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Unit 1: Women in Society |
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Week 1 |
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Jan. 21 |
“Gender Roles in the 19th Century” |
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Play “The Victorian Period” Online Game |
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Week 2 |
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Jan. 25 |
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice — v. 1, chapters 1-13 |
p. 43-100 |
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Jan. 28 |
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Pride and Prejudice — v. 1, chapters 14-23 |
p. 101-160 |
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Appendix B: From the Conduct Books, James Fordyce’s Sermons to Young Women |
p. 394-402 |
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Due by 9am |
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In a 300-word blog post, introduce yourself (name, major, favorite author) and explain how Pride and Prejudice responds to ideas in James Fordyce’s Sermons for Young Women. Does it agree? Disagree? Quote and analyze from both texts to back up your argument. Comment on 1 other blog post. |
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Week 3 |
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Feb. 1 |
Pride and Prejudice — v. 2, chapters 1-19 |
p. 163-255 |
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Appendix D: Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
p. 419-429 |
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Feb 4. |
Pride and Prejudice — v. 3, chapters 1-8 |
p. 259-320 |
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Week 4 |
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Feb. 8 |
Pride and Prejudice — v. 3, chapters 9-10 |
p. 320-385 |
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Feb. 11 |
L.E.L.: “The Marriage Vow” |
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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: “Marriage” |
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Amy Levy: “Ballad of Religion and Marriage” |
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From Frances Power Cobbe, “Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors,” Fraser’s Magazine, December 1868 |
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Week 5 |
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Feb. 15 |
No reading. |
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Due by 9am |
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Explore Lee Jackson’s “The Victorian Dictionary” (link), choose one entry from the “Women” or the “Sex” categories, and write a blog post on what you learned about the Victorian era. Be specific and include a few quotations. |
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Feb. 18 |
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre — v. 1, chapters 1-9 |
p. 63-148 |
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Appendix D: Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England |
p. 600-606 |
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Week 6 |
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Feb. 22 |
Jane Eyre — v. 1, chapters 10-15 |
p. 149-225 |
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Appendix C: “Hints on the Modern Governess System” |
p. 567-577 |
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Due by 9am |
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Write a 300 word blog post that addresses the following questions: According to the article from the appendix, what did Victorians think of governesses? Why were they complex figures? How do gender and class relate to their role in society? How does Brontë portray governesses? Does she agree with society’s opinions on them? Why or why not? Quote from essay and novel to back up your point. |
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Feb. 25 |
No Class —Jane Eyre — v. 2, chapters 16-22 |
p. 229-331 |
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Due by 9am |
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Choose two of your classmates’ blog posts on governesses in Brontë’s novel. Write a 2-3 sentence comment for each that goes beyond merely agreeing with the blog post. |
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Week 7 |
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Feb. 29 |
Jane Eyre — v. 2, chapter 23 through v.3, chapter 28 |
p. 332-431 |
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Mar. 3 |
Jane Eyre — v. 3, chapters 29-38 |
p. 432-556 |
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Week 8 |
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Mar. 7 |
Thomas Hood: “Bridge of Sighs” |
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Amy Levy: “Magdalen” |
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Flora Tristan: from London Journal |
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Due by 9am |
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Write a 300-word blog post that addresses the following questions: How does Flora Tristan describe prostitution in the Victorian period? How does one of the poems listed above portray prostitution? Does it seem similar to Tristan’s account? Does it blame the women? The men? Does the poem have a sympathetic attitude towards the sex worker in the poem? Why or why not? |
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Mar. 10 |
Christina Rossetti: “In an Artist’s Studio” |
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Robert Browning: “Porphyria’s Lover” |
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Constance Naden: “The Two Artists,” “Love’s Mirror” |
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Unit 2: Victorian Queer Studies |
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Week 9 |
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Mar. 14 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “To George Sand: A Desire” |
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Barrett Browning: “To George Sand: A Recognition” |
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Mar. 17 |
No Class — Take-Home Midterm Due |
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Week 10: Spring Break |
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Week 11 |
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Mar. 28 |
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890 Edition — Chapters 1-4 Complete Hybrid Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CHP8BWW |
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Mar. 31 |
Dorian Gray, 1890 Edition — Chapters 5-9 |
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Choose a passage from chapters 5-9 of Dorian Gray that relates to ideas expressed on the Sexology handout that I distributed in class. Write a 150-300 word blog post analyzing the connections between them. Due April 3rd, at 5pm. |
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Week 12 |
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Apr. 4 |
Dorian Gray, 1890 Edition — Chapters 10-13 |
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Apr. 7 |
Library Day (in STL 18) |
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Week 13 |
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Apr. 11 |
No class — Individual Conferences |
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Paper Proposal due during individual conference |
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Apr. 14 |
Lord Alfred Douglas: “Two Loves” |
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Douglas: “In Praise of Shame” |
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John Gambril Nicolson: “I Love Him Wisely” |
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Week 14 |
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Apr. 18 |
Anne Lister: Diary Excerpts |
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Amy Levy: “To Lallie” |
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Amy Levy: “New Love, New Life” |
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Michael Field: “Unbosoming” |
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Apr. 21 |
No class — Individual Conferences Bring thesis (required) and outline (optional) for paper to meeting |
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Due by Noon |
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Sign up to add a work of queer literature to the Victorian Queer Archive via Google doc by noon. See assignment sheet for more information. |
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Week 15 |
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Apr. 25 |
Julie Meloni: “A Brief Introduction to Omeka” |
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Victorian Queer Archive |
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Bring to class |
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Bring the transcript of the work of queer literature you signed up for and page images of the original printing to class. We will add the works to the archive during class. |
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Apr. 28 |
Draft of paper due Bring hard copy to class & email to swafforj@newpaltz.edu by 9:30am |
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May 1 |
Victorian Queer Archive Assignment Due by 5pm |
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Week 16 |
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May 2 |
Final Day of class – Discussion of Presentations, Wrap-Up |
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Final Exam – May 9th, 10:15-12:15pm |
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May 9 |
Seminar presentations and seminar paper due, emailed to swafforj@newpaltz.edu |
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