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Tuesday |
Thursday |
week 1
Tuesday, 1/22
Thursday, 1/24
|
introduction to the course |
Visualizing
London. Sketches by Boz, “Seven
Sketches from Our Parish”; Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene
M. Przyblyski, “Visual Culture’s History” [ lecture ] |
week 2
Tuesday, 1/29
Thursday, 1/31
|
Visualizing
London. Sketches by Boz, “Scenes” and “Characters”;
Murray Baumgarten, “Fictions of the City”; Judith Walkowitz, “Urban
Spectatorship”
[ lecture ] |
Visualizing
London. Sketches by Boz, “Tales”;
George Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life” |
week 3
Tuesday, 2/5
Thursday, 2/7
|
Dickens and
the Victorian Photographic Imagination.
Nancy Armstrong, “What is Real in Realism?”; Siegfried
Kracauer, “Photography”; Grahame Smith, Dickens and
the Dream of Cinema, Chs. 1-3; Jonathan Crary, “Techniques
of the Observer” [ lecture ] |
Illustrator and Novelist, Case #1: Dickens and Cruikshank. Oliver
Twist, Chs, 1-15 |
week 4
Tuesday, 2/12
Thursday, 2/14
|
Dickens and
Melodrama. Oliver Twist,
Chs. 16-42; Deborah Vlock, “Dickens
and the Imaginary Text”; Peter Brooks, Introduction
to The Melodramatic
Imagination; Dickens and the Dream
of Cinema, Chs. 6, 9 [ lecture ] |
Victorian Theatre Going. Oliver Twist,
Chs. 42-53; Vlock, “Theatrical
Attitudes” |
week 5
Tuesday, 2/19
Thursday, 2/21
|
class cancelled |
Illustrator
and Novelist, Case #2: Dickens and “Phiz.” David
Copperfield, Chs. 1-15; Julia Thomas,
Introduction to Pictorial
Victorians; Charles Baudelaire, “The
Painter of Modern Life” [ lecture ] |
week 6
Tuesday, 2/26
Thursday, 2/28
|
Victorian Book
Illustration in the 1850s and 1860s. David
Copperfield,
Chs. 16-34. [ lecture ] |
Victorian Narrative Painting. David Copperfield,
35-44. Thomas, “The Englishness of Victorian Narrative
Painting” |
week 7
Tuesday, 3/4
Thursday, 3/6
|
David Copperfield, Chs.
35-64 [ lecture ] |
Realism and
the Later Dickens. Great Expectations, Vol.
1 [ lecture ] |
week 8
Tuesday, 3/11
Thursday, 3/13
|
The “Un-illustrated
Novel.” Great
Expectations, Vol. 2; Kamilla Elliott, “Cinematic
Dickens and Uncinematic Words” [ lecture ] |
Great Expectations, Vol. 3 |
week 9
Tuesday, 3/18
Thursday, 3/20
|
Dickens and Film Adaptation. Robert Stam, “Introduction” to
Literature and Film; Robert Ray, “The Field of Literature and
Film”; “Dickens, Psychoanalysis, and Film: A Roundtable” |
TBA |
SPRING BREAK
3/24-28 |
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week 10
Tuesday, 4/1
Thursday, 4/3 |
Dickens and
Film Adaptation: David Lean’s Oliver
Twist and Great Expectations; Regina Barreca, “David
Lean’s Great Expectations.” [ lecture ] |
Dickens and Film Adaptation: Masterpiece Theatre’s David
Copperfield; John Bowen, “David Copperfield’s Home
Movies” |
week 11
Tuesday, 4/8
Thursday, 4/10 |
Bleak House:
the Visual Touchstone. Bleak
House, Chs. 1-15; BBC’s Bleak House, Episodes
1-2 [ lecture ] |
Bleak House, Chs.
16-25;BBC’s Bleak House, Episodes
3-4; Michel Foucault, “Panopticism” |
week 12
Tuesday, 4/15
Thursday, 4/17 |
Bleak House,
Chs. 26-42; BBC’s Bleak House,
Episodes 5-6 |
Bleak House, Chs. 43-49; BBC’s Bleak House,
Episodes 7-8 |
week 13
Tuesday, 4/22
Thursday, 4/24 |
Bleak House, Chs. 50-60; BBC’s Bleak House,
Episodes 9-10 |
Bleak House, Chs. 61-65; BBC’s Bleak
House, Episodes 11-15 |
week 14
Tuesday, 4/29
Thursday, 5/1 |
paper workshop |
paper workshop |
week 15
Tuesday, 5/6
Thursday 5/8
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paper workshop |
paper workshop |
| exam week |
conference
will be scheduled during exam week; your conference paper and reading
notebook will be due then! |
