (C8); "The Satanic Hero" (490-91)
• Robinson, "To the Poet Coleridge" (74)
• Byron, "Prometheus"
• Fuseli, "The Nightmare" Painting (C8)

Recommended Reading
Modern References to Kubla Khan
Lamb, Glenarvon excerpt
Scott, "Wandering Willie�s Tale," (410-23)

Relevant Websites
Gothic Exhibition at the Tate Britain
"Xanadu" in Oxford English Dictionary
Online Resources for the Gothic Novel
Pop Culture References to Romantic Literature (Romantic Circles)
Fictional Representations of Romantics & Romanticism (Romantic Circles)
Movies about the Romantics or Romantic Era

Consider testing yourself against the Norton Romantic Period Quiz

• Introduction & Timeline (979-1002)
• Dickens, "A Visit to Newgate" (1239-48)
• Darwin, Origin of Species (1539-45)
• Search Database of Mid-Victorian Wood Engraved Illustrations (1862) using Keyword Search: "reading"; bring 2-3 images to class

Handouts
Transition to the Victorians
Images of Colonialism
Images of Evolution

Relevant Websites -- added more after class discussion
Royal Bedlam Hospital (Dickens compares to Newgate Prison)
Hanoverian Monarchy (Georges)
Madness of King George
A Rake's Progress (ends up in Bethlem Hospital)
Anatomy of a pregnant corpse
Carl Linneaus (botanist)
Facsimiles of conduct manuals (pre-Victorian)
Frances Burney's Mastectomy

Out of Class Essay due by email, Monday, 9/20, 12pm  (changed during class 9/16/10)

• Patmore, "Angel in the House" (1585-87)
• Tennyson, "Lady of Shalott (1114-19)
• Morris, "Defence of Guenevere" (1483-91)
• R. Browning, "My Last Duchess" (1255)
• E.B. Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1084-85)

Recommended Readings
Ruskin, Of Queens� Gardens (1587-89)

• Jane Eyre (pub 1847) (Author's Preface & Chps. 1-17)

• See Reading Points to help with Jane Eyre

Relevant Websites
Jane Eyre Revisited
Stage Production of Jane Eyre

Recommended Reading
Eliot, "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" (1342)

• Jane Eyre
(Chps. 17-38)

• See Reading Points to help with Jane Eyre

Relevant Websites
Revising the Ending, YouTube
Marriage Certificates in Victorian England (a ? from discussion)

Some Jokes/Modernizations about the Brontes?
Cartoon
Cartoon
Brontes Garden Party Shirt 
Bronte Action Figures (video)

Recommended Reading
Pear�s Soap Ad from 1899
Kipling, "White Man�s Burden" (1821)
Imperial Views
Chamberlain, The True Conception of Empire (1630-32)

• Continue Jane Eyre discussions

Recommended Reading
First Report of the Children�s Employment Commission (1563-65)Engels, The Great Towns (1565-72)
Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (1576-77)

• Ruskin, Of Pathetic Fallacy (1322-24)
• Rossetti, "Goblin Market" (1466-78)
• Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi" (deleted 10/5/10)

Relevant Websites
Christopher Walken reads "The Raven"
Overview of "Goblin Market"

Recommended Reading
Rossetti, "The Blessed Damozel" (1443-47)
See accompanying illustration in Rossetti Archive

• Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1698-1740)
• Trials of Oscar Wilde

Discussion & Interesting Things
"Reproduction" Song from Grease 2
"Earthquake," Modern Family -- mentions Wilde

Modernism

Disillusionment with Victorians & The Great War

• Introduction & Timeline (1827-50) - see video
• Blast (2009-15) - see video
• Pound, "In a Station of the Metro" (2008)  - see video
• Eliot, "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (2289-93)  - see videos #1, #2, #3
• Listen to Eliot read "Prufrock"

Recommended Reading
Yeats, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
Owen, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" (1971)

Relevant Websites
Flapper Jane

• Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway - finish

Recommended Readings
Woolf, "Professions for Women" (2152-55)

• Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (pub. 1966) (through page 56 in the Norton edition)

• Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
(finish entire novel)
• Rushdie, "English is an Indian Literary Language" (2540-41)

• Pinter, The Dumb Waiter (2601-22)

Relevant Websites
"Don Draper Says 'What'" (video)
Pulp Fiction as Typography (video)

Project Proposal

• A Clockwork Orange (pub. 1962) - read through Part II, Chp. 3

Handouts
Study Question & Questions for A Clockwork Orange

Relevant Websites
Nasdat to English Glossary
SLC Punk (movie mimics Chp. 21)

Out of Class Essay due by email, Mon, 5pm (requested by class)

Group Presentation on A Clockwork Orange
Dave, Dustin, Nate, Kristin (Group PPT)

Veteran's Day - No Class Meeting

• A Clockwork Orange
- read remainder of novel
• Rushdie, "The Prophet�s Hair" (2854-63)

Handouts
Discussion Questions for The Hours

• Cunningham, The Hours (our edition pub. 1998; first pub. 1989) -- read half

Digital Project
Experimental Project on Woolf, letters, Mrs. Dalloway & other "afterings"

Interesting Websites
International Virginia Woolf Society
Talking to Virginia Woolf

• Cunningham, The Hours -- finish the novel

• Fforde, The Eyre Affair (pub. 2001)

Relevant Websites
Official site for The Eyre Affair
Meeting my Publisher for the First Time - Jasper Fforde

• Jackson, Patchwork Girl (pub. 1995)

Handouts & PPT
Background & Summary of Frankenstein
PPT on hypertext fiction & Patchwork Girl

Out of Class Essay due by email, Mon, 2pm (as discussed in class) -- 12/2/2010

• Jackson, Patchwork Girl
• "Code," rssgallery

Relevant Websites
Introduction to Patchwork Girl
Helpful Guide for Reading Patchwork Girl
Wordpress
Interview with Shelly Jackson
"Skin," another project by Jackson
Using StorySpace
Pulp Fiction as Typography (video)
A new, networked novel: Flight Paths

Web References
Introducing the Book (Video)
Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us (Video,)
Turning the Pages, British Library
Semaphore Exhibit
Spore game Trailer (Video)

• Gaiman, Sandman: Endless Nights (2004)
• "On Comics," watch this video to help with reading a graphic novel
• How to Read a Graphic Novel slideshow (pdf)

[Optional] Consider testing yourself against the Norton 20^th Century Quiz

Final Essay/Project -- ADDED MORE TIME; DUE ON MONDAY 12/13 BY 5PM VIA EMAIL

Final Exam
December 14th, 9:45am-12pm
(Bring exam booklets)

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