English 252
Victorian Novel

TEXTS

These books will be available at the UCLA bookstore. The isbn uniquely identify the editions we will be using and can help with placing orders elsewhere. The original French edition of Verne's novel may be consulted online at http://jv.gilead.org.il/works.html.

Relevant secondary readings / Handouts / Course Reserves in ERR

Link to annotated bibliography for our class (in progress)

• Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader
• Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities and The Spectre of Comparisons
• M.M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, Ch. 4
• James Chandler, England in 1819
• Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other
• Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish; The History of Sexuality (“We Other Victorians”)
• Catherine Gallagher, The Industrial Reformation in English Fiction
• Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern
• Deidre Lynch, The Economy of Character
• Georg Lukacs, The Historical Novel
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men (introduction)
• Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Conditions of the Working Class in England
• Karl Marx, The 18th Brumainer of Louis Bonaparte
• Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics

Some of our special focuses will include: History, Time and Temporality, Novelistic Form & Publication, Industrialization, Communication & Transport Systems. We will also pay attention to aspects of novelistic form, including free indirect discourse, heteroglossia, deictics, serialization, plot, realism, probability and particularity, and omniscient narration.

REQUIREMENTS

weekly reading response, via ecampus class discussion board by Tuesday 5pm & hardcopy to class, strict pass/fail, 15%
at least one individual writing conference
a 17-page final paper, 85%

SCHEDULE