ENG 2100 - Schedule of Readings click here for printable copy WEEK 1 (16-20 Jan) Tuesday Introduction – Syllabus “Terrence, this is stupid stuff” (A.E. Houseman) “A Study of Reading Habits” (Philip Larkin) Thursday "Fashioning Gender" (Mackie 457-62) "The Role of Good Reading" (Gardner 3-13) WEEK 2 (23-7 Jan) Tuesday Jonathan Swift, "The Progress of Beauty" (Mackie 577-83) Richard Steele, Spectator 41 [On the Modern 'Pict'] (Mackie 498-501) Joseph Addison, Spectator 81 [On Party Patches] (509-12) Thursday Alexander Pope, "An Epistle to a Lady: Of the Characters of Women" (Mackie 567-77) Steele, Spectator 66 [On Female Education] (502-4) Addison, Spectator 73 [On Female 'Idols'] (505-8) WEEK 3 (30 Jan – 3 Feb) Tuesday Pamela (3-69) Addison, Tatler 151 [Women's Weakness for Dress] (Mackie 486-90) Addison, Spectator 16 [Dress Reform] (Mackie 494-7) Thursday Pamela (69-112) Roussel, "Reflections on the Letter: The Reconciliation of Distance and Presence in Pamela" (PDF) WEEK 4 (6-10 Feb) Tuesday Pamela (112-177) Rosenthal, "Pamela's work" (PDF) Thursday Pamela (177-217) Images of Pamela [eres] Brown, "Learning to Read Richardson: Pamela, 'Speaking Pictures,' and the Visual Hermeneutic" (PDF) First Paper Due WEEK 5 (13-17 Feb) Tuesday Pamela (217-290) Steele, Spectator 154 [On the Reformed Rake] (Mackie 519-22) Thursday Pamela (290-316) Harol, "Faking It: Female Virginity and Pamela's Virtue" (PDF) WEEK 6 (20-24 Feb) Tuesday Pamela (316-372) Hughes, Spectator 302 [Good Woman] (Mackie 535-9) Thursday Pamela (372-415) Wilner, "'Thou Hast Made a Rake a Preacher': Beauty and the Beast in Richardson's Pamela" (PDF) WEEK 7 (27 Feb – 3 Mar) Tuesday Pamela (415-485) Addison, Spectator 128 [On Successful Marriage] (Mackie 515-8) Thursday Pamela (485-533) Turner, "Novel Panic: Picture and Performance in the Reception of Richardson's Pamela" (PDF) WEEK 8 (6-10 Mar) Tuesday Warner, Timeline of the Pamela Media Event Shamela James Boswell, from The London Journal () Daniel Defoe, from Conjugal Lewdness; or, Matrimonial Whoredom () Thursday Shamela () Harweg, "Are Fielding's Shamela and Richardson's Pamela one and the same person?" (PDF) WEEK 9 (13-17 Mar) Tuesday Other selections from the Pamela Media Event (eres) Thursday Library Research Day "Writing a Literary Research Paper" (Gardner 102-113) WEEK 10 (20-24 Mar) Tuesday Anti-Pamela Ingrassia , (Appendix D: Lady Sarah Pennington, from An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to Her Absent Daughters (1761)) Thursday Anti-Pamela Ingrassia, (Appendix D: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Lady Bute (1753)) Second Paper Due SPRING HOLIDAY WEEK 11 (3-7 Apr) Tuesday Mansfield Park (5-65) Gregory, from A Father's Legacy to His Daughter (1774) (391-2) Thursday Mansfield Park (66-106) More, from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) 404-6 Paper Proposal Due WEEK 12 (10-14 Apr) Tuesday Mansfield Park (107-167) Trilling, "Mansfield Park" (423-33) Thursday Mansfield Park (168-98) Auerbach, "Jane Austen's Dangerous Charm: Feeling as One Ought about Fanny Price"(445-57) WEEK 13 (17-21 Apr) Tuesday Mansfield Park (199-259) Johnson, "Mansfield Park: Confusions of Guilt and Revolutions of Mind" (458-77) Thursday Mansfield Park (260-322) and Litvak, "The Infection of Acting: Theatricals and Theatricality in Mansfield Park" () WEEK 14 (24-28 Apr) Tuesday Mansfield Park (hour one of film, followed by discussion) Read one of the articles on Rozema's film on Blackboard Thursday Mansfield Park (hour two of film, followed by discussion) Read another article on Rozema's film on Blackboard Rough Draft Due WEEK 15 (1-5 May) Tuesday Mansfield Park (final discussion) Thursday Making Connections EXAM WEEK: Final Paper Due

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