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This information is relevant for those who took the module 2021-22 with Dr Jen Baker.

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FULL SYLLABUS

Click hereLink opens in a new window for document detailing which editions of all primary novels to buy/source online for this module.

 Printable pdf of this outlineLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

WEEK ONE

1. Watch on Stream channel before class.
2. Literature and The Novel in C19th Thought: Part 1 - Read and annotate the pack of c19th articles and essays. You may annotate directly on the word doc versionLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, the pdf versionLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, or you may print the pdf and annotate by hand, or make notes separately on paper/online. Your choice, but bring the essays and annotations to class in either e- or hardcopy.
   There are a few printed versions of the pack in the plastic hoppers outside my office (H519) [first come, first served]

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WEEK TWO

1. Guidance notes and link to first serial Instalment of David Copperfield No.1, May 1849Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (Chapters I-III)
   This includes making notes on the front wrapper, the illustrations, and the advertisements front and back.

You will need to have access to this in class in some form. If you wish to have it in hardcopy, I recommend , of which 5 copies are also available in the library as 3 Day loans, and another 5-7 different editions on open loan. Please do not read ahead of the prescribed instalments or you are missing a key point of the exercise.
You will still need to look at the online version for the paratexts.

2. Watch my Lecture on Dialogues Between Image and Text on before class. PDF hereLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

3. Required Critical Material (have these articles/your notes available in class):

G茅rard Genette, "IntroductionLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window" from Paratexts: Thresholds of interpretation. No. 20. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Rob Allen, ""Pause You Who Read This": Disruption and the Victorian Serial NovelLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window." Serialization in Popular Culture (ed. Rob Allen and Thijs van den Berg). Routledge, 2014. 45-58.

Emily Steinlight, "" Anti-Bleak House": Advertising and the Victorian novelLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window." Narrative 14.2 (2006): 132-162.

Peter Wagner, "The Nineteenth-century Illustrated Novel" Handbook of Intermediality, edited by Gabriele Rippl. De Gruyter, 2015, pp. 378-400.

For David Copperfield, if you want to do any further secondary reading, try the following, but remember these can involve plot spoilers: Robert E. Lougy, 鈥淒ickens and the Wolf Man: Childhood Memory and Fantasy in 鈥楧avid Copperfield鈥欌�� PMLA, 124:2 (2009), pp. 406 – 420 [available through library articles catalogue]

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WEEK THREE

1.  [chapters IV-VI]
   [note: archive.org has better viewing options except I realise that, apart from the cover, the instalment is back to front...so you have to go to the end and work backwards...]
   - Once you have read the text, go back and have a scan through the advertisements, see if anything jumps out, and remember to do close-readings of the illustrations as well as the text.
2. Maria Edgeworth Belinda (1801), vol. i (chapters I-XII) and paratexts outlined in Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

No required critical reading this week - for suggestions, see the section on Edgeworth under the "Further Reading Material" tab. Suggested Further Reading for David Copperfield: John Manning, 鈥淚II. 鈥� from the book Dickens on Education, University of Toronto Press 1959.

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WEEK FOUR

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No.3, July 1849 (chapters VII-IX)
   Have a scan through the advertisements on either via (better quality but back to front) or
2. Maria Edgeworth Belinda (1801), vol. ii and iii (chapters XIII "Sortes Virgilianae" to the end) and the "Original Sketch" - see Reading Guidance
3. Required Critical Reading:
   Read and annotate Edward Said, i. Narrative and Social Space and ii. Jane Austen and EmpireLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window from Culture and Imperialism (1993) - how can we relate Said's various arguments and examples to both Edgeworth's novel and to David Copperfield?

Further suggested reading for David Copperfield: I recommend Dickens own account of his childhood labour in John Forster, (Chapman and Hall, 1872), pp.28-50. Also Oliver S. Buckton, "The Reader Whom I Love": Homoerotic Secrets in "David Copperfield." ELH 64.1 (1997): 189-222.

