English 252 Professor Jonathan Grossman

Winter 2007 Office: Hum 268

Wednesday 3-6 Office Hrs: W 6-8 and by appt

Hum A56 grossman@humnet.ucla.edu

Dickens, Transport & Communication Systems, the Novel

REQUIRED TEXTS

Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (1846-48) Penguin, isbn 0140435468

Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (1864-65) Penguin, isbn 0140434976

Please purchase and use precisely these editions and not any other. They are uniquely identified by the isbn numbers printed on the book itself. We will want refer to page numbers in class discussion.

Secondary readings / Handouts

Nina Auerbach, Romantic Imprisonment

Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction

M.M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination

Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality

Catherine Gallagher, The Body Economic

Niklas Luhmann, Social Systems

Franco Moretti, Signs Taken for Wonders; Atlas of the European Novel

Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey

Eve Sedgwick, Between Men

Raymond Williams, The Country and the City

REQUIREMENTS

• weekly reading response via our ecampus class discussion board. 15%
  150-word minimum due by Tuesday at noon. Grade based on participation.
  ‘A’ assigned for full participation, reduced by a letter grade for each omission.
  
• presentation in class March 15 of a fifteen-minute conference paper
  (no more than 8 pages double-spaced, 12 point).
  
• a 17-page original research paper, not on Dombey or Our Mutual Friend due 5pm, Wednesday, March 22. 85%
  
• at least one individual writing conference to discuss final paper and presentation

SCHEDULE

January 10	Introduction
January 17	Dombey (to number 6)	Novel Form heteroglossia & free indirect discourse: Bakhtin
January 24	Dombey (to number 12)	History Williams; Moretti; Schivelbusch
January 31	Dombey [job talk: class 3pm-4pm only]
February 7	Dombey	Gender Auerbach; Foucault; Armstrong
February 14	Our Mutual Friend (1856-57) (to number 6)	Systems Theory Luhmann [Kittler]
February 21	Our Mutual Friend (to Book the Third)	History Moretti; tbd
February 28	Our Mutual Friend (to end)	Gender Sedgwick; Gallagher
March 7	Our Mutual Friend
March 14	class cancelled in lieu of conference
Friday, March 16	3pm, Royce 306: class conference
Wednesday, March 21, 5pm: Final papers due in my department mailbox.