These assignments are due in class on the dates indicated (i.e. the readings listed for a particular day will be discussed on that day). There will be NO LATE assignments accepted for daily grades or make-ups of in-class quizzes or assignments. Both this schedule and individual assignments are subject to change.  

• BABL = Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume B: The Age of Romanticism, the Victorian Era, and the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Concise Edition, Volume B
• CP = Course Packet

Week 1 (1/23 - 1/27)

• Day 1: Course Introduction; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The danger of a single story" (TED Talk)

• Day 2: Email Etiquette (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/694/01/); "Introduction to The Age of Romanticism" (BABL 1-30); George Gordon, Lord Byron's "Prometheus" (BABL 361-363; 366-367); Felicia Hemans' "The Homes of England" and "Corinne at the Capitol" (BABL 422-424; 426-427)

 Week 2 (1/30 - 2/3)

• Day 1: "Contexts: The French Revolution" (BABL 47-60); Blog Workshop (bring computers to class)

• Day 2: Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mont Blanc" (BABL 382-384; 395-397) -- read the poem aloud to yourself on your first reading, then read it a second time silently and mark parts you don't understand.
• Audio recording of the poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRwmQ_LEcMs 
• "Percy Shelley" & "Byron" by Drunk History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNcwpHw_Oa0  & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rawk6jsILQ 
• Photographs of Mont Blanc:
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mont-Blanc_200507.JPG
• http://www.alpine-guides.com/images/alpine%20mont%20blanc%20extra.jpg
• http://www.merryswankster.com/archives/images/mont-blanc-587777-ga.jpg
• http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/naomihowell/2005/10/11/lake_with_mont_blanc.jpg

 Week 3 (2/6 - 2/10)

• Day 1: Bring Printed Course Packet in Binder to Class; Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (39-60); "Contexts: The Abolition of Slavery" (BABL 345-360)
  
  
• Day 2: Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (61-110); Appendix A; Hypothesis Lab Day (bring laptop computers to class); watch this video; also watch this video; read the Quick Start guide; create an account

 Week 4  (2/13 - 2/17)

• Day 1: "Contexts: Women and Society" (BABL 115-129); Mary Prince's The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (BABL 327-344)

• Day 2: Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (111-178); Appendix B (read your individual assigned readings in the section) 

Week 5 (2/20 - 2/24)

• Day 1: Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (179-253); Watch Ava DuVernay's 13th (in-class)

• Day 2: Hypothesis Annotations Due; Watch Ava DuVernay's 13th (in-class)

Week 6 (2/27 - 3/3)

• Day 1: Janet Garder’s “The Writing Process” (CP 3-16); "Introduction to The Victorian Era" (BABL 498-543); Project workday (bring computers)

• Day 2: Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Essays Due; "Contexts: The Place of Women in Society" (BABL 610-632); Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (43-129)
• New Woman: Bloomerism ; Women's Rights ; Donna Quixote
• Scene from Iron Jawed Angels (trigger warning: depictions of force feeding and incarceration): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO70ZjZ0wrw

Week 7 (3/6 - 3/10)

• Day 1: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's  Lady Audley's Secret (129-319) and Appendix D

• Day 2: No Class - Instructor Guest Lecturing @ UW-Manitowoc  

Week 8 (3/13 - 3/17)

• Day 1: Pinterest Lab Day; Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (321-446) and Appendices C and E; Excerpt from Henry John Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England (CP 17-28)

• Day 2: In-class practice AP exam; Lady Audley Trial group time (bring computers to work on Pinterest boards)

Week 9 (3/20 - 3/24)

• Day 1: Midterm blog posts due (Two Reading Responses; One Personal Response; One Comment); "Excerpts from John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice (BABL 788-798)

• Day 2: Lady Audley's Secret Evidence Pinterest Boards Due; Trial of Lady Audley

Week 10 (3/27 - 3/31)

• Monday, March 27: Lady Audley's Secret Evidence Essays Due

• Day 1: Spring Break (no class)

• Day 2: Spring Break (no class)

Week 11 (4/3 - 4/7)

• Day 1: Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" and "No, Thank You, John" (BABL 839-848; 825)

• Day 2: Equiano Revisions Due; In-class practice AP exam

Week 12 (4/10 - 4/14)

• Day 1: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel" (BABL 824-828)
• Rossetti's Painting
  http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s244.rap.html
  http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/showLarge.asp?venue=7&id=127

• Day 2: Contexts: Race Empire, and a Wider World" (BABL 995-996; 1001-1033); Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses" (BABL 643-4; 656); Horrible Histories' "British Things": http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/BWnmBAfTHfo 

 Week 13 (4/17 - 4/21)

• Day 1: Revisions of Lady Audley's Secret Evidence Essays Due; "Perspectives: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin De Siècle" (CP 29-45); Oscar Wilde's Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (BABL 918-919; 924); Richard Wagner's "The Trial of Oscar Wilde" (CP 45-46)
• Leda and the Swan
• Aubrey Beardsley images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley#Gallery 

• Day 2: No Class
• Optional: "Contexts: Gender and Sexual Orientation" (http://sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline/)

Week 14 (4/24 - 4/28)

• Day 1: Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall's "Introduction: Industrial Evolution" (CP 48-92); Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's "What is Steampunk?" (CP 93-95); Jeff VanderMeer's "The Future of Steampunk: Will Clockwork Gears, Mechanical Corsets, and Dirigibles be Enough?" (CP 96-114); Professor Calamity's "My Machine, My Comrade" (CP 115-116)
• In case you'd like to look at the journal issue that Bowser and Croxall are introducing, here is the link to it: http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/past_issues/3-1%202010/default.htm 

• Day 2: Final project brainstorm day (submit idea paragraphs to the Dropbox before class); In-class workday (bring computers); In-Class Department Assessment 

Week 15 (5/1 - 5/5)

• Day 1: Jess Nevins' "Introduction: The 19th-Century Roots of Steampunk" (CP 117-121); Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• For help with the seemingly impossible number of allusions to Victorian culture in the LOEG graphic novels, consult Jess Nevins's annotations to the series:  http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Jess%20Nevins/League%20of%20Extraordinary%20Gentlemen/LoEG%20index.htm  
  
• http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9EC0BA358E3E588D (watch this entire playlist before class)

• Day 2: Conferences (bring computers)

Week 16 (5/8 - 5/12)

• Day 1: In-class workday
  
  
• Day 2: Lady Audley's Secret revisions and Blog Posts due (midnight); Gallery and Workshop Day (bring computers & treats!)

• Monday, May 15:    Study Day - Office Hours from 11am-3pm

  Tuesday, May 16th

Final Project Due to D2L Dropbox @midnight