ENG 463
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The Victorian Period
Spring 2007
Instructor: Amanda French
In this course, each student will pick a Victorian author and do intensive research on that figure throughout the semester. In addition, the whole class will be reading and discussing the works of Oscar Wilde.
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Announcements
The ENG 463 Final Exam Study Guide is now available. I will print it and hand it out Tuesday, as well.
--Amanda French 14:34, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
Please be sure to fill out a Course Evaluation between April 16th and April 29th.
--Amanda French 12:20, 19 April 2007 (EDT)
If you'd like to watch any film or theatrical version of An Ideal Husband and write a one-page response to it, I'll give you one point extra credit. You must turn in the response to me (e-mail is fine) by Friday, March 23. Pretty much the only version that's easily available is Oliver Parker's 1999 Miramax film starring Rupert Everett, Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Julianne Moore, and Jeremy Northam -- but that's a very good version, I think, and you can get it at any video store. There's also a 1998 version set in the present directed by Bill Cartlidge and a 1947 version directed by Hungarian WWII refugee Alexander Korda -- if you have Netflix you might be able to get one of those, and I'd be very interested to hear about either one. It looks to me as though those two rarer versions really focus on the theme of political corruption, whereas the Oliver Parker version is hardly concerned with that at all except as a plot device.
--Amanda French 15:07, 15 March 2007 (EDT)
If you'd like to quote from Sally Mitchell's Daily Life in Victorian England as your authoritative secondary source in the wiki assignments, that's perfectly fine.
There are still some technical things I have to figure out about citing on the wiki, and I haven't had a chance to cite all my own sources completely on the Oscar Wilde page yet, but please do follow the MLA Handbook citation style. Here are two examples of full citations for a "Works Cited" section at the bottom of your wiki page -- note especially that for online sources you'll want to include the date you accessed it:
Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.
"Bimetallism." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 10 Feb. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimetallism>.
--Amanda French 16:49, 10 February 2007 (EST)
Come see the 1952 film version of The Importance of Being Earnest starring Michael Redgrave at 7pm in the Mini-Theater of D. H. Hill Library on Thursday, February 8, and I'll give you 1 point extra credit. If you can't make it then, you may watch this version or another version and write me a 1-page review for the extra point. Please send that to me by e-mail or bring it to me in class by Thursday, February 15.
The Mini-Theater is in the West Wing of D. H. Hill Library on the 2nd floor. Here are the directions to the mini-theater.
--Amanda French 15:24, 6 February 2007 (EST)
For April 12, please do NOT read "De Profundis." Read Salome instead.
--Amanda French 13:08, 8 February 2007 (EST)
Course Materials
Victorian Authors
Please choose a Victorian author of fiction, poetry, or nonfiction to research. Good places to start: a list of Victorian authors on the Victorian Web; a list of Victorian women writers from the Victorian Women Writers Project; and a list of Victorian authors from the Voice of the Shuttle scholarly project. If you would like to choose an author not on one of those lists, please clear it with me.
Create the page for your author by adding a link under this heading, exactly as in the example below. The title of the page you create should begin with "ENG 463". Put the date of your author's birth after the author's name, and put your name after that. Please also put your name at the top of your author page.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (born 1806) -- by Gerald Fowler
- Robert Browning (born 1812) -- by Nicole Denman
- Charles Dickens (born 1812) -- by Ateya Welsh
- Henry Mayhew (born 1812) -- by Brienna Jensen
- Emily Brontë (born 1818) -- by Jennifer Cunningham
- Catherine Anne Hubback (born 1818) -- by Stephanye Hunter
- Christina Rossetti (born 1830) -- by Meghan Barrett
- Lewis Carroll (born 1832) -- by Ryan Latta
- William Morris (born 1834) -- by Benjamin Abbott
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (born 1837) -- by Laura Gerardi
- Thomas Hardy (born 1840) --
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (born 1844) -- by Mike Cappelletti
- Bram Stoker (born 1847) -- by Tahnia Davis
- Arthur Conan Doyle (born 1850) -- by Jeffrey Dwight Smith
- Robert Louis Stevenson (born 1850) -- by Ryan Gertz
- Oscar Wilde (born 1854) -- by Amanda French
- Marie Corelli (born 1855) -- by Megan Hotchkiss
- Joseph Conrad (born 1857) -- by Ashley Grantham
- J.M. Barrie (born 1860) -- by Tom Passaro
- Rudyard Kipling (born 1865) -- by Jhila Tercheria
- Robert Baldwin Ross (born 1869) -- by Cari Corbett
- Miscellaneous -- post miscellaneous interesting information here
Daily Schedule
Textbooks:
- Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
- Wilde, Oscar. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. NY: Harper-Perennial, 1989.
