English 3335: Reading and Discussion Summary
Please note: artwork, notes, and/or additional materials for each day are available in the Modules
for each unit on Canvas.
Page numbers are from the Longman Anthology. The reading assignment includes the biography
of each author.
VICTORIAN INDUSTRY AND SOCIETY
Aug 30
Ruskin, Modern Painters, “Greatness in Art” and “Of Water, As Painted by Turner” (1492-95)
Sep 1
Gaskell, “Our Society at Cranford” (1432-47)
“Victoria and the Victorians” and “The Age of Energy and Invention” (1049-55)
Sep 6
“The Industrial Catastrophe” and “The Age of Reform” (1057-61)
“The Industrial Landscape” (1088-89)
Kemble, “First Ride on a Steam Engine” (1091-92)
Macaulay, “The Natural Progress of Society” (1092-94)
Dickens, Dombey and Son (1097-98)
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1101-08)
Sep 8
Carlyle, Past and Present (1074-87)
Sep 13
Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1373-1425)
Sep 15
Dickens, A Christmas Carol, cont.
VICTORIAN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
Sep 20
Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott” (1175-77, 1181-85)
“The Woman Question” (1061-63) and “Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen” (1520-21)
Sep 22
Mill, The Subjection of Women and “Statement” (1113-15, 1121-29)
Sep 27
E. B. Browning, Aurora Leigh, Book One (1138-40, 1155-62)
Sep 29
Cobbe, As Told by Herself (1522-24)
Ellis, The Women of England (1525-27)
Norton, “A Letter to the Queen” (1532-35)
Beeton, The Book of Household Management (1542-44)
Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens” (1544-47)
Oct 4
R. Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover” (1322-26) and “My Last Duchess” (1328-29)
E. B. Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1145-48): #13, #21, #43
Oct 6
Morris, “The Defence of Guenevere” (1666-75)
Oct 11
C. Rossetti, “In An Artist’s Studio” (1642-44, 1647-48) and Goblin Market (1650-63)
Oct 13
C. Rossetti, Goblin Market, cont.
Oct 18
Midterm Exam
Oct 20
No Class: Fall Break
VICTORIAN SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Oct 25
“The Age of Doubt” (1055-57) and “Religion and Science” (1291-92)
Charles Lyell and William Herschel (handout)
Macaulay, Lord Bacon (1292-93)
Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle, chapter 17 (1260-1262, 1269-72)
Tennyson, “The Kraken” (1175-78)
Oct 27
Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H., Prologue, 3, 50, 54-56, 96, 118, and Epilogue (1204-35)
Nov 1
Darwin, Origin of Species and Descent of Man (1272-83)
Nov 3
No Class: NAVSA Conference
Nov 8
Arnold, “Dover Beach” (1557-60, 1562)
Nov 10
Gosse, Father and Son (1317-21)
Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur,” “The Windhover,” “As Kingfishers,” “No Worst” (1701-08)
VICTORIAN FANTASY AND THE FIN DE SIECLE
Nov 15
“The Age of Reading” (1066-73)
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1713-26)
Parliamentary Papers (1094-96)
Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (1108-13)
Nov 17
Doyle, “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1466-82)
Nov 22
“The Age of Empire” (1063-65) and “Travel and Empire” (1746-48)
Kipling, “Gunga Din” (1726-27, 1742-1743) and “White Man’s Burden” (1776-1778)
Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education (1753-57)
Nov 24
No Class: Thanksgiving
Nov 29
“The Age of Self-Scrutiny” (1068-73)
Wilde, “Impressions du Matin” (1818-21) and Aphorisms (1870-72)
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (excerpts on Canvas)
Film: The Picture of Dorian Gray (MGM, 1945)
Dec 1
Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1828-29)
Hyde, The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1879-84)
Dec 6
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1829-69)
Dec 8
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, cont.