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8:6500 Social Class in Victorian Literature
Tuesday 19 January 2016 introduction
Thursday 21 January 2016
Selections from Karl Marx, David Cannadine
Tuesday 26 January 2016
Selections from Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in Manchester in 1844, Raymond Williams, “The Country and the City,” Marxism and Literature; Frederic Jameson, The Political Unconscious
Thursday 28 January 2016
Sally Mitchell, chapter 3 of Daily Life in Victorian Britain; Factory Lives, ed. James Simmons, autobiographies of William Dodd and Ellen Johnston
Friday 29 January ICON posting #1
Tuesday 2 February 2016
Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil
Thursday 4 February 2016
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Friday 5 February ICON posting #2
Tuesday 9 February 2016
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Thursday 11 February 2016
W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Tuesday 16 February 2016
W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Thursday 18 February 2016 W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Tuesday 23 February 2016 Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke
Thursday 25 February 2016 Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke
Friday 26 February ICON posting #3
Tuesday 2 March 2016
Poetry: Thomas Hood, Eliza Cook, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Thursday 4 March 2016
Poetry: Chartist and dialect poetry
Tuesday 9 March 2016
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Thursday 11 March 2016
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Tuesday 16 March and Thursday 18 March 2016 spring break
Tuesday 23 March 2016
Short stories: Thomas Cooper, Ernest Jones, Mary Lahee
Thursday 25 March 2016
George Eliot, Adam Bede
Friday 26 March ICON posting #4
Tuesday 29 March 2016
George Eliot, Adam Bede
Thursday 31 March 2016
Paper topic and bibliography; -------
Tuesday 5 April 2016
Mary Smith, The Autobiography of Mary Smith
Thursday 7 April 2016
Josephine Butler, “The Hour Before the Dawn,” Eleanor Marx, The Woman Question
Friday 8 April 2016 ICON posting #5
Tuesday 12 April 2016
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy; John Ruskin, selection from Unto This Last
Thursday 14 April 2016
George Gissing, The Nether World
Tuesday 19 April 2016
George Gissing, The Nether World
Thursday 21April 2016
William Morris, “Art Under Plutocracy,” The Pilgrims of Hope
Friday 22 April 2016 ICON posting #6
Tuesday 26 April 2016
Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto
Thursday 28 April 2016
Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto
Tuesday 3 May 2016
John A. Hobson, selection from Imperialism (1902); Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Thursday 5 May 2016
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Friday 6 May 2016 ICON posting #7
Tuesday 10 May 2016 class summaries of final essay
Friday 13 May 2016 packet of final essay and ICON postings due; paper copy preferred