Symbolism in the Nineteenth Century
Professor Andrea Henderson
akhender@uci.edu
TTh 9:30-10:50, HIB 411
Office: 400 HIB
Website: “nineteenth-century culture” on Sites@UCI
Office Hours: 1:00-2:00 Tuesdays and by appointment
Materials:
Works with an asterisk will be provided on the website
Books (at the UCI bookstore):
Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Concise Edition, Vol. B (Broadview)
Carroll-The Annotated Alice (Meridian)
Wilde-The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin)
Collins-The Woman in White (Penguin)
Schedule:
1/6: Introduction; Coleridge-“Frost at Midnight”
1/8: Wordsworth-“Preface” to Lyrical Ballads; Coleridge-from Statesman’s Manual
1/13: Coleridge-“Love’s Apparition and Evanishment,”* “Constancy to an Ideal Object”*
1/15: Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; Tennyson-“The Lady of Shallot,” “The Palace of
Art”
1/20: Collins-The Woman in White
1/22: Collins-The Woman in White
1/27: Clifford-“The Postulates of the Science of Space”*; Abbott-Flatland
1/29: Abbott-Flatland
2/3: Lyell-from Principles of Geology*; Swinburne-“A Forsaken Garden”; Hopkins“That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire”
2/5: Maxwell-“On Faraday’s Lines of Force”*; Hopkins-“God’s Grandeur,”
“As kingfishers catch fire”
2/10: Boole-Introduction to The Mathematical Analysis of Logic*; Carroll-from
Symbolic Logic*, Carroll-Through the Looking-Glass
2/12: Carroll-Through the Looking-Glass
2/17: Newman-from A Grammar of Assent*
2/19: D. G. Rossetti-“The Sonnet,” “The Portrait”*
2/24: C. Rossetti-“In an Artist’s Studio,” “Monna Innominata,” “Symbols”*
2/26: Whistler-“Ten O’Clock Lecture”*; Swinburne-“Before the
Mirror”*
3/3: Pater-“Preface,” “Conclusion,” and “Da Vinci,” from The Renaissance*
3/5: Wilde-The Picture of Dorian Gray
3/10: Wilde-The Picture of Dorian Gray
3/12: Proseminar presentations
3/16: final essay due
Seminar students will write a 20/25-page essay; proseminar students will write an 8/10page essay and present it, conference-style, on the last day of class.