(schedule still in flux, but primary readings are pretty well set)
| week of... | primary | secondary | deadlines |
| August | |||
| 22 | from Popular Fiction by Women • Delarivière Manley, "The Secret History of Queen Zarah and the Zarazians..." (45-78) | n/a | • pre-class Slack posts |
| 29 | from Popular Fiction by Women • Jane Barker, "Love Intrigues" (80-111) • Eliza Haywood, "Fantomina" (226-48) | • Backscheider and Richetti, Popular Fiction by Women, "Introduction" (ix-xxiii) | • pre-class Slack posts |
| September | |||
| 5 | • Samuel Richardson, Pamela (through "Past Eleven O'Clock") | • Susan E. Whyman, "Letter Writing and the Rise of the Novel: The Epistolary Literacy of Jane Johnson and Samuel Richardson." | • pre-class Slack posts |
| 12 | • Samuel Richardson, Pamela (to "Thursday, Six O'Clock in the Morning") | • Diana Rosenberger, "Virtual Rewarded: What #MeToo Can Learn from Samuel Richardson's Pamela" | • pre-class Slack posts |
| 19 | • Samuel Richardson, Pamela (to end of novel) | • James Grantham Turner, "Novel Panic: Picture and Performance in the Reception of Richardson's Pamela" | • pre-class Slack posts |
| 26 | • Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (Books I-IV) | • Robert Chibka, "Taking 'The Serious' Seriously: The Introductory Chapters of Tom Jones" | • pre-class Slack posts |
| October | |||
| 3 | • Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (Books V-VIII) • William Hogarth's modern moral series: – A Harlot's Progress – A Rake's Progress – Marriage a la Mode | • pre-class Slack posts | |
| 10 | • Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (Books XI-XIII) | • Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, "The Air of Tom Jones; or, What Rose from the Novel." | • pre-class Slack posts |
| 17 | • Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (Books XIV-XVIII) | • contemporary reviews of the novel (on Google Drive) | • pre-class Slack posts |
| 24 | • Anonymous, The Woman of Colour | • Lydon Dominique, "Introduction" (11-49); Appendices B, D, F, G • Brigitte Fielder, "The Woman Of Colour And Black Atlantic Movement" | • pre-class Slack posts |
| 31 | • ECCO exploration [Google Form] | • Patrick Spedding, "'The New Machine': Discovering the Limits of ECCO" | • pre-class Slack posts |
| November | |||
| 7 | • misc. poetry – Behn, "The Disappointment" – Katherine Phillips, "To My Excellent Lucasia on our Friendship" [BL] – Anne Finch, "The Answer [To Pope's Impromptu] [luminarium]" – Alexander Pope, "The Rape of the Lock" | • Dorothy Merman, "Women Becoming Poets: Katherine Phillips, Aphra Behn, Anne Finch" | • DUE: research essay proposal (500 words, 11/13) • pre-class Slack posts |
| 14 | • Mary Wortley Montagu, The Turkish Embassy Letters [forematter, letters 1-53, 1763 edition] | • Mary Jo Kietzman, "Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters and Cultural Dislocation" | • DUE: creative/ material projects (by class time) • pre-class Slack posts |
| 28 | • Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative... | • Vincent Carretta "Olaudah Equnao or Gustavus Vassa? New Light on an eighteenth-century question of identity." | • pre-class Slack posts |
| December | |||
| 5 | • in-class research essay discussion, peer review | n/a | • DUE (12/9 optional): submit at least 2 (full) polished pages for instructor feedback by class time Tuesday • DUE (12/11): research essay, final draft (Google Drive) |
| 12 | n/a | n/a | • department showcase presentation/mini-conference (TBA) |