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WEEK FIVE

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No.4, August 1849 (chapters X - XII)
   See adverts and illustrations on [back to front] or
2. Walter Scott Ivanhoe (1819/1830) vol.i (chs. I-XXIII) and Paratexts as outlined in Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window
3. Watch my Lecture on "" on Stream. PDF hereLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

No required critical reading this week - for suggestions, see the section on Scott under the "Further Reading Material" tab - I particularly recommend Brian Hamnett, 鈥淚ntroduction: The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Representations of Reality in History and Fiction鈥�.

Suggested reading for David Copperfield: I recommend Dickens own account of his childhood labour in John Forster, (Chapman and Hall, 1872), pp.28-50.

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READING WEEK

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WEEK SEVEN

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No.5, September 1849 (chapters XIII - XV).
   See adverts and this week pay particularly close attention to the illustrations via [back to front] or
2. Walter Scott Ivanhoe (1819/1830) vol.ii (chs. XXIV-End)
3. Required Critical Reading:
   Read and annotate IntroductionLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window from Heidi Kaufman, English Origins, Jewish Discourse, and the Nineteenth-century British Novel: Reflections on a Nested NationLink opens in a new window. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. pp.1-26.

Suggested reading for David Copperfield: Beth. F. Herst, "" in The Hero鈥檚 Journey, ed. Harold Bloom (Infobase Publishing, 2009) pp.39-49 and Franco Moretti, Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 (London: Verso, 1999), pp. 12-29.

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WEEK EIGHT

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No.6, October 1849 (chapters XVI - XVIII)
   See adverts and illustrations on [back to front] or
2. Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848), vol.i (ch.I-XVII) - ensure to read the prefaces/epigraphs etc. See Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window
3. Required Critical Reading:
   This selection ofLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window Gaskell's letters, reviews of the book, contemporary context, illustrations.

Suggested further reading for Mary Barton: Friedrich Engels, 鈥�The Great Towns鈥� in The Condition of the Working Class in England [1845], trans. By Florence Kelly Wischnewetzky. New York: John W. Lovell Co, 1887, pp.17-51. And see the Further Reading Material tab.

Suggested reading for David Copperfield: Julia F. Saville, "Eccentricity as Englishness in "David Copperfield"." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 42.4 (2002): 781-797, and David Thiele, "The "transcendent and immortal... HEEP!": Class Consciousness, Narrative Authority, and the Gothic in David Copperfield." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 42.3 (2000): 201-222.

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WEEK NINE

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No.7, November 1849 (chapter XIX - XXI)
   See advertisements and illustrations at [story is back to front] or on
2. Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton A Tale of Manchester Life (1848), vol.ii (ch.XVIII-End)
3. Required Critical Reading: Read and annotate Caroline Levine, 鈥�Victorian RealismLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window.鈥� The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, edited by Deirdre David, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012, pp. 84–106.

Suggested further reading for David Copperfield: Clare Pettitt, "." Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, 53 (2009) and Patricia Poussa, "." Writing in nonstandard English, eds. Gunnel Melchers, Irma Taavitsainen, P盲ivi Pahta (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999), pp.27-44.

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WEEK TEN

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No.8, December 1849 (chapters XXII - XXIV)
   Advertisements and illustrations via [back to front] or
2. Charlotte Bront毛, Villette (1853) vol. i (chs. I-XV) and Charlotte's letter (appendix A) - see Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window
3. Required Critical Reading:
   Read and annotate extract from Athena Vrettos' introduction Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowto Somatic Fictions: Imagining illness in Victorian culture. Stanford University Press, 1995.
4. Watch my Lecture on The Gothic and Sensation on Stream

Suggested reading for David Copperfield: Rodas, Julia Miele. "Tiny Tim, Blind Bertha, and the Resistance of Miss Mowcher: Charles Dickens and the Uses of Disability." Dickens Studies Annual (2004): 51-97.

