Sf in the 19th Century, redux
Have done more thinking, reading, cutting, planning of my syllabus (now with small presentations planned for the students to do):
- Week 1--Strange Beginnings (Hoffman)
- Mar 30
- Introduction, syllabus
- Reading Shelley's forwards to Frankenstein
- Reading Scott's review
- Introduction, syllabus
- Apr 1
- E. T. A. Hoffman, "The Sandman" (1816)
- Present--Freud, "The Uncanny"
- Present--Automatons--history, critical theory
- E. T. A. Hoffman, "The Sandman" (1816)
- Mar 30
- Week 2--American Canon (Poe, Hawthorne)
- Apr 6
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Note to "Hans Pfaal" (1846--Literati of New York)
- “The Man that was Used Up” - August 1839 - Burton’s
- "The Facts of M. Valdemar’s Case” - December 1845 - American Review
- Note to "Hans Pfaal" (1846--Literati of New York)
- Present--Mesmerism
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Apr 8
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "The Birth-Mark" (1843)
- "Rappacini's Daughter" (1846)
- "The Birth-Mark" (1843)
- Present--Hoax
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Apr 6
- Week 3--Warning Bells (O'Brien, Melville, Chesney)
- Apr 13
- Herman Melville, "The Bell-Tower" (1855)
- Fitz-James O'Brien, "The Diamond Lens" (1858)
- Herman Melville, "The Bell-Tower" (1855)
- Apr 15
- George Chesney, The Battle of Dorking (1871)
- Present--Future war / American Civil War
- George Chesney, The Battle of Dorking (1871)
- Apr 13
- Week 4--Verne's Conquest of Space (Verne)
- Apr 20
- Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
- --either the Salemson translation from Heritage; or
the Walter James Miller translation from Random House
- --either the Salemson translation from Heritage; or
- Present--history of moon travel stories
- Present--extraordinary voyage
- Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
- Apr 22
- Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
- Present--Albert Robida
- Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
- Apr 20
- Week 5--Machine Men and Utopia (Ellis, Bellamy)--Papers due May 1
- Apr 27
- Edward S. Ellis, The Steam Man of the Prairies (1868)
- Present--Dime Novel
- Present--Railroads
- Present--The further adventures of the Steam Man
- Edward S. Ellis, The Steam Man of the Prairies (1868)
- Apr 29
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888)
- Present--history of Utopia
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888)
- May 1--Friday
- Papers due
- Mid-quarter evaluations
- Papers due
- Apr 27
- Week 6--Future Utopia (Bellamy)
- May 4
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888)
- Present--Utopian fictions
- Present--Utopian reality
- Present--Utopian theory
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888)
- May 6
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888)
- Present--Lane's Feminist Utopia
- Present--Donnelly's Disastrous Future
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888)
- May 4
- Week 7--Past Disaster (Twain)
- May 11
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
(1889)
- Present--Twain and the Paige typesetter
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- May 13
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
(1889)
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- May 11
- Week 8--Social Experiments (Twain, Abbott)
- May 18
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
(1889)
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- May 20
- Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (1884)
- Present--Twain's outer dark fiction
- Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (1884)
- May 18
- Week 9--Beginning of the End
- May 25-Memorial Day
- May 27
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898)
- Present--Wells, James, and the literary establishment
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898)
- May 25-Memorial Day
- Week 10--The End
- June 1
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898)
- Present--Sequels and other versions
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898)
- June 3
- Paper presentation day
- June 1