Welcome and Introduction

Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857)

Labor Day; no class
*Lytton Strachey, "Dr. Arnold," Eminent Victorians, 1918 (London: Penguin, 1986) pp. 163-188.

*Eric Hobsbawm, "Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, 1870-1914" in Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983) pp. 263-308.

*Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854)

Paper #1 due;
Library Workshop #1 (meet in 350C Moffitt Library)

Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868)

The Moonstone

The Moonstone;
*Franco Moretti, "Clues," Signs Taken for Wonders, rev. ed., trans. Susan Fischer et al. (London: Verso, 1988) pp. 130-156.

The Moonstone;
*Stanley Wolpert, sel. from A New History of India 3rd. ed. (New York: Oxford UP, 1989) pp. 226-249.

*Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God's Grandeur" (1877) and "To Seem the Stranger" (1885)

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, chapters 5-8.
Paper #2 due
Library Workshop #2 (Meet in Bancroft Library)

E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)

A Passage to India; Forster, "Notes on the English Character" from Abinger Harvest (1936)

A Passage to India

*George Orwell, "England your England" (1941)

Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000), chapters 1-5

White Teeth, chapters 6-10

White Teeth, chapters 11-15

White Teeth, chapters 16-20

White Teeth;
*Anthony Easthope, "Nation, Identity, Discourse," Englishness and National Culture (London: Routledge, 1999) pp. 3-32.

White Teeth;
Jeremy Paxman, sel. from The English: A Portrait of a People (London: Overlook P, 2000) chapters 1-3; 7-8; and 11.

Paxman, continued

catch up day

Student Presentations

Student Presentations

Student Presentations