H04002 "TEACHING TIPS FOR JUDE THE OBSCURE" 1/12/04 HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES
From: James Harris <jamestharris@InfoAve.net
Date: Fri. 02 Jan 2004 09:20:45 -500
Subject: Teaching Jude for the first time
At 09:20 AM 1/2/2004 -0500, you wrote:
All,I've just joined this discussion group this morning and am looking forward to learning from the exchanges. I'm currently writing my Dissertation on William Blake at the University of South Carolina, but I also have a sincere interest in Hardy's work. At any rate, I am writing because in the upcoming semester I will be teaching Brit Lit II (1750-present), a required survey for undergraduate English Majors at USC, and I've added _Jude the Obscure_ to my syllabus. I'm wondering if those of you who have taught Jude before could point me to some general "do's and dont's," approaches to teaching the novel that have been successful in your classrooms and approaches that unfortunately have not worked so well.If you feel this topic is too basic for the list, or perhaps too redundant for most, then feel free to reply to me privately. The last thing I want is for my first post to be a bother!Thank you and I look forward to your replies. Sincerely yours,James T. HarrisUniversity of South Carolina
?From: ? schweikr@localnet.com
?Subject: ?Re: Teaching Jude for the first time
?Date: ?January 2, 2004 7:15:51 AM PST
James, I taught Jude every semester for many years in mycourse in the literature of the extended Victorian period andapproached it in its relationship to the other arts of the time,along the lines of the study reproduced at the bottom of myVP Box page:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/VPBOX/robert.htm
That seemed to work well, although I should stress, it wasin a course limited to the Victorian period and one that oftenincluded refererence to the other arts.One approach I have not taken, but for the survey coursemight be interesting, is to consider it at least in part inrelation to J.H. Newman's and T.H. Huxley's ideas onuniversity education.
Bob Schweik
From: ? jww543@hotmail.com
?Subject: ?Re: Teaching Jude for the first time
?Date: ?January 2, 2004 2:28:44 PM PST
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From: Robert Schweik <schweikr@localnet.com>
Date: January 2, 2004 7:15:51 AM PST
Subject: Re: Teaching Jude for the first timeReply-
Dear Bob, Thanks so much for your response. It will help me as well. And thanks, if I haven't already said so, for your fine Web page, a site I have in my bookmarks and often refresh.
All best wishes,
Julian
?From: ? schweikr@localnet.com
?Subject: ?Re: Teaching Jude for the first time
?Date: ?January 3, 2004 6:38:02 PM PST
Another source for information about teaching *Jude* isPhillip Mallet's web page:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/personal/pvm/jude.htm
Bob Schweik=================================================================