English 671-010				Professor Jonathan Grossman
Fall 2001, W 12-3			Office Hours: W 3-5, by appt
Memorial 126				Office: 315 Memorial
					grossman@udel.edu

Introduction to the Nineteenth-Century British Novel


REQUIRED TEXTS

Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1800)	Penguin ISBN0140433201
Walter Scott, Waverly (1814)		Oxford ISBN0192836013
James Hogg, Justified Sinner (1824)	Everyman ISBN0460874713
Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers (1837)	Oxford ISBN019283457
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford (1851-53)	Oxford ISBN0192815318
George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872)	Oxford ISBN0192834029
Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray (1891)		Oxford ISBN0192833650

We will use the editions of the texts that are listed above.  You should
read endnotes and other editorial matter (appendices, notes on the text,
etc.).

Books have been ordered through Rainbow Books, Main Street, Newark. 


 They have been unable to purchase Confessions of a Justified
Sinner; please find a used or library copy for class (any edition).

Required Reserve Reading

Excerpts from the following are required reading and are available on
reserve in the library or at my office for 2-hour loan.
 

Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish 
Georg Lukacs, The Historical Novel
Pierre Macherey, A Theory of Literary Production
Sharon Marcus, Apartment Stories 
J. Hillis Miller, Topographies
John Sutherland, Victorian Novelists and Publishers


REQUIREMENTS

· one class presentation-discussion (pass/fail)
· writing conference in November
· 18-20pp original research paper, due Friday, 12/14

SCHEDULE

8/29	Introduction

9/5	Edgeworth, Anderson

9/12	Hogg, Altick

9/19	Hogg, Foucault

9/26	Scott

10/3	Scott, Lukacs		
	
10/10	Dickens

10/17 	Dickens, Marcus

10/24	Dickens, Miller

10/31	Gaskell

11/7	Gaskell, Macherey

11/14	 Eliot	

11/21	 Eliot, Sutherland

11/28	Wilde

12/5	Wilde


Final 18-20pp paper due Friday, 12/14.

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