Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature

Syllabus

January 20-22 Introduction; George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (bk. I)

January 27-29 Daniel Deronda, bks. II-V

February 3-5 Daniel Deronda, bks. VI-VIII

February 10-12 poetry: Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Wreck of the Deutschland"

February 17-19 Amy Levy, Mary Coleridge, Michael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper)

February 24-26 George Gissing, New Grub Street

March 2-4 Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean

March 9-11 William Morris, News from Nowhere, Morris essays, “The Society of the Future,” “True and False Society”

spring break (suggested reading Jude the Obscure)
after break, annotated bibliography, abstract and brief outline for paper

March 23-25 Morris slides/Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

March 30 Jude the Obscure

April 1 trip to special collections

April 6-8 Jude the Obscure

April 13-15 Christian Watt Papers; Celtic songs

April 20-22 poems: W. H. Henley, Thomas Hardy

May 4-6 poems: W. B. Yeats, Charlotte Mew

finals week: last meeting for brief summary of papers; essay due