COURSE TEXTS (Books available at Goering's Book Center):

Oscar  Wilde, The Portable Oscar Wilde (Viking-Penguin)
Grant Allen, The Woman Who Did (Oxford)
Aubrey Beardsley, The Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley (Dover)
Seven (7) photocopy supplements
 

SCHEDULE (subject to modest negotiation):

Week 1
Introduction

Week 2
Walter Pater—“Preface” and “Conclusion” from The Renaissance (1873)
Arthur Symons—“Preface: Being a Word on Behalf of Patchouli” from Silhouettes (1896), Introduction” and “Conclusion” to The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1896–99)
Max Beerbohm—“In Defence of Cosmetics” (1894)
Articles on John Everett Millais by Laurel Bradley and Pamela Tamarkin Reis, from Victorian Studies journal
Oscar Wilde—“The Critic As Artist,” “Preface” to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
[Packets #1 and #2 and Portable Oscar Wilde; c. 175 pp]

Week 3
Eliza Lynn Linton—“The Girl of the Period”(1868)
George John Romanes—“Mental Differences Between Men and Women” (1887)
Eliza Lynn Linton—“The Wild Women As Social Insurgents” (1891)
Mona Alison Caird—“A Defence of the So-Called Wild Women” (1892)
Sarah Grand—“The New Woman and the Old” (1898)
Karl Pearson—“The Woman’s Question,” from The Ethic of Freethought (1888)
Grant Allen—“Some Plain Words on the Woman Question” (1889)
Mona Alison Caird—“The Morality of Marriage” (1890)
Sarah Grand—“The New Aspect of the Woman Question” (1894)
Ouida—“The New Woman” (1894) [a response to Grand’s “The New Aspects of the Woman Question”]
[Packet #4; c. 150 pages]

Week 4
Victoria Cross [Vivian Cory]—“Theodora, A Fragment” (1895)
Henry Harland—“The Bohemian Girl” (1895), “The Invisible Prince”(1896), “Flower o’ the Clove” (1897), “Merely Players” (1897)
Arthur Wing Pinero—The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1892)
[Packets #2 & 3; c. 250 pages]
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Week 5
George Egerton [Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright]—“Wedlock,” “A Cross Line,” “Now Spring Has Come,” “The Little Gray Glove,” “An Empty Frame,” “Virgin Soil”
[Packet #4; c. 155 pages]

Week 6
Ella D'Arcy—“Irremediable,” “The Pleasure-Pilgrim,” “White Magic,” “An Engagement,” “A Marriage,” “At Twickenham,”
[Packet #5; c. 175 pages]

Week 7
Oscar Wilde—Salome

Week 8
Wilde—Lady Windermere’s Fan

Week 9
Wilde—A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband
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Week 10
Wilde—The Importance of Being Earnest
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Week 11
Aubrey Beardsley—Le Morte d'Arthur and other early pictures

Week 12
Beardsley—Salome pictures
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Week 13
Beardsley—Yellow Book and Savoy pictures

Week 14
Beardsley—Lysistrata pictures and other later work

Week 15
Review

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