Course schedule

This schedule is subject to change according to the progression and needs of the course.

Please read the assigned texts, including texts for seminar presentations, before the appropriate class.

Critical reviews are due before the lecture. After 9:30 am on that day, WebCT will no longer accept your assignment.

Lecture schedule

Date	Topic	Readings
Jan 8	Introduction to the fin de siècle	No required readings
Jan 15	Scientific advancements	H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau
Jan 22	Social change	G. B. Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Jan 29	Social change Term paper topic due	Mary Chomondeley’s Votes for Men
Feb 5	Social change Term paper proposal due	Further discussion: No readings
Feb 12	Decadence: The real and the ideal Term paper outline due	Sara Jeannette Duncan’s A Daughter of To-day
Feb 19	Class cancelled	Enjoy the Olympics!
Feb 26	Class cancelled	Enjoy the Olympics!
Mar 5	Decadence: The real and the ideal Seminar: Ehlam  (Island of Dr. Moreau: Freudian symbolism)	Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mar 12	Decadence: The real and the ideal Seminar: Jaclyn (Suffrage, women’s rights, changing ideals of womanhood) Seminar: Kristy & Lindsay (The Time Machine) First draft due	Further discussion: no readings
Mar 19	Cancelled due to illness
Mar 26	Society, religion, and family Seminar: Sarah Ma & Sam (The paranormal element in Decadence literature, Yeats and the Golden Dawn) Seminar: Russell & Brett (Technology in Wells and Lovecraft) Seminar: Arpan, Jess & Adam (Scientific improvement of the natural creature vs religious symbolism)	Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son
Apr 2	Good Friday: Class cancelled
Apr 9	Imperialism Seminar: Sarah McSkimming (Satires of good breeding) & Jeremy (Shaw’s and Wilde’s approaches to artistry and censorship) Seminar: Mel-Lynda & Randi (literary representations of female emancipation and the effect on marriage and motherhood)	Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Apr 16	Imperialism (continued) Seminar: Jessica (Post-colonial reading of Heart of Darkness and The Nigger of the Narcissus, including issues of masculinity) & Alex (Capitalism in Shaw and Ibsen) [You two will need to talk...] Viewing of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now Term paper final draft due