| Week
One |
What
is Gender?
Introduction
“Gender,”
Myra Jehlen (handout)
“The Angel in the House,” Coventry
Patmore (1854-56)
“Angels
and Other Women in Victorian Literature,” Marlene Springer |
| Week
Two |
Weeks
Two-Five:
the Angel, the Mad Woman, the Fallen Woman
Short Selections:
“Duties of the Sick-Nurse,” Isabella Beeton
“Duty to Parents,” Charlotte Bronte
“Duty to Her Mother,” Hariett Martineau
“Duties to Brothers,” Sarah Ellis
“The
Perfect Ideal of an English Wife,” Dr. W. Acton
“Of
Queen’s Gardens,” John Ruskin
'The Disorder of
Women’: Women,
Love and the Sense of Justice,” Carole
Pateman |
| Week
Three |
Ophelia
images. “Representing
Ophelia: Women, Madness And the Responsibilities of Feminist
Criticism, Elaine Showalter
“Cassandra,”
Florence Nightingale
“A Housewifely Woman: the Social Construction of Florence
Nightingale,” Mary Poovey
“Jenny,” D.G.
Rossetti
“The Unwomanly Woman”
Paper
#1 Due
|
| Week
Four |
Mill
on the Floss, George Eliot
(Group #1: Introduction
to the Novel)
MotF
MotF
(Group
#1: Discussion
Facilitation) |
| Week
Five |
MotF
MotF
Reading
Day |
| Week
Six |
Mot
(Group
#2: Introduction
to Criticism)
“Maggie Tulliver’s `Stored-Up Force’:
A Re-reading of
Mill on the Floss,”
Jack Bushnell
& excerpt from “
Feminine Heroines: Charlotte
Bronte and
George
Eliot ,” Elaine
Showalter
Mot
(Group
#2: Discussion
Facilitation)
Mid-term
Exam |
| Week
Seven |
Weeks
Six-Eleven:
The
Manly Man, the Muscular Christian, the
Degenerate
Tom Brown’s
Schooldays, Thomas Hughes
(Group #3: Introduction
to the Novel)
TBSD
TBSD
(Group #3: Discussion
Facilitation) |
| Week
Eight |
TBSD
(Group #4: “Growing Up Healthy: Images of Boyhood,” Bruce Haley
&
“Sex
and the Single Boy: Ideals of Manliness and Sexuality in
Victorian Literature for Boys,”
Claudia Nelson)
TBSD
(Group
#4: Discussion
Facilitation)
TBSD |
| Week
Nine |
Spring Break |
| Week
Ten |
Selections from On
Heroes and Hero Worship, Thomas Carlyle (1841);
In Darkest Africa, Henry M. Stanley (1890);
Scouting for Boys,
Sir Robert Baden Powell (1908).
Paper
#2 Due
Dracula,
Bram Stoker (1897) (Group #5:
Introduction to the Novel) |
| Week
Eleven |
Dracula
Dracula
(Group 5: Discussion
Facilitation)
Dracula |
| Week
Twelve |
Dracula
(Group #6: “Purity
and Danger: Dracula,
the Urban Gothic and the Late Victorian Degeneracy Crisis,”
Kathleen L. Spencer & “`Kiss Me with Those Red Lips’:
Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker’s Dracula,”
Christopher Craft
Dracula
“Dracula: Stoker’s Response to the New Woman,” Carol Senf
No
Class |
| Week
Thirteen |
No
Class
Dracula
(Group #6: Discussion Facilitation)
Dracula |
| Week
Fourteen |
Weeks
Twelve-Fourteen:
the Odd Woman
Wild or New Women Readings
Short
Stories
The
Odd Women, George Gissing (Group #7: Introduction
to the Novel) |
| Week
Fifteen |
OW
(Group #7: Discussion
Facilitation)
The
English Festival
OW
(Group #8: “Gissing,
the Shopgirl, and the New Woman,” Sally Ledger & “A
Feminist Fantasy: Conflicting Ideologies in The Odd Women,”
Patricia Comitini) |
| Week
Sixteen |
OW
(Group
#8: Discussion Facilitation)
OW
Final
class Meeting |
|
Final
Exam |
