English 458: English Vices
	Spring 2002 TuTh: 2-3:15 Willard 312 Professor Stuart Barnett 316 Willard Hall 832-2758 barnetts@ccsu.edu

TEXTS:

Michel Foucault, A History of Sexuality, Vol. 1
Sigmund Freud, Three Essays On Sexuality
Thomas Laquer, Making Sex
Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1500-1800
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (two copies on R)
Samuel Richardson, Pamela
John Cleland, Fanny Hill
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
George Eliot, Adam Bede
E. M. Forster, Maurice
D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly’s Lover

Introduction

Stone, The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1500-1800
[28-66; 69-75; 149-152]

Stone, The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1500-1800
[164-224; 303-339; 382-406]

Laquer, Making Sex [1-24, 149-245]

Laquer, Making Sex
Lesley Hall, "The Clitoris"  R

Freud, Three Essays On Sexuality  [Essays 1-2]

Freud, Three Essays On Sexuality  [Essay 3]

Foucault, A History of Sexuality,Vol. 1  [Parts 1-3]
Barnett, "Resisting Subjects" [read middle section on Foucault]

Foucault, A History of Sexuality,Vol. 1  [Part 3]
Jeffrey Weeks, "Sexuality and the Historian," in Sex, Politics and Society [1-18]  R

Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text(two copies on R)
Baudrillard, Seduction [handout]

Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"

Richardson, Pamela

Richardson, Pamela
Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction  [108-134] R

Eliot, Adam Bede  [Books 1-3]

Eliot, Adam Bede  [Books 4-6]
Margaret Homans, "Dinah's Blush, Maggie's Arm: Class, Gender, and Sexuality in George Eliot's Early Novels"
[in Miller, Sexualities in Victorian Literature]  R

Lesley Hall, "'Good Sex': The New Rhetoric of Conjugal Relations," in TheFacts of Life  [202-223] R
Philippe Ariès, "The indissoluble marriage," in Ariès, Western Sexuality  [140-157] R
Laura Kipnis, "The Tyranny of Two"

Marie Stopes, Married Love  [read indicated selections]
--[take a glance at the Marie Stopes Foundation]
Supreme Court Ruling, 381 U.S. 479, Griswold v. Connecticut  [highlighted sections]

D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover
Laura Kipnis, "Adultery" R
Charles Rembar, The End of Obscenity [59-61, 81-96] R

D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly’s Lover
Barash/Lipton, "Monogamy for Beginners," in The Myth of Monogamy  R
-- [recommended also is "What Are Human Beings, Naturally?" in The Myth of Monogamy]
Tony Tanner, Adultery and the Novel [selection] R
Leopold Augustus Egg, Past and Present

E. M. Forster, Maurice
Harold Beaver, "Homosexual Signs"  R
Eve Sedgwick, The Epistemology of the Closet [handout]

E. M. Forster, Maurice
Jeffrey Weeks, "The Construction of Homosexuality," in Sex, Politics, and Sexuality [96-117] R
Leo Bersani, "Is the Rectum a Grave?" R [read highlighted sections]

John Cleland, Fanny Hill
Charles Rembar, The End of Obscenity [3-7, 371-380]
David Weed, "Fitting Fanny: Cleland's Memoirs and the Politics of Male Pleasure" R
Madonna, Sex  [slide show]

John Cleland, Fanny Hill
Lynn Hunt, "Introduction: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800" in Hunt, The Invention of Pornography R
Randolph Trumbach, "Erotic Fantasy and Male Libertinism in Enlightenment England," in Hunt, The Invention of Pornography [253-282] R
Steven Marcus, "Conclusion: Pornotopia," in The Other Victorians  R

De Sade, Philosophy in the Bedroom[read first three dialogues]R
Swinburne, "Dolores", "Hymn to Proserpine"
(for more general info on Swinburne)

Dickens, Great Expectations
Ronald Pearsall, "Flagellation," in The Worm in the Bud [328-343] R

Dickens, Great Expectations
Anne McClintock, "Maid to Order" R
Steven Marcus, "A Child is Being Beaten," in The Other Victorians  R

Lesley Hall, "Forbidden by God, Despised by Men: Masturbation, Medical Warnings, Moral Panic and Manhood in Great Britain, 1850-1950" R
Ben Barker-Benfield, "The Spermatic Economy: A Nineteenth-Century View of Sexuality"  [highlighted sections] R
Roy Porter, "Masturbation in the Enlightenment: Knowledge and Anxiety," in The Facts of Life  [91-105] R
Dickens, Oliver Twist

Dickens, Oliver Twist
Rossetti, "Jenny"
Hunt, Awakening Conscience

As we will be doing close readings in class, I suggest you print out the texts provided via links here (with the exception of Stopes and Griswold).  You should have these to refer to in class discussions.

For each class you will write a one- to two-page, single-spaced paper on the assigned material.  In it you will summarize what you believe to be the main points of the reading/assignment.  (When we read an item for more than one class meeting you only have to do this once.)  At the bottom of this you will write down three questions/points for discussion.  I suggest you bring a copy for me and yourself so that you can refer to it during class.  These will form the basis of class discussion so that the class can function as a seminar.  In order not to add undue presssure to these assignments, I will simply check that you have done them.  They will not affect your grade.  However, an utterly inadequate paper (or failure to turn in a paper) will get you a check minus, which will deduct one percent from your final grade.  By the same token, if you do an outstanding job, I will give it a check plus, which will add one percent to your final grade.

You will write a ten-page paper with a research component.  (Note: Graduate students will write a twenty-page paper with a more substantial research component.)  Format it in MLA style.  Do not put it in a binder or folder.  Simply staple it.  A letter grade will be taken off for each day the paper is late.  If you plagiarize in your paper, I will fail you for the course.  Also, I will file an Academic Misconduct Report with the Chair, Dean and the Academic Judicial Officer, who may determine that further disciplinary action is required.  You should inform yourself about the consequences of academic misconduct.

There will be an in-class midterm and final.  You will also deliver a ten-minute oral report on an item on the syllabus.

Attendance is expected.  More than four absences will affect your final grade.
 

Grade:
Midterm: 30%
Paper: 30%
Final: 30%
Oral Report: 10%