| Reading Schedule | ||
| 1/10 | T | Introduction to the course; Documentary film, Queen Victoria's Empire (Part I) |
| 1/12 | R | The Condition of England (3-6); T. B. Macaulay,
from The History of England (198-206); Prince Albert, Speech, The Unity of Mankind (handout) |
| 1/17 | T | Charles Dickens, On Strike (18-21); Thomas Mayhew,
from London Labour and the London Poor (21-28); Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Cry of the Children (341-43) |
| 1/19 | R | Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Mariana (380-82), The Lady of Shalott
(385-87); John Stuart Mill, What Is Poetry? (297-301) and from Autobiography (329-37) |
| 1/24 | T | Tennyson: Ulysses (399-400), The Eagle (446), The Charge of the Light Brigade (449-50) |
| 1/26 | R | Robert Browning: My Last Duchess, Porphyria's Lover (542-44), Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister (546-48) |
| 1/31 | T | Browning: The Bishop Orders His Tomb (549-51); John Ruskin: The Nature of Gothic (608-22) |
| 2/2 | R | Browning: Fra Lippo Lippi (553-57); An Epistle . . . Karshish (563-66) |
| 2/7 | T | Browning: Childe Roland, Andrea del Sarto (567-74) |
| 2/9 | R | Barrett Browning: Introduction (338-39), Sonnets 1
(351), 6 (352), 14 (353-54), 18 (354), 22 (355), 43 (358); Letters (378-79); Aurora Leigh, Book I (359-72); "Gender and Sexuality" and essays by Ellis and Lewis (81-87) |
| 2/14 | T | Barrett Browning: The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point (347-51), Mother and Poet (376-78) |
| 2/16 | R | Faith, Doubt, and Knowledge (41-43); Charles Lyell, from
Principles of Geology (50-52); Charles Darwin, Introduction (488-89) and from On the Origin of Species (502-05); Arnold, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (714-16) |
| 2/21 | T | Newman: from The Idea of a University; from Apologia Pro Vita Sua (231-56) |
| 2/23 | R | Tennyson: In Memoriam A. H. H. (sections TBA) |
| 2/28 | T | Tennyson: In Memoriam (sections TBA) |
| 3/2 | R | Victorian Humorous Verse: Selections from Edward Lear (596-99) and Lewis Carroll (873-77) |
| 3/7 | T | Mid-term Exam |
| 3/9 | R | D. G. Rossetti: Jenny (806-11), Nuptial Sleep (813); Augusta Webster, A Castaway (938-45) |
| 3/14 | T | William Morris: The Blue Closet, The Haystack in the Floods,
from The Earthly Paradise; from "The Lesser Arts" and "How I Became a Socialist" (886-99) |
| 3/16 | R | Empire and Travel (105-07); Documentary film Queen Victoria's Empire (Part 2) Paper 1 Due |
| 3/21 | T | Harriet Martineau, from Retrospect of Western Travel (271-77),
from Eastern Life, Past and Present (284-90); Travel writing by Burton (109-12), Trevelyan (115-19), and Kingsley (127-29) |
| 3/23 | R | Tennyson: Maud: A Monodrama (450-69) |
| 3/28 | T | Spring Break (3/29-4/2) |
| 4/4 | T | Christina Rossetti: Introduction (843-44), In and Artist's Studio (845-46), and Goblin Market (846-52) |
| 4/6 | R | A. C. Swinburne: Introduction (900-01), The Leper (903-05), Hymn to Proserpine
(913-15); Walter Pater: from The Renaissance (953-60) |
| 4/11 | T | Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper): Selections
from Long Ago and Sight and Sound (1008-10); Noon, Unbosoming, To Christina Rossetti, Ebbtide at Sundown (1011-14) |
| 4/13 | R | Oscar Wilde: Introduction (1015-16), The Harlot's House,
Symphony in Yellow (1017), Preface to Dorian Gray (1018), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1035-63) |
| 4/18 | T | Film: Topsy-Turvy, dir. Mike Leigh |
| 4/20 | R | Topsy-Turvy (cont.); Gilbert and Sullivan, from H.M.S. Pinafore |
| 4/25 | T | Gerard Manley Hopkins: Introduction (987-88), God's Grandeur, Spring, The Windhover (995) Paper 2 Due |
| 4/27 | R | Hopkins: Pied Beauty, Spring and Fall (995-97); Course Evaluations; Exam Review |
| 5/6 | S | Final Exam, 2-4:30 |