| 2 August | Introduction: the Victorians and fantastic literature | |
| 9 August | Public holiday, no seminar. | |
| 16 August | Children's literature and the fairy tale.
Fairy tale: Nesbit, Dickens, Macdonald "Little Daylight" - Self-awareness, genre
| Reading: Zipes, Introduction to Victorian Fairy Tales |
| 23 August | Fairy tale: Wilde, Macdonald "Light Princess" - Morality, satire, the Victorian child.
| Reading: Dickens, “Frauds on the Fairies”
SHORT EXERCISE DUE |
| 30 August | Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass
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| 6-10 Sept | 10-day vac | |
| 13 September | Carroll and children
Nonsense verse: Edward Lear
| Readings: Auerbach (Falling Alice), Gordon
FIRST ESSAY: Fairy tale topic due |
| 20 September | Nonsense verse: Edward Lear
| Reading: Sewell, The Field of Nonsense,ch. 1, 3, 4.
SHORT EXERCISE DUE. |
| 27 September | Introduction: Victorian novelists; Dickens, Christmas Carol
| Reading: Prickett Ch 2
FIRST ESSAY: Carroll topic due |
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| 4 October | Dickens, Christmas Carol - Supernatural fiction. Christmas and social conscience; memory; family.
| FIRST ESSAY: Nonsense topic due |
| 11 October | Stoker, Dracula: the Gothic novel. The vampire and morality/sexuality.
| Reading: Botting, "Gothic Returns".
SHORT EXERCISE DUE |
| 18 October | Stoker, Dracula: text and genre.
Wells, The Time Machine and Victorian Science
| SECOND ESSAY: Dickens topic due |
| 25 October | Wells, The Time Machine: Utopia/Dystopia and social criticism; the man's adventure novel.
| Reading: Showalter
SECOND ESSAY: Stoker topic due |
| 27-30 October | Study week | 30 October:
SECOND ESSAY: Wells topic due |
