English 641 The Victorian Novel Spring 1999
6:15-9:00pm Wednesday; Grainger 110; Dr. Lund (Grainger 223; 395-2168; Office Hours: MW 10:00-11:00; TTR 11:00-12:00; and by appointment) http://web.lwc.edu/staff/mlund/mlund.html
January 13: Introduction: Men and Women
20: Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey chpts 1-12; Charles
Dickens's Barnaby Rudge (Master Humphrey's Clock,
13 February 1841) chapter 1; Anthony Trollope's
Phineas Finn (St. Paul's Magazine, October 1867)
chapters 1-4; Mary Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret
(Sixpenny Magazine, Janaury 1862) chapter 1
27: Agnes Grey; Phineas Finn 5-11; Lady Audley's Secret
chapters I:2-10
February 3: Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1848) chpts 1-12;
Phineas Finn 12-19; Barnaby Rudge 2-16
10: Mary Barton chpts 13-24; Phineas Finn 20-23; Lady
Audley's Secret I:11-19
17: Mary Barton chpts 25-38; Phineas Finn 24-26;
Barnaby Rudge 17-32
24: Wilkie Collins, Basil volume 1 (1852); Phineas Finn
27-30; Lady Audley's Secret II:1-8
March 3: Phineas Finn 31-46; Paper # 1 Due
* * * Spring Break * * *
17: Basil volume 2; Phineas Finn 47-50; Barnaby Rudge
33-48
24: Basil volume 3; Phineas Finn 51-53; Lady Audley's
Secret II: 9-13; III:1-2
31: William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon (Fraser's
Magazine, January-December 1844; one volume 1856)
chapters 1-10; Phineas Finn 54-57; Barnaby Rudge
49-64
April 7: Barry Lyndon 11-19; Phineas Finn 58-61; Lady
Audley's Secret III:3-10
14 George Eliot's "Amos Barton" (Blackwood's Magazine
January 1857; included in the one volume Scenes of
Clerical Life, 1858); Phineas Finn 62-72; Barnaby
Rudge 65-80
21: Eliot's "Janet's Repentence" (October 1857; in
Scenes); Phineas Finn 73-76 (May 1869); Lady
Audley's Secret; Barnaby Rudge 81, Chapter the
Last (27 November 1841); Paper # 2 Due
28: Final Exam
Course Requirements: Submit one-page journal entries at the beginning of each class, with the exception of the April 16 meeting (400 points); make a brief oral report on an essay about gender in the nineteenth century (100 points); write one short critical paper without secondary sources (100 points; March 3); write on long critical paper using secondary sources (300 points; April 23); take a final exam (100 points).
Grading: You should save all returned written work from the course for one semester. Grading scale: 90%=A; 80%=B; 70%=C; 60%=D; less than 60%=F.
Attendance Policy: The attendance policy for this course is the same as the college policy in the College Catalog and the Student Handbook. Unexcused absences for more than 10% of classes may lower a final grade one letter. Absence, excused and/or unexcused, from more than 25% of classes may be an automatic F in the course. If the college is open (even in inclement weather), class will be held. If the college is closed for inclement weather at scheduled class times, continue the reading according to the above schedule.