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Required Reading
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Additional Materials
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Assignments Due
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Week 1, January 13: Before Novels: Amatory Fiction and the Traditions of Romance; Eliza Haywood, Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze (1725); Backsheider and Richetti, introduction to Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730
Dr. Howe's Notes on Richetti and Backscheider
Dr. Howe's paginated notes on Fantomina
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Gender Politics of Haywood's Fantomina
E-Text of Haywood's Fantomina
Lubley, "Eliza Haywood's Amatory Aesthetic"
Kramnick, "Locke, Haywood, and Consent"
Mowry, "Eliza Haywood's Defense of London's Body Politic"
Ros Ballaster, from Seductive Form (CP)
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Journal Page
[due by Friday 5:00pm to me via email]
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Week 2, January 20: Formal Realism and Economies of Desire; Daniel Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (1722); Trumbach, from Sex and the Gender Revolution OR Stone, "The Companionate Marriage" from The Family, Sex, and Marriage
Stone's introductory chapter to The Family, Sex, and Marriage, "Problems, Methods, and Definitions," is required reading!
Dr. Howe's notes on Stone
Dr. Howe's paginated notes on Moll Flanders
Images from Laqueur's Making Sex
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A Harlot's Progress
"Sexual Mores," byMichéle
Cone
E-Text of Moll Flanders
Mowry, "Women, Work, Rearguard Politics, and Defoe’s Moll Flanders"
Sohier, Jacques. "Moll Flanders and the Rise of the Complete Gentlewoman-Tradeswoman."
Olsen, Thomas Grant. "Reading and Righting Moll Flanders."
The Procedings of the Old Bailey
Stone, introduction to Family, Sex, and Marraige
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Facebook Discussion Post [due by Monday, 6:00pm]
Journal Page [due by Friday 5:00pm to me via email]
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Week 3: Moll Flanders, cont'd; Madeleine Kahn, "Introduction" from Narrative Transvestism
Ana's presentation notes on Kahn
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Michelle Ann Abate, "Fashioning Childhood in the Eighteenth Century" (book review only--may not be used for research presentation)
Yahav-Brown, Amit. "At Home in England, or Projecting Liberal Citizenship in Moll Flanders."
John Reitz, "Criminal ms-representation: Moll Flanders and female criminal biography"
Scholarly web essay on criminality/legal system in 18c
Student project on capital punishment in 18c England
Mary Frith, otherwise Moll Cutpurse (Newgate Calendar)
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF Mrs. Mary Frith,Commonly Called Mal Cutpurse.
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Facebook Discussion Post [due by Monday, 6:00pm]
Journal Page [due by Friday 5:00pm to me via emai]
Remember: For the Journal Pages this week, you might find it helpful to begin working out your essay 1 ideas!
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| MONDAY (1-3) or TUESDAY (2-5), Essay 1 Conferences: Set up a 20-minute appointment with me to discuss your essay 1 draft. |
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Week 4, February 3: Pamela, cont’d; Folkenflik, Robert. "Pamela: Domestic Servitude, Marriage, and the Novel."
Dr. Howe's Paginated Notes on Pamela
Dalva's presentation notes on Folkenflik
Dr. Howe's Notes on Ian Watt
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Marriage a la Mode at the Tate
Conduct Manuals, excerpts from Advice to a Daughter and The Ladies’ Calling; Richardson, from Familiar Letter
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Draft of Essay 1 Due [bring two copies, one for me and one for you]
NOTE THE UPDATES TO THE SCHEDULE: THIS WEEK, NO JOURNAL PAGES/FB POSTS.
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SNOW CLOSING: CLASS CANCELED, see changes to syllabus. We'll be cutting Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. Begin reading Cleland, but come prepared to turn in Essay 1 next week and continue the discussion on Pamela. Be sure to read through my grading standards for formal essays as you revise!
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Please either edit the signup pages or comment on them to sign up for your discussion leadership and secondary source presentation.
Discussion Post [due by Monday, 6:00pm] **Note that you will have another FB post next week, to continue our conversation electronically!
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Week 6, February 17: Pamela, cont’d; Cook, "The Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Body and the Public Sphere" from Epistolary Bodies
Dr. Howe's Paginated Notes on Pamela
Urvi's Presentation on Cook
Dr. Howe's notes on Cook
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Rivero, Albert J. "The Place of Sally Godfrey in Richardson's Pamela."
Gooding, Richard. "Pamela, Shamela, and the Politics of the Pamela Vogue"
Henry Fielding, Shamela (1741);
William Warner, "The Rise of the Novel in Literary History" from Licensing Entertainment
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Facebook Discussion Post [due by Monday, 6:00pm]
Journal Page [due by Friday 5:00pm to me via email]
Essay 1 Due
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Week 7, February 24: Selling Sex; Cleland, Fanny Hill; or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748); Lynn Hunt, "Introduction: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity" from The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity 1500-1800
Kelsey's Presentation on Hunt
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E-Text of Fanny Hill
Kibbie, Ann Louise. "Sentimental Properties: Pamela and Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure."
