Requirements & Schedule

English 671: Introduction to the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Prof. Grossman

Requirements

• one class presentation-discussion
  1. Introduce very, very briefly some of the broad ideas that you find relevant and important to the text/critic/author.
  2. FOCUS narrowly on one passage and analyze in detail. Close read.
  3. Leave us with some mind-opening questions and provocative ideas.
  No monologues longer than 15 minutes; discussion of a topic does not have a time limit
• 18-25pp original research paper, due 12/15.

Schedule

9/1	Introduction

9/8	Godwin	

9/15	Godwin

9/22	Hogg, Sedgwick

9/29	Prince, Scarry

10/6	Dickens

	
10/13	Dickens, Bakhtin

10/20 	Gaskell

10/27	Gaskell, Marcus

11/3	no class (election day)

11/10	Collins

11/17	Collins, D.A. Miller (recommended Foucault)	

11/24	Hardy

12/1 	Hardy, J. Hillis Miller

12/8	Wilde, Dollimore

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