Professor R. Nemesvari - Course Information
Welcome to my web page. It's pretty basic, but that's because I'd rather be reading, or playing basketball, or shooting pool, or listening to the blues, instead of feeding instructions into a computer. Still, these sites have their uses, so here it is. Along with information such as reading lists, course marks, and assignment guidelines, I've provided a few useful links related to each class. These can be found at the bottom of the relevant course section. Click on the appropriate item in the Table of Contents to move through the page. If you have any questions about this material, you can reach me at rnemesva@stfx.ca.
Office Hours 2009-2010: Monday, 10-12; Tuesday, 11-1; Wednesday, 1-3.
If you are interested in my own research, a list of my publications can be found here. Below is a portrait of Thomas Hardy, the author upon whom much of my writing is focussed.
Table of Contents:
English 100:15 - Intro. Survey of English Literature
English 201 - Science Fiction and Fantasy
English 229 - Women in English Literature
English 330 - Studies in Women Writers: Women in Science Fiction
English 371 - Victorian Literature, 1832-1867
English 372 - Victorian Literature, 1867-1901
English 377 - Nineteenth-Century Fiction
English 100.15 - Introductory Survey of English
Literature - (6 credits)
Required Texts
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major
Authors.
7th edition. Ed. M. H. Abrams et al.
Beowulf. Ed. and trans. R. M. Liuzza (Broadview Press)
Hamlet. William Shakespeare (
Reading List
Beowulf
Geoffrey Chaucer - The
Prologue, The Pardoner's Prologue and
Tale
William Shakespeare - Sonnets 3, 18, 130 - Hamlet
John Donne - "The
Flea," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,"
Holy Sonnet 14
Aemilia Lanyer -
"Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" from
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
John Milton - Books 1-3, 9-10 from
Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal
William Wordsworth - "We Are Seven," "Three Years She Grew"
Alfred Lord Tennyson - "The Lady of Shalott," "Ulysses"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning – “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”
W. B. Yeats – “September 1913,” “Easter 1916”
Course Marks
October Quiz - 10%
Essay #1 (900-1500 words, 3-5 pages) - 15%
Christmas Exam - 15%
Essay #2 (900-1500 words, 3-5 pages) - 15%
Essay #3 (1800-2400 words, 6-8 pages) - 20%
Final Exam - 25%
English 100.15 Links
A site that does a good job of explaining the Modern
Language Association's referencing format (which you are required to use) can be
found at MLA.
For information on Anglo-Saxon England and the culture surrounding Beowulf
click Old English.
If you are interested in Julian of Norwich click Julian, while if you would like
to learn more about Chaucer click Chaucer. For all the
information you'll need on the English Renaissance and 17th century
(Shakespeare, Donne,
English 201 - Science Fiction and Fantasy – Tolkien and the Rings - (3 credits)
Required Texts
The Tolkien Reader (Ballantine)
The Lord of the Rings (Harper/Collins boxed set)
Course Marks
Essay #1 (1500-1800 words, 5-6 pages) - 20%
Essay #2 (2400-3000 words, 8-10 pages) - 40%
Final Exam - 40%
English 201 Links
For a useful guide to the Modern Language Association
reference format click MLA. A site which
provides answers to a number of Tolkien FAQs can be
found here. A site which lists other
useful sites on Tolkien can be found here.
English 229 - Women in English Literature - (6 credits)
Required Texts
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The
Traditions in English.
2nd edition. Eds. Sandra Gilbert and Susan
M. Gubar.
Jeanette Winterson - The Passion (Grove)
Reading List
Julian of
Margery Kempe - "On Female Celibacy"
Aemilia Lanyer - "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women"
Mary Wroth - Sonnets 1, 24, 64
Aphra Behn - "The
Willing Mistress," "The Disappointment,"
"To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More
than Woman"
Anne Finch - "The Introduction," "The Apology," "The Answer"
Phillis Wheatley - "On Being Brought from
Africa to
Honourable William, Earl of
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - "To George Sand: A Desire," "To
George Sand: A Recognition,"
"The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point"
Christina Rossetti - "Goblin Market"
Virginia Woolf - "Shakespeare's Sister"
Zora Neale Hurston - "Sweat"
Stevie Smith - "Souvenir de Monsieur Poop," "How Cruel Is the Story of Eve"
Sylvia Plath - "Daddy," "Lady
Lazarus"
Adrienne Rich - "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
(photocopy),
"Diving into the Wreck"
Dorothy Livesay - "Eve," "The Three Emily's"
Margaret Atwood - "This is a Photograph of Me,"
"Spelling,"
"The Little Red Hen Tells All"
Jeanette Winterson - The Passion
Course Marks
October Quiz - 10%
Essay #1 (1800-2400 words, 6-8 pages) - 20%
Christmas Exam - 15%
Essay #2 (2400-3000 words, 8-10 pages) - 30%
Final Exam - 25%
English 229 Links
For a useful guide to the Modern Language Association
reference format click MLA. A wide-ranging
site on women, gender, and feminism can be found at Feminism. For a contemporary perspective check out 3rdWave, while for a less
formal but still useful set of material click on GirlWideWeb.
