Date

Topic

Handouts
Hints for Reading Poetry & Fiction
Timeline & Reading Materials
Presentation Instructions

Refer to Norton Literature Online to contextualize each period

• Introduction & Timeline (1-25)
• "The Revolution Controversy" (148-9)
• Burke, Reflections (152-157)
• Wollstonecraft, Introduction to Vindications of Rights of Woman (170-174)
• Barbauld, "The Rights of Woman" (35-36)
• Hemans, "Casabianca" (868-70)
• British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution (Online)

Handouts
Wollstonecraft�s Vindications Summary

• Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (305), "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (259-262), Guide to the Lakes (Online), Rap of Wordsworth�s "Daffodils" (Online)
• D. Wordsworth, Alfoxden & Grasmere Journals (389-402)
• Smith, "On Being Cautioned" (41)
• Wollstonecraft, Letters Written (196-202)
• Coleridge, "The Eolian Harp" (426-28)
• Shelley, "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (766-68)
• Keats, Letter to George & Thomas Keats (942), "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (905), New Yorker Cartoon (Online)

Handouts
Table of Contents, Lyrical Ballads

Powerpoint
Landscape, Tourism & Beauty (pdf)

Relevant Websites
Literary Landscapes
A Picture of Britain, a Tate Museum exhibit of landscape artists from over 300 years
Lyrical Ballads, Renascence Editions
Lyrical Ballads: A Concordance
Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition
Images of the Aeolian Harp
The Life & Death of Dr. Syntax (BBC)

• Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper" in SoI & SoE (85 & 90), "The Little Black Boy" (84)
• Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (262-74)
• Coleridge, Chps.13 & 14 of Biographia Literaria (477-483)
• Shelley, Defense of Poetry (837-50)
• More, "The Sorrows of Yamba" (Online)
• Edgeworth, "The Irish Incognito" (228-42)

Handouts
ICE Writing Tips
Shelley�s Defense Comparison

Powerpoint
Race & Working Class (pdf)

Relevant Websites
The Blake Archive
Holy Soul Jelly Roll by Allen Ginsberg
Portrait of William Blake from the National Portrait Gallery, London
Blake Exhibit at the Tate Britain Museum
William Blake Online, a learning exhibit by the Tate Britain Museum

• "The Gothic & the Development of a Mass Readership" (577-79)
• Coleridge, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (430-46), "Kubla Khan" (446-49), Illustration (C8); "The Satanic Hero" (490-91), Modern References to Kubla Khan (Online)
• Robinson, "To the Poet Coleridge" (74)
• Byron, "Prometheus" (Online)
• Fuseli, "The Nightmare" Painting (C8)
• Lamb, Glenarvon excerpt (Online)
• Scott, "Wandering Willie�s Tale," (410-23)

Handouts
Gothic Novel Background

Powerpoint
The Gothic Beyond the Romantics (pdf)

Relevant Websites
Gothic Exhibition at the Tate Britain
"Xanadu" in Oxford English Dictionary
Online Resources for the Gothic Novel

• Wordsworth, "London, 1802" (319)
• Robinson, "A London Summer Morning" (69)
• Blake, "London" (94)
• Shelley, "Ozymandias" (768), "England in 1819" (771)
• Smith, "Ozymandias" (Online)
• Byron, "She Walks in Beauty" (612), Don Juan (670-697) (deleted 9/10)
• Hood, Parodic Illustration of "She Walks in Beauty" (Online)

Relevant Websites
London Index images of 19th-Century London (online)
Byronic Images
Pop Culture References to Romantic Literature (Romantic Circles)
Fictional Representations of Romantics & Romanticism (Romantic Circles)
Movies about the Romantics or Romantic Era

[Optional] Consider testing yourself against the Norton Romantic Period Quiz (Online)

• Introduction & Timeline (979-1002)
• Dickens, "A Visit to Newgate" (1239-48)
• Darwin, Origin of Species (1539-45)
• Search Database of Mid-Victorian Wood Engraved Illustrations (1862) using Keyword Search: "reading"; bring 2-3 images to class

Handouts
Transition to the Victorians
Images of Colonialism
Images of Evolution

Relevant Websites
Royal Bedlam Hospital (Dickens compares to Newgate Prison)

