·
They
should be no longer than 10 minutes (ideally 5-8 minutes)
·
They
should summarize a critical article
or historical topic.
·
I
encourage students to concentrate on not only literary texts but also on other
forms of media (including visual art, photography, and urban planning
documents).
·
Short
presentations form 10% of your final grade.
Almost all of the
books and articles listed below are available for one hour and overnight loan
at the library reserve desk.[1]
For display during class meetings students may use the in-room document camera
(for images from books). If you will be
using images from the web, please save them to a CD for the in-room computer,
as web access has been unstable lately.
Week 5—Wed Sept 29
·
Stallybrass,
Peter and White, “Below Stairs: The Maid & the Family Romance” (
·
McClintock,
Anne. Imperial Leather (chapter on
the racial/colonial aspects of Munby/Culllwick’s
relation)- Ashley Hetrick
Week 6—Mon Oct 4:
·
Nead,
Lynda, “Mapping and Movement” (
·
Stallybrass,
Peter & White, “The City: The Sewer, the Gaze...,” Politics and Poetics of Transgression- Laura Peterson
Week 6—Wed Oct 6
·
Schoenwald,
Richard. “Training Urban Man: A Hypothesis about the Sanitary Movement.” The
·
O’Connor,
Erin. “Asiatic Cholera and the Raw Material of Race,” Raw Material- Nina Budabin McQuown
·
Halliday,
Stephen. The Great Stink of
Week 7—Mon Oct 11
·
Thompson,
John.
·
Herbert, Christopher. Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic
Imagination in the Nineteenth Century (chapter on Mayhew)- Lisa Johnston
Week 7—Wed Oct 13
·
Strasser,
Susan. “The Stewardship of Objects” (
Week 8—Mon Oct 25
·
Gallagher,
Catherine. “The Bio-Economics of Our
Mutual Friend,” Fragments for a
History of the Human Body, ed. Michel Feher, Part
3 (344-65)- Lindsey Anderson
Guidelines for Projects:
Research
projects may focus on texts that we have discussed in class or on other texts
and questions surrounding garbage, the Victorians, or any combination of the
two. The topic should be of your own
devising. I welcome comparative projects
(different cultures, different texts, different time periods, different
media)—as long as you can make a compelling case for how your project resonates
with the course theme. I also welcome
projects in other formats beyond scholarly papers: web projects or creative
writing projects, for instance.
·
If you
will be writing a scholarly paper, it should be at least 8 pages in length.
·
Creative
writing projects should be accompanied by a substantive explanation of how your
work resonates with the course theme.
·
Projects
are due on MONDAY, DEC 20 by
·
They
will account for 30 % of your course grade.
·
Projects
must be preceded by an oral
presentation/ Q & A about your topic (see below).
As
you refine your topics, I encourage you to consult the bibliography for this course,
resources at Victorian Web(http://www.victorianweb.org), and
to meet with me about any questions that you may have.
Guidelines for Project
Presentations:
Presentations of your research topics will occur in class
from Wednesday, November 3 (the second week after break) until Wednesday,
December 8. These presentations are
intended to jump-start your own writing and research process.
·
Presentations
should be at least 10 minutes in
duration (15 minutes maximum).
·
I am not
expecting them to be highly ‘polished,’ but rather to serve as works in progress.
·
I will
be grading your presentations. (They account for 15% of your grade). Here are my criteria for grading. Your
presentation should:
1.)
show that you are already involved in researching and seriously thinking about your
research topic.
2.)
provide a tentative road map or
abstract of your eventual project.
3.)
pose questions and issues that follow from your topic. Why are you interested
in this subject? What, in your view, is
its greater significance? What are some
tentative lines of argument you are thinking of pursuing? (Offer specific
examples.)
4.)
pose related questions to your classmates about the shape of your project. (E.g., “Here are some options open to me:
should I pursue x or y? In what way? With what sort of approach?)
5.)
discuss how your topic relates to the greater focus of the course.
Week 10
Mon Nov 8: Kristi Ebbott
Our
Mutual Friend: Book 3, Ch. 6-10 (p. 470-535)
Wed Nov 10: International Symposium: NO CLASS
Week 11
Mon Nov 15: Short presentations: Kristi
Ebbot on Sedgwick, “Homophobia, Misogyny, and
Capital”
Becky Wenstrom
on Bataille, Erotism: Death and
Sensuality (taboo and violence)
Our
Mutual Friend: Book 3, Ch. 11-17 (p. 535-614): gender and violence
Wed Nov 17: Lisa
Johnston, Stefanie Fleck
Our
Mutual Friend: Book 4, Ch. 1-7 (p. 617-696)
Week 12
Mon Nov 22: Hannah Graham
Our
Mutual Friend: Book 4, Ch, 8-14 (p. 696-770)
Wed Nov 24: Thanksgiving: NO CLASS
Week 13:
Mon Nov 29: Lindsey Anderson, Laura Peterson
Our
Mutual Friend: Book 4,
Wed Dec 1: Many presentations! Clare Gromoll, Kim Lutzke, Nina McQuown Budabin, Lennie Polglaze
Week 14
Mon Dec 6: Becky Wenstrom
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Phases 1-2
Wed Dec 8: Ashley Hetrick
Tess of the D’Urbervilles:
Phases 3-4
[1]
If you are unable to track down any of the listed books or articles, check with
me. A few are still on order as of this
writing.