Material on most of the writers studied in the course can be found by doing a
search on their names.
English 271 - Gothic Fiction: The 18th and 19th-Century Gothic Novel - (3 credits)
Required Texts
Horace Walpole - The
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (Broadview)
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (Broadview)
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw (Penguin)
Bram Stoker - Dracula (
Course Marks
Essay #1 (1500-1800 words, 5-6 pages) - 20%
Essay #2 (2400-3000 words, 8-10 pages) - 40%
Final Exam - 40%
English 330 - Studies in Women Writers: Women in Science Fiction - (3 credits)
Required Texts
Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years. Ed. Pamela Sargent.
Sherri S. Tepper - The Gate to Women's Country (Bantam)
Reading List
James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon) – “The Women Men Don’t See” (photocopy)
Tanith Lee – “The Thaw”
Angela Carter – “The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe”
Octavia Butler – “Bloodchild”
Pamela Sargent – “Fears”
Sheila Finch – “Reichs-Peace”
Nancy Kress – “And Wild for to Hold”
Sherri S. Tepper – The Gate to Women’s Country
English 371 - Victorian Literature, 1832-1867 - (3 credits)
Required Texts
The Longman Anthology of British
Literature - The Victorian Age. (2nd ed.)
Eds. Heather Henderson and William Sharpe.
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre (Broadview)
Reading List
Alfred Lord Tennyson - Lyrics 1, 2, 3, 7, 54, 55, 56, 95 from In Memoriam A. H. H., "Ulysses"
Thomas Carlyle – “Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh,”
"The Everlasting No," "Centre of Indifference, "The
Everlasting Yea"
from Sartor Resartus
Matthew Arnold - "The Forsaken Merman," “The Buried
Life,” “
Charles Dickens - "A Christmas Carol"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Sonnets 1, 22, 43, “The Cry of the Children”
Robert Browning - "My Last Duchess," "The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed's Church," "Andrea del Sarto"
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
Course Marks
Essay #1 - (1800-2400 words, 6-8 pages) - 20%
Essay #2 - (2400-3000 words, 8-10 pages) - 40%
Final Exam - 40%
English 371 Links
For a useful guide to the Modern Language Association
reference format click MLA. Information
on Victorian authors and culture can be found at Victorians. Additional material on the
authors studied can be found by doing a search on their names.
English 372 - Victorian Literature, 1867-1901 - (3 credits)
Required Texts
The Longman Anthology of British
Literature - The Victorian Age. (2nd ed.)
Eds. Heather Henderson and William Sharpe.
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Broadview)
Reading List
Walter Pater - from The
Renaissance - Preface, "La Gioconda,"
Conclusion
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - "Lovesight," "This Kiss," "Nuptial Sleep"
Michael Field - "La Gioconda," "A Pen-Drawing of Leda," "A Girl"
Algernon Swinburne - "The Leper," "Hymn to Proserpine," "A Forsaken Garden"
Oscar Wilde - from "The Decay of Lying"
Rudyard Kipling - "Gunga Din," "Recessional"
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Course Marks
Essay #1 (1800-2400 words, 6-8 pages) - 20%
Essay #2 (2400-3000 words, 8-10 pages) - 40%
Final Exam - 40%
English 372 Links
For a useful guide to the Modern Language Association
reference format click MLA. Information
on Victorian authors and culture can be found at Victorians. For more specific
information on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood click PRB. The Thomas Hardy
Association is located at TTHA, and material
on other authors can be found by doing a search on their names. A link
which provides a list of Victorian webpage sites can be found here.
English 377 - Nineteenth-Century Fiction - (6
credits)
Required Texts
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (Broadview)
Emily Brontë -
Charlotte Brontë - Villette
(
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Aurora Floyd (Broadview)
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations (Penguin)
George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss (
Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge (
Bram Stoker - Dracula (
Course Marks
October Quiz - 10%
Essay #1 (1800-2400 words, 6-8 pages) - 20%
Christmas Exam - 15%
Essay #2 (2400-3000 words, 8-10 pages) - 30%
Final Exam - 25%
English 377 Links
For a useful guide to the Modern Language Association
reference format click MLA. Information
on Victorian authors and culture can be found at Victorians. The Thomas Hardy
Association is located at TTHA. Additional
material on the authors studied can be found by doing a search on their names.
