Syllabus, English 255 
Victorian Stories


Professor Auerbach
Fall, 1996

September 5 -- Introduction

 Madwomen.
 September 10, 12 -- Tennyson: "Mariana," "Oenone," "The Lady of 
Shalott," "The 		Palace of Art," "Rizpah," "The Kraken."
		Victorian paintings.*

				17, 19 -- Charlotte Brontė, Jane Eyre

		24, 26 -- Emily Brontė, Wuthering Heights; Poems.

Erring Women.
	October     1, 3, 8, 10 -- Thackeray, Vanity Fair.

			17 --   MIDTERM EXAM (OR ESSAY)

		22, 24 -- Dickens, Oliver Twist

		29. 31 -- Carroll, Alice in Wonderland; Christina 
Rossetti, Goblin 				Market.

		OCTOBER 31: PROSPECTUS DUE.

Multiple Voices.
November   5, 7 -- Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

		12, 14 -- Robert Browning, Men and Women

		19, 21, 26 -- Stoker, Dracula

		NOVEMBER 26: TERM PAPER DUE

Epic Synthesis.
December    3, 5  -- Tennyson, Idylls of the King

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