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British Literature in the Age of Industrialism
Readings for Research and Writing ("Path 2")

"Full seldom doth a man repent, or use
Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean, and plant himself afresh."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Geraint and Enid" (1859, 1872-73)

 
Jane Eyre (1847)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Aurora Leigh (1856)
Idylls of the King (1859-74)
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Felix Holt (1866)
Week One:
Sept 17-21
JE: chps 1-8
(Vol. 1, chps 1-8)
TWH: pp. 7-87
(chps 1-10)
AL: Books 1 & 2
"Dedication" (1862), "The Coming of Arthur" (1869) & "Gareth & Lynette" (1872)
TMotF:
chps 1-9 (Bk 1: chps 1-9)
FH: intro & Vol 1: chps 1-7
Week Two:
Sept 24-28
JE: chps 9-16
(Vol. 1, chps 9-16; Vol. 2, chp 1)
TWH: pp. 88-169 (chps 11-20)
AL: Books 3 & 4

"The Marriage of Geraint" (1859, 1873) & "Geraint & Enid" (1859, 1873)

TMotF:
chps 10-20 (Bk 1: chps 10-13 & Bk 2: chps 1-7)
FH: Vol 1: chps 8-14
Week Three:
Oct 1-5
JE: chps 17-24
(Vol. 2, chps 2-9)
TWH: pp.170-241 (chps 21-29)
AL: Book 5,
essays in back by Ellis, Napier, & Mulock (349-66)
"Balin and Balan" (1885) & "Merlin and Vivien" (1859)
TMotF:
chps 21-29 (Bk 3: chps 1-9)
FH: Vol 2, chps 15-27

Week Four:
Oct 8-12

JE: chps 25-32
(Vol. 2, chps 10-11; Vol. 3, chps 1-6)
TWH: pp.242-307 (chps 30-35)
AL: Book 6,
essays in back by Fourier & Greg (367-86)
"Lancelot and Elaine" (1859) & "The Holy Grail" (1869)
TMotF: chps 30-39 (Bks 4-6)
FH: Vol 2, chps 28-32

Week Five: Oct 15-19

JE: chps 33-38
(Vol. 3, chps 7-12)
TWH: pp.308-395 (chps 26-45)
AL: Books 7 & 8
"Pelleas and Ettarre" (1869) & "The Last Tournament" (1871, 1872)
TMotF:
chps 40-49 (Bk 7, chps 1-10)
FH: Vol 2, chps 33-44
Week Six: Oct 22-26
2 films: Cabanne's Jane Eyre (1934) AND Mann's Jane Eyre (1970)
TWH: pp.396-471 (chps 46-53)
AL: Book 9,
essays in back by Chorley, Eliot, Aytoun, & Patmore (403-25)
"Guinevere" (1859), "The Passing of Arthur" (1869) & "To the Queen" (1873)
TMotF:
chps 50-end (Bk 7, chps 11-14 & Bk 8, chps 1-end)
FH: Vol 2: chps 45-52
Week Seven:
Oct 29 - Nov 2
1 film: Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) OR Young's Jane Eyre (1997)
1 film: Barker's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
film: Franklin's The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) or Aurora Leigh (1915) or a Jane Eyre flick
film: Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2004)
film: Theakston's The Mill on the Floss (1997)
film: undeter-mined
Week Eight:
Nov 5-9
PAPER CONFERENCES being in Week Seven and continue into Week Eight
in my office (building 47, office 35A):
bring 1-2 pg outline & 1st pg of term paper
Sunday, Nov 18
TERM PAPER DUE at midnight
(send Word file via email to "pmarchba@calpoly.edu")



"The Lady of Shalott," a drawing (1850)
William Holman Hunt


Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu