Date
Topic
Reading
1/18 Introduction
1/25 The Child and the Erotics of Sympathy

Dickens, Little Dorrit (1857); E. Burke, excerpts from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757); A. Smith, from the Theory of Moral Sentiments (1755); J. Kincaid (reserve room )
2/1 [g1] The Child and the Erotics of Sympathy cont. Dickens cont.; Freud, "Infantile Sexuality" (reserve room )
2/8* Eroticism and Renunciation C. Bronte, Jane Eyre (1847); M. Mason (reserve room )
2/15 Eroticism and Renunciation cont. Bronte cont.
2/22 Sexual Differentiation and Erotic Competition T. Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895); Charles Darwin, Introduction, Chaps. 8, 19, and 20 from Descent of Man (1871); Freud "Notes on the 'Mystic Writing-Pad'" (reserve)
3/1 Sexual Differentiation and Erotic Competition cont. Hardy cont.; Darwin cont.; Foucault (1st half)
3/8 [g2] Contagion and Social Purity Josephine Butler, "Social Purity" (1879); D. G. Rossetti: "Jenny"; "The Blessed Damozel"; "My Sister's Sleep"; Christina Rossetti: "Goblin Market"; "In An Artist's Studio"; "When I am Dead, My Dearest"
3/15 Spring break
3/22** Le vice anglais Algernon Charles Swinburne: "Hymn to Proserpine"; "The Garden of Proserpine"; "Laus Veneris";Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs; Foucault (2nd half); Freud, "A Child is Being Beaten" (reserve room )
3/29 Lesbian Erotics and Lesbian Specters Sheridan LeFanu, "Carmilla" (1872) ; Michael Field: Selected Poems
4/5 What Women Want Freud, "Femininity" [1931] (reserve room ); Wilde, Salome
4/12 No class: Marshall Poet-in-Residence reading  
4/19 Manliness and Homoeroticism Pater, "Conclusion" to The Renaissance: A Study (1873);"A Child in the House" (1878); Dorian Gray (1891); Symonds, "A Problem in Modern Ethics"; Freud (reserve); Buchanan, "The Fleshly School of Poetry" (1870); Burton, on "the Sotadic Zone' (1885)"
4/16 Manliness and Homoeroticism cont. cont.
5/3*** Pornography as Commodity; Final paper due. "She-Noodles" from The Pearl (reserve)

Requirements in ENG 430: (2) 3-5-page critical papers (due: * and **), (1) critical research paper, 10-15 pages in length (due: ***), periodic quizzes, regular attendance and regular contributions to class discussion.

Requirements in ENG 545: (2) 5-page critical papers (due: [g1] and [g2]), (1) critical research paper, 15-20 pages in length (due: ***), periodic quizzes, regular attendance and regular contributions to class discussion, (1) 10-minute class presentation (dates to be announced later in the semester).

 

Updated: 3/25/2001