English 671-010 Professor Jonathan Grossman Fall 1998, Tues 12-3 Office Hours: T. 3:30-5:30 Willard 135 Office: 203C Facilities Introduction to the Nineteenth-Century British Novel REQUIRED TEXTS William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794) Norton, ISBN 0393008614 James Hogg, Justified Sinner (1824) Oxford, ISBN 0192815563 Mary Prince, History of Mary Prince (1831) U Michigan P, ISBN 0472084100 Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838) Penguin, ISBN 0140430172 Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848) Oxford, ISBN 0192817507 Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1860) Oxford, ISBN 0192815792 Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) Penguin, ISBN 0140431357 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) Penguin, ISBN 014043187X 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.). Required Reserve Reading The following required readings are available on reserve in the library and at my office for 2-hour loan. · M.M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, pp.301-355 · Jonathan Dollimore, Sexual Dissidence, pp.3-18, 64-78 · Steven Marcus, Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class, pp.131-199 · D.A. Miller, The Novel and the Police, pp.146-191 · J. Hillis Miller, Fiction and Repetition, chapter 5 · Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain, pp.3-51 · Eve Sedgwick, Between Men, chapter 6 Strongly recommended: Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, pp.3-13, 81-114 REQUIREMENTS · one class presentation-discussion No monologues longer than 15 minutes; discussion of a topic does not have a time limit. 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. · 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) 11/27 Hardy 12/1 Hardy, J. Hillis Miller 12/8 Wilde, Dollimore Final 18-25pp paper due 12/15.