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    Guidelines

• Presentations should be no longer than 5 minutes.
• They should gesture towards the cultural and technological emphasis of the course.
• I encourage students to concentrate on not only literary texts but also on other forms of media.
• Either nineteenth-century or more recent artifacts are fine.

You are welcome to choose to present some of the visual art I list below.  Or you may come up with an object or topic of your own, although I will ask you to clear it with me first.

All of the art books listed below will be available for 2-day loan at the Marriott Library General Reserve desk.  For display during class meetings I will supply photo transparencies of the below materials.  For presentations on other subjects, students must either make transparencies of their own (most copy centers make them) or supply me with their presentation materials a week in advance.

I have starred (*) all materials accessible from the course web site.
 

Topics and Images
 

1.) *Willaim P. Frith, "The Railway Station" (1862) - in Victorian Taste, ed. Jeannie Chapel (Zwemmer)

- In The Victorians, British Painting 1837-1901, ed. Malcolm Warner (National Gallery):

2.) *J. M. W. Turner, "Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Night" (1834-5) [see # 12-14]
3.) *Ford Madox Brown, "Work" (1852, 1856-63)
4.) *Augustus Leopold Egg, "Past and Present," no.s 1-3 (1857-8)
5.) *Edward Lear, "The Pyramids Road, Gizah" (1873)
6.) *Samuel Luke Fildes, "Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward" (1872-4)  [see # 8]
7.) *James Tissot, "London Visitors" (1873-4)
8.) *James Tissot, "On the Thames" (1875-6)
9.) *Hubert von Herkomer, "Eventide: A Scene in the Westminster Union" [see # 6]
10.) George Clausen, "A Spring Morning, Haverstock Hill" (1880-1)
11.) William Quiller Orchardson, "Mariage de Convenance" (1883)

-On the course web site (hard copy sources will be announced)

12.) *J. M. W. Turner, "Burning of the Houses of Parliament" - 2 oils (1834)
13.) *J. M. W. Turner, "Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway" (1844)
14.) *J. M. W. Turner, "Sunrise with Sea Monsters" (1845)
    *J. M. W. Turner, The Fighting "Temeraire" tugged to her last berth to be broken up
15.) *James Whistler, "Nocturne in Black and Gold: the Falling Rocket" (c. 1874)
16.) *Edward Burne-Jones, "The Mill" (1872-80)
17.) *Henry Hawkins, "Penryhn Slate Quarry" (1832)
18.) *James Tissot, "Gentleman in a Railway Carriage" (1872) [see # 7-8]
19.) *Various drawings and photos of the Great Exhibition(1851) [see # 29]
20.) *George Cruikshank, "Charles Dickens Street" (date TBA)

-In Victorian Science and Engineering Portrayed in the Illustrated London News, ed. Kenneth Chew and Anthony Wilson (Science Museum)

21.) "At work in a woollen factory" (1883) - p. 18
22.) "Crossfield’s soap works, Warrington" (1886) - p. 18
23.) "Atlantic cable" series (1857-66) - pp. 38-40
24.) "The Great Eastern" series (1857-60) - pp. 44-49
25.) "The Workmen’s Penny Train" (1865) - p. 62
26.) "The first locomotive into Indore" (1875) - p. 63 [see # 5]
27.) "Cannon Street Station" (1866) - p. 64-5
28.) "The Metropolitan Underground Railway" (1863) - pp. 74-5
29.) "Railway accident at Thirsk" (1892) - pp. 78-9
30.) The Great Exhibition of 1851 series: "The Queen opens the Great Exhibition," "Brunel’s ‘monstrosity’ and Paxton’s palace," "The transept under construction" - pp. 90, 112-15 [see # 19]
31.) The International Exhibition of 1862 series: "Forge used in building the International Exhibition," "Platt’s mule," "International Exhibition 1862, machinery in motion" - pp. 116-19
 
 
 

Schedule of Presentations

Week 5
W 19: Hard Times & Carlyle. *Joselle Vanderhooft: Steampunk & Marxist Victoriana
F 21: Owen & Southey (PAPER 1)

Week 6
M 24: Finish Hard Times.
W 26: Various excerpts re Hard Times.  Review for midterm.
F 28: MIDTERM

October
Week 7
M 1: Sternberger, "Natural/ Artificial." *Dov Siporin: Cyborgs
W-F 3-5: No class/ Fall Break: Read Dombey and Son

Week 8
M 8: Schivelbusch and Dickens, "A Flight."  *Paige Turney: Turner - Rain, Steam and Speed
W 10: Schivelbusch and "The Opening of the Railway"
F 12: Dickens, "The Signalman" & "The Boy at Mugby" (Assignment)

Week 9
M 15: Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller. *Alex Smith: Frith - The Railway Station
W 17: Dombey and Son: Ch 11-14
F 19: Dombey and Son: Ch 15-19 (QUIZ). *Melissa Bunker: Rackham & the grotesque/ death

Week 10
M 22: Dombey and Son: Ch 20-24  *Carolyn Merryweather: Egg - Past and Present
                               *Heather Smith: Orchardson - Mariage de Convenance
W 24: Dombey and Son: Ch 25-29
F 26: Dombey and Son: Ch 30-32 (PAPER 2)

Week 11
M 29: Dombey and Son: Ch 33-38  *Heather Hogan: Herkomer - Eventide
W 31: Dombey and Son: Ch 39-43

November
F 2: Dombey and Son: Ch 39-43. NO CLASS
                              

Week 12
M 5: Dombey and Son: Ch 49-52 (Assignment)  *Alex Scott: Labor laws & mechanization
W 7: Dombey and Son: Ch 53-56  *Anthony Ithurralde: The Crystal Palace
F 9: Finish Dombey and Son: Ch. 57-62 (QUIZ)

Week 13
M 12: Erewhon: Ch. 23-27  *Jay Williams: Turner - The Fighting Temeraire
W 14: ".007" & Coningsby.  *Angelique Waltzing: Labor & the railroad
F 16: Sybil (Abstract die)

Week 14
M 19: Schaffer & Babbage
W-F 21-23: No class/ Thanksgiving

Week 15
M 26: The Difference Engine: 1st-3rd Iteration
W 28: The Difference Engine: 4th Iteration. *Jake Starr: Steampunk as a genre
F 30: Finish The Difference Engine (QUIZ)
 
 
 
 

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