Syllabus

(Spring 1999)

Week 1 (Jan. 14) - Introduction	Week 5 (Feb. 8-11) - Dickens Movies	Spring Break (Mar. 6-14)	Week 12 (Apr. 6-8) - The Moonstone
Week 2 (Jan. 18-21) - Austen Movies	Week 6 (Feb. 16-18) - Emily Bronte	Week 9 (Mar. 16-18) - Charlotte Bronte	Week 13 (Apr. 13-15) - Trollope
Week 3 (Jan. 26-28) - Persuasion	Week 7 (Feb. 23-25) - Wuthering Heights	Week 10 (Mar. 23-25) - Jane Eyre	Week 14 (Apr. 20-22) - The Eustace Diamonds
Week 4 (Feb. 2-4) - Great Expectations	Week 8 (Mar. 2-4) - Material Culture	Week 11 (Mar. 29 - Apr. 1) - India and Empire	Week 15 (Apr. 27) - Conclusion

Week 1 (January 14)

Thursday: Introduction

Week 2 (January 18-21): Austen Movies

Monday: View Douglas McGrath's Emma (1996), 7:00 p.m., Garland 220.
Tuesday: Meet in Computer Lab, Garland 119.

Discuss Douglas McGrath's Emma.
Explore Nineteenth-Century literature resources on the web.

Wednesday: View Amy Heckerling's Clueless (1995), 7:00 p.m., Calhoun 109.
Thursday: Meet in Computer Lab, Garland 119.

Discuss Amy Heckerling's Clueless (1995).
Explore online resources for Jane Austen.

Week 3 (January 26-28): Persuasion

Tuesday: Discuss Persuasion (novel).
Thursday: Discuss Persuasion (novel).

(Bibliographic resources on Austen)

Week 4 (February 2-4): Great Expectations

Tuesday: Discuss Great Expectations (novel).

Background material from The Victorian Web on the concept of the gentleman.

Thursday: Discuss "Is Pip Postmodern? or, Dickens at the End of the Twentieth Century" in the Bedford edition of Great Expectations.

(Bibliographic resources on Dickens)

Week 5 (February 8-11): Dickens Movies

Monday: View David Lean's Great Expectations (1946), 7:00 p.m., Garland 220.
Tuesday: Discuss David Lean's Great Expectations.
Wednesday: View Alfonso Cuarón's Great Expectations (1997), 7:00 p.m., Calhoun 109.
Thursday: Discuss Alfonso Cuarón's Great Expectations.

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Week 6 (February 16-18): Dickens and Emily Bronte

Tuesday: Discuss Great Expectations (novel).
Thursday: Discuss Wuthering Heights.
Friday, 4:00 p.m., Benson Hall 314: 1st paper due (5-7 pp.).

Week 7 (February 23-25):

Tuesday: Discuss Wuthering Heights.
Thursday: Discuss Wuthering Heights.

(Bibliographic resources on Emily Bronte)

Week 8 (March 2-4): Victorian and Modern Material Culture

Tuesday: Midterm
Thursday: Meet in Computer Lab, Garland 119.

Online resources concerning Victorian and Modern material culture

Spring Break (March 6-14)

Week 9 (March 16-18): Charlotte Bronte

Tuesday: Discuss Jane Eyre.
Thursday: Meet in Computer Lab, Garland 119.

Online resources concerning Victorian and Modern material culture

Week 10 (March 23-25): Jane Eyre

Tuesday: Discuss Jane Eyre.
Thursday: Discuss Jane Eyre.

(Bibliographic resources on Charlotte Bronte)

Week 11 (March 29 - April 1): India and Empire

Monday: View David Lean's A Passage to India (1984), 8:30 p.m., Garland 220.
Tuesday: Discuss The Moonstone.
Thursday: Discuss David Lean's A Passage to India and Macauley's Minute on India.

Week 12 (April 6-8): The Moonstone

Tuesday: Meet in Computer Lab.

Online resources concerning the Indian Mutiny

Thursday: Discuss The Moonstone.

(Bibliographic resources on Collins)

Week 13 (April 13-15): The Eustace Diamonds

Tuesday: Discuss The Eustace Diamonds.
Thursday: Discuss The Eustace Diamonds.

(Bibliographic resources on Trollope)

Week 14 (April 20-22): The Eustace Diamonds

Tuesday: Discuss The Eustace Diamonds.
Thursday: Discuss The Eustace Diamonds.

Second paper topic.

Week 15 (April 27): Conclusion

Tuesday

2nd paper due (5-7 pp.).