Syllabus

Jan.17 - Persuasion	Jan. 24 - Pickwick	Jan. 31 - Pickwick	Feb. 7 - Darwin
Feb. 14 - *The Professor*	Feb. 21 - *Middlemarch*	Feb. 28 - *Middlemarch*	Spring Break
March 14 - Dr. Thorne	March 21 - *Dr. Thorne*	March 28 - *Cousin Phillis*	April 4 - Wives and Daughters
**April 11 - The Coming Race**	**April 19 - Heart and Science**	April 25 - Conclusion	Procedures and requirements

English 318 - Spring 2006

Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

Week 1 (January 17)

Jane Austen , Persuasion (1818)

Week 2 (January 24):

Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle, Ch. I "The Villa" and Ch. II "The March of Mind" (Project Guttenberg etext)
Charles Dickens, "Full Report of the First Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything," Bentley's Miscellany 2 (Oct., 1837): 397-413 and "Full Report of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything," Bentley's Miscellany 4 (Sept.., 1838): 209-27 (Benson Hall)
Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers (1836), Chs. 1-20
Alan Rauch, Userful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect, Introduction and Ch. 1 (Benson Hall)

Report
Elizabeth Meadows	On Alan Rauch

Week 3 (January 31):

Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers (1836), Chs. 20-end
John Limon, "Toward a Disciplinary Intellectual History" (Benson Hall)

Report
Yeo Ju Choi	On John Limon

Week 4 (February 7):

Charles Darwin, selections from the Voyage of the Beagle (1837) - I am working from the 1860 edition, the last to be overseen by Darwin. Please read the second edition of 1845 (or a later edition). The second edition is extensively revised from the first edition and contains many additions that look forward to Darwin's theory of natural selection. Feel free to consult the first edition in order to see Darwin's earliest formulations. Because the first edition has different chapter numbers, I am including the first item in Darwin's analytic Table of Contents for each chapter to help with identifying the relevant chapters. The page numbers below refer to the Modern Library Edition, edited by Janet Browne.
- Ch. 1 - Porto Praya
- Ch. 2 - Rio de Janeiro, esp. pp. 18-23
- Ch. 3 - Monte Video, Maldonado, esp. pp. 53-56
- Ch. 5 - Bahia Blanca, esp. pp. 73-76 and 90-94
- Ch. 8 - Excursion to Colonia del Sacramient
- Ch. 10 - Tierra del Fuego
- Ch. 14 - San Carlos, Chiloe
- Ch. 15 - Valparaiso, Portillo Pass
- Ch. 17 - Galapagos Archipelago
- Ch. 19 - Sidney
- Ch. 21 - Mauritius (with special attention to Retrospect on our Voyage)
James Secord, Victorian Sensation, Parts I-II

Report
Amanda Hagood	On James Secord

Week 5 (February 14):

Charlotte Bronte, The Professor (written 1846; pub. 1857)
Nicholas Dames, Amnesiac Selves, Introduction and Chs. 1-2

(Bibliographic resources on Charlotte Bronte)

Report
Natalie Champ	On Nicholas Dames

Week 6 (February 21):

George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-72; set 1829-31)
John Guillory. The Sokal Affair and the History of Criticism. Critical Inquiry 28 (2002): 470-508 (Online, Vanderbilt University only)

Report
Bethany Packard	On John Guillory

Week 7 (February 28):

George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-72; set 1829-31)
Bruno Latour, "Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern" Critical Inquiry 30 (2004): 225-48 (Online, Vanderbilt University only)

(Bibliographic resources on Dickens)

Report
Brian Rejack	On Bruno Latour

Week 8 (March 14):

Anthony Trollope, Dr. Thorne (1858)
Christopher Herbert, "The Novel of Cultural Symbolism: Doctor Thorne" in Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991), 253-99 (Benson Hall)

Report
Christina Neckles	On Christopher Herbert

Week 9 (March 21):

Anthony Trollope, Dr. Thorne (1858)
Timothy Lenoir, Instituting science: The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines (pp. 1-74) (Benson Hall)

Report
Alice Chuang	On Timothy Lenoir

Week 10 (March 28):

Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis (1862; set 1842)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters (1864-66), Chs. 1-20
Janis McLarren Caldwell, Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot, Chs. 1 and 7 (Benson Hall)

Report
Lauren Wood	On Janis McLarren

Week 11 (April 4):

Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters (1864-66), Chs. 21-end
Helen Small, Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865 (Ch. 2 and 6); Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914, Ch. 4 (Benson Hall)

Report
Kimberly McColl	On Helen Small and Kate Flint

Week 12 (April 11):

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (1879)
Francis Galton, "Hereditary Talent and Character" (1865)
Carlos Ginzberg, "Family Resemblances and Family Trees: Two Cognitive Metaphors" (Volume 30, Number 3, Spring 2004 - Online for Vanderbilt University students only)
George Levine, "My Life as a Machine: Francis Galton, with Some Reflections on A.R. Wallace" (Benson Hall)

Week 13 (April 19):

Rough draft of paper - 15-25 pages (Due Monday, April 17 at 9:00 a.m.)

Post papers in Word to my Digital Dropbox. Select Oak on the university main page, then login to Blackboard.

Name the file on your disk and on Blackboard as follows: "Lastname, First Name - Draft."

In Digital Dropbox, you will be given the choice to "Add File" or "Send File". Be sure to choose "SEND FILE." Follow directions from there.

Discuss your drafts in class. Be prepared with a short description of what you have written.

Week 14 (April 25):

Wilkie Collins, Heart and Science (1883)

(Bibliographic resources on Collins)

Exam Week:

Final version of paper - 20-30 pages (Due Tuesday, May 2 at 4:00 p.m.)

Post papers in Word to my Digital Dropbox. Select Oak on the university main page, then login to Blackboard.

Name the file on your disk and on Blackboard as follows: "Lastname, First Name - Final."

In Digital Dropbox, you will be given the choice to "Add File" or "Send File". Be sure to choose "SEND FILE." Follow directions from there.

Jay Clayton

Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt English