The Victorian Novel, 1851-1867

Exhibitionism to Reform


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Week 1 - (Tuesday, Jan 14, 1997):  The Great Exhibition of 1851

"1851 was a year of such excitement that many young Victorians looked back on it with nostalgia for the rest of their lives, and many old Georgians regarded it as the climax of English history" (Asa Briggs).


Visual Materials: Great Exhibition

 
News: Laura Patterson


Week 2 - (Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1997): Dickens, Bleak House, Parts I-IX

"God send that we all meet in 1851 under the shadow of some huge, newly-invented machine. I mean to exhibit four three-volume novels--all failures--which I look upon as a great proof of industry." (Anthony Trollope)

Dickens Bibliography

 
News: Kurt Koenigsberger


Week 3 - (Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1997): Dickens, Bleak House, Parts X-XIX

"I have always had an instinctive feeling against the Exhibition, of a faint inexplicable sort."  (Charles Dickens)

Visual Materials: Bleak House
 
News: Monika Schramm


Week 4 - (Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1997): Thackeray, Henry Esmond


Thackeray Bibliography

 
News


Week 5 - (Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1997): Thackeray and the Mid-Victorian Literary World

News: Christopher Lamping


Week 6 - (Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1997): Charlotte Brontë, Villette


Brontë Bibliography

News: Julie Schuetz


Week 7 - (Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1997): Villette and Victorian Sexuality

News: Lara Newborn


Spring Break (March 1-9, 1997)


Week 8 - (Tuesday, Mar. 11, 1997): Gaskell, North and South.  First version of research paper due.


Gaskell Bibliography

News: Kin Cosner


Week 9 - (Tuesday, Mar. 18, 1997): George Eliot, Felix Holt


George Eliot Bibliography

News: Lisa Barnes


Week 10 - (Tuesday, Mar. 25, 1997): George Eliot, Felix Holt


Week 11 - (Tuesday, Apr. 1, 1997): Collins, The Woman in White

 Collins Bibliography


Week 12 - (Tuesday, Apr. 8, 1997): Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

 Braddon Bibliography


Week 13 - (Tuesday, Apr. 15, 1997): Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset, vol. I

 Trollope Bibliography


Week 14 - (Tuesday, Apr. 22, 1997): Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset, vol. II


Revised paper due: Tuesday, April 29, 4:00 p.m.