Syllabus

Unit 1: Intro to Victorian London

Week 1:

Aug. 24: Introduction

Aug. 26: Victorian Literature

Bruce Robinson: “London: A Modern Babylon”
http://tinyurl.com/modernbabylon

London Map
http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london_map.html

Online Assignment #1: Introductions.
Write an introductory post on the class blog (including your name, major, year, something you learned about Victorian London). Comment on to two other blog posts. Due by 5pm.

Aug. 27: Victorian London

“Victorian London 1888”
http://tinyurl.com/victorianlondon1888

“Dickens’ London in Pictures”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/charles-dickens/9018185/Dickenss-London-in-pictures.html?image=1

 Online Assignment #2:  Researching the Victorians
Explore Lee Jackson’s “The Victorian Dictionary” (http://www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm), choose one entry, and write a blog post about what you’ve learned about the Victorian era. Comment on two other blog posts. Due by noon.

Optional: Play “The Victorian Period” online game
http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/games/17

Week 2: Introduction to London Literature

Aug. 31: London Impressions

William Blake: “London” (click “all” and compare versions)
http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=songsie.b.illbk.36&java=no

Amy Levy: “London in July,” “A March Day in London”
http://tinyurl.com/levypoems

Richard Le Gallienne: “Ballad of London”
http://www.bartleby.com/103/52.html

Online Assignment 3: Annotation Studio (http://www.annotationstudio.org/)
Make an Annotation Studio account, and make two annotations for each text. Make sure your annotation responds to the annotations your classmates have written. Due by noon.

Sept. 3: Victorian Digital Archives

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org

Locating London’s Past
http://www.locatinglondon.org/

Charles Booth Archive
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?sub=view_booth_and_barth&args=531000,180400,6,large,5

London Buildings and Monuments illustrated in the Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/art/architecture/london/index.html

Week 3: Transportation

Sept. 7: No class (Labor Day Break)

Sept. 10: Short Stories about transportation

Evelyn Sharp: “In Dull Brown”
http://www.1890s.ca/HTML.aspx?s=YBV8_sharp_dull.html

George Egerton: “A Lost Masterpiece: A City Mood Aug ‘93”
http://www.1890s.ca/HTML.aspx?s=YBV1_egerton_masterpiece.html

GW Joy: “The Bayswater Omnibus”
http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/139622/george-william-joy-the-bayswater-omnibus-1895

Online Assignment 4: Location Research.
Choose one spot mentioned in one of the stories.  Do a search for your street on Victorian Google Maps (https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=zs2aHyi7W8Ek.kggHTef2F49I&hl=en) and then zoom in and take a screenshot. Then use a combination of the following sites to learn about the area you have chosen: “Historical Eye” (http://www.historicaleye.com/thenandnow1.html), the “Old Bailey Online” (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/London-life19th.jsp),“Charles Booth Online Archive” (http://goo.gl/JgRmhL), “Locating London” (http://www.locatinglondon.org/), “Mapping Emotions in Victorian London” (https://t.co/OtvvyzN4K7), and “British Histories” (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/). Write a blog post about what you’ve learned about the area (include 3-4 specific details about it) and its importance to the short story.  Include screenshots. Due by noon.

Week 4: Transportation and London Districts

Sept. 14: Poetry about transportation

Amy Levy: Ballade of an Omnibus
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/ballade-omnibus

Aubrey Beardsley: “A Ride in a Omnibus” http://www.cypherpress.com/beardsley/juvenilia/omnibus.asp

Sept. 17: East London vs. West London

Edith Nesbit: “Inasmuch as ye did it not”
http://tinyurl.com/nesbitpoem

Matthew Arnold: “East London,” “West London”
http://www.sonnets.org/arnold.htm#200

Unit 2: Districts of Victorian London

Week 5: West London

Sept. 21: British Museum

Laurence Binyon: “In the British Museum” https://archive.org/stream/londonvisions00binygoog#page/n82/mode/2up

Amy Levy: “To Lallie (at the British Museum)”
http://victorianqueerarchive.omeka.net/items/show/1

Sept. 24: (No Class)

Matthew Arnold: “Kensington Gardens”
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172849

John Davidson: “Two Songs: I—London”
http://www.1890s.ca/HTML.aspx?s=YBV1_davidson_twosongs.html

Sketches by Boz: “Seven Dials”
http://charlesdickenspage.com/seven_dials.html

Online Assignment 5: Annotations
Make two annotations for each text. Make sure your annotations respond to the annotations your classmates have written. Due by 2pm.

