The Nineteenth-Century English Novel
Reading and Requirements
Reading
(A few copies of each of these books are available at the VU Bookstore
trade department, Tower Books, Davis Kidd, or Bookstar. You may use
any edition you find. Or you may order the books shipped direct to
you from Amazon.Com, using the links provided below. Amazon books
are generally discounted in price. Shelley Jackson's hypertext is
available only from Eastgate Publishers--click on the link provided below.)
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Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818) - Penguin Classics.
Order
online.
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) - University
of Chicago Press. Order
online.
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Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl (1995, hypertext)
- Eastgate Publishers. Order
disk online (no CD drive needed; be sure to specify Windows or Macintosh).
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Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (1847) - Oxford
World Classics. Order
online.
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Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1860-61) - Oxford
World Classics. Order
online.
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George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-72) - Penguin
Classics. Order
online.
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Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) - Penguin Classics.
Order
online.
Requirements
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Two papers (each counts for 25% of the final grade)
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Six reading and film quizes (cumulative quiz average
counts for 40% of the final grade)
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Subscription to VICTORIA (online discussion list dedicated
to all aspects of Victorian literature and culture) For directions
on procedures for subscribing, click here.
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Participation in class online discussion group (each
student must post responses to a book or movie no less than three times
during the semester; two of the postings must occur before the mid-term.
Students are encouraged to respond to other postings and to conduct ongoing
discussion in the group--5% of the final grade)
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Class participation (5% of the final grade)
Class Meeting Times
and Office Hours
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Class: TR 2:35-3:50 - Furman 311
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Office Hours - Please call my secretary (at 22541) to arrange
an appointment during the following times:
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Wednesday, 1:30-3:00
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Friday, 2:00-4:00