English 377 Syllabus

Sep 8

Course Introduction

Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
Introduction to “The Victorian Age” (Norton 1043-65)
WWW Resource: Victorianism section of The Victorian Web

Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam
WWW Resource: Tennyson Web Exhibit (especially Island 2 and Island 3); Tennyson and In Memoriam sections of The Victorian Web

Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (cont)
WWW Resource: Victorian Long Poem section of The Victorian Web

Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
WWW Resource: Carlyle and Sage Writing sections of The Victorian Web

Web Assignment #1 Due

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and The Subjection of Women
WWW Resource: Utilitarianism (1), Utilitarianism (2), and Economics sections of The Victorian Web

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and The Subjection of Women (cont)
Sarah Ellis, The Women of England
Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House
WWW Resource: The Woman Question section of Norton Topics Online; Gender section of The Victorian Web

Web Assignment #2 Due

Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
WWW Resource: Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh sections of The Victorian Web

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (cont)
Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
WWW Resource: Robert Browning and Dramatic Monologue sections of The Victorian Web

Paper 1 Drafts Due

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Jenny” (WWW), “The Blessed Damozel”
WWW Resource: Pre-Raphaelites section of The Victorian Web; Dante Rossetti Archive

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Blessed Damozel" (cont)

Paper 1 Critiques Due

George Meredith, Modern Love (WWW)

George Meredith, Modern Love (cont)

Paper 1 Due

Oct 25

Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market”
WWW Resource: Christina Rossetti and Goblin Market sections of The Victorian Web

Charles Darwin, Origin of Species (cont)
Thomas Henry Huxley, “Science and Culture”
Matthew Arnold, “Literature and Science”
WWW Resource: Education section of The Victorian Web

John Henry Newman, from Apologia Pro Vita Sua (cont)
 Thomas Henry Huxley, “Agnosticism and Christianity” (cont)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur,” “The Starlight Night,” “As Kingfishers Catch Fire,” “Spring,” “The Windhover,” “Pied Beauty,” “Binsey Poplars”

Web Assignment #4 Due

Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Carrion Comfort,” “No Worst, There is None,” “I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day,” “Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord”
John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
WWW Resource: Ruskin, Architecture, and Medieval Revival sections of The Victorian Web; Industrialism section of Norton Topics Online

John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice (cont)
Robert Browning, “The Bishop Orders His Tomb”
WWW Resource: Dramatic Monologue section of The Victorian Web

Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Hymn to Proserpine”
WWW Resource: Swinburne and Aesthetes and Decadents sections of The Victorian Web

 Web Assignment #5 Due

Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Hymn to Proserpine” (cont)
William Morris, “The Defence of Guenevere”
WWW Resource: Morris, Morris & Co., and Victorian Design sections of The Victorian Web; William Morris Society Home Page

Paper 2 Critiques Due

Matthew Arnold, “Isolation. To Marguerite,” “To Marguerite--Continued,” “Dover Beach,” “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
WWW Resource: Arnold section of The Victorian Web (especially the section on Arnold's religion)

Matthew Arnold, “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (cont)

Paper 2 Due

Walter Pater, The Renaissance
Oscar Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray; “The Critic as Artist”
WWW Resource: Pater, Wilde, and Aesthetes and Decadents sections of The Victorian Web

Web Assignment #6 Due

Final Examination, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.