August
Week 1
W 22: Introduction,
Wordsworth on railways (handout)
The Mill and the Metropolis
F 24: Winner, "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" (packet). Ure, Philosophy of Manufactures (packet).
Week 2
M 27: Foucault,
Discipline and Punish (packet)
W 29: Engels,
Condition of the Working Class in England: "Introduction" (50-5,
61-4), "The Industrial Proletariat" (65-7), "The Great Towns"
(68-110)
F 31: Engels,
"Results" (127-57), "The Attitude of the Bourgeoisie towards the Proletariat"
(275-78)
*QUIZ
Last
day to DROP classes without tuition penalty
September
Week 3
M 3: Labor
day: NO CLASS
W 5: Gaskell,
Mary Barton: Preface, Ch. 1-6 (27-113).
"The Parable
of Dives and Lazarus" (Mary Barton, 492-93) and "Some Historical Terms
Defined" (handout)
*Assignment
due
F 7: Mary Barton:
Ch. 7-14 (114-210)
Week 4
M 10: Mary Barton:
Ch. 11-20 (211-99). Excerpts from Kingsley and Norton (Mary Barton,
549-53)
W 12: Mary Barton:
Ch. 21-31 (300-88)
F 14: Finish
Mary Barton: Ch. 32-37 (395-83)
*QUIZ
Week 5
M 17: Greg’s
review (Mary Barton, 501-15). Gaskell’s letters to Mrs. Greg, Eliza
Fox, Lady Kay-Shuttleworth (Mary Barton, 485-91). Begin Hard Times:
Book 1, Ch. 1-11 (41-111)
W 19: Hard Times:
Book 1, Ch. 12 - Book 2, Ch, 7 (112-206). Carlyle, "Signs of the
Times" (Hard Times, 339-45)
F 21: Owen,
A New View of Society. Southey, "Utopia" (packet). Remember
to bring Hard Times to class.
*PAPER
1 due in class
Week 6
M 24: Finish
Hard Times: Book 2, Ch. 8 - Book 3, Ch. 9 (207-315)
W 26: Excerpts
from Carlyle (Hard Times, 346-51). "Hard Times Refinished" (packet).
"Ground in the Mill" (Hard Times, 382-85). Review for midterm.
F 28: MIDTERM
Railway Dreaming
October
Week 7
M 1:
Sternberger, "Natural/ Artificial" (packet)
-- Begin reading
Dombey and Son: Prefaces, Ch. 1-6 (41-119)
W 3: NO CLASS:
Continue
reading Dombey and Son: Ch. 7-10 (120-200)
F 5: Fall
Break: NO CLASS
Week 8
M 8: Schivelbusch,
The Railway Journey: Ch. 1-5 (1-69). Dickens, "A Flight" in Selected
Short Fiction (142-51)
W 10: The Railway
Journey: Ch. 7-11 (113-77). "The Opening of the Railway" (packet)
F 12: Dickens,
"No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman" and "Main Line: The Boy at Mugby" in
Selected Short Fiction (78-90, 370-78)
--Continue
reading Dombey and Son: Ch 11-14 (200-76)
*Assignment
due
Week 9
M 15:
Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller [1860-69] in Selected Short Fiction
(167-280).
W 17: Dombey
and Son: Ch 11-14 (200-76)
F 19: Dombey
and Son: Ch 15-19(276-359)
*QUIZ-
up to p. 359
Last
day to WITHDRAW from classes
Week 10
M 22: Dombey and Son: Ch 20-24 (359-429)
W 24: Dombey and Son: Ch 25-29 (430-500)
F 26: Dombey
and Son: Ch 30-32 (500-53)
*PAPER
2 due by 5 PM
Week 11
M 29: Dombey and Son: Ch 33-38 (553-627)
W 31: Dombey and Son: Ch 39-43 (627-701)
November
F 2: NO CLASS: Dombey and Son:
Ch. 44-48 (702-70)
Week 12
M 5: Dombey and Son: Ch 49-52 (770-833)
W 7: Dombey and Son: Ch 53-56 (833-99)
F 9: Finish Dombey and Son: Ch. 57-62
(900-976)
*QUIZ
Smart Machines
Week 13
M 12: Discussion
of the conclusion of Dombey and Son:
Discussion topic:
What is this novel's attitude towards progress, towards industrial capitalism
or (as numerous characters call it) "change"?
W 14: Samuel Butler, Erewhon: Read
Ch. 23-27 (198-242; especially "The Book of the Machines")
F 16: Kipling, ".007" (packet). Disraeli,
Coningsby (excerpts in packet and Hard Times, 417)
*Due by
5 PM: ABSTRACT
of your topic for paper #3
Week 14
M 19: Disraeli, Sybil (packet, approx.
100 pages)
W 21: NO CLASS: Begin The Difference
Engine: 1st-2nd Iteration (1-100)
OPTIONAL reading: Schaffer, "Babbage’s Dancer" (packet)
F 22: Thanksgiving Break: NO CLASS
Week 15
M 26: The Difference Engine: 3rd Iteration
(101-216)
For an excellent
glossary of DE's terms and historical references, see The
Difference Dictionary.
W 28: The Difference Engine: 4th Iteration
(217-322)
F 30: Finish The Difference Engine
(323-429)
*QUIZ
December
Week 16
M 3: Stephenson, The Diamond Age (packet)
W 5: NO CLASS: Work on your
paper
TBA: Screening of Brazil (and pizza) at a time and place to be announced
The FINAL PAPER is due on THURSDAY, December 13 by 5:00 PM in the English Department.
If you would like your final paper to be returned to you, provide me with a stamped, self-addressed manilla envelope when you turn your exam in (or drop these materials off in my mailbox in the English Department). I will mail your exam to you once I turn in your grade. Two or more stamps will be necessary.
Final Grades: available on the university telephone system and web page on Friday, December 28.