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		1/13	Introduction Timeline Victorian Studies references
1/18	Carlyle, Past and Present Books 1-2 Landow, Sage Writing: Intro and Prophetic Pattern Carlyle chronology Examiner: Stockport cellar A. W. Pugin, Contrasts	1/20	Carlyle, Past and Present Books 3-4 The 7-foot hat Sartor Resartus Bk II, chap. 9 Aristocracy versus Middle Class
1/25	Reforming Art Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic” (use Penguin text) and conclusion Arnold, “Preface” Norton 1375ff Tennyson, “Lotos-Eaters,” “Ulysses” Norton 1119ff Collegiate Gothic William Morse designs Adam Smith, manufacture of pins Carlyle, “Irish Saint”	1/27	Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, bks 1-3 R. Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi” Norton 1271ff Fra Lippo Lippi, “Virgin and Child” Fra Angelico, “Madonna and Child” Masaccio, “Virgin and Child” R. Browning, “Essay on Shelley”
2/1	Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh bks 4-9	2/3	The Woman Question Mill, “Subjection of Women,” chaps 1-2 Ellis, Women of England selection Norton 1581ff Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens” selection Norton 1587ff Separate Spheres “Marriage Declaration” vocation (OED)
2/8	C. Brontë, Jane Eyre vol 1 Elizabeth Rigby's Review in the Quarterly Review	2/10	C. Rossetti, Norton 1461-78, “Convent Threshold” Latest date for meeting to discuss paper topic (2/12)
2/15	C. Brontë, Jane Eyre vol 2	2/17	Nightingale, “Cassandra”
2/22	C. Brontë, Jane Eyre vol 3	2/24	Social Critique Arnold, “The Scholar Gypsy,” “Dover Beach,” “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” Norton 1361ff Essay topic due (by 2/26)
3/1	Mill, On Liberty chaps. 1-3 From “A Crisis in My Mental History”	3/3	R. Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover,” “My Last Duchess,” Norton 1252, 1255, Tennyson, “Locksley Hall,” Norton1129ff C. Rossetti, “Cousin Kate,” “Sister Maude” Browning on reading his poetry
3/8	Spring Break: NO CLASS	3/10	Spring Break: NO CLASS
3/15	Dickens, Our Mutual Friend Bk 1 Discussion of critical debates due	3/17	Arnold, Culture and Anarchy Intro-chap 2
3/22	Dickens, Our Mutual Friend Bk 2 Thomas Hood, “Song of the Shirt”	3/24	Culture and Anarchy chaps 3-5, 6, sec. 1
3/29	Dickens, Our Mutual Friend Bk 3 Paper proposal due	3/31	Ruskin, Unto This Last Barrett Browning, “The Cry of the Children” Norton 1079ff
4/5	Easter holiday: no class	4/7	Dickens, Our Mutual Friend Bk 4
4/12	Self-Reform Eliot, Silas Marner	4/14	Tennyson, “Mariana,” “The Lady of Shalott” R. Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover,” “The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed’s,” “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” Norton 1252, 1259, 1266 “Johannes Agricola in Meditation” Arnold, “Isolation: To Marguerite,” “To Marguerite: Continued” Norton 1354ff C. Rossetti, “Shut Out”
4/19	Seminar paper meetings “Conference paper” due 24 hours before meeting	4/21	Seminar paper meetings
4/26	Presentations	4/28	Presentations
5/5	Finals week: seminar paper due by 5 p.m.