There will be a quiz on the week's reading (both Mitchell and Wilde) every Thursday beginning 1/25
Wiki assignments, which address the week's topic in relation to your author, are due every Saturday by 11:59pm beginning 2/3
Thu 1/11 -- Course introduction
Tue 1/16 -- Training in research skills
Thu 1/18 -- Meet in DH Hill ITTC Lab 1b for training in wikis
Tue 1/23 -- Mitchell, Introduction and Chapter One
Thu 1/25 -- More training in research skills
Tue 1/30 -- Mitchell, Chapter 2 "Class, Tradition, and Money"
Thu 2/1 -- Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Tue 2/6 -- Mitchell, Chapter 3 "Working Life"
Thu 2/8 -- Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Tue 2/13 -- Mitchell, Chapter 4 "Science and the Urban World"
Thu 2/15 -- Wilde, "The Decay of Lying"
Tue 2/20 -- Mitchell, Chapter 5 "Government and the Law"
Thu 2/22 -- Wilde, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Tue 2/27 -- Mitchell, Chapter 6 "House, Food, and Clothes"
Thu 3/1 -- Wilde, An Ideal Husband
Spring Break 3/5 - 3/9
Tue 3/13 -- Mitchell, Chapter 7 "Family and Social Rituals"
Thu 3/15 -- Wilde, An Ideal Husband
Tue 3/20 -- Mitchell, Chapter 8 "Education"
Thu 3/22 -- Wilde, "A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated" and "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"
Tue 3/27 -- Mitchell, Chapter 9 "Health and Medicine"
Thu 3/29 -- Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tue 4/3 -- Mitchell, Chapter 10 "Holidays, Sports, and Recreation"
Thu 4/5 -- Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tue 4/10 -- Mitchell, Chapter 11 "Religion and Reform"
Thu 4/12 -- Wilde, Salome
Tue 4/17 -- Mitchell, Chapter 12 "Victorian Morality"
Thu 4/19 -- Wilde, "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."
Tue 4/24 -- Mitchell, Chapter 13 "England and Empire" and Wilde, "Ave Imperatrix"
Thu 4/26 -- Course summary and evaluations
Thu 5/3 -- Final exam 1pm - 4pm
Links
Technical Help
- WolfWikis Workshop -- Short handout from WolfWikis editing workshop conducted by Kim Duckett on 1/17
- Wiki Editing Help -- Detailed help on building your page and using the wiki
- Wikipedia: Footnotes -- Instructions on how to create footnotes (aka references, citations, works cited) using WolfWikis or Wikipedia
- Image Scanning Basics -- Basic instructions for using a scanner to digitize print and pictures
- Digital Media Lab -- Scanners and scanning help are available in the Digital Media Lab
Search Engines and Databases
For primary sources
- NCSU Library Catalog Advanced Search -- Find books, journals, and more from the Victorian period at NCSU by limiting to 1837-1901
- WorldCat -- Find books and archival materials around the world; use NCSU TripSaver to order books not owned by NCSU
- Google Book Advanced Search -- Search the entire text and see page images of many Victorian books by limiting to 1837-1901
- 19th Century Masterfile -- Helps you find journal and magazine articles from the Victorian period
- English Poetry (600-1900) -- Full text of a great deal of British poetry
- Victorian Literary Studies Archives -- Full text of many Victorian works of literature
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times 1851-2003 -- American resource, but good for historical context; has page images of the New York Times
- Accessible Archives -- Index of some interesting 19th-century American magazines
- Google Image Search -- Easy to use, but images may be of poor quality, and it may be difficult to tell where the image came from originally
- ARTstor -- Many high-quality images from many different sources around the world
- CAMIO: Catalog of Art Museum Images Online -- Fewer images than ARTstor, but some excellent images from museums around the world
- AMICA Library: Art Museum Images from Cartography Associates -- Images from American museums
For secondary sources
- Google Scholar -- Find online scholarly books and articles; be sure to use this link or one on the NCSU Libraries website
- MLA International Bibliography -- The major citation index of scholarly articles and books related to literature
- JSTOR -- Allows you to search the full text of many important scholarly journals in the humanities and to read them online
- Victorian Database Online -- Lists scholarly articles and books about Victorian literature and history.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index -- Less information than MLA or JSTOR, but allows you to track citations and analyze results
- NCSU Catalog -- The browse feature (linked here) is especially useful for helping you find books at NCSU on your author or topic
Scholarly Websites
- The Victorian Web -- Scholarly resource on literature of the Victorian period, mostly commentary with some primary texts
- The Victorian Women Writers Project -- Scholarly project focused on women's writing with lots of primary texts
- Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian Literature -- The Victorian literature section of a mammoth collection of links to scholarly projects
- Project Gutenberg -- "A library of 17000 free ebooks whose copyright has expired in the USA Book listings." Provides the full text of many Victorian works.
Print Books
- Adams, James Eli, Tom Pendergast, and Sara Pendergast, eds. Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era. 4 vols. Danbury, Conn.: Grolier Academic Reference, 2004. D.H. Hill Library DA550 .E527 2004 Reference Material (1st floor, West Wing)
- Houghton, Walter E., ed. Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. 5 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966. D.H. Hill Library AI3 .W45 v.1 Stacks (3rd floor)
- Matthew, H. C. G., Brian Howard Harrison, and British Academy. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography : In Association with the British Academy : From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. 60 vols. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. D.H. Hill Library DA28 .O95 2004 Reference Material (1st floor, West Wing)