ENL 6256 TEXT & IMAGE IN LATE-VICTORIAN SEXUAL POLITICS

COURSE TEXTS (Books available at Goering's-Bageland):

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford)
Oscar Wilde, The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Vintage)
Aubrey Beardsley, Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley (Dover)
Five (5) photocopy supplements
 

SCHEDULE (subject to modest negotiation)

Week 1
Introduction

Week 2
Walter Pater—“Preface,” “Two Early French Stories,” “Winckelmann,” and “Conclusion,” from The Renaissance (1873); excerpts from Plato and Platonism (1893) and Greek Studies (1895); “Postscript,” from Appreciations (1889)
Arthur Symons—“Preface: Being a Word on Behalf of Patchouli,” from Silhouettes (2nd edition, 1896); “Introduction” and “Conclusion” to The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1896–99); “Music Halls and Ballet Girls” (1890s; unpublished until 1977); “Sex and Aversion” (1890s; unpublished until 1977); “The World as Ballet,” from Studies in Seven Arts (1906)
Oscar Wilde—“The Decay of Lying,” Nineteenth Century (January 1889), and in Intentions (1891); “The Critic As Artist,” Nineteenth Century (July and September 1890), and in Intentions (1891)
Aubrey Beardsley—“The Art of Hoarding,” New Review (July 1894)
[Packet #3; c. 200 pages; Packet #4, c. 130 pages]

Week 3
Wilde—The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890–91)
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Week 4
Wilde—Salome (1891–92)
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Week 5
Ian Fletcher, “A Grammar of Monsters,” ELT (1987)
Arthur Symons, “Aubrey Beardsley,” Studies in Seven Arts (1907)
Chris Snodgrass, “Beardsley's Oscillating Spaces: Play, Paradox, and the Grotesque,” Reconsidering Aubrey Beardsley, ed. Robert Langenfeld (1989)
[Packet #4, c. 85 pages]
Beardsley—Salome illustrations: Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley, pp. 18, 24–39

Week 6
Stephen Arata, “Strange Cases, common fates, degeneration and fiction in the Victorian fin de siècle,” from Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de siècle (1996).
Deborah Gorham, “Women and Girls in the Middle-Class Family: Images and Reality,” from The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal (1982)
Chamberlin and Gilman, “Preface” and Degeneration: An Introduction,” from Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress, eds. Edward J. Chamberlin and Sander L. Gilman (1985)
Nancy Stepan, “Biological Degeneration: Races and Proper Places,” from Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress, eds. Edward J. Chamberlin and Sander L. Gilman (1985)
Sandra Siegel, “Literature and Degeneration: The Representation of ‘Decadence,’” from Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress, eds. Chamberlin and Gilman (1985)
Sander L Gilman, “Sexology, Psychoanalysis, and Degeneration: From a Theory of Race to a Race to Theory,” from Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress, eds. Chamberlin and Gilman (1985)
Eliza Lynn Linton—“The Girl of the Period,” Saturday Review, 14 March 1868
George John Romanes—“Mental Differences Between Men and Women,” Nineteenth Century 21 (May 1887)
Karl Pearson—“The Woman’s Question,” from The Ethic of Freethought (1888)
Grant Allen—“Some Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review, ns. 46 (1889)
Eliza Lynn Linton—“The Wild Women As Social Insurgents,” Nineteenth Century 30 (October 1891)
Mona Alison Caird—“A Defence of the So-Called Wild Women,” Nineteenth Century 31 (May 1892)
Sarah Grand—“The New Aspect of the Woman Question,” North American Review 158 (1894)
Ouida—“The New Woman,” North American Review 158 (1894) [a response to Grand’s “The New Aspects of the Woman Question”]
Sarah Grand—“The New Woman and the Old,” Lady’s Realm (1898)
Hugh E. M. Stutfield—“Tommyrotics,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 157.956 (June 1895): 833-45
[Packet #1, c. 130 pages; Packet #2; c. 130 pages]

Week 7
Victoria Cross [Vivian Cory]—“Theodora, A Fragment,” The Yellow Book 4 (January 1895)
George Egerton [Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright]—“A Cross Line,” Keynotes (1893); “The Little Gray Glove,” Keynotes (1893)
Ella D’Arcy— “Irremediable,” Yellow Book 1 (April 1894), and Monochromes (1895); “The Pleasure-Pilgrim,” Yellow Book 5 (April 1895), and Monochromes (1895)
[Packet #4; c. 32 pages; Packet #5, c. 165 pages]

Week 8
William Michael Rossetti—“The Brotherhood in a Nutshell”
John Ruskin—letter to The Times; “Pre-Raphaelitism”
Articles on John Everett Millais: Laurel Bradley, “From Eden to Empire: John Everett Millais’s Cherry Ripe,” Victorian Studies 34.2 (Winter 1991); Pamela Tamarkin Reis, Victorian Studies 35.2 (Winter 1992); and Laurel Bradley, “Reply to Pamela Tamarkin Reis,” Victorian Studies 35.2 (Winter 1992)
[Packets #2, c. 55 pages]
Victorian Paintings (images posted on Snodgrass website, “Text & Images”: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/snod/Texts&Images.htm)

Week 9
Beardsley—illustrations from La Morte Darthur and other mostly early pictures: Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley, pp. 3–17, 19–22, 62–74, 85, 123–30, 144–47 (several pictures also appear on the website)
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Week 10
Wilde—Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892); Woman of No Importance (1893)
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Week 11
Wilde—An Ideal Husband (1895); The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Week 12
Beardsley—illustrations from Yellow Book and Savoy periods: Best Works of   Aubrey Beardsley, pp. 40–61, 75–107, 131–40, 152–60
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Week 13
Beardsley—illustrations for The Rape of the Lock, Pierrot of the Minute, Volpone, and other later projects: Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley, pp. 114–22, 144–51

Week 14
Beardsley—Under the Hill (or The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser) (1895–97); illustrations for Lysistrata (1897)
[Packet #5, c. 30 pages]
Best Works of Beardsley, pp. 79, 82, 87–88, 94, 107, 123, 141–43, 97

Week 15
Review, etc.

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