Dr. Lori Amy
ENG 334

Victoria's Others: Gender, Class, and the State in Victorian Britain


8.29 intro--Library, url, telnet access and e-mail
9.5 Labor Day
9.12 Human Documents of the Victorian Golden Age
Mary Saxby's Memoirs of a Female Vagrant
9.19 Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton
9.26 Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
London Foundling Hospital Petitions
Infanticide Depositions
10.3 Research Methods, Paper work-up--midterm
10.10 Emma Smith's A Cornish Waif's Story
Rose "Protective Labor Legislation"
10.17 George Eliot's Adam Bede
10.24 Liz Stanley's The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick and excerpts from Anne McClintock's Imperial Leather
10.31 Charles Dickens' Hard Times
11.7 Thomas Carlyle's "The Nigger Question" and John Stuart Mill's "The Negro Question"; Thomas deQuincey's "The Opium Question with China"
11.14 Kathleen Woodward's Jipping Street
11.21 Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market
11.28 Thanksgiving
12.5 Paper Presentations
12.19 Exam

Day to Day Business

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