課程介紹
This course provides students with the opportunity to study the rich corpus of Victorian literature in relation to the socio-historical context of the period. It introduces key thematic concepts and problems while surveying some of the major political debates and literary developments in the nineteenth century. It will look closely at core texts dealing with a range of topics: authorship, Chartism, autobiography, the middle-class novel, fairy tale, the vampire, and sonnet. 

Students are required to participate actively in classroom discussion, keep a research journal, give two oral presentations, and write a research paper of at least 3000 words.
教科書:
Selected texts will be made available in a course pack
教學進度:
Week 1 Introduction 
Martin Hewitt: “Why does the notion of Victorian Britain does Make Sense”, Victorian Studies, 48.3 (2006): 395-438.

Week 2: Authorship
Primary Texts: Thomas Carlyle, “The Hero as Man of Letters” (1840) 

Secondary Texts: 
Carol T. Christ, ‘“The Hero as Man of Letters”: Masculinity and Victorian Nonfiction Prose’ in Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender and Power (1990)
Richard Salmon, “Thomas Carlyle and the Idolatry of the Man of Letters”, Journal of Victorian Culture , 7.1 (2002):1-22.

Week 3 Chartism 
Primary Text: Selected Readings of Thomas Cooper’s The Purgatory Suicides (1845) 

Secondary Texts: 
Anne Janowitz. Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition (Cambridge: CUP, 1998), pp. 
Stephanie Weiner. “Sedition, Chartism, and Epic Poetry in Thomas Cooper's The Purgatory of Suicides” in Victorian Poetry 39.2 (2001), pp. 165-186 
---.Republican Politics and English Poetry, 1789-1874 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) 

Week 4 Working-Class Autobiography
Primary Text: Selected Readings of Charles Kingsley’s Alton Locke (1850)
Secondary Texts: 
Alan Rauch, “The Tailor Transformed: Kingsley’s Alton Locke and the Notion of Change Studies in the Novel 25.2 (1993): 196-213
Richard Menke, “Cultural Capital and the Scene of Rioting: Male Working-Class Authorship in Alton Locke, Victorian Literature and Culture, 28.1 (2000):87-108.
Evan M. Gottlieb, “Charles Kingsley, the Romantic Legacy, and the Unmaking of the Working-Class Intellectual”, Victorian Literature and Culture, 29. 1 (2001):51-65.

Week 5 Women’s Autobiography 
Primary Text: Jane Eyre 
Secondary Texts: 

Margaret Markwick, “Jane Eyre” in A Companion to The Brontës (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), pp. 101-112.
Lisa Jadwin, “The Critical Recuperation of and Theoretical Approaches to the Brontës”, in A Companion to The Brontës (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), pp. 49-63. 

Week 6 The Middle-Class Novel
Primary Text: Jane Eyre 
Linda Peterson, Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing (1999), pp. 80-109.


Week 7 (Holiday)

Week 8 Dickens 
Primary Text: David Copperfield (Chapter I-XI), John Forster’s commentary on David Copperfield 

Secondary Text: 
Mary Poovey’s Chapter Four “The Man-of-Letters Hero: David Copperfield and the Professional Writer” in Uneven Eevelopments the Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (1988), pp. 89-125.

Philip Davis's "David Copperfield", in The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens (Oxford:OUP, 2018), pp. 208-219. 

John Bowen, “Dickens as Professional Author” in The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens, ed. John Jordan, Robert L. Patten, and Catherine Waters (Oxford: OUP, 2018)
Speak about your research topic in class (including your annotated bibliography and literature review)

Week 9 Fairytale 
Primary Texts: Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince” 
Secondary Text:
Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves 
Robert K. Martin's "Oscar Wilde and the Fairytale: The Happy Prince as self dramatization"

Week 10 Reading Week 
Submit your research proposal


Week 11 The Vampire 
Primary Text: Bran Stoker’s Dracula (1897)
Secondary Texts: 
Christopher Craft, “Kiss Me with Those Red Lips”: Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker’s Dracula”, Representation 8 (1984):107-133. 
Stephen Arata, “The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization”, Victorian Studies, 33.4 (1990):621-45.

Week 12 The Vampire 
Primary Text: Florence Marryat: The Blood of the Vampire (1897)
Secondary Text: 
Maria Parrino’s “Crossing Borders: Hospitality in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire” in Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp.19-37. 

Week 13 Fairytale 
Primary Text: “The Caliph Stork” and William Makepeace Thackeray’s “The Sultan Stork” 
Secondary Text: 
The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale

Week 14 The Female Poetess 
Primary Text: 
Selected Readings of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1857)
Oscar Wilde, “English Poetesses” (1888)
Secondary Texts: 
Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, “Aurora Leigh: The Vocation of the Woman Poet”, Victorian Poetry, 19.1 (1981):35-48.
Susan Brown, “The Victorian Poetess” in Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, pp. 180-202.

Week 15 The Love Sonnet 
Primary Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1845-46)
Secondary Text: 
Marianne Remoortel’s “Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese and Women’s Sonnets of the 1800s-1840s” in Lives of the Sonnet, 1787-1895: Genre, Gender and Criticism (Ashgate, 2011), pp. 89-114. 
Submit your First Draft of Research Paper 

Week 16 The War Sonnet 
Primary Text: Sydney Dobell and Alexander Smith, Sonnets on the War (1855) 
Secondary Texts: 
Natalie Houston’s “Reading the Victorian Souvenir: Sonnets and Photographs of the Crimean War”, The Yale Journal of Criticism 14.2 (2001): 353-383.
Mischa Willett’s “‘Fading Crimean Flowers’: Spasmodic Sonnets on the War”, Victoriographies, 8.2 (2018): 135-150.

Week 17 Oral Presentations 

Week 18 Deadline for Research Paper
Evaluation
Grades
10% Oral Presentations (Two Oral Presentations)
5 % Conference Presentation
15% attendance and participation

20% Research Journal (Including your annotations, critiques of the primary and secondary texts) 
50% Research Paper (a paper of 3000-3500 words to be submitted by the 19th of June; first draft is due by the 29th of May)

Your paper will be graded by the following criteria
A. Articulate a clear argument/position
B. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the topic
C. Demonstrate subject knowledge in a logical structure
D. Contain relevant and sufficient support for claim(s) or point(s) made. 
E. Offer adequate analysis of the primary texts.
F. Appropriate use of citations for quotes and materials consulted 
G. Clarity of Writing (Grammar, Sentence Structure, Punctuation and Style)


You should type and submit your assignments electronically on time. There is a 10 
point penalty for each day late. Any homework that is copied from another source 
will receive a ‘0’. 
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