ENL 3251:

Victorian Literature

Course Schedule

Assignment Information

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Syllabus

Exam Essay Questions

Week 1

T, Jan. 6 - Introduction to the course

R, Jan. 8 - "The Victorian Age" (1008-1031); "Political and Religious Orders" (xxviii-xxxiii)


Week 2

T, Jan. 13 - The introduction to Charles Dickens (1355-1357); Installments 1 and 2 Our Mutual Friend (Book the First. Chapters 1-7)

R, Jan. 15 - "Perspectives: The Industrial Landscape"(1047-1072)


Week 3

T, Jan. 20 - Excerpts from Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1033-1046); Excepts from John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (1073-1086)

R, Jan. 22 - "Perspectives: Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen" (1515-1547); Installment 3 of Our Mutual Friend (Book the First. Chapters 8-10)


Week 4

T, Jan. 27 - No Class (Instructor at Conference)

R, Jan. 29 - *Please note that we will meet in Library East for an informational session on how to work in UF's Special Collections (Rare Books and the Baldwin Library)* Elizabeth Barrett Browning selections (1105-1136)


Week 5

T, Feb. 3 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret

R, Feb. 5 - Lady Audley's Secret contd.; Installments 4 and 5 of Our Mutual Friend (Book the First. Chapters 11-17)


Week 6

T, Feb. 10 - Essay One Due; How to use the MLA bibliography (no reading)

R, Feb. 12 - Exam One; "Perspectives: Religion and Science" (1273-1305)


Week 7

T, Feb. 17 - Lord Alfred Tennyson selections (1136-1156 -- read to the end of "The Epic [Morte d Arthur]"); Introduction to Robert Browning (1305-1308) and Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1328-1336)

R, Feb. 19 - Excerpts from John Ruskin's Modern Painters (1473-1485); Introduction to Matthew Arnold and excerpts from Arnold's "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and Culture and Anarchy (1573-1589); Installments 6-8 of Our Mutual Friend (Book the Second. Chapters 1-10)


Week 8

T, Feb. 24 - Introduction to Christina Rossetti (1611-1612); Rossetti's "Goblin Market" (1618-1630) and "No, Thank you, John" (1630)

R, Feb. 26 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel"(1599-1604); William Morris's "The Defence of Guenevere"(1634-1641); Installments 9-11 of Our Mutual Friend (Book the Second.Chapters 11-16 ; Book the Third. Chapters 1-4)


Week 9

T, March 2 - Walter Pater selections (1663-1677)

R, March 4 - "Perspectives: Travel and Empire"; Installments 12 and 13 of Our Mutual Friend (Book the Third.Chapters 5-10 )


Week 10

T, March 9 - Spring Break

R, March 11 - Spring Break


Week 11

T, March 16 - "Perspectives: Imagining Childhood"(1705-1747); (Study Questions for Exam Two due by 1pm on Monday, March 15th)

R, March 18 - Exam Two; Periodical Prospectuses Due; Revisions of Essay One Due; Installments 14 and 15 of Our Mutual Friend (Book the Third.Chapters 11-17 )(catch up on character reports)


Week 12

T, March 23 - Essay Two Due

R, March 25 - No Class (Instructor at Conference)


Week 13

T, March 30 - "Perspectives: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin De Siécle" (1939-1989)

R, April 1 – Picture of Dorian Gray (read both the whole text and all of the appendices)


Week 14

T, April 6 – Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (11819-1860)

R, April 8 - Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Installments 16-20 of Our Mutual Friend (Book the Fourth. Chapters 1-"Postscript")


Week 15

T, April 13 - Periodical Presentations

R, April 15 - Periodical Presentations


Week 16

T, April 20 - Exam Three (just objective part); All Periodical Papers Due; Revisions of Essay Two Due

R, April 22 - No Class (Reading Day)


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