2007 AM1 Outsiders in Victorian and Modernist Fiction

Questions and Materials

• Woman Writers in the first half of the nineteenth century -- an unsystematic list

• Writers and their Pseudonyms

17.04.2007

Introduction. Technicalities. Discussing a focus: What will we be doing in this course?

Just a reminder, if you need help formulating your questions or just want me to look them over before your presentations, you can contact me at: lindsay.petrowski@mail.uni-oldenburg.de

If you have any questions or need advice on anything please let me know, and I'll try my best to help!

24.04.2007

Communicating with the Victorian audience.

Texts: Wuthering Heights, "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell", "Editor's Preface to the New Edition" (p. 319ff and 324ff in Oxford World's Classics Edition) Jude the Obscure, "Preface to the first edition" (1895), "Postscript" (1912)

1.05.2007

public holiday

8.05.2007

Narration, mediation, time structure in Wuthering Heights

15.05.2007

Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange and the moor: spatial structure in Wuthering Heights

22.05.2007

Characters, outsiderdom, and the relevance of the social in Wuthering Heights

29.05.2007

Wuthering Heights: The Contemporary Reception

5.06.2007

Jude the Obscure: Narration and Space

12.06.2007

Jude the Obscure: Character Constellations and Problematic Marriages

19.06.2007

Jude the Obscure: Education and Class, Education and Failure

26.06.2007

Jude the Obscure: The Contemporary Reception and Hardy's public status

• Cox (Ed.): Thomas Hardy. The Critical Heritage, 1970

3.07.2007

Period Features: Outsiderdom and the Characteristics of the Victorian and Modernist periods

10.07.2007

Course Evaluation. - (Final Discussion)

Wuthering Heights goes pop: Kate Bush's song / video and the book

17.07.2007

Feedback on Course Evaluation. - Presentation of Reseach Paper Projects.