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In an attempt to approximate a Victorian reading experience, this class will read Dickens's great novel Bleak House in serial installments throughout the semester, alongside other texts.

SES #	TOPICS
1	Introduction: The Victorian Period
2	Dickens
3	Thomas Carlyle John Ruskin
4	Thomas Carlyle (cont.) John Ruskin (cont.) Dickens (cont.)
5	Elizabeth Gaskell
6	Elizabeth Gaskell (cont.) Dickens (cont.)
7	Elizabeth Gaskell (cont.)
8	Elizabeth Gaskell (cont.) Dickens (cont.)
9	John Stuart Mill
10	John Stuart Mill (cont.) Dickens (cont.)
11	John Stuart Mill (cont.)
12	Henry Mayhew Dickens (cont.)
13	Henry Mayhew (cont.) Isabella Beeton
14	Henry Mayhew (cont.) Isabella Beeton (cont.) Dickens (cont.)
15	Alfred, Lord Tennyson
16	Alfred, Lord Tennyson (cont.) Dickens (cont.)
17	Alfred, Lord Tennyson (cont.)
18	Alfred, Lord Tennyson (cont.) Dickens (cont.)
19	Dickens (cont.)
20	Lewis Carroll
21	Lewis Carroll (cont.)
22	Arthur Conan Doyle
23	Arthur Conan Doyle (cont.) Rudyard Kipling
24	Dickens (cont.)
25	Dickens (cont.)