Assignment Guidelines
1. Essays must be typed or word-processed on standard 8˝ x 11-inch paper. Handwritten essays will not be accepted. Double space the essay and leave margins of approximately 1 inch at the top, bottom, and sides. Number all pages of the essay in the bottom right-hand corner.
2. Provide a separate title page. Create a title for your essay that describes your topic and discussion, and centre that title in the middle of the title page. Put your name, the course number, the name of the instructor, and the date of submission in the bottom right-hand corner of the page. Do not number the title page; it does not count in the essay's page total.
3. Essays must be submitted on their due dates unless the instructor has granted an extension. If you believe you will have difficulty meeting the due date come and talk to me and we will arrange a reasonable new submission date. Essays for which no extension has been granted, and which are not received on time, will suffer a deduction of 2% per day until they are submitted. Essays submitted after the last class-day in fall and spring term will not be accepted.
4. It is the responsibility of the student to keep a separate copy, either on disk or a photocopy, of all submitted assignments.
5. References and quotations in the essay should be cited using the MLA (Modern Language Association) format. Every paper must provide a Works Cited page.
6. Plagiarism is the act of presenting someone else's words or ideas as your own. See Section 3.9 of the St. F.X. Calendar for the applicable regulations and penalties. If you utilize secondary sources when writing your essays, including material drawn from the internet and World Wide Web, you must acknowledge those sources through the appropriate reference and citation format. If you have any doubt about your use of such sources, come and talk to me.
Essay and Exam Grade Assignment
Values
A+ 90% and higher; A 85%-89%; A- 80%-84%; B+ 75%-79%; B 71%-74%; B- 70%; C+ 66%-69%; C 65%; C- 61%-64%;
D+ 60%; D
55%-59%; D- 50%-54%;
F 0-49%
R. Nemesvari - Publications
Editions
Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë. Broadview Press, 1999.
Aurora Floyd. Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Co-edited with Lisa Surridge (UVic). Broadview Press, 1998.
The Trumpet-Major. Thomas Hardy.
Collections
Human Shows: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate. Co-edited with Rosemarie
Morgan (Yale).
Thomas Hardy Association Press, 2000.
Articles
“Performing
Modernity: Hardy and Victorian Popular Culture,” in the Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy
(forthcoming, 2009)
“‘Genres
must not be mixed…I will not mix them: Discourse, Ideology, and Generic Hybridity in Hardy’s Fiction, in the Blackwell Companion to Hardy (2009)
“Fetishism and the Pathology of Class Status in ‘Barbara of
the House of Grebe,’” The
Hardy Review 9 (Spring 2007).
“‘Judged by a Purely Literary Standard’: Sensation
Fiction, Horizons of Expectation, and the Generic Construction of Victorian
Realism,” in Victorian Sensations,
“Romancing the Text: Genre, Indeterminacy, and Televising Tess of the d'Urbervilles,” in Hardy on Screen, Cambridge UP, 2005.
“Hardy and his Readers.” Palgrave Advances in Thomas Hardy Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
“Collaboration or Compromise?: From Screenplay to Screen in the Ian Sharp Production of Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” The Hardy Review 7 (2004).
“The Mark of the Brotherhood: The Foreign Other and Homosexual Panic
in The Woman in White,” English
Studies in
“‘The thing must be male, we suppose’: Erotic Triangles and Masculine Identity in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Melville's Billy Budd,” in Thomas Hardy: Texts and Contexts, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
“‘Is it a man or a woman?’: Constructing Masculinity in Desperate Remedies,” in Human Shows: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate, Thomas Hardy Association Press, 2000.
“Robert Audley's Secret: Male Homosocial Desire and ‘Going Straight’ in Lady
Audley's Secret” in Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the
Subject of Heterosexuality, University of
“Strange Attractors on the Yorkshire Moors: Chaos Theory and
“Robert Audley's Secret: Male Homosocial Desire in Lady Audley's Secret,” Studies in the Novel 4 (Winter 1995).
“Appropriating the Word: Jude the Obscure as Subversive Apocrypha,” Victorian Review 19 (Winter 1993).
“‘Work it Out for Yourself’: Language and Fictional Form in Stevie Smith's Novel on Yellow Paper,” Dalhousie Review 71 (Spring 1991).
“The Anti-Comedy of The Trumpet-Major,” Victorian Newsletter 77 (Spring 1990).
“Choice of Copy-Text and Treatment of Accidentals in Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet-Major,” The Library 6th series, 2 (December 1989).
“‘An Unpleasant Story Told in a
“Editing Hardy and Classroom Texts,” Thomas Hardy Journal 4 (January 1988).