Date
Reading Assignment
Jan. 10
   Moll Flanders, Ian Watt, from The Rise of the Novel
13
   Moll Flanders
15
   Moll Flanders
17, 20
   No class / MLK, Jr. Holiday Observed
22
   Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure; Michael McKeon, "...Rethinking the Rise of the Novel"
24
   Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
27
   Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
29
   Confessions of an English Opium-Eater; Walter Benjamin, "The Storyteller"
31
   Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Feb. 3
   Persuasion; Gillian Brown, from Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth Century America
5
   Persuasion
7
   Persuasion; Nancy Armstrong, from Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
10
   Wuthering Heights; Sigmund Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams
12
   No class / continue reading Wuthering Heights
14
   Wuthering Heights
17
   Film version of Persuasion; "Photography, Film, and the Novel"
19
   Film version of Wuthering Heights; Keith Cohen, from Film and Fiction: The Dynamics of Exchange
21
   Virginia Woolf, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, pp 745-758 in Theory of the Novel
24
   The Pickwick Papers
26
   Mid-Term
28
   No class
Mar. 3
   The Pickwick Papers; Ann Banfield, Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation . . .
5
   The Pickwick Papers
7
   The Pickwick Papers
8-16
   Spring Break
17
   Open discussion and lecture
19
   Benedict Anderson, from Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
21
   The God of Small Things
24
   The God of Small Things
26
   The God of Small Things
28
   After the Quake
31
   After the Quake
Apr. 2
   After the Quake
4
   Mrs. Dalloway
7
   Mrs. Dalloway
9
   Mrs. Dalloway
11
   The Hours
14
   The Hours
16
   The Hours
18
   Break, No Class
21
   Mullholand Drive
23
   Donnie Darko
25
   The Sixth Sense, Last Day of Class
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