English 830-010
Spring 2000, W 12-2:45
Memorial 125

Professor Jonathan Grossman
Office: 315 Memorial
Office Hours: M 11-12, W 3-4
grossman@udel.edu

Cultural Legal Studies: Law, Justice, and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century England

Required Texts

• Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (Norton) 0393311694
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein ed. Butler. (Oxford; ISBN: 0192833669)
• Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian (Oxford) 019283567X
• George Eliot, Silas Marner (Oxford) 0192834584
• Charles Dickens, Bleak House (Oxford) 0192834010
• Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds (Oxford) 0192834665
• Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories (Oxford) 0192835378

We will use the editions of the texts that are listed above. You should read endnotes and other editorial matter (appendices, notes on the text, etc.).

Books have been ordered through Rainbow Books, Main Street, Newark.

Required Reserve Reading

The following required readings are xeroxes (typically excerpts) available on reserve in the library and at my office for 2-hour loan:

• Teresa de Lauretis, Technologies of Gender
• Ellen Moers, Literary Women
• Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
• Christine Krueger, "Literary Defenses and Medical Prosecutions"
• Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"
• Alexander Welsh, George Eliot and Blackmail
• Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
• D.A. Miller, The Novel and the Police
• John Kucich, The Power of Lies
• Franco Moretti, Signs Taken for Wonders

Requirements

• one class presentation-discussion
• Writing conference, week of 4/19
• 18-20pp original research paper, due 5/19.

Schedule

2/9	Introduction

2/16	Wollstonecraft, Maria (1798); 
Mellor's "Introduction;" de Lauretis; Foucault (handout)

2/23	Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)

3/1	Shelley; Moers; Butler

3/8	Scott, The Heart of Midlothian (1818)

3/15	Scott; Kreuger; Althusser

3/22	Dickens, Bleak House (1852-3)

3/29 	[Break]

4/5	Dickens; Foucault

4/12	Dickens; D.A. Miller

4/19	Eliot, Silas Marner (1861); Welsh

4/26	Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds (1873)

4/27	Recommended: Professor John Plotz, Johns Hopkins, 12:30-2:00

5/3	Trollope, Kucich

5/10	Doyle, Selected Adventures (1890s); Moretti

5/17	Conclusion

Final Papers Due 5/19

Return