Thur 8/24

Tue 8/29

• Join the English Department Google Email Group! Majors/Minors: Send an email to engdept-group+subscribe@sjsu.edu
• What should you read next? (See "Literature Map")

Discussion:

• What's up with Canvas?
• Share Your Class Notes
• What are our assignments?
• What are Dr. Harris' office hours?
• What are our class policies?

Thur 8/31

Read

• "The Art of Criticism: Getting it Wrong"
• How to Read Fiction

Mini-Lecture

• A Brief History of the British Novel
• Printing Workshop from Digital Dickens

For Reference in Lecture

• See Periodic Table of Literary Villains (Norton)
• “Novel” on Google N-Gram Viewer
• “Novel” in the Oxford English Dictionary Database (requires SJSU log-in)
• Medieval Help Desk (video)
• 19th-century Reading Materials (pdf)
• Almanac Day (pdf)
• The Monthly Repository
• The English Woman's Journal
• Digital Dickens Printing Workshop (pdf)
• 19th-century Historical Highlights (pdf)
• 19th-century Print Culture (pdf)
• British History Timeline (uses Flash)
• Introduction to Victorians Video Lecture

Interesting Stuff for Class Discussion

• The Timetables of History  by Grun
• Image of slave ship  (1789)
• A Brief History of Typewriters
• "A Rake's Progress " (1733)
• Queen Victoria & Anesthesia
• History of Bethlem Hospital (Bedlam for the insane!)
• Observations on Insanity ... (Arnold 1782 - pathologizes imagination as the first step towards insanity if overused)
• Bethlem Hospital Archives
• "The British Empire, Trading Routes & Construction" (video)
• Pear’s Soap ads (commercializing imperialism)
• Colonial Trade Routes  (image)
• Legacies of British Slave Ownership database,  including maps  of plantations in Jamaica, Grenada, and Barbados
• Inside the Slave Ship History of American Slavery episode 2 (15 min podcast) - from Slate)
• Animated interactive map of 315 years. 20,528 voyages 1600-1860 all over the world - from Slate.com (The interactive animates more than 20,000 voyages cataloged in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database )
• "Dissecting Pregnancy"
• "London Cafes: The Surprising History of London's Coffee Houses" (Green, Telegraph 2013)
• The Early History of Coffee Houses in England  (Robinson 1893)
• Introduction, from Popular History in Victorian Magazines Database
• Wax Recording of Tennyson reading “Charge of the Light Brigade (video)
• Current Value of Old Money
• Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1245 to Present
• Girl's Own Magazine tweets advice! Compare to Boy's Own Magazine advice column
• Old Bailey Online
• Stamp Act of 1765

Tue 9/5

Thur 9/7

Tue 9/12

Thur 9/14

Discuss

• Concepts Presentation Assignments

Mini-Lecture on the Novel

• See Periodic Table of Literary Villains (Norton)
• “Novel” on Google N-Gram Viewer
• “Novel” in the Oxford English Dictionary Database (requires SJSU log-in)
• See example of almanac from Harris collection
• Terror, Horror, Sublime in a handy chart
• Female/Male Gothic in a handy chart

Read

• Northanger Abbey, Vol. I, Chps 1-7
• Austen's Plan of a Novel
• Sublimity, the Supernatural, the Real
• Elements of the Gothic
• "The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures" (New York Times)
• "The Enduring Legacy of Jane Austen" (NPR)

Tue 9/19

Vol. I, Chps 8-15

Discussion

• Bildungsroman
• "insensibility" quotes from novel - Search Gutenberg text
• Married Woman's Property Act (1870 & 1882)
• "'One Flesh,' One Person: Married Woman's Property Act of 1870" (Ablow, BRANCH)
• Parody & Satire definitions from OED
• BRANCH Timeline

Thur 9/21

Vol. II, Chps. 1-16

Discuss

• What will we write about for the mini-essay about Northanger Abbey? Sensibility? Representation of women?
• "Literary Forms of Feminine Instruction" (Harris talk on conduct manuals)

Discussion

• "abbey" quotes from novel - Search Gutenberg text
• "horror" quotes from novel - Search Gutenberg text
• for horror & parody, see Vol. II, Chp 5 (124-125, Longman ed.)

Reading Journal post Northanger #2

Concept Presentation: Condition of Women, Stefanie

Tue 9/26

Post Mini-Essay: Northanger Abbey (10pts)

Thur 9/28

Reading Journal post Woman #1

Concept Presentation: Journalism, Shelby

Tue 10/3

Woman in White: See our class notes

Class only until 2pm

pp.251-350

Note: Moved Journal, presentations, & added another day for WiW

Thur 10/5

Tue 10/10

Reading Journal post Woman #2

Concept Presentation: Madness, Blake

Thur 10/12

Added during class (fun!): Reading Journal Post Woman #3 due by 1pm

Concept Presentation: Spies, Deborah (moved from 10/10)

Tue 10/17

Read

• "The Origins of Children's Literature" (Norton)
• "To All Child-Readers of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'" (Alice xli)
• "An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves 'Alice'" (Alice xliii)
• Alice, chps 1-8

Reading Journal post Alice #1

Concept Presentation: Euclidean Geometry, James

Thur 10/19

Tue 10/24

Reading Journal post Alice #2

Concept Presentation: Children's Education, Nick

Thur 10/26

Reading Journal post She #1

Tue 10/31

Chps 9-17

See Ledbetter Research & Periodicals PPT

Post Mini-Essay: Alice in Wonderland (10pts)

Concept Presentation: Archaeology, Natalie

Thur 11/2

Reading Journal post She #2

Concept Presentation: British Empire/Imperialism, Jon

Tue 11/7

Reading Journal post Study #1

Concept Presentation: Detectives, Ana

Thur 11/9

Tue 11/14

Book Traces

NO CLASS SESSION -- DO BOOK TRACES VISIT TO THE LIBRARY

Read

• Introduction, Book Traces
• Participate in Book Traces project

Post Mini-Essay: She (10pts) by 5pm

Post Mini-Essay: Book Traces find by 5pm Wednesday

Thur 11/16

Reading Journal Post Scarlet #2

Concept Presentation: Medicine & Chemistry, Alyssa

Tue 11/21

Read: half of the novel

Discuss: 21st-Century Presentation - Instructions & Slide Submission

Post Mini-Essay: A Study in Scarlet (10pts)

Reading Journal post Kim #1

Concept Presentation: British Colonialism, Richard

Thur 11/23 - Thanksgiving

Tue 11/28

finish novel

Read the explanations of terms: hybridity, subaltern, mimicry, etc. on our Class Notes Page on Kim

Reading Journal post Kim #2

Post Progress of your 21st-Century Presentation (10 pts)

Concept Presentation: Orientalism, Connie

Thur 11/30

OKBOS -- Alice in Wonderland as anagram app: See our class notes

Suggestions for other OKBOS books? -- add something here

Tue 12/5

No Class Session -- Work on final project and essay

Prof. Harris will be in FO 220 for consultation

Thur 12/7

No Class Session -- Work on final project and essay

Prof. Harris will be in FO 220 for consultation

Participation Self-Assessment Post (10pts)

Post Mini-Essay: Kim (10pts)

FINAL EXAM: 21st Century Presentation & Essay due in class

December 19, 12:15-2:30pm