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     29:      Dagwood and Blondie's anniversary party (no reading assignment)

                31:      Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist ( Benteley's Miscellany, February 1837-April 1839) Chapters 1-6

September 2:      Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (Household Words, September 2, 1854-January 27 1955)  Chapters 1-4 
                  5:      Labor Day; no class

                  7:      George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton" Chapters I-IV

                  9:      Oliver Twist Chapters 7-13

                12:      North and South   Chapters 5-11

                14:      Scenes of Clerical Life Chapters "Amos Barton" Chapters V-X

                16:      No class meeting; consideration of paper topics

                19:      Oliver Twist Chapters 14-30 (longer than usual!)

                21:      North and South  Chapters 12-19

                23:      North and South  Chapters 20-23; Oliver Twist Chapters 31-34

                26:       Oliver Twist Chapters 35-45

                28:      North and South Chapters 24-30

                30:      Oliver Twist Chapters 46-53

 October    3:      Exam

                 5:       Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (All the Year Round, January 4-August 8 1869) Prologue, Chapters 1-3 

                 7:       North and South Chapters 31-39

                10:      To. Be Announced

                12:      Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (Cornhill Magazine, January-Decmber 1874) Chapters 1-5

                14:      North and South Chapters 40-44 and 49, 51, 52 (not 45-48 or 50!); Paper Due

 * * * Fall Break * * *

                19:      The Moonstone  Chapters 4-10

                21:      Far from the Madding Crowd Chapters 6-14

                24:      Trollope, Dr. Wortle's School (Blackwoods Magazine, May-December 1880) Chapters 1-6

                26:      The Moonstone Chapters 11-16

                28:      Far from the Madding Crowd  Chapters 15-24

                31:      Dr. Wortle's School Chapters 7-12

November 2:       The Moonstone Chapters 18-23
        
                 4 :       Far from the Madding Crowd Chapters 25-33

                 7:       Dr. Wortle's School Chapters 13-18

                 9:       The Moonstone Chapters  (Second Period) 1-7

                11:      Mrs. Humphrey, The Story of Bessie Cotrell (Cornhill Magazine, May-July 1895) Scenes 1-2

                           http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ward/bessie.html  

                            (online at )

                14:      Dr. Wortle's School  Chapters 19-24

                16:      The Moonstone Second Narrative 1, 2, 3; Third Narrative 1-4

                18:      Far from the Madding Crowd Chapters 34-42

                21:      The Story of Bessie Cotrell Scenes 3-4

 *    *    *    Thanksgiving    *    *    *

                 28:     The Moonstone Chapters 5-10

December 30:     Far from the Madding Crowd Chapters 43-51

                   2:     The Story of Bessie Cotrell  Scene 5 

                  5:      The Moonstone Fourth Narrative to The End

                  7:      Far from the Madding Crowd Chapters 52-57

                  9:      Paper Due; Review

                 16:     Final Exam:  3:00-5:30
 

Course Requirements:   read in advance the material listed below for discussion on the dates shown (200 points); write on 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.
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.


 Return to Fall 2005

Mrs. Humphrey Ward, The Story of Bessie Cotrell (available only online at http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ward/bessie.html  and http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12181/12181-8.txt and perhaps elsewhere)

Dickens, Oliver Twist ISBN: 0486424537  Dover Publications

Gaskell, North and South ISBN: 0140434240 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life Publisher: Penguin Books; ISBN: 0140436383

Collins, The Moonstone ISBN: 0486424510 Dover Publications

Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd ISBN: 0451528565 Signet Classics

Trollope, Dr. Wortle's School ISBN: 0140434046 Penguin Group (USA)