Tentative Syllabus English 7500
August 22, 2016 Monday
introduction, course handouts including Gissing and Michael Field, Attila, My Attila!
August 24, 2016 Wednesday
Watch YouTube video of Attila, My Attila!; Richard Dietrich, British and Irish Drama 1890-1950, chaps. 1 and 2, online at chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/britishdrama.htm; Attila, My Attila! text
August 29th, 2016 Monday
Report on Michael Field, Attila, My Attila!; discussion with actors
August 31st, 2016 Wednesday
Report on Gissing’s life; contemporary reviews (handout); George Gissing, The Odd Women, 1st half
First online posting Friday September 2nd, a response to class discussion of the Attila performance Monday August 29th
September 5th, 2016 Monday
Labor Day
September 7th, 2016 Wednesday
Essay from Christine Huguet and Simon James, George Gissing and the Woman Question; George Gissing, The Odd Women, 2nd half
September 12th, 2016 Monday
Mona Caird, “The Morality of Marriage,” Daughters of Danaus, 1st half
September 14th, 2016 Wednesday
Mona Caird, Daughters of Danaus, second half
September 19th, 2016 Monday
Selection from Arthur Symons, The Decadent Movement in Literature; poetry by Arthur Symons and Lionel Johnson from Paul Wiley, ed. British Poetry 1880-1920.
September 21st, 2016 Wednesday
Report on Oscar Wilde; Oscar Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”
2nd online posting due Friday September 23rd
September 26th, 2016 Monday
Selections from Angela Leighton and Margaret Reynolds, eds. Victorian Women Poets, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Mary Coleridge
September 28th, 2016 Wednesday
Selections from Leighton and Reynolds, poetry by May Probyn, Constance Naden, and Charlotte Mew
3rd online posting due Friday October 14th
October 3rd, 2016 Monday
Report on Vernon Lee; Vernon Lee, “A Wicked Voice” and “Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady”
October 5th, 2016 Wednesday
Victorian Socialism: chapter 3 on radical drama, Elizabeth Miller, Slow Print; Florence Boos, “The Socialist League,” BRANCH; William Morris, The Tables Turned
October 10th, 2016 Monday
Oral narrative and investigative journalism: Florence Boos, “Collaboration and Oral Narrative in a Working-Class Autobiography” (pdf online); Annie Wakeman and Elizabeth Dobbs, The Autobiography of a Charwoman
October 12th, 2016 Wednesday
To be determined
3rd online posting due Friday October 14th
October 17th, 2016 Monday
Report on George Moore; George Moore, Esther Waters, 1st half
October 19th, 2016 Wednesday
George Moore, Esther Waters, 2nd half
October 24th, 2016 Monday
Report on Sarah Grand; Sarah Grand, The Beth Book, 1st half
October 28th, 2013 Wednesday
Sarah Grand, The Beth Book, 2nd half
4th online posting due Friday October 29th
October 31st, 2016 Monday
Report on Thomas Hardy; essays from The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy; Thomas Hardy, poetry
November 2nd, 2016 Wednesday
Report on A. E. Housman; recording, A. E. Housman, “A Shropshire Lad”; A. E. Housman, “A Shropshire Lad”
November 7th, 2016 Monday
To be determined
November 9th, 2016 Wednesday
Report on Dorothy Richardson; handout of Lynn Aycock’s plot summary of Pilgrimage; skim Dorothy Richardson’s Pointed Roofs; Dorothy Richardson’s Dawn’s Left Hand, 1st half
5th online posting due November 11th Friday
November 14th, 2016 Monday
Dorothy Richardson, Dawn’s Left Hand, 2nd half
November 16th, 2016 Wednesday
Handout introduction on Woolf’s personal essays; Virginia Woolf, “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”; “Moments of Being”
[Thanksgiving break November 21st-November 25th]
November 28th, 2016 Monday
This should be the target date for providing information on your final paper—ideally bibliography, rough outline, and abstract.
James Campbell, “Combat Gnosticism: The Ideology of First World War Poetry Criticism,” New Literary Criticism, 1999; First World War poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon
November 30th, 2016 Wednesday
Introduction by George Walter to the Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, Isaac Rosenberg, Sylvia Pankhurst and others
6th online posting due Friday December 2nd
December 5th, 2013 Monday
Report on Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Leslie Mitchell); Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, 1st half
December 7th, 2013 Wednesday
Discussion of movie version of Sunset Song if we are able to view it; Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, 2nd half
December 12th-13th-14th Monday-Wednesday
Students will present aspects of their final essay to the class; time to be chosen by class
December 16th, 2016 Friday
final 20 page papers due; final online postings all due (to be gathered in a packet). Please submit assignments in both electronic and printed form.