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Spring 2009
Booklist
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Austen,
Jane (1775-1817). Emma (1815). Signet
Bronte, Emily. (1818-1848). Wuthering Heights (1847). Signet.
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870). Great Expectations (1860-1).
Signet.
Eliot, George (1819-1880). Middlemarach (1871-2). Signet.
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928). Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891).
Signet.
Thackeray, WIlliam Makepeace (1811-1863). Vanity Fair (1847).
Signet.
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| Day 1 |
Introduction |
Day 2
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Austen, Emma, pp. 7-102
Austen Overview
The Narrator |
Day 3
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Emma, pp. 103-209
Emma, Harriet, and
Mr.
Elton |
Day 4
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Emma, pp. 209-317
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Day 5
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Emma, pp. 317-412
Mr. Knightley
Web paper due (1-2 pages)
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Day 6
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Thackeray, Vanity Fair. pp. ix-170
Overview of
Thackeray
and Vanity Fair
The Narrator, the
Reader, and Ambiguity
The Structure
Themes
Characterization
Thackeray's
Illustrations
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Day 7
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Vanity Fair. pp. 171-326
Amelia
Attitude Toward Women |
Day 8
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Vanity Fair. pp. 326-488 |
| Day9 |
Vanity Fair. pp. 489-662
Becky's Innocence
Society |
| Day 10 |
Vanity Fair. pp. 663-822
The Ending
Amelia: The
Ending
Becky: The Ending
Dobbin: The
Ending
The Gentleman
and
the Lady |
| Day 11 |
Bronte, Wuthering Heights,
pp. 9-91
Overview
of Emily
Brontë
Publication
of Wuthering
Heights
& Contemporary Critics
Later
Critical response
to Wuthering
Heights
Film
Versions of Wuthering
Heights
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| Day 12 |
Wuthering Heights, pp. 91-182
Themes
in Wuthering Heights
The
Narrator
First graded paper
(minimum: 6 pages)
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| Day 13 |
Wuthering Heights, pp. 182-252
Wuthering
Heights as Socio-Economic Novel
Psychological
Interpretations of Wuthering
Heights
Religion,
Metaphysics,
Mysticism and Wuthering
Heights
The
Gothic and Wuthering
Heights
Romanticism
and Wuthering
Heights |
| Day 14 |
Wuthering Heights, pp.
252-320
Love
"I am Heathcliff"
Sex
mily Bronte's Poetry
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| May 15 |
Midterm
Sample Midterm and Student
Answers |
| Day 16 |
Dickens, Great Expectations,
pp. 1-124
Overview of Dickens
Some General Comments
Dickens and Society
The Opening of Great
Expectations
Pip's Sense of Guilt |
| Day 17 |
Great Expectations, pp. 125-253
Pip, Estella, and Miss
Havisham |
| Day 18 |
Great Expectations, pp.
254-366
Pip's Expectations |
Day 19
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Great Expectations, pp. 367-490
Redemption and Love
The ending |
| Day 20 |
Eliot, Middlemarch, pp.
vii-165
Ungraded Listserv paper (1-2 pages)
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| Day 21 |
Middlemarch, pp. 165-347 |
| Day 22 |
Middlemarch, pp. 347-494
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| Day 23 |
Middlemarch, pp. 494-663 |
| Day 24 |
Middlemarch, pp. 664-811 |
| Day 25 |
Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles,
pp. 1-100
Overview of Hardy
The Opening
Tess's Personal Traits
Tess and Alec
Rape or Seduction?
Second graded paper(minimum: 6 pages)
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| Day 26 |
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, pp.
101-201
Nature and the Froom Valley |
| Day 27 |
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, pp.
201-307
Tess
and Angel
Tess and Angel Part
Flintcomb-Ash |
| Day 28 |
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, pp.
308-405
Alec
Again
A Pure
Woman
The
Ending
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| 8-10 AM, Thursday, May 25 |
Final |
| Noon, Tuesday, June 1 |
Last day to hand in revised and/or
late papers |
Revised: January 10, 2009
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