On Victorian Fiction
Special Events
Adam Bede (The Valve, Summer 2008)
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- Week I: Chapters I-V
- Week II: Chapters VI-XI
- Week III: Chapters XII-XVI
- Week IV: Chapters XVII-XXI
- Week V: Chapters XXII-XXVI
- Week VI: Chapters XXVII-XXXV
- Week VII: Chapters XXXVI-XLVIII
- Week VIII: The Whole Novel
The Chimes (The Valve, December 19, 2008)
Villette (The Valve, Summer 2009)
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- Week I: Chapters 1-8, “I, Lucy Snowe, was calm.”
- Week II: Chapters 1-15, “Ghostly nuns, cross-dressing, and Meribah’s waters gushing out”
- Week III: Chapters 1-22, “I had preferred to keep the matter to myself”
- Week IV: Chapters 1-27, “She’s ba-ack!”
- Week V: Chapters 1-35, “Oubliez les professeurs!”
- Week VI: Chapters 1-42, “Farewell”
Focus on Victorian Novelists (see also This Week in My Classes)
Charlotte and Emily Bronte
- Wuthering Heights (February 1, 2007)
- Leslie Stephen, “Charlotte Bronte” (September 2, 2007)
Charles Dickens
- “Indicting Charles Dickens”? (November 23, 2007)
- Dickens and “the Limits of Anguished Humanism” (November 26, 2007)
- Fog. Mud. Smoke. Soot. Gas. Fog. (October 27, 2008)
George Eliot
- George Eliot: the Friendly Face of Unbelief (June 25, 2007)
- Becoming George? (August 18, 2007)
- George Eliot and Prayer (October 28, 2007)
- Teaching Middlemarch (October 29, 2007; November 5, 2007; November 14, 2007)
- Middlemarch in the 21st Century? (April 3, 2008)
- Zadie Smith on George Eliot: “the Secular Laureate of Revelation” (May 25, 2008)
- Reading George Eliot Well (May 20, 2008)
- Teaching The Mill on the Floss (November 19, 2008; November 25, 2008)
- “The Little Child Had Come to Link Him Once More with the World” (December 11, 2008)
- “The True Genius of Her Writing” (October 22, 2009)
- The Radicalism of ‘Felix Holt’(Open Letters, January 2010)
- The Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot (October 29, 2009; November 6, 2009; November 15, 2009)
- George Eliot for Dummies: Brenda Maddox’s George Eliot in Love (Open Letters, November 2010)
- Rebecca Mead, “George Eliot and Me” (February 28, 2011)
Elizabeth Gaskell (unsorted)
Margaret Oliphant
- Miss Marjoribanks (March 23, 2007)
- Hester (May 9, 2007)
- Autobiography (September 17, 2007)
William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Morality of Vanity Fair (Open Letters, July 2010)
Anthony Trollope
- Blogging He Knew He Was Right (August 22, 2007; August 24, 2007; August 26, 2007; August 27, 2007)
- Teaching He Knew He Was Right (February 12, 2008; February 17, 2008)
- “Reading Anthony Trollope” (Open Letters, October 2009)
Other Victorian Novelists
- Evaluating East Lynne (August 4, 2007)
- Teaching East Lynne (October 26, 2009)
- Aurora Floyd is Pretty Bad, But It’s Also Pretty Good (The Valve, October 20, 2009)
Not-Quite-Victorian Novelists
Sir Walter Scott
- Who Reads Scott Any More? (Reprise, April 7, 2010)
- The Scottish Literature Reading Challenge: The Antiquary (June 10, 2010)
Virginia Woolf
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Welcome! I hope you have fun browsing around.