Calendar 336 F11

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336 CALENDAR
Assignments from the Longman are followed by the page number on which the selection begins, not the only page you are responsible for reading! Assignments found in Blain are indicated as (VWP) and also include the page number on which the selection begins.

INTRODUCTIONS
WEEK 1
 * T J 11 (336)
 * Introductions/syllabus overview/course preview
 * [Pater: Conclusion from The Renaissance (1698)]
 * [Tennyson: "The Lady of Shalott" (1181)]


 * R J 13 (336)
 * "Introduction" (1049)
 * “Religion and Science” (1291)
 * "Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen" (1520)
 * "Travel and Empire" (1746)
 * "Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin de Siècle" (1885)
 * [Foss: Teaching Philosophy]

HARD TIMES
WEEK 2
 * T J 18 (336)
 * C. Brontë: Jane Eyre, Chs. I-XV (1-15)


 * R J 20 (336)
 * C. Brontë: Jane Eyre, Chs. XVI -XXVI (16-26)

WEEK 3
 * T J 25 (336)
 * C. Brontë: Jane Eyre, Chs. XXVII-XXXVIII (27-38)
 * [Meg]


 * R J 27 (336)
 * Dickens: A Christmas Carol (1376)
 * [Helen]

WEEK 4
 * T F 01 (336)
 * Tennyson: from In Memoriam A. H. H. (1204)
 * Hemans: "Epitaph on Mr. W—" (VWP 22)
 * [Courtney]


 * R F 03 (336)
 * E. B. Browning: "To George Sand: A Desire" (1144), "To George Sand: A Recognition" (1144), Sonnet 22 (1146) and Sonnet 43 (1148) from Sonnets from the Portuguese, "A Man's Requirements" (VWP 73)
 * Tennyson: "Mariana" (1179)
 * R. Browning: "Porphyria's Lover" (1325)
 * Hemans: "Woman and Fame" (VWP 39), "To a Wandering Female Singer" (VWP 40)
 * Darwin: "This is the Question" (1290)
 * [Nick]

WEEK 5
 * T F 08 (336)
 * Tennyson: "Locksley Hall" (1196)
 * E. B. Browning: "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" (VWP 63), "A Curse for a Nation" (VWP 75)
 * Prince: from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave pdf
 * [Samantha D.]


 * R F 10 (336)
 * Tennyson: "The Lotos-Eaters" (1185), "Ulysses" (1189)
 * R. Browning: "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" (1326), "My Last Duchess" (1328), "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" (1332)
 * [Joe]

MIDDLEMARCH
WEEK 6

WEEK 7
 * T F 15 (336)
 * Dutt: "Lakshman," "Jogadhya Uma," "Buttoo," "Near Hastings," "France 1870," "The Tree of Life," "On the Fly-leaf of Erckmann-Chatrian's Novel Entitled 'Madame Thérèse'," "Sonnet--Baugmaree," "Sonnet--The Lotus," "Our Casuarina Tree" link to texts
 * [Tricia]
 * R F 17 (336)
 * Dutt: "The Royal Ascetic and the Hind," "The Legend of Dhruva," "Sindhu," "Prehlad," "Sita" link to texts
 * [Mary]
 * T F 22 (336)
 * Dutt: "Savitri" link to text


 * [Caitlin]


 * R F 24 (336)
 * Carroll:	from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1715), from Through the Looking Glass (1721), "The Hunting of the Snark" link to text
 * [Kyle]

WEEK 8--SPRING BREAK

WEEK 9


 * T M 08 (336)
 * Darwin: from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1272), from The Descent of Man (1277)
 * Arnold:	"Dover Beach" (1562)
 * C. Rossetti: "A Birthday" (1648), "Up-Hill" (1650), "What Would I Give?" (1665), "A Better Resurrection" (VWP 136)
 * Swinburne: "Hymn to Proserpine" (1690) link to text
 * [Erin]


 * R M 10 (336)
 * Mill: from The Subjection of Women (1121), Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands (1129)
 * E. B. Browning: "A Musical Instrument" (1174)
 * C. Rossetti: "In an Artist’s Studio" (1647), "'No, Thank You, John'" (1663), "Promises Like Pie-Crust" (1664)
 * Webster: from "The Castaway" (VWP 154)
 * Menken: "Judith" (VWP 170)
 * [Catherine]

WEEK 10


 * T M 15 (336)
 * Tennyson: "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1235)
 * FitzGerald: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr link to text
 * Pfeiffer: "The Fight at Rorke's Drift" (VWP 98)
 * Seacole: from The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole pdf
 * [Shannon]


 * R M 17 (336)
 * R. Browning: "Love Among the Ruins" (1338), "The Last Ride Together" (1355), "Two in the Campagna" link to text
 * Arnold:	 "The Buried Life" (1565), "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" (1567)
 * D. G. Rossetti: "The Blessed Damozel" (1612)
 * Swinburne: "A Forsaken Garden" link to text, "Itylus" | doc
 * [Kathleen]

MADDING CROWD
WEEK 11


 * T M 22 (336)
 * Wilde: "Impression du Matin" (1821), "The Harlot's House" (1822), "Symphony in Yellow" (1823), from "The Decay of Lying" doc, from "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1824), Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1828), Aphorisms (1870), from De Profundis (1872)
 * [Ashlee]


 * R M 24 (336)
 * Wilde: "The Happy Prince" link to text, "The Remarkable Rocket" link to text, "The Birthday of the Infanta" link to text, "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" link to text
 * [Stephanie]

WEEK 12


 * T M 29 (336)
 * Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest (1829)
 * [Kaitlin]
 * R M 31 (336)
 * Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1780)
 * [Jaclyn and Kevin]

WEEK 13

WEEK 14
 * T A 05 (336)
 * Tennyson: "Crossing the Bar" (1259)
 * C. Rossetti: "Sleeping at Last" (1666)
 * Hopkins: "God's Grandeur" (1702), "The Windhover" (1704), "Pied Beauty" (1704), "[Carrion Comfort]" (1708)
 * Blind: "Motherhood" (VWP 189)
 * Naden: "Natural Selection" (VWP 251)
 * Kendall: "Lay of the Trilobite" (VWP 311), "Ballad of the Ichthyosaurus" (VWP 314), "The Philanthropist and the Jelly-fish" (VWP 317)
 * [Samantha B. and Sarah]
 * R A 07 (336)
 * Pfeiffer: "Any Husband to Many a Wife" (VWP 109)
 * Blind: "Noonday Rest" (VWP 206)
 * Field: "Irises" (VWP 224)), "Tiger-lilies" (VWP 225)
 * Kendall: "Woman's Future" (VWP 318)
 * M. Coleridge: "The Other Side of a Mirror" (VWP 287)
 * Levy: "Sinfonia Eroica" (VWP 336), "The First Extra" (VWP 352)
 * Meynell: "Renouncement" doc
 * [Travis and Camille]


 * T A 12 (336)
 * Kipling: "Gunga Din" (1742), "The Widow at Windsor" (1744), "Recessional" (1745), "The White Man's Burden" (1777)
 * Blind: "Mourning Women" (VWP 206)
 * Watson: "Ballad of the Bird-Bride" (VWP 260), "A Ballad of the Were-wolf" (VWP 271)
 * Yeats: "The Stolen Child" doc "The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland" doc "Who Goes with Fergus?" doc "The Madness of King Goll" doc


 * R A 14 (336)
 * Field: "La Gioconda" (1896), "A Pen-Drawing of Leda" (1896), "'A Girl'" (1897)
 * Symons: "Pastel" (1903), "White Heliotrope" (1904), from The Decadent Movement in Literature (1904), from Preface to Silhouettes (1906)
 * Johnson: "The Destroyer of a Soul" (1909), "The Dark Angel" (1909), "A Decadent's Lyric" (1911)
 * Douglas: "In Praise of Shame" (1912), "Two Loves" (1912)
 * Custance: "The Masquerade" (1915), "Statues" (1915), "The White Witch" (1916)
 * Gray: "Mishka" doc
 * Dowson: "Cynara" doc

CHANNEL FIRING
WEEK 15
 * T A 19 (336)
 * KEMP SYMPOSIUM—NO CLASS


 * R A 21 (336)
 * Student small-group presentations

FINAL EXAMINATION—Tuesday, April 26 at 8:30 a.m.

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