British Literature Survey
Path 2: Charles Dickens Group

 

Student-Researched Reference Topics

Reading Foci

  • the imagination as therapeutic
  • reading fiction as an escape from reality
  • the picaresque-like search for a father figure
  • rural vs. urban life
  • descriptions of London
Week One: Jan 12-14 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 1-4
Week Two: Jan 15-21 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 5-9
Week Three: Jan 22-28 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 10-12
Week Four: Jan 29-Feb 4 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 13-16
Week Five: Feb 5-11 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 17-21
Week Six: Feb 12-18 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 22-26
Week Seven: Feb 19-25 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 27-31
Week Eight: Feb 26-Mar 4 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 32-36
Week Nine: Mar 5-11 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 37-41
Spring Break (read "The Cricket on the Hearth")
Week Ten: Mar 19-25 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 42-46
Week Eleven: Mar 26-Apr 1 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 47-51
Week Twelve: Apr 2-8 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 52-56
Week Thirteen: Apr 9-15 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 57-60
Week Fourteen: Apr 16-22 David Copperfield (1849-50): chps 61-64
Week Fifteen: Apr 23-29

free topic . . .


Paul Marchbanks
marchban@email.unc.edu