Week 6: West End Art and East London

Sept. 28: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) Literature

Introduction
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/praf/hd_praf.htm

D. G. Rossetti: “Blessed Damozel” (both poem and painting)
http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/1-1847.s244.raw.html

“Blessed Damozel” in context
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FRLeylandsdrawingroom1892.jpg

PRB Images
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/user-gallery/jwIyHyrDPlE5Iw?projectId=art-project&position=0%3A30

Optional additional reading
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/Victorian-art-architecture/pre-raphaelites/a/a-beginners-guide-to-the-pre-raphaelites

Oct. 1: East London

Arthur Morrison: “A Street”
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40569/40569-h/40569-h.htm (p. 15-26)

Jack London: The People of the Abyss (Chapter 1)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1688/1688-h/1688-h.htm

Israel Zangwill: “Proem” from Children of the Ghetto: Being Pictures of a Peculiar People
http://tinyurl.com/zangwillproem

Week 7: Prostitution and City of London

Oct. 5: Prostitution

Flora Tristan: from London Journal
http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/awrm/doc8.htm

Thomas Hood: “Bridge of Sighs”
http://www.bartleby.com/101/654.html

Amy Levy: “Magdalen”
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/html/1807/4350/poem1299.html

D. G. Rossetti: “Found” (painting and poem)
http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/7-1881.s64.raw.html

Oct. 8: St. Paul’s Cathedral and Fleet Street

Oscar Wilde: “Impression du Matin”
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/impression.html

Laurence Binyon: “Golden Gallery at St. Paul’s” https://archive.org/stream/londonvisions00binygoog#page/n26/mode/2up

John Davidson: “New Years Day” from Fleet Street Eclogues http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t5k93r412;view=1up;seq=15

Map of Fleet Street
http://archive.org/stream/londonin1880illu00fryh#page/n115/mode/2up

Unit 3: Mapping Victorian London

Week 8: Sherlock Holmes

Oct. 12: Fall Break (No Class)

October 13: Paper 1 Due (email) by 8pm

Oct. 15: Arthur Conan Doyle

“Scandal in Bohemia”
http://sherlockholmes.stanford.edu/pdf/holmes_01.pdf

“Man With the Twisted Lip”
http://tinyurl.com/holmestwisted

Week 9: Sherlock Holmes, Mapped

Oct. 19: Discussion of blog posts

Online Assignment 6: Location Research
Using the websites from online assignment 4, research a location that appears in one of the two Holmes stories and write a blog post that explains the significance of the location and analyzes its importance in the story. Due by noon.

Oct. 22: Mapping with Google Maps and Mapbox

Online Assignment 7:  Mapping
1. Using the Holmes location from Monday’s assignment, submit the longitude, latitude, location name, and description of what happens at that location (including the page number of the relevant passage of the story) to a Google spreadsheet. Due by noon.
2. Completed map due Oct. 25 by 5pm (we will go over making maps in class on Thursday.)

Week 10: The Romance of a Shop

Oct. 26: The Romance of a Shop, Chapters 1-4

Online Assignment 8: Location Research
Using the websites from online assignment 4, research a location that appears in Romance of a Shop (choose location from the list distributed in class) and write a blog post that explains the significance of the location and analyzes its importance in the novel. See assignment sheet for details.
NOTE: Each student will do a blog post for EITHER The Romance of a Shop OR The Picture of Dorian Gray. The blog post is due on the day the story appears in the reading by noon (Romance: 10/26, 10/29, 11/2, or 11/5; Dorian Gray: 11/26, 11/19, 11/30, or 12/3).

Oct. 29: The Romance of a Shop, Chapters 5-9

Week 11: The Romance of a Shop Continued

Nov. 2: The Romance of a Shop, Chapters 10-14

Nov. 5: The Romance of a Shop, Chapters 15-Epilogue

Week 12: Omeka Archives and Queer Literature

Nov. 9: Using Omeka

Julie Meloni: “A Brief Introduction to Omeka”
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/a-brief-introduction-to-omeka/26079

Victorian Queer Archive
http://victorianqueerarchive.omeka.net/

Online Assignment 9: Sign up to add a work of queer literature from the list distributed in class to the class archive via Google doc by noon. See assignment sheet for more information. Text should be uploaded by November 12th at noon.

Nov. 12: Discussion of Queer Literature

Week 13: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891 edition)

Nov. 16: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapters 1-5

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray_(1891)

Nov. 19: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapters 6-10

Week 14:

Nov. 23-26: No Class (Thanksgiving)

Week 15: The Picture of Dorian Gray Continued

Nov. 30: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapters 11-15

Dec. 3: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapters 16-20

Week 16: Final Projects

Dec. 7: Building final projects

Final Projects

Dec. 17: 12:30-2:30

Discussion of maps and locations for The Romance of a Shop and The Picture of Dorian Gray

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