/lit/ - Literature

[sin No.9937558]

I'm about to take a course on Victorian Lit., and my professor just emailed me the list of books that we're going to read for the quarter; no explanations or introductions included, just a list.

There are eight novels here. Is she expecting me to attend the first day of class having already read all of these?

[Anonymous No.9937570]

No but maybe the first one. I imagine it'll be a book a week.

[Anonymous No.9937577]

>>9937558
No, those are just the books you'll be reading over the course of the semester.
Here's a more valuable response: learn to stop being a sperg who is too backwards to email his prof with a question. You'll get more out of your education that way.
What books are on the list?

[Anonymous No.9937579]

>>9937558
Should give us that list, senpai.

[Anonymous No.9937587]

>>9937579
This. And give us her email address and name.

[Anonymous No.9937616]

>>9937577
Yeah OP, professors get emailed the dumbest shit every day so your one question isn't going to be an issue.

[sin No.9937716]

>>9937577
>>9937579
>>9937587
Jekyll and Hyde
The Importance of Being Earnest
Wuthering Heights
The Chimes
Hard Times
A Study in Scarlet
Hard Times
Vanity Fair

This is going to be a hell of a quarter, but I'm excited for it.

>>9937577
I already emailed her, but she hasn't gotten back to me yet. That's why I bothered to make this thread. I'm already on top of the whole "befriend your professor" deal, so don't worry about it.

[Anonymous No.9937733]

>>9937716
>three Dickinsons
>no Thomas Hardy

Shit course desu

[Anonymous No.9937736]

>>9937733
*Dickens'

[Anonymous No.9938643]

>>9937716
That's a shitload of pages, so be prepared to read for at least an hour every day for just her course. Anyway, just get her syllabus or go to the uni bookstore, grab the editions she uses (unless you already have some: then take them in and see if she figures they'll do). Reread Hyde before first class, and you're ready to go.

[Anonymous No.9938660]

>>9937716
>No Middlemarch

DROPPED

[Anonymous No.9938669]

>>9937716
>Hard Times
Why is this counted twice?

[Anonymous No.9938687]

>>9938643
>just get her syllabus or go to the uni bookstore, grab the editions she uses

Syllabus yes, but do not spend money on any of this until/unless you have to OP (for Intros etc.). All that stuff is public domain

[sin No.9938756]

>>9938669
The professor had it written twice on her email as well. It's either some shit attempt at humor, or a way to emphasize that Dickens is very important to the course.

>>9938643
College bookstores are an absolute money trap. I checked their copies, and they charged retail for them. I can just go to a used bookstore and get all of these novels for <$10, if I looked hard enough. My college is charging $22 for a single copy of Wuthering Heights alone; fuck that place.

>>9938687
She actually sent along links to libgen pages for each of the books. I don't like reading off of screens, so I'm opting for physical copies.

>>9937733
>>9938660
There's a Victorian Lit. I and II at my college. Those novels will probably come up at the next level.

[Anonymous No.9939067]

>>9938660
That's funny. I was thinking 'what an easy list' when reading this. In my undergrad Vic lit course we had 6 novels prescribed but most all tomes. The only Dickens was Dombey and Son. The only match here Vanity Fair. We also read Middlemarch, Jane Eyre and Tess. Tons of poetry (we read The Ring and the Book!) and a fair amount of prose including Ruskin's Unto this Last and Pater's Renaissance. Less Vanity Fair, I could read this meager 'course load' in less than a week. I suppose times have changed. Also, if youre going to read an obscure Dickens xmas novella, select the Haunted Man, not The Chimes!