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Week 1: Jan 3
Introduction
Monsters and Modern Sensations
Week 2: Jan 8, 10
Shelley, Frankenstein
Week 3: Jan 15, 17
Engels, Condition
of the Working Class
Jan 17: Kinda on Steven Marcus, Engels, Manchester,
and the Working Class
Deborah on Albert Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests
Week 4: Jan 22, 24
Gaskell, Mary
Barton
Jan 24: Kathryn on Chris Baldick, Frankenstein's Shadow
Week 5: Jan 30, Feb 1
Dickens, Selected Short Fiction
Feb 1: Heather on Jill Matus, "Trauma, Memory and Railway Disaster"
*Paper #1 due: Thurs, Feb 1 by 5 pm
Home Trouble
Olympic Break: Feb 2-26
Read Mill on the Floss
Week 6: Feb 28
Mill on theFloss
Week 7: Mar 5
Mill on the Floss
Mar 5: Wendy on Sally Shuttleworth, George Eliot and 19th-C Science
*Take-home midterm: due on Fri, Mar 9 by 5 pm
(no class on Thurs, Mar 7)
Week 8: Mar 12, 15
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Mar 15: approaches by Gilbert and Spivak
Week 9: Mar 19, 21
Ann Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Mar 21: Melissa on John Ruskin, "Of Queen's Gardens"
Melancholy and Modernity
Week 10: Mar 26, 28
Browning and Tennyson (in poetry collection)
Mar 28: Kris on Isobel Armstrong, "A Critique of
the Poetry of Sensation"
Boyd on Melissa Gregory, "Robert Browning and the Lure of the Violent Lyric
Voice"
Week 11: Apr 2, 4
Tennyson, In Memoriam (in poetry collection)
Week 12 Apr 9, 11
Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (in poetry
collection)
* Final paper due: Thurs, Apr 11 by 5 pm
Week 13, Apr 16, 18
Butler, The Way of All Flesh
Apr 18: Kenneth on Samuel Butler, Life and Habit
Week 14, Apr 24, 26
Hardy, Hopkins, Field, Swinburne (in poetry
collection)
Week 15: May 2
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
May 2: Alf on T. H. Huxley, Evolution and Ethics
*Final Exam: Wednesday, May 8, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
*Revised Final paper due: Friday, May 10 by 5
pm
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