Assignments

For Thursday, Dec 4

Prepare for quiz on Strange Case

Contact me if you have more than one T&T assignment still due

Work on Final essay

For Tuesday, Dec. 2

Read Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde

For a printable text version of the Final Paper Assignment, [Click Here] kyll and Mr. Hyde

***For those of you who would like a copy of the "Poetry Checklist" I mentioned in class (to help you discover meanings within a poem), please [Click Here] ***

Tues. Nov. 25

Finish The Woman in White: Quiz

We have a backlog on presentations now because of our guest speaker day.

So, for Tues: we will have presentations by James on the Lunacy Panic of 1857 and by Rhiannon on Victorian Sexology.

Ian on Victorian Criminology and Forensics, Nick on Degeneration, will go on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Andrea and Bronwen will go on the thursday after thanksgiving.

Thurs. Nov. 20

Read through p. 478 ([No. 31: Chapter is entitled “Part the Second: Hartright’s Narrative”: The subsequent chapter [N0. 31] has the same title)

Presentation Daniel: Victorian Immigration and Rhiannon, Victorian Sexology

For Thursday, Nov. 13

Read The Woman in White Vol. 1

For Thursday, November 6

read "Jenny" and expect a quiz! You can get "Jenny" by googling Rossetti and Jenny

For Tuesday, November 4th

Read Goblin Market: Consider how it compares to Alice and Oliver in its representation of children and childhood.

For Thursday, October 30

Read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Appendix H and read one contemporary review in Appendix G

Find the paradies of each poem within Alice and compare the poems to Carroll's parodies

For Tuesday, October 28

Read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, pp. 49-156

For Thursday, October 23rd:

Finish Oliver Twist.

Work on Midterm Takehome exam if you either need to or would like to take it. For the handout describing the midterm takehome, [Click Here]

For Tuesday, October 21st.

For Thursday, October 16th: Read Oliver Twist, through chapter 29. Quiz likely

Midterm Paper Assignment: [Click Here] : Due Tue. Oct 14th

For Tuesday, October 14: Midterm Papers Due.

There will be no class meeting today. Please turn papers in to the English Department Office (6th floor Wheatley). You may give them to the office staff or put them in my mailbox.

For Thursday, October 9

Read: “The Industrial Landscape”: Introduction and The Steam Loom Weaver Fanny Kemble, Blue Books, Engels and Mayhew: [L A: 1037-1141; 1143-1149; 1150-1162]; Dickens, Sketches by Boz, Selections [Class Handout] : Presentation: Alem; Midterm Paper Due.

For Tuesday, October 7:

Reread sections from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Aurora Leigh" in our Longman Anthology and take note of what might appear to be thematic, political, or philosophical links with any of the readings we've done thus far this semester: Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, or Brontë. Presentations Stephen and Frank. Quiz

For Thursday, October 2:

Read: the last Chapter of Villette again!; The Selections from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Aurora Leigh" in our Longman Anthology

Reading, Quiz, & T&T schedule for Villette.

 WEEK 3

T Sept 16:          Brontë, Villette/ Read through Vol. 1: Chap.9: Quiz One

R Sept 18          Brontë, Villette/ Finish Vol 1: T&T 1 Due

 WEEK 4

T Sept 23           Brontë, Villette/ Read through Vol 2: Quiz 2

R Sept 25          Brontë, Villette/Read through Vol 3: Chap. 34.

WEEK 5

T Sept 30           Finish Villette: T&T 2 Due

For Tuesday, Sept 15:

Read Villette, Chapt. 1-9.  Prepare for quiz on Villette

First T&T Assignment will be due Thursday, Sept 17th (which is a change from the syllabus).

For the T&T assignment handout, [Click Here]

For Thursday, Sept 11

Read: Browning, “My Last Duchess,” [LA 1311-12];“The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxis’ Church” [LA 1315-18]; “Andrea Del Sarto” [LA 1339-45]

Prepare informal responses to Browning Discussion questions. For the Browning questions, [Click Here]

Read over presentation assignment and start choosing topic. For the presentation assignment, [Click Here]

For Tuesday, Sept 9: Read "Ulysses" (LA) and "Porphyria's Lover" (LA). Prepare informal responses to discussion questions: For the Discussion Question handout on Carlyle and Browning, [Click Here]