Tues. Sept. 5/Thurs. Sept.7
Introduction to the course, selection of Book #6
Tues. Sept. 12/Thurs. Sept.14
Lecture: The history of flowers as symbolic
Tues. Sept. 19/Thurs. Sept. 21
Discussion: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland
Tues. Sept. 26/Thurs. Sept.28
Lecture: Australian literary tradition, the epic, the mystery
Tues. Oct. 3/Thurs. Oct. 5
Discussion: The Lost Man, Jane Harper
Tues. Oct. 10/Thurs. Oct. 12
Lecture: History of the OED (Oxford English Dictionary), with "show and tell"
Tues. Oct. 17/Thurs. Oct. 19
Discussion: The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams
Tues. Oct. 24/Thurs. Oct. 26
Lecture: Woman in the library--plot devices, multiple narrators, epistolary elements
Tues. Oct. 31/Thurs. Nov. 2
Discussion: The Woman in the Library, Sulari Gentil
Tues. Nov. 7/Thurs Nov. 9
Lecture: The "Gilded Age," Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the structure of the upcoming novel.
Tues. Nov. 14/Thurs. Nov. 16
Discussion: Trust, Hernan Diaz
Tues. Nov. 21/Thurs. Nov. 23
Thanksgiving, NO CLASSES
Tues. Nov. 28/Thurs. Nov. 30
Lecture: Wolves, endangered species, environmentalism, and novels in which animals "loom large"
Tues. Dec. 5/Thurs. Dec. 7
Discussion: Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy