THE
VICTORIANS
Tues/Thurs
1:00-4:15 p.m.
Carnegie 105
Instructors:
David Itzkowitz Old Main
301 x6216 itzkowitz@macalester.edu
Robert Warde Old Main 214 x6503
warde@macalester.edu
Schedule
Jan. 27 (Tue) - Introduction
AThe Steam Threshing-Machine@ (xerox)
The Crystal Palace
Exhibition Illustrated Catalogue
29 (Thu) - xeroxed selections from E. Royston
Pike, Golden Times: Human
Documents of the Victorian Age
from VP&P:
Tennyson, AUlysses@ (416), ALocksley Hall@ (427); R.
Browning, A>Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came=@ (528); C. Rossetti, AUp-Hill@ (642); Clough, ASay Not the Struggle Naught Availeth@ (698)
excerpts from selected social
investigators (see hand-out)
Feb.
3 (Tue) - Charles Dickens: David Copperfield (through the
Seventh Number,
Chap. XXI, ALittle Em=ly,@ p. 298)
5 (Thu) - Dickens: through the Tenth Number, Chap. XXXI, AA greater Loss,@ p. 421
from Strong-Minded Women
(pp. 409-411)
lecture on The Railroad
10 (Tue) - Dickens: through the Seventeenth Number, Chap. LIII, AAnother Retrospect,@ p. 706
12 (Thu) - Dickens: complete David
Copperfield
from Strong-Minded Women (pp. 103-107)
lecture on Victorian Politics
17 (Tue) - from VP&P: Carlyle, selections from Sartor Resartus (16-38)
from Strong-Minded Women
(pp. 111-112 and 132-133)
from VP&P:
Tennyson, In Memoriam (through section XXX, pp. 440-448)
19 (Thu) - from VP&P:
Tennyson, In Memoriam (completed, pp. 448-466)
20
(Fri) - Essay #1 is due by 4:30 p.m.
24 (Tue) - Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown=s
Schooldays
Arnold, ARugby Chapel@ (xerox)
26 (Thu) - from VP&P: R. Browning, AMy Last Duchess@ (502), AThe Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed=s
Church@ (503), AA Tocatta of Galuppi=s@ (518)
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help;
Thomas Hood, AThe Song of the Shirt@; and related industrial material (see
handout)
March
2 (Tue) - Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South (through Chap.
XXIII, AMistakes,@ p. 189)
from Strong-Minded
Women (pp. 21-31)
4 (Thu) - Gaskell: through Chap. XXXII, AMischances,@ p. 260
from Strong-Minded
Women (pp. 31-36)
lecture on Victorian Narrative
Painting
9 (Tue) - Gaskell: complete North and
South
from Strong-Minded Women (pp. 37-39)
11 (Thu) - xeroxed selections from Isabella Beeton, Book of Household Management
from Strong-Minded Women (pp. 142-145)
lecture on Victorian Parlor
Songs
12 (Fri) - Essay #2 is due by 4:30
p.m.
Week of March 15-19
- Spring Break
23 (Tue) - George Eliot: Middlemarch (through Book IV, AThree Love Problems@)
25 (Thu) - Eliot: through Book V, AThe Dead Hand@
30 (Tue) - Eliot: complete Middlemarch
April 1 (Thu) - from VP&P: Mill, the
selections from On Liberty (83-96)
from Strong-Minded Women
(pp. 326-383)
lecture on Non-Urban
England
6 (Tue) - Charles Darwin: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (including the ANotes,@ pp. 223-243, but not the Appendix)
8 (Thu) - from VP&P: Huxley, AOn the Physical Basis of Life@ (272-287);
Arnold, from ALiterature
and Science@ (254-269); Mill, from Autobiography
(99-108)
lecture on Victorian
Photography
13 (Tue) - Edmund Gosse:
Father and Son
15 (Thu) - from VP&P: Arnold, ADover Beach@
(593), AStanzas from the Grande Chartreuse@ (597)
from VP&P:
Newman, selections from Apologia Pro Vita Sua (131-154)
lecture on Victorian Popular
Entertainment
16 (Fri) - Essay #3 is due by 4:30
p.m.
20 (Tue) - The City of Dreadful Delight (see handout)
22 (Thu) - C. Rossetti,
AGoblin Market@ (xerox)
Swinburne,
ADolores@ (xerox)
from VP&P:
Tennyson, A@Mariana@ (396), AThe Lady of Shalott@ (398); Arnold, ATo Marguerite---Continued@ (588), AThe Buried
Life@ (595); D. G. Rossetti,
AThe Blessed Damozel@ (620), AThe Woodspurge@ (623)
from Strong-Minded
Women (pp. 109-111 and 114-115)
lecture on Pre-Raphaelite
Painting
27 (Tue) - Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study
in Scarlet
29 (Thu) - from VP&P: Ruskin, selection from The Stones of
Venice (174- 189)
Gilbert and Sullivan, The
Mikado (xeroxed libretto)
May
4 (Tue) - from VP&P: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being
Earnest (343- 390); Pater, from The Renaissance, the AConclusion@ (317-320)
6 (Thu) - Essay #4 is due by 4:30
p.m.
Requirements
I. Four essays of 2,000-2,500 words each (approx. 8-10 pp.), due
as follows:
#1 - February 20 (Friday)
#2 - March 12 (Friday)
#3 - April 16 (Friday)
#4 - May 6 (Thursday)
Specific information on each
essay will be handed out in class.
II. Twelve unannounced objective quizzes
(about 10 minutes each) given
periodically in class as a means of estimating the vigor with which each student has embraced the day=s
assigned material.
III. Regular attendance and class
participation are expected.
Evaluation
I. Each essay constitutes 20% of the final grade, for a total of 80%.
II. The ten best quizzes will be averaged to account for the
remaining 20% (i.e. 2% per quiz,
with the two lowest quizzes not counting).
III. The grade generated by the essays and quizzes may then be modified
up or down by one or two notches if
appropriate, to reflect class
involvement. Thus, for example, a
B average on the assigned work
will yield a final grade between A- and C+. The same grade is submitted for both the English and
History portions of the course.
Texts
Charles Darwin: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (Norton)
Charles Dickens: David Copperfield (Penguin)
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet (Oxford)
George Eliot: Middlemarch (Oxford)
Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South (Penguin)
Edmund Gosse: Father and Son (Penguin)
Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown=s Schooldays (Oxford)
Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.: Victorian Prose and Poetry (Oxford)
To be checked out of the library:
Janet Horowitz Murray, ed.: Strong-Minded
Women (Pantheon Books)