Introduction to Rosenthal, Nightwalkers
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Midterm Exam due by March 8
Journal Page [due by Friday 5:00pm to me via email]
Facebook Discussion Post [due by Monday, 6:00pm]
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| Spring Break: No Classes! |
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E-Learning Services class meeting: How to make a web page in Dreamweaver TBA
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Week 9, March 10: Cleland, continued;
Kristina Straub, "Reconstructing the Gaze: Voyeurism in Pamela"
Tyler's Presentation on Straub
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Journal Page [due by Friday 5:00pm to me via email]
Facebook Discussion Post [due by Monday, 6:00pm] |
March 17: Screening Clarissa; begin reading Evelina
Make an appointment to conference with me about essay 2
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E-Text of Evelina
Samuel Choi, "Signing Evelina: Female Self-Inscription in the Discourse of Letters"
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Facebook Discussion Post [due by Monday, 6:00pm]
Journal Page responding to Clarissa [due by Friday 5:00pm to me via email]
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| This week--remember to check our facebook pages regularly, and contribute to the ongoing discussion! I'll be in Albuquerque for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, and Dr. Trowbridge will start the film for you on Wednesday. |
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Week 10, March 24: Evelina, cont’d
Catherine Gallagher, "Nobody’s debt: Frances Burney’s Universal Obligation" from Nobody's Story
Presentation on Gallagher
Discussion leadership of Evelina by Tyler
Identity and Ownership in "Evelina," by Dalva de Faria-Toulouse
Excerpts from A Polite and Commercial People (Langford) and Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness (Klein)
Class notes!
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Hamilton, "Monkey Business: Lord Orville and the Limits of Politeness in Frances Burney's Evelina"
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Facebook Discussion Post [due by Monday, 6:00pm]
Journal Page--ec/public posting [due by Friday 5:00pm to me via email]
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Week 11, March 31: Evelina, cont'd.;
Hogarth's London
Domestic Fiction and Late Eighteenth-Century Writers; Frances Burney, Evelina; or, A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World (1778); Campbell, "How to Read Like a Gentleman: Burney's Instructions to Her Critics in Evelina" [available via MLA bibliography/JSTOR--your responsibility to download/print!]
Presentation on Campbell
Discussion Leadership on Evelina by Cathleen
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Galperin, "The Radical Work of Frances Burney's London"
Julia Epstein, “Marginality in Frances Burney's Novels”
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Essay 2 Due [electronically to me by noon on Saturday]
Facebook Discussion Post [due by Monday, 6:00pm]
Journal Page
[due by Friday 5:00pm to me via email] |
| End of term conferences: Make a 15-minute appointment with me to discuss your projects. Come prepared with your plan for revision/expansion and preliminary bibliography. |
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Week 12, April 7: The Female Gothic; Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya; or, The Moor (1806); Patricia Meyers Spacks, "Gothic Fiction" from Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
Presentation on Spacks
Unbridled Passions and Depravity in Dacre’s “Zofloya” by Kelly
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Paulson, "Gothic Fiction and the French Revolution"
Sedgwick, “The Structure of Gothic Conventions”
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Journal Page [due by Friday 5:00pm to me via email]
Facebook Discussion Post [due by Monday, 6:00pm]
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Week 13, April 14: Zofloya, cont'd; Hoeveler, "Gothic Feminism and the Professionalization of 'Femininity'" from Gothic Feminism [book on reserve in the library; your responsibility to take a copy for yourself!]
Presentation on Hoeveler by Cathleen
Discussion leadership on Zofloya by Kelsey
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James Dunn, "Charlotte Dacre and the Feminization of Violence"
E. J. Clery, "The Terrorist System" from The Rise of Supernatural Fiction
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Facebook Discussion Post [due by Monday, 6:00pm]
Journal Page [due by Friday 5:00pm to me via email |
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Week 14, April 21: Conclusions to class, Zofloya; Final exam information; Informal workshopping--TO CLASS, BRING YOUR DRAFT/THESIS STATEMENT, WORKING IDEAS OR RESOURCES TO THE WORKSHOP TABLE, and we can work together on your final essay. Bring any specific questions or concerns you have about the assignment, or particular problems you're encountering--conceptual or otherwise--with your revision/expansion.
Carson, "Enlightenment, Popular Culture, and Gothic Fiction"
Presentation on Carson by Kelly
Carson Essay
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Haggerty, "The Horrors of Catholicism: Religion and Sexuality in Gothic Fiction"
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Facebook Discussion Post on Final Webpages or Revision/Expansion Essay
[due by Monday, 6:00pm]
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April 28: Final Exam, Final Project Due
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Revision/Expansion Essay Due
Final Exam
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