Cultural Studies: Schedule of Activities and Assignments

Week 1 : Introduction

T 1/22 Introduction to the course. What do we mean by Victorian? What is cultural studies? (overview handout). Go over assignments.
For Thursday read handout: “Cultural Studies” and Arnold: “The Function of Criticism” (also found in the Norton Anthology)

R 1/24 discuss readings “Cultural Studies” and “The Function of Criticism”; introduce Victorian websites.

Readings for next week:
Bleak House (BH) 1-4

Stuart Hall OR Raymond Williams (on d2l)

(R) Prologue to Parallel Lives (PL)

(R) Selections from BH, App D

**Week 2: What is Cultural Studies?

T 1/29 Discuss BH 1-4. Weekly pattern for BH: read chapters and blog before class Tuesday; post blog replies for Thursday

R 1/31 Brief presentation on Court System; fread from BH (appendix D)
Discuss BH and blog replies.
Discuss PL prolgoue. **Everyone hand in first position paper on PL prologue: what are Rose’s assumptions about Victorian culture? About marriage? about herself? How does this reading introduce some of the areas of concern in cultural studies? Apply cultural studies readings.

Readings for next week:
BH 5-10

 Reading on periodicals; penny dreadful (D2L)

 (TR) Selections from Varney the Vampire

(TR) JS Mill:  from The Subjection of Women and Autobiography

Week 3

T  2/5 BH 5-10.
D2l reading on fiction/periodicals

R  2/7 from Varney the Vampire
JS Mill:  from The Subjection of Women and Autobiography
Discuss BH and blog replies

Readings for next week:
BH 11-16

LAS vol. 1 (first few chapters)

(R) Manse (sensation fiction) on d2l

Week 4: Sensation Novels, Lady Audley’s Secret

T  2/12  LAS chapters;
BH 11-16
  
R  2/14 Essay on sensation fiction (Manse, on d2l)
Report on Sensation Fiction (Weibley, Sutton)
Discuss BH and blog replies

Readings for next week:
BH 17-22

LAS vol. 1

(TR) Parallel Lives (PL): Mill and Taylor

**Week 5

T  2/19 discuss LAS vol 1, all week
BH 17-22

R  2/21 Parallel Lives (PL): Mill and Taylor

Readings for next week:
BH 23-29

LAS vol 2

Ruskin, from “Modern Painters” and  “Stones of Venice”  (NA & d2l)

poems from Rossetti (?)

**Week 6

T  2/26 discuss LAS vol. 2, all week
BH 23-29

R  2/28  “Modern Painters”  & “Stones of Venice.” Discussion of Pre-Raphaelites./ DG Rossetti

Readings for next week:
BH 30-35

LAS vol 3

PL: Ruskin and Grey

** Week 7

T 3/5 discuss LAS vol 3, all week
BH 30-35

R  3/7   Report on Art/Ways of Seeing (Collins, Sample, Keevil)
PL: Ruskin and Grey

Readings for next week:
BH 36-42

"Marketing Affect" from Mixed Feelings (on d2l)

(R) Reading on women and neurosis; medical views of women (d2l)

The Woman in White  vol. 1 (first few chapters)

Week 8
T  3/12  BH 36-42
Begin The Woman in White  vol. 1

"Marketing Affect: The 19th c. Sensation Novel" from Mixed Feelings (on d2l)

R  3/14 Report on Medicine and Mental Health (Smith, Johnson, Fourlas)

opt: Paper on LAS

Readings for Week 10:
BH  43- 53

 The Woman in White  vol. 1

BH: sections of Appendix C

Week 9 SPRING BREAK

BH 43-53 (I’ll blog!) and The Woman in White  vol. 1

Readings for Week 10:
BH  43- 53

 The Woman in White  vol. 1

BH: sections of Appendix C

**Week 10   Women, Science, and The Woman in White

3/26   all week: finish  The Woman in White  vol. 1
Discuss BH 43-53

R  3/28 finish  The Woman in White  vol. 1
BH App. C; discussion of final papers

Readings for next week:
BH 54-59

WIW vol. 2

Eliot, short stories (NA and d2l)

**Week 11

T 4/2 all week:  WIW vol. 2
BH 54 -59
Report on Women’s Legal Rights (Nelson, Baker, Elicker)

R  4/4   Eliot, short stories (NA and d2l)

Readings for next week: BH 60-67

WIW vol. 3

From Darwin The Origin of Species (ch iii "Struggle for Existence"and xv "Recapitulation and Conclusion"); GH Lewes The Physiology of Common Life, ch. viii "Feeling and Thinking"

**Week 12

T  4/9 all week:   WIW vol. 3
FINISH BH 60-67!
Proposal due: final paper

R  4/11 Darwin; GH Lewes; WIW up to 359
Report on Science/nature (Oppman, Washington, Madison)

Readings for next week:

PL: Eliot and GH Lewes
BH: Appendix B

(?) “New Woman” debate (d2l)

Week 13

T  4/16 wrap up; BH App B
R  4/18 PL: Eliot and GH Lewes

opt: Paper on WIW, BH

Readings for next week:

PL: Hogarth and Charles Dickens

The Woman Who Did

**Week 14: The 1890s and The Woman Who Did

T 4/23  all week:  The Woman Who Did
PL Dickens
T  4/25 sections of  WWD: App B in class

Annotated bibliography due. Follow the advice and format at Purdue's OWL. Here is a sample MLA annotation.

Readings for next week:

WWD: Appendix C and D

Week 15

T 4/30WWD: Appendix C and D
Report: the 1890s (Henry, Barr)

R 5/2 wrap up? conferences?