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Passion and Perversity, Mourning and Melancholia
August
Week 1
Th 24: Introduction; the passions and the interests
Selected poems in English Victorian Poetry:
Tennyson:
"Mariana," "The Lady of Shalott," "The Lotos-Eaters," "Ulysses" (p. 2-14)
Browning: "My Last Duchess,"
"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," "Porphyria's Lover" (p. 49-54)
Week 2
T 29: Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847):
"Biographical Notice" &
"Preface" (p. xxvi-xxxvii); Vol. 1, Ch. 1-14 (p. 3-152)
Th 31: Wuthering Heights: Vol. 2, Ch. 1-16
(p. 153-295)
Suggested reading: Freud,
"Mourning and Melancholia" (packet)
September
Week 3
T 5: Finish Wuthering Heights: Vol. 2,
Ch. 17-20 (p. 296-334)
Brontë, selected poems (packet)
*Take-home assignment
(1-2 pg.) DUE IN CLASS on the last two paragraphs of Wuthering Heights
Th 7: Rossetti, Goblin Market (1859)
Class Passions, City Life, and the Industrial Scene
Week 4
T 12: Engels, Condition
of the Working Class in England (1845):
"Introduction" (p. 50-55, 61-64), "The
Industrial Proletariat" (p. 65-67), "The Great Towns" (p. 68-110),
"Results" (142-155), "The
Attitude of the Bourgeoisie towards the Proletariat" (p. 275-278)
Th 14: Gaskell, Mary
Barton (1848): "Preface," Ch. 1-11 (p. 3-139)
*PAPER #1 DUE IN CLASS (3-5 pg.)
Week 5
T 19: Mary
Barton,Ch. 12-28 (p. 139-300)
Th 21: Finish Mary Barton, Ch. 29-38 (p.
300-393)
Carlyle, "Past and Present"
(packet)
Troubled Marriages and Shattered Nerves
Week 6
T 26: Collins, The
Woman in White (1860):
"Preface," "Preamble," Walter's story, Gilmore's
story (p. 31-184)
Discussion: "Preamble," sensation
fiction, Walter's 'nervousness'
Th 28: The
Woman in White: Marian's diary, Fairlie's story (p. 184-378)
Norton, "A Letter to the Queen" (packet)
*Susan Shelangoskie -- Gender and nervousness:
Article
by D. A. Miller; Foucault on
"Panopticism" in Discipline
and Punish (Parts 2-3).
October
Week 7
T 3: The
Woman in White: Michelson's story to "The Story Continued by Walter
Hartright" (p. 379-560)
Simmel, "The Metropolis and
Mental Life" (packet)
Discussion: Urban life,
modern crises of identity
Oct 5-6: FALL BREAK
Week 8
T 10: Finish The
Woman in White (p. 560-646)
*Sean Perry -- Nationalism
and other forms of community: Chapter 4 from Schmitt
and
Anderson, Imagined Communities
Capitalism, Corruption, and the Enchantments of Home
Th 12: Dickens, Our
Mutual Friend (1864-5): Book 1, Ch. 1-8 (p. 13-103)
Mayhew, London Labour and
London Poor: "Of the Dredgers, or River Finders" (packet)
Discussion: Chapter
1
Week 9
T 17: Our
Mutual Friend: Book 1, Ch. 9-14 (p. 103-179)
Marx, "The Fetishism of Commodities
and the Secret Thereof" (packet)
Discussion: Marx's account
of fetishism, the relation between people and objects in Ch. 2 & 11
Th 19: Our
Mutual Friend: Book 1, Ch. 15 - Book 2, Ch. 8 (p. 179-319)
Mayhew, "Of the Dustmen of
London" (packet); Suggested reading: Douglas, Purity and Danger (packet)
*Jeff Hullinger --
Waste and abjection: Articles by Steig, Metz, OR Hutter; Julia Kristeva,
The
Powers of Horror;
Georges Bataille,Visions of Excess AND/OR The Accursed Share
(Vol. 2, Pt. 3).
Week 10
T 24: Our
Mutual Friend: Book 2, Ch. 9 - Book 3, Ch. 4 (p.319-455)
Emphasis on Bk. 2, Ch. 13
("A Solo and a Duett") - Harmon's 'dead-alive' identity, relations of surrogacy
Th 26: Our
Mutual Friend: Book 3, Ch. 5-16 (p. 456-602)
*Marci Clere Pennell -- Imagination and the passion
for gain: Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
*Mark Nielsen -- Capital and character: Article
by Williams; Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests (Part 3)
Week 11
T 31: Our
Mutual Friend, Book 3, Ch. 17 - Book 4, Ch. 11 (p. 604-735)
*Laura Thrasher -- Violence, desire, and homosociality:
Kucich
and Sedgwick on Dickens.
*Rachelle Christensen -- Dirt, class, and the
desire for the low: Stallybrass and White,
The Politics and Poetics
of Transgression (Ch 3-4); Kaplan, "Like a Housemaid’s Fancies"
(optional: The Diaries
of Hannah Cullwick).
November
Th 2: Finish Our
Mutual Friend: Book 4, Ch. 12-17, "Postscript" (p. 735-800)
Ruskin, "Of Queen’s Gardens"
(packet)
*Maureen Clark -- Gender,
purity, and labor: Ruskin, "Nature of Gothic" and "Of King’s Treasuries"
*Doug Downs -- Romance
and political critique: Schor, Scheherezade in the Marketplace
and
other related texts.
Spiritual and Material Economies
Week 12
T 7: Eliot, Middlemarch
(1871-72): "Prelude," Ch. 1-12 (p. 3-120)
Suggested reading: Pool, "Power
and the Establishment" (packet); Everett, "Reform Acts" (packet)
Th 9: Middlemarch: Ch. 13-30 (p. 123-292)
Week 13
T 14: Middlemarch:
Ch 31-36 (p. 293-356)
Benjamin, "The Work of Art
in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (packet)
*Emily Summerhays -- Art
and commodity in Middlemarch: Articles by Wiesenfarth, Price;
Ruskin,
"Modern Painters"
Th 16: Middlemarch:
Ch.37-50 (p. 357-496)
*Colby Poulson -- Culture
and community: Graver, Kucich (optional: Arnold, Culture and
Anarchy)
Week 14
T 21: Middlemarch:
Ch. 51-62 (p. 497-636)
*Masulah -- Passion and
spirituality: Stockton, Wright (optional: Feuerbach, The Essence
of Christianity)
*Sarah Brown -- Science and spirituality: Beer,
Shuttleworth (optional: Origin of Species or Descent of Man
Nov 23-24: Thanksgiving Break: Continue reading Middlemarch: Ch. 63-71 (p. 639-730)
Week 15
T 28: Finish Middlemarch:
Ch. 72-85, "Finale" (p. 733-838)
The Country and the City
Th 30: Hardy, Tess
of the D’Urbervilles (1891): Phases 1-2 (p. 7-100)
*PROPOSAL
for final paper due in class (1 paragraph)
December
Week 16
T 5: Tess
of the D’Urbervilles: Phases 3-5 (p.101-303)
* Leslie Robinett -- Theology
and teleology: Huxley, Evolution and Ethics;Gallagher AND/OR
Beer
*PROPOSALS returned
Th 7: Finish Tess
of the D’Urbervilles: Phases 6-7 (p. 305-398)
Williams, "Wessex and the
Border" (packet)
*Optional appointments
about papers
*FINAL PAPER (12-15 pages): due on WEDNESDAY,
DEC. 13 in my mailbox in the English Department (3500 LNCO).
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