PDFs of all readings will be here. Please remember that ALL PDFs MUST BE PRINTED IN HARD COPY AND BROUGHT TO CLASS; I recommend a three-ring binder to keep them all.
Jane Eyre, electronic version for in-class work: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1260/1260-h/1260-h.htm
Nancy Armstrong, from Desire and Domestic Fiction: Desire and Domestic Fiction
Nancy Armstrong, Thinking Aloud (video interview about Desire and Domestic Fiction): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piDC5A1AIH8
Nancy Armstrong, Why Looking Backward is Necessary to Looking Forward: N.ArmstrongLookingBackLookingForwardJaneEyre
Nancy Armstrong: “One or Several Jane Eyres?”, an unpublished article sent specifically to English 145 to thank them for engaging with Desire and Domestic Fiction: Armstrong–VR C. Brontë (Note, this is only optional!)
Mallory Ortberg, From Texts from Jane Eyre: TextsFromJE
“Education,” in the OED: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/59584?redirectedFrom=education#eid
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism”: SpivakThreeWomensTexts
“Up in the Eyre: Why Are There So Many Movie Adaptations of Jane Eyre, and Which One is the Best?”: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/03/up_in_the_eyre.html
OPTIONAL: “Jane Eyre Versions and Their Rankings” (IMDB List): http://www.imdb.com/list/ls003653027/
Jane Eyre (2011) conclusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVk7xyBaeto
Jane Eyre (1997) conclusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh1DjnrdxMA
Spivak / Jane Eyre / Marie Kondo PPT: SpivakJaneEyrePPT
Domesticity texts for class discussion:
- Isabella Beeton, Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861): please read over Chapter 1, “The Mistress,” concentrating on the first paragraph and skimming the rest of this chapter’s 54 rules.
- Eliza Acton, Modern Cookery in All its Branches, Reduced to a System of Easy Practice for the Use of Private Families, (1845): please read “Preface,” note table of contents, and skim as you please.
- Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits (1839): browse through as you please. Note especially “Characteristics of the Women of England” and “Public Opinion – Pecuniary Resources – Integrity.”
- John Ruskin, “Of Queen’s Gardens,” in Sesame and Lilies (1864, 1888).
The Bronte siblings: Juvenilia: BronteSiblingsAngriaGondalSaga
BL Angria Manuscripts: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/bront-juvenilia-the-history-of-angria
Elizabeth Gaskell, from The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857): Gaskell Life of Charlotte Bronte
Life of CB Worksheet: GaskellLifeofBronteClassWorksheet
North and South PPT 1: NorthandSouth1
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto: NOTE THIS PDF CONTAINS MUCH PREFATORY AND SUPPORTING MATERIAL; YOU ARE ONLY RESPONSIBLE FOR READING THE MANIFESTO ITSELF, PP 14-34 IN THIS PDF! MarxEngelsCommunistManifesto
Close reading exercise, in class: MarxCloseReadingExercise2015
Raymond Williams, “Ideology.” From Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1978. Williams on Ideology
Adam Smith, from The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Please read chapter 1, “Of the Propriety of Action Consisting of Three Sections”: http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smMS1.html
Eliot and Sympathy PPT: EliotandSympathy
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, for in-class reading:https://archive.org/details/tessofdurbervill02hard
Garrett Stewart, from NOVEL VIOLENCE: Novel_Violence_Selection (1)
Charles Booth, Map Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9: https://booth.lse.ac.uk/learn-more/download-maps
Teju Cole, Hafiz: https://twitter.com/tejucole/timelines/437242785591078912?lang=en
(What is “Hafiz”? http://www.npr.org/2014/01/16/262473432/forget-the-new-yorker-storyteller-turns-to-twitter)
Dana Goodyear, “I [Heart] Novels”: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/22/i-love-novels
Takatsu, “Secondhand Memories” (about): http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6565080-secondhand-memories
Takatsu, “Secondhand Memories” selection: takatsu-secondhandmemories
Can you guess these classic books by their emojis? https://www.buzzfeed.com/jarrylee/the-old-man-and-the-emoji?utm_term=.srnO3087nq#.wbjarpKJwl
NYPL Insta novels: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmt6TLUFEqa/