In an attempt to approximate a Victorian reading experience, this class will read Dickens’s great novel Bleak House in serial installments throughout the semester, alongside other texts.
| SES # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: The Victorian Period |
| 2 | Dickens |
| 3 |
Thomas Carlyle
John Ruskin |
| 4 |
Thomas Carlyle (cont.)
John Ruskin (cont.) Dickens (cont.) |
| 5 | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| 6 |
Elizabeth Gaskell (cont.)
Dickens (cont.) |
| 7 | Elizabeth Gaskell (cont.) |
| 8 |
Elizabeth Gaskell (cont.)
Dickens (cont.) |
| 9 | John Stuart Mill |
| 10 |
John Stuart Mill (cont.)
Dickens (cont.) |
| 11 | John Stuart Mill (cont.) |
| 12 |
Henry Mayhew
Dickens (cont.) |
| 13 |
Henry Mayhew (cont.)
Isabella Beeton |
| 14 |
Henry Mayhew (cont.)
Isabella Beeton (cont.) Dickens (cont.) |
| 15 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| 16 |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (cont.)
Dickens (cont.) |
| 17 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (cont.) |
| 18 |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (cont.)
Dickens (cont.) |
| 19 | Dickens (cont.) |
| 20 | Lewis Carroll |
| 21 | Lewis Carroll (cont.) |
| 22 | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 23 |
Arthur Conan Doyle (cont.)
Rudyard Kipling |
| 24 | Dickens (cont.) |
| 25 | Dickens (cont.) |
