Assignments
Instructor:
Florence Boos, 319 English Philosophy Building
Office hour: Tuesday 4-5 and by appointment
Phone, e: 335-0434, 338-4383 (answering machine), florence-boos@uiowa.edu
Texts: (in IMU Bookstore)
George
Eliot, Daniel Deronda
George Gissing, New Grub Street
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean
William Morris, News from Nowhere
Thomas Collins and Vivienne Rundle, eds., Broadview Anthology of
Victorian Poetry
Herbert Tucker, ed., A Companion to Victorian Culture
handouts for Christian Watt Papers, Celtic songs, any poetry
not included in Broadview anthology, several critical articles or book
chapters
Our class webpage, twist.lib.uiowa.edu/latevict, contains pages for
“study questions” and “resources.” The latter
contains bibliographies, art galleries, sample comps lists, links to
Victorian sites and other materials (for a fuller version, see /~english/faculty/boos/links.html).
You are asked to post to the discussion page every other week, for a
total of 7 roughly two page commentaries during the term. (Please number
and title your postings, e. g. posting no. 1, Point-of-View in Daniel
Deronda). Some of these postings, at least, should draw on outside
sources (painting, book from special collections, critical article,
periodical) and at least three should respond in some way to the posting
of another graduate student.
You may write two essays of 12+ pages each or one longer essay of +/-
25 pages which develops a sustained discussion or critical argument.
You are welcome to discuss the topic/s and its/their organization with
me. If you submit two essays, one should come in before spring break;
if you choose the single-paper option, you should submit a title, abstract,
bibliography and rough outline directly after spring break. If you hand
in a rough draft a week or more before the essay is due, I’ll
give preliminary suggestions and comments. During finals week, in lieu
of an official exam, we will have a class session in which students
describe their respective projects.