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REBELLIOUS GIRLS AND PASSIONATE WOMEN:

Week 1:

M 1/7 Introduction

W 1/9 Wuthering Heights; historical background; all read Altick, pp. 1-59

Week 2:

M 1/14 Wuthering Heights

W 1/16 Wuthering Heights; all read Altick, pp. 60-113

Week 3:

M 1/21 No class: Martin Luther King Holiday

W 1/23 Wuthering Heights; finish Altick at your own pace

*critical crux presentation(s)

ANGELS AND ARTISTS

Week 4:

M 1/28 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

W 1/30 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

*group report: Ideologies of Womanhood: Angels and Queens

Week 5:

M 2/4 The tenant of Wildfell Hall

*critical crux presentation(s)

W 2/6 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

*critical crux presentation(s)

ORPHANS, GOVERNESSES, AND TEACHERS:

Week 6

M 2/11 Villette;

*group report: The Victorian Governess

W 2/13 Villette

Week 7

M 2/18 Villette

W 2/20 Villette

*critical crux presentation(s)

Week 8:

M 2/25 Villette

*critical crux presentation(s)

SENSATIONAL WOMEN: MADNESS AND CRIMINALITY:

W 2/27 Lady Audley's Secret

Week 9

M 3/4 Lady Audley's Secret

*group report: Sex, Science and Victorian Womanhood

W 3/6 Lady Audley's Secret

Week 10: Spring Vacation

Week 11

M 3/18 Lady Audley's Secret

*critical crux presentations

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE HYSTERICAL WOMAN

W 3/20 Great Expectations

*group report: Women and Madness

Week 12:

M 3/25 Great Expectations

W 3/27 No Class: Holiday

Week 13:

M 4/1 Great Expectations

*critical crux presentation(s)

W 4/3 Great Expectations

*critical crux presentation(s)

DUTIFUL AND UNRULY SISTERS:

Week 14

M 4/8 Great Expectations

*critical crux presentation(s)

W4/10 Mill on the Floss

*group report: The Victorian Girl

Week 15

M 4/15 Paper proposals and bibliographies due: Mill on the Floss

*critical crux presentation

W 4/17 Mill on the Floss

*critical crux presentation

FIN-DE-SIÈCLE WOMEN: STREETWALKERS, VAMPS AND THE NEW WOMAN:

Week 16:

M 4/22 Dracula

*group report: fin-de-siècle alternatives

W 4/24 Dracula

Week 17:

M 4/29 Papers due; Dracula

W 5/1 Dracula

*critical crux presentations

FINAL EXAM