Printable PDF of this outlineLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

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Week One

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No. 9, January 1850 [Chapters XXV-XXVII]
   And paratexts on either [back to front] or
2. Charlotte Bront毛, Villette (1853) vol.ii and iii [chapter XVI- End] and appendices in Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window
3. Required Critical Reading:
   Read and annotate Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "The Character in the Veil: Imagery of the Surface in the Gothic NovelLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 96.2 (1981): 255-270.
4. Anything you missed last term (Gothic lecture, Vrettos Intro to Somatic Fictions)

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Week Two

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No.10, Feb 1850 [Chapters XXVIII- XXXI]
   And paratexts on either [back to front] or
2. Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (1863) - see Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window
3. Required Critical Reading:
   Read and annotate extracts from Darwin's On the Origin of Species Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window(1859) - I advise thinking about the literal and metaphorical implications for many of the texts we have and will read, as well as Kingsley's.
4. Watch my Lecture on "The Child and the Novel" on Stream

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Week Three

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No.11, March 1850 [Chapters XXXII- XXXIV]
   And paratexts on either [back to front] or
2. Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd (1874) Vol.I [Preface and Ch. I-XXX] - see Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window
3. Required Critical Reading:
   Read and annotate Hardy 鈥�The Dorset Farmer LabourerLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window鈥� (1884)
4. Watch Claire Starkey's talk on rebranding the rural working classLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window [15mins] - take notes of key points.

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Week Four

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No.12, April 1850 [Chapters XXXV - XXXVII]
   And paratexts on either [back to front] or
2. Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd (1874) Vol.II [XXXI 鈥淏lame-Fury鈥� - End]
3. Watch my lecture on on Stream

No required critical reading this week - for suggestions, see the section on Hardy in Further Reading Material or the optional comparative work in the Reading Guidance.

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Week Five

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No.13, May 1850 [Chapters XXXVIII - XL]
   And paratexts on either [back to front] or
2. H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (1887) -see Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window
3. Required Critical Reading:
   Read and annotate extracts from Rebecca Stott, "Scaping the body: Of cannibal mothers and colonial landscapesLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window." The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2002. 150-166.

Further reading: I strongly recommend reading atrick Brantlinger "Imperial GothicLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window" in Victorian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, edited by Andrew Smith and Bill Hughes. Edinburgh University Press, 2014. [The hyperlinked is a set of extracts]

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READING WEEK

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Week Seven

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No.14, June, 1850
   And paratexts on either [back to front] or
2. George Gissing, New Grub Street (1891) [chapters I-XX, c.240pp] - see Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

3. Required Critical Reading:
   George Gissing, 鈥�The Place of Realism in FictionLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window鈥� (1895) plus brief quote on Dickens.

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Week Eight

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No.15, July 1850
   And paratexts on either [back to front] or
2. George Gissing, New Grub Street (1891) [chapters XXI – End]
3. Required Critical Reading:
   Read and annotate Mona Caird, extract from 鈥�MarriageLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window鈥� (1888)

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Week Nine

1. Serial Instalment of David Copperfield, No.16, Aug 1850
   And paratexts on either [back to front] or
2. H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898) c.160pp. See Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window.
3. Required Critical Reading:
   Read/annotate Wells' essay "On ExtinctionLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window" (1893) and Herbert Fyfe's essay "How Will the World EndLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window?" (1900)
4. Watch my lecture on  on Stream

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Week Ten

1. Final serial Instalments of David Copperfield & paratexts,  and , and  (or ,  
   Plus the 1850 and 1869
   - Return to Caroline Levine "Victorian Realism" and Edward Said extracts from "Culture and Imperialism" (or at least your notes from them) and consider the instalments you read in lights of these.
2. Literature and The Novel in C19th Thought: Part 2
   Read and annotate the pack of articles and essays from the 2nd half C19th.
   You may annotate directly on the word doc versionLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, the pdf versionLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, or you you may print the pdf and annotate by hand, or make notes separately on paper/online. Your choice, but bring the essays and annotations to class in some form.
3. Required Critical Reading:
   Read and annotate Brian Cheadle, "What is David CopperfieldLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window?." Essays in Criticism 69.1 (2019): 51-73.

Suggested further reading, Anna Vaninskaya, "The Novel, its Critics, and the University: a New BeginningLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window?" in edited by Lisa Rodensky, 2013.