British Literature Survey
Path 2: Physical Disability Group

 

Student-Researched Reference Topics

Reading Foci

  • the function of disability in fiction
  • the difference between sympathy and pity
  • the proper place for women in middle-class Victorian society
  • charity and philanthropy
  • education
  • socioeconomic class distinctions
  • marriage, and its potential benefits and drawbacks
Week One: Jan 12-14 The Clever Woman of the Family (1865): chps 1-4
Week Two: Jan 15-21 The Clever Woman of the Family (1865): chps 5-8
Week Three: Jan 22-28 The Clever Woman of the Family (1865): chps 9-14

Week Four: Jan 29-Feb 4

 The Clever Woman of the Family (1865): chps 15-18

Week Five: Feb 5-11

 The Clever Woman of the Family (1865): chps 19-22
Week Six: Feb 12-18 The Clever Woman of the Family (1865): chps 23-26
Week Seven: Feb 19-25 The Clever Woman of the Family (1865): chps 27-30
Week Eight: Feb 26-Mar 4 Poor Miss Finch (1872): chps 1-13
Week Nine: Mar 5-11 Poor Miss Finch (1872): chps 14-26
Spring Break
Week Ten: Mar 19-25 Poor Miss Finch (1872): chps 27-33
Week Eleven: Mar 26-Apr 1 Poor Miss Finch (1872): chps 34-38
Week Twelve: Apr 2-8 Poor Miss Finch (1872): chps 39-45
Week Thirteen: Apr 9-15 Poor Miss Finch (1872): chps 46-epilogue
Week Fourteen: Apr 16-22 film . . .
Week Fifteen: Apr 23-29 film . . .


Paul Marchbanks
marchban@email.unc.edu