ENL 3251 VICTORIAN LITERATURE Dr. C. Snodgrass; 4336 Turlington; 376-8362; [email protected] © Chris Snodgrass 2010

SYLLABUS: READING SCHEDULE

REQUIRED TEXTS (books available at Orange & Blue Textbooks):

First Photocopy Supplement, including poems and essays not included elsewhere (Note: purchase at Orange and Blue Textbooks) Alfred Tennyson, Selected Poems (Dover) Matthew Arnold poems (free download: http://www.poemhunter.com/matthew-arnold/) R. L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Dover) Robert Browning, My Last Duchess and Other Poems (Dover) A. W. Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (Broadview) Second Photocopy Supplement, including texts not available elsewhere (note: purchase at Orange and Blue Textbooks) Aubrey Beardsley, Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley (Dover) Wilde, Complete Shorter Fiction (Oxford) Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan (free download: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/790)

SCHEDULE

QUESTIONING GOD, COUNTRY, & CULTURE:

Week 1 Introduction Background: Victorian Period ―Some Reasons Why Americans Value the British‖ ―Facts, Themes, and Principles of Victorian Culture‖ ―A Few of the Dichotomies that Haunted Victorians‖ ―Chronicle of Some Important Events Bearing on Victorian Age & Aftermath‖ ―Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism‖ ―Choice of Group Topics‖

Week 2 Alfred Lord Tennyson — introductory note on Tennyson; ―The Lotus Eaters,‖ ―The Lady of Shalott,‖ ―Ulysses,‖ ―Locksley Hall,‖ ―[Tears, idle tears],‖ ―Tithonus‖; introductory note on In Memoriam; from In Memoriam: poems 4, 5, 34, 41, 54, 55, 56, 57, 108, 124; ―Charge of the Light Brigade,‖ ―Vastness.‖

A. Tennyson 1857

Week 3 Matthew Arnold — introductory note on Arnold Poetry: ―The Forsaken Merman,‖ ―To Marguerite,‖ ―To Marguerite— Continued,‖ ―The Buried Life,‖ ―Dover Beach,‖ ―The Scholar Gypsy,‖ ―Self-Deception,‖ ―Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse‖ Criticism: ―Preface to Poems (1853),‖ excerpts from ―Study of Poetry‖

M. Arnold 1883

Week 4 Robert Louis Stevenson — introductory note on Stevenson; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND “THE WOMAN QUESTION”:

Week 5 Robert Browning — introductory reading on Browning, ―The Last Ride Together,‖ ―The Statue and the Bust,‖ ―Prospice,‖ ―A Woman‘s Last Word,‖ ―The Laboratory,‖ ―My Last Duchess,‖ ―Porphyria‘s Lover,‖ ―Abt Vogler‖ ―The Bishop Orders His Tomb,‖ ―Fra Lippo Lippi,‖ ―An Epistle, from Karshish‖ R. Browning 1865