• Patmore, "Angel in the House" (1585-87)
• Ruskin, Of Queens� Gardens (1587-89)
• Tennyson, "Lady of Shalott (1114-19)
• Morris, "Defence of Guenevere" (1483-91)
• R. Browning, "My Last Duchess" (1255)
• E.B. Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1084-85)

• Jane Eyre (pub 1847) (Author's Preface & Chps. 1-17)

• See Reading Points to help with Jane Eyre

• Eliot, "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" (1342)

Relevant Websites
Jane Eyre Revisited
Stage Production of Jane Eyre

• Jane Eyre
(Chps. 17-38)

• See Reading Points to help with Jane Eyre

Relevant Websites
Revising the Ending, YouTube 

• Continue Jane Eyre & Empire/Imperialism Discussions
• Pear�s Soap Ad from 1899 (Online)
• Kipling, "White Man�s Burden" (1821)
• Imperial Views (Online)
• Chamberlain, The True Conception of Empire (1630-32)
• First Report of the Children�s Employment Commission (1563-65)
• Engels, The Great Towns (1565-72)
• Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (1576-77)

Relevant Websites
Victorian Periodicals & the Empire

• Ruskin, Of Pathetic Fallacy (1322-24)
• Rossetti, "Goblin Market" (1466-78)
• Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1271-1280)
• Rossetti, "The Blessed Damozel" (1443-47); see accompanying illustration (Online)

Relevant Websites
Christopher Walken reads "The Raven"
Overview of "Goblin Market"

Group Presentation on Rossetti Archive

10/3 & 10/4 Banned Books Week
See here for events: www.sjsu.edu/reading/calendar.htm

• Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1698-1740)
• Trials of Oscar Wilde (Online)

[Optional] Consider testing yourself against the Norton Victorian Period Quiz (Online)

Mid-Term Exam
(Bring exam booklets & pens)

Modernism

Disillusionment with Victorians & The Great War

• Introduction & Timeline (1827-50)
• Blast (2009-15)
• Pound, "In a Station of the Metro" (2008)
• Yeats, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" (Online)
• Owen, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" (1971)

10/11, 3-4:30, Rose Castillo Guilbault (King Library, 2^nd Flr)
Author of Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America

• Eliot, "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (2289-93)
• Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (pub. 1925)

Relevant Websites
Listen to Eliot read "Prufrock" (Salon.com)
Flapper Jane

• Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
• Woolf, "Professions for Women" (2152-55)

Relevant Websites
"Mrs. Dalloway" Band, Netherlands

Deadline for Student Essay Contest on ZZ Packer�s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere ($250 Prize)

• Finish Mrs. Dalloway discussions
• Joyce, "The Dead" (2172-2200)
• Lawrence, "Why the Novel Matters" (2269-73)
• Smith "Thoughts about the Person from Porlock" (2375-77)

• Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
(finish entire novel)
• Rushdie, "English is an Indian Literary Language" (2540-41)

• A Clockwork Orange
- read remainder of novel
• Rushdie, "The Prophet�s Hair" (2863-68)

Handouts
Study Question & Questions for A Clockwork Orange

November 8^th, 7:30pm Salman Rushdie, Morris Dailey Hall
See Other Authors & Discuss Books at the CLA Events

Handouts
Discussion Questions

Thanksgiving - No Class Meeting

• Jackson, Patchwork Girl
• "Code," rssgallery (Online)

Relevant Websites
N. Katherine Hayles New Horizons
Introduction to Patchwork Girl
Helpful Guide for Reading Patchwork Girl
Wordpress
Interview with Shelly Jackson
"Skin," another project by Jackson
Using StorySpace

A new, networked novel: Flight Paths

Web References from Class Discussion
Introducing the Book (Video, YouTube)
Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us (Video, Youtube)
Code from RSSGallery
Turning the Pages, British Library
Today's Information Fluency (Video)
Semaphore Exhibit
Columbine Massacre Role Playing Game Trailer (Video, YouTube)
Spore game Trailer (Video, YouTube)
Review of Amazon's reader, Kindle

• Gaiman, Sandman: Endless Nights (2004)
• Electronic Literature Collection Vol. I (Online)

[Optional] Consider testing yourself against the Norton 20^th Century Quiz (Online)

Review

Final Exam
Monday, December 17th, 9:45am-12pm
(Bring exam booklets)

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