Write a four-page critical analysis of the "periodical," English 413 (or 513 for graduate students).  Consider it to be issued thrice weekly as interactive dialogue with the editor (me) and the subscribers (you).  Before each issue appears/occurs, editor and subscribers have read specific material (the assignments), which becomes the subject of the dialogue.    The advertisements for the magazine, to which the subscribers were initially drawn, stated that it would lead to "increased understanding of Victorian culture."


  In your analysis, then, focus on one specific strength/appeal of the periodical in fulfilling that commitment and one specific weakness/drawback.  Use specific quotations from the material read ahead of time to anchor your critical assessment.  You don't have to quote from the periodical itself (class discussion), but you may do so.    Undergraduates:  no secondary source material may be consulted or referenced. Graduates:  read the sections on "periodicals" (pp. 588-595) in Victorian Britain:  An Encyclopedia, ed. Sally Mitchell (in the reference room at the library:  DA550 .V53 1988) and include two quotations from that material in your essay (with page numbers but no works cited).