Jan 20: Introduction. Questionnaire Due
Jan 22: Fowles 9-89. N891-904. X212-215 Victorian and Victorianism; The Reality of Victorianism; Queen Victoria; X14 Audio Visual Options; X15 Reading and Discussion Questions for The French Lieutenant's Woman; X16-17 19th C. Background for The French Lieutenant's Woman; Themes: European time vs. American time. Darwin and the shock of species extinction. Fossils. Right brain Paleolithic past. English vs. American landscape, Edenic feeling. Marx. Their spirit of discovery vs. Our lack of same. Women's fashions. Hardy. Victorianism. Feminism.
Jan 27: Fowles 89-182. N7-8 on Romantic nature poetry. X15 Reading and Discussion Questions for The French Lieutenant's Woman; X16-17 19th C. Background for The French Lieutenant's Woman X11 Racial Harassment Guidelines; X217-218 Racism in Victorian England; X12-13B Sexual Harassment Guidelines. Nonsexist language. Fowles' themes: nature religion,. Pantheism, etc.
Jan 29: Fowles 183-262 X15 Reading and Discussion Questions for The French Lieutenant's Woman; X16-17 19th C. Background for The French Lieutenant's Woman X5-10 Class Participation and Listening Guidelines.
Evaluation of Internet Discussion of Weeks 1 and 2
Feb. 3: Fowles 262-366, X15 Reading and Discussion Questions for The French Lieutenant's Woman; X16-17 19th C. Background for The French Lieutenant's Fowles themes: disappearance of God. Visit to America. Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites.
Feb 5: Victorian prose: N906-907. Ruskin: N1273-1275. Deconversion: N1303-1305; X86-134 Ruskin: The Nature of Gothic; History is My Home: A Survey of Texas Architectural Styles; The Littlefield Home; Victorian architecture: Houston, Galveston; Selected Victorian Eclectic "Gothic" Architecture in Texas . X219 Opposing Forces in Victorian Architecture. Themes: Victorian architecture: England and Texas.
Feb 10: Landscape and the source of Wordsworth's joy: X231-232 the Worship of Nature; Wordsworth N172-182, 183-186; D. Wordsworth N290; Carroll N1560-1562; Review N7-8 on Romantic nature poetry and Fowles on nature.
Feb 12: X 233-269 Clare, Natural History Letters; Philosopher's Rock, Barton Springs; Dobie, A Texan in England; Bedicheck, Adventures of a Texas Naturalist.
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Feb 17: Wordsworth N214-221, 136-140, 187-194.
Feb 19: Carlyle N951-958. Hopkins N1546-1551, X230 Inversnaid
Feb 24: Architecture assignment due. X28A-44 Dualism vs. Creativity, Dickens, Tale of Two Cities, Dickens, Hard Times, Fleming, "Charles Darwin, the Anesthetic Man"; X47-49 Constitution; Flawn, "Address to the University"; Newman N974-982; X216 Newman and the Idea of the Gentleman; X49B Newman and the Logic of the Humanities; X45-46 Characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite painting and poetry Themes: Dualism, Liberal arts education: Oxford and U.T.
Feb 26: Victorian novel N908-910 vs. Modern novel. X18-27 Miller on disappearance of God. X28 Some Hypotheses; Bronte chs. 1-12; X50-61 Reading and Discussion Questions for Jane Eyre. Victorian search for a functional family; Bump, "Teaching Jane Eyre"; Relevance today: Nightmare: Child Abuse in Travis County.
Evaluation of Internet Discussion of Weeks 5 and 6
Mar 3: Bronte chs. 13-24. X50 Reading and Discussion Questions for Jane Eyre
Mar 5: Bronte chs. 25-30; X50 Reading and Discussion Questions for Jane Eyre Relevance today: X62-72 Codependence; Scheaffer: Is It Love or Addiction; "Codependence"; Themes: idolatry vs. "Codependence.
Mar 10: Bronte chs. 31-38. X50 Reading and Discussion Questions for Jane Eyre.
Mar 12: X73-85 Buckley The pattern of conversion. Carlyle N910-915, 932-951.X 138 The Mystery
Evaluation of Internet Discussion of Weeks 7 and 8
Mar 24: Introduction to poetry. Keats N766-769. On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer N769. X139-140 Notes on Keats's "Chapman's Homer"; Victorian literature: N904-906. Tennyson, N1052-1056. Lotos Eaters, N1063-1067, X141 Lotos Eaters discussion questions
Mar 26: Evolution: N1571-1580. The pattern of conversion: Tennyson: In Memoriam. N1084-1085; #1 on 1086-7; #5 on 1088; #27 on 1098-99; #s 47-56 on 1102-1105; #118 on 1126-7; #123 on 1128-9; Epilogue on 1132.
Mar. 31, Apr 2: to be announced
Evaluation of Internet Discussion of Weeks 9 and 10
Apr 7: Saved by literature: Wordsworth N151-2. Mill N992-994; 1022-1029. Emotional literacy. X142-192: Kipling, "Two-Sided Man"; Edwards; Goleman; Ralston; Enterprise; Student Suggestions for Improving Emotional Literacy; Vocabulary of Feelings; Aristotle.
Apr 9: Saved by art and literature. Arnold N1344-49, 1354-1356, Pater N1526-7, 1532-4; Yeats 1859-1863, 1900-1902;
Apr 14: The disappearance of God? Hopkins N1543-6, 1552 Replaced by romantic love? Arnold 1352-4, 1366-7; Browning N1182-1187, 1228-1230
Apr 16: Pre-Raphaelite poetry. The Rossettis: Christina Rossetti, N1472-3, 1479-1490, Dante Rossetti N1460-4, 1468, #97 1470; X135-137.
Evaluation of Internet Discussion of Weeks 11 and 12
Apr 21: Saved by work Conrad: N1754-1756, 1759-1817; X220 Reading and Discussion Questions for Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Apr 23: N902-904 Mill N1012-1022; The Woman Question N1595-1612; X221 Reading and Discussion Questions on the Status of Women.
Apr 28: E Barrett Browning. 1029-1031. 1034-1040; Woolf N1915-1916, 1932-34, 1947-1956, 1961-1963, 1986-88. X222-223 Steinem, A Family of Equals, Hite Report.
Apr 30: G. Eliot: N1311-1314; 1319-1344. Male Egoism: Browning, N1187-1188, 1190-1192, X224-229 "My Last Professor"; definition of dramatic monologue, Sympathetic Imagination, Flowers, the Moral Imagination, Browning discussion questions;
May 5,7: Shaw N1711-1753
Evaluation of Internet Discussion of Weeks 13, 14, and 15
May 14: Take home final exam due by 11 AM