These assignments are due in class on the dates indicated. There will be NO LATE assignments accepted. Also, there will be additional assignments and materials not indicated on this sheet (I will announce them in class), and both this schedule and individual assignments are subject to change. All readings are in the Norton anthology unless otherwise noted.

Week 1

T, Jan. 10 – Introduction to the course

R, Jan. 12 – Introduction and Timeline (979-1001); Appendices A60-76 (at the end of the anthology)

Week 2

T, Jan. 17 – Introduction to and Chapters 1-4 of Aurora Floyd; Appendices A72-76

R, Jan. 19 – "Industrialism: Progress or Decline?" (1556-1580)

Week 3

T, Jan. 24 – Selections from Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1024-1032); Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses" (1109-1111; 1123-1124); Installments 2 and 3 of Aurora Floyd

R, Jan. 26 – EBB's "Cry of the Children" (1077-1083); Charles Dickens's "A Visit to Newgate" (1236-1247)

Week 4

T, Jan. 31 – John Ruskin selections (1317-1333); Selections from John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1043; 1051-60); Mathew Arnold selections (1374-1404); Robert Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1271-1280)

JMW Turner Online:

Tate: http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/BrowseGroup?cgroupid=999999998

National Gallery: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/artistBiography?artistID=702

R, Feb. 2 – Library Day (meet in the Special Collections Reading Room)

Week 5

T, Feb. 7 – "The ‘Woman Question': The Victorian Debate about Gender" (1581-1606) ; Selections from EBB's Aurora Leigh (1092-1106); Installments 4 and 5 of Aurora Floyd

Example Exam

R, Feb. 9 – Selections from John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women (1061-70); William Morris's "The Defense of Guinevere"(1481-1491)

Week 6

T, Feb. 14 – Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" and "No, Thank you, John"; George Eliot selections (1334-1349)

Online version of the poem with D. G. Rossetti's and Laurence Housman's illustrations

R, Feb. 16 – Exam One

Week 7

T, Feb. 21 – Essay One Due; "Evolution" (1538-1555); Installments 6 and 7 of Aurora Floyd

R, Feb. 23 – "Empire and National Identity" (1607-1634); Rudyard Kipling "The White Man's Burden" (1793; 1821-1822)

Orientalist Paintings

Week 8

T, Feb. 28 – Poems by Michael Field (1637-1641) and Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1790-1792); Installment 8 of Aurora Floyd

R, March 2 – Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1643-1686)

Week 9

T, March 7 – Acts 1 and 2 of G.B. Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession (1743-1790); Installment 9 of Aurora Floyd

R, March 9 – Mrs. Warren's Profession Acts 3 and 4; Periodical Project Prospectus Due

Week 10

T, March 14 – Spring Break

R, March 16 – Spring Break

Week 11

T, March 21 – Selections by Oscar Wilde (1686-1698 and 1740-1743); ResearchWorkshop

R, March 23 – No Class - BWWC

Week 12

T, March 28 – Allan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Essay Two Due

Jess Nevins' Annotations to LOEG

R, March 30 – Exam Two

Week 13

T, April 4 – Periodical Presentations; Installment 9-11 of Aurora Floyd

R, April 6 – Periodical Presentations

Week 14

T, April 11 – Periodical Presentations; Installments 12 and 13 of Aurora Floyd

R, April 13 – Periodical Presentations

Week 15

T, April 18 – Periodical Presentations; Aurora Floyd Appendices

R, April 20 – Periodical Presentations

Week 16

T, April 25 – Exam Three – Last Day of Class

W, April 26 – Office Hours from 10am - 4pm in Rolfs Hall 410 (Image Lab)

R, April 27 – No Class (Reading Day)

F, April 28 – Periodical Papers Due to my mailbox (4301 Turlington) by 4 p.m.
*If you do not turn in your paper on Friday, you will lose one letter grade for each day it is late (including Saturday and Sunday).