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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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