English 413/513  The Victorian Magazine Novel

    
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You may use any unabridged edition for each text, but recognize that pages numbers in the editions listed at the end of the syllabus will be used in class discussion.

August     28:      Six Degrees (no reading assignment)

                30:      Wilkie Collins, No Name (in All the Year Round 15 March 1862-17 January 1863) Chapters 1-8

September 1:      Elizabeth Gaskell,  Cousin Phillis (in Cornhill Magazine November 1863-February 1864)  Parts I and II

                  4:      Labor Day; no class

                  6:      No Name Chapters 9-15

                  8:      Cousin Phillis  Parts III and IV

                 11:     George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life "Mr. Gilfil's Love Story" (March-June 1857 in Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine) Chapters I-IV

                 13:      No Name Between the Scenes, Second Scene

                 15:      Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds (1 July 1872-1February 1873 in The Fortnightly Review) Chapters I-VIII

                 18:      Scenes of Clerical Life Chapters V-XII

                 20:      No Name Third Scene

                 22:      The Eustace Diamonds Chapters IX-XVI

                 25:      Scenes of Clerical Life Chapters XIII-XXI

                 27:      No Name Between the Scenes, Chapters 1-5

                 29:      The Eustace Diamonds Chapters XVII-XXIV

 October    2:        Exam

                  4:        No Name Chapters 6-10

                  6:        The Eustace Diamonds Chapters XXV-XXXII

                  9:        No Name Chapter 11-Between the Scenes

                 11:       Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes (September 1872-July 1973 in Tinsley's Magazine) Chapters 1-5

                 13:       No Name Fifth Scene-Between the Scenes

 * * * Fall Break * * *

                 18:       Class will not meet on this day

                 20:       The Eustace Diamonds Chapters XXXIII-XL; Paper Due

                 23:       A Pair of Blue Eyes Chapters 6-11

                 25:       No Name Sixth and Seventh Scenes

                 27:       The Eustace Diamonds Chapters XLI-XLVIII

                 30:       A Pair of Blue Eyes Chapters 12-18

November  1:       No Name Between the Scenes, Last Scene
        
                  3 :       The Eustace Diamonds Chapters IXL-LVI

                   6:       A Pair of Blue Eyes Chapters 19-25

                   8:       The Eustace Diamonds Chapters LVII-LXIV

                 10:       A Pair of Blue Eyes Chapters 26-31

                 13:       Reading Day (Class will not meet on this day)

                 15:       Discussion of Paper Topics

                 17:       The Eustace Diamonds Chapters LXV-LXXII

                 20:       Kipling, Captains Courageous (November 1896-May 1897 in McClure's Magazine) Chapters 1-3

 *    *    *    Thanksgiving    *    *    *

                 27:      A Pair of Blue Eyes Chapters 32-40

                 29       The Eustace Diamonds Chapters LXXIII-LXXX

December  1:       Captains Courageous Chapters  4-8  (but not all:  on p. 129, stop after  paragraph beginning "Next morning all . . . ."

                   4:       T.B.A.

                   6:       Captains Courageous Chapters 8 cont.-Chapt 10
                   
                   8:       Paper Due; Review

                 11:       Final Exam:  8:00-10:30
 

Course Requirements:   read in advance the material listed below for discussion on the dates shown (200 points); write one short exam (200 points) and one final exam (200 points); one shorter paper (100 points) and one longer paper (300 points).   You should save all returned written work from the course.  Grading scale:  90%=A; 80%=B; 70%=C; 60%=D; less than 60%=F.  English 513 students will read, write, and speak about an additional magazine novel.  Students taking the course for graduate credit will write an expanded final paper.
Policies:  See 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.  Students are expected to abide by the college Honor Code.
Inclement Weather:  If the college closes for inclement weather, students should continue work as outlined above.

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals  http://www.rs4vp.org/index.html

American Periodicals online:  http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eellengarvey/rsapresource1.html

American Periodicals online:  http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/

                                                http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

Other links:  http://www.rs4vp.org/links.html

http://www.philsp.com/magindex.html

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Kipling, Captains Courageous
ISBN: 0451529499
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 191pp
Pub. Date: September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Edition Description: With a New Introduction

Wilkie Collins, No Name
Product Details:
ISBN: 014043397X
Format: Paperback, 640pp
Pub. Date: July 1995
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Edition Description: REPRINT

"Mr. Gilfil's Love Story" from
George Eliot:  Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life
ISBN: 019283780X
Format: Paperback, 338pp
Pub. Date: January 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes
ISBN: 0192840738
Format: Paperback, 374pp
Pub. Date: November 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition Description: New Edition
Edition Number: 2

Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds
ISBN: 0192834665
Format: Paperback, 832pp
Pub. Date: December 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition Description: REISSUE

Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis
ISBN: 1595406271
Format: Paperback, 140pp
Pub. Date: December 2004
Publisher: 1st World Library