ENL 3251 VICTORIAN LITERATURE

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SYLLABUS: READING SCHEDULE

REQUIRED TEXTS

First Photocopy Supplement, including poems and essays not included elsewhere (Note: purchase at Book-It, 1250 West University Avenue, #2)

Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach and Other Poems (Dover; ISBN: 0486280373)

Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (Oxford; ISBN: 0199540373)

Robert Browning, My Last Duchess and Other Poems (Dover; ISBN: 0486277836)

Second Photocopy Supplement, including texts not available elsewhere (Note: purchase at Book-It, 1250 West University Avenue, #2)

Aubrey Beardsley, Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley (Dover; ISBN: 0486262731)

Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince & Other Fairy Tales (Dover; ISBN: 0486417239)

Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan (Dover; ISBN: 0486400786)

SCHEDULE

Week 1 Introduction to the Course

[Background: Victorian Period]

“Some Reasons Why Americans Value the British”

“Facts, Themes, and Principles of Victorian Culture”

“A Few of the Dichotomies that Haunted Victorians”

“Chronicle of Some Important Events Bearing on Victorian Age & Aftermath”

“Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism”

Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”

Week 2 —Insights Paper 1—

Matthew Arnold — introductory note on Arnold

Poetry: “The Forsaken Merman,” “To Marguerite,” “To Marguerite— Continued,” “Self-Deception,” “The Buried Life,” “The Scholar Gypsy”

Week 3 —Online Paragraph & Responses 1—

Arnold — Criticism: “Preface to Poems (1853),” “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,” excerpts from “Study of Poetry”

Thomas Carlyle — introductory note on Carlyle; introductory note on Sartor Resartus.

Sartor Resartus, Introduction, pp. vii–xxxvi; Book I, Chapters 1–2, 8–11, pp. [3]–11, 41–62; Book II, Chapters 1–2, 6–10, pp. 63–77, 114–56; Book III, Chapters 1, 6–12, pp. 157–61, 181–225.

Week 4 Week 4 —Insights Paper 2—

Carlyle—Sartor Resartus (continued)

[Graded Insights Paper 1 (Week 3) returned]

Week 5 —Online Paragraph & Responses 2—

Robert Browning — introductory note on Browning, “The Statue and the Bust,” “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,’” “The Last Ride Together,” “Prospice,” “A Woman’s Last Word,” “The Laboratory,” “My Last Duchess,” “Porphyria’s Lover”

[Graded Insights & Responses 1 (Week 4) returned]

Week 6 —Insights Paper 3—

Browning—“Abt Vogler,” “Fra Lippo Lippi,” “Andrea Del Sarto,” “Epistle, from Karshish”

Week 7 —Online Paragraph & Responses 3—

Introductory Note on “The Angel in the House”

High Victorian & Pre-Raphaelite Painting [in-class slides and analysis; for composite side show, see “Resources” tab of SAKAI site: https://lss.at.ufl.edu/; or click Portrait and Landscape PowerPoint programs; or click hyperlinked titles individually]: William Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience (1853); William Shakespeare Burton, The Wounded Cavalier (1855); John Everett Millais, The Woodman’s Daughter (1951), Cherry Ripe (1879); Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ecce Ancilla Domini (1850), The Blessed Damozel (1875–78) [Fogg Art Museum Harvard], Proserpine (1874) [Tate Britain]; William Morris, Queen Guinevere (1857); Edward Burne-Jones, Phyllis and Demophöon (1870), King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (1884), Pygmalion and the Image: The Hand Refrains (1868–78); Frederick Sandys, Morgan le Fay (1864); Laurence Alma-Tadema, In the Tepidarium (1881); Fredric Leighton, The Fisherman and the Siren (1856-58), Flaming June (1895); John Collier, Lilith (1887); Edward Poynter, The Cave of the Storm Nymphs (1903); Herbert Draper, The Gates of Dawn (1900); Frank Dicksee, La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1902); John Waterhouse, Pandora (1896), Lamia (1905);

European Comparisons: Edouard Manet, Olympia (1863), Woman with a Parrot (1866); William Bouguereau, Le Printemps [The Return of Spring] (1866), Cupidon (1875); Auguste Renoir, Young Boy with a Cat (1868–69); Félicien Rops, Pornokrates (1879); Franz von Stuck, Sin (1893)

Week 8 —Insights Paper 4—

Ernest Dowson—introductory note on Dowson; “In Preface: For Adelaide”;

Poetry: “In Preface: For Adelaide,” “Vita summa brevis,” “Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration,” “My Lady April,” “Yvonne of Brittany,” “Benedictio Domini,” “Beata Solitudo,” “Extreme Unction,” “To One in Bedlam,” “Flos Lunae,” “Ad Domnulam Suam,”“Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae,” “You would have understood me had you waited,” “Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad,” “Villanelle of His Lady’s Treasures,” “Beyond,” “Dregs,” “Transition

Fiction: “Souvenirs of an Egoist” (Temple Bar, 1888); “A Case of Conscience” (The Century Guild Hobby Horse, 1891); “The Princess of Dreams” (Decorations, 1899)

Week 9 —Online Paragraph & Responses 4—

Introductory Note on the “New Woman”

Introductory Note on Egerton

Martha Vicinus, Introduction to Egerton

George Egerton [Mary Chavelita Dunne]—from Keynotes (1893): “A Cross Line,” “A Little Gray Glove,” “An Empty Frame”; from Discords (1894): “Wedlock,” “Virgin Soil”

[Graded Insights/Responses Papers 2–3 (Weeks 5–8) returned]

Week 10 —Insights Paper 5—

Ella D’Arcy—introductory note on D’Arcy; from Monochromes (1895): “Irremediable,” “The Pleasure Pilgrim”; “The Death Mask” (Yellow Book 10, July 1896); “At Twickenham” (Yellow Book 12, Jan. 1897)

Week 11 —Online Paragraph & Responses 5—

Introductory note on Graham R. Tomson/Marriott Watson

Virginia Blaine, “Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860–1911)”

Graham R. Tomson [Rosamund Marriott Watson]—“Old Pauline,” “Ballad of the Bird-bride,” “Children of the Mist” “A Ballad of the Were-Wolf,” “Epitaph,” “The Cage,” “Nirvana,” “Vespertilia,” “Hic Jacet”

Week 12 —Insights Paper 6—

Aubrey Beardsley—introductory notes on Beardsley; Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley, pp. 18–61.

Week 13 —Online Paragraph & Responses 6—

Oscar Wilde—introductory notes on Wilde

Criticism: “The Critic As Artist”

Fiction: from Complete Shorter Fiction: “The Happy Prince,” “The Nightingale and the Rose,” “The Birthday of the Infanta”;

—Optional Extra Credit Assignment(s) Due—

Week 14 —Online Paragraph & Responses 7—

Wilde—Play: Lady Windermere’s Fan

Week 15 Review

[Graded Insights/Responses Papers 4–6 (Weeks 9–14) returned]

Finals Week: COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM

Course Description and Goals

Basis for Final Grades

Course Rules

Possible Secondary Readings