Fall, 2003

Web sites: as listed below. In using these materials, we will pay particular attention to their presentation in digitized form.

Handouts: certain articles will be provided by the instructor for individual copying and consultation.

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. Rev. ed. Verso, 1991.

Siskin, Clifford. The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain, 1700-1830. Johns Hopkins, 1998.

30%: 2 15-20 minute seminar presentations, including 1-page outline (15% each)

40%: 8-page essay, developed from earlier seminar presentation

30%: web site, developed from earlier seminar presentation

Introduction to course: What is Print Culture?

* Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, excerpt from ch. 2: "Defining the Initial Shift: Some Features of Print Culture," The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1979), 1:71-159. (HANDOUT)

* Adrian Johns, "Introduction: The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book," The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (U of Chicago P, 1998), pp. 1-57. (HANDOUT)

Guest speaker: Paul Budra

Critical reading:

* Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, excerpt from ch. 2: "Defining the Initial Shift: Some Features of Print Culture," The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1979), 1:71-159. (HANDOUT)

* Adrian Johns, "Introduction: The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book," The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (U of Chicago P, 1998), pp. 1-57. (HANDOUT)

Guest speaker: Paul Budra

* Terry Belanger, "Publishers and Writers in Eighteenth-Century England," Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. Isabel Rivers (St. Martin's and Leicester UP, 1982), pp. 5-25. (HANDOUT)

* Jurgen Habermas, "Social Structures of the Public Sphere," The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society (MIT Press, 1989), 27-56. (HANDOUT)

* Trevor Ross, "Copyright and the Invention of Tradition," Eighteenth-Century Studies 25 (1992); 1-27. (HANDOUT)

Primary texts:

* Alexander Pope, "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"

Critical reading:

* Terry Belanger, "Publishers and Writers in Eighteenth-Century England," Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. Isabel Rivers (St. Martin's and Leicester UP, 1982), pp. 5-25. (HANDOUT)

* Jurgen Habermas, "Social Structures of the Public Sphere," The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society (MIT Press, 1989), 27-56. (HANDOUT)

* Trevor Ross, "Copyright and the Invention of Tradition," Eighteenth-Century Studies 25 (1992); 1-27. (HANDOUT)

Primary texts:

* Alexander Pope, "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"

* Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "The Court of Dulness"

* Michel Foucault, Excerpt from "What is an Author?" Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, ed. Donald F. Bouchard (Cornell UP, 1977), pp. 121-38.

* Martha Woodmansee, "Genius and the Copyright," The Author, Art and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics (Columbia UP, 1994), pp. 35-55, 157-63.

* Clifford Siskin, Part II: "Professionalism: The Poetics of Labor," The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain, 1700-1830 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1998).

Primary texts:

* Mary Collier, "The Woman's Labour"

Critical reading:

* Michel Foucault, Excerpt from "What is an Author?" Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, ed. Donald F. Bouchard (Cornell UP, 1977), pp. 121-38.

* Martha Woodmansee, "Genius and the Copyright," The Author, Art and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics (Columbia UP, 1994), pp. 35-55, 157-63.

* Clifford Siskin, Part II: "Professionalism: The Poetics of Labor," The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain, 1700-1830 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1998).

Primary texts:

* Mary Collier, "The Woman's Labour"

* William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads

* Anna Laetitia Barbauld, "Washing Day"

Website workshop

* Walter J. Ong, ch. 1: "The Orality of Language" and ch. 4: "Writing Restructures Consciousness," Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Routledge, 1982), pp. 5-15, 78-116. (HANDOUT)

* Susan Stewart, "Scandals of the Ballad," Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation (Duke UP, 1991), 102-131.

Primary texts:

* Elizabeth Wardlaw, "Hardyknute"

Critical Reading:

* Walter J. Ong, ch. 1: "The Orality of Language" and ch. 4: "Writing Restructures Consciousness," Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Routledge, 1982), pp. 5-15, 78-116. (HANDOUT)

* Susan Stewart, "Scandals of the Ballad," Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation (Duke UP, 1991), 102-131.

Primary texts:

* Elizabeth Wardlaw, "Hardyknute"

* James Macpherson, Fragments 7 and 8 from Fragments of Ancient Poetry:

* Robert Burns, "Epistle to Lapraik"

* Benedict Anderson, ch. 1: "Introduction," ch.2: "Cultural Roots," ch.3: "The Origins of National Consciousness," Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, rev. ed. (Verso, 1991), pp. 1-46. (NOTE: ch.2: "Cultural Roots" is available as HANDOUT)

* Anne McClintock, Introduction: "Postcolonialism and the Angel of Progress," and excerpts from "No Longer in a Future Heaven: Nationalism, Gender and Race,"Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Routledge, 1995), pp. 1-17, 352-68, 397-99, 431-32.

Primary texts:

* Robert Burns, "The Vision"

Critical reading

* Benedict Anderson, ch. 1: "Introduction," ch.2: "Cultural Roots," ch.3: "The Origins of National Consciousness," Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, rev. ed. (Verso, 1991), pp. 1-46. (NOTE: ch.2: "Cultural Roots" is available as HANDOUT)

* Anne McClintock, Introduction: "Postcolonialism and the Angel of Progress," and excerpts from "No Longer in a Future Heaven: Nationalism, Gender and Race,"Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Routledge, 1995), pp. 1-17, 352-68, 397-99, 431-32.

Primary texts:

* Robert Burns, "The Vision"

* Janet Little, "On a Visit to Mr. Burns"

* Homi Bhabha, "DissemiNation: Time, Narrative and the Margins of the Modern Nation," Nation and Narration (Routledge, 1990), pp. 291-322.

* Srinivas Aravamuden, "Equiano and the Politics of Literacy," Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 (Duke UP, 1999), pp. 233-53; 269-88; 390-95; 398-401.

Primary texts:

* Olaudah Equiano, "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano," pp. 70-88; 90-107.

Critical reading:

* Homi Bhabha, "DissemiNation: Time, Narrative and the Margins of the Modern Nation," Nation and Narration (Routledge, 1990), pp. 291-322.

* Srinivas Aravamuden, "Equiano and the Politics of Literacy," Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 (Duke UP, 1999), pp. 233-53; 269-88; 390-95; 398-401.

Primary texts:

* Olaudah Equiano, "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano," pp. 70-88; 90-107.

* Mary Prince, "The History of Mary Prince," pp. 1-9

* Lee Erickson, ch.1: "The Poet`s Corner: The Impact of Technological Changes in Printing on English Poetry," The Economy of Literary Form: English Literature and the Industrialization of Publishing, 1800-1850 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996), pp. 19-48.

* John Guillory, Canonical and Noncanonical: The Current Debate," Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (U. of Chicago P, 1993)

Primary texts:

* Letitia Landon, "Verses"

Critical reading:

* Lee Erickson, ch.1: "The Poet`s Corner: The Impact of Technological Changes in Printing on English Poetry," The Economy of Literary Form: English Literature and the Industrialization of Publishing, 1800-1850 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996), pp. 19-48.

* John Guillory, Canonical and Noncanonical: The Current Debate," Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (U. of Chicago P, 1993)

Primary texts:

* Letitia Landon, "Verses"

* Edwin Lanseer, "Geogiana, Duchess of Bedford"

* Matthew Arnold, "The Study of Poetry"

* Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, ed. Hannah Arendt (Schocken, 1969), pp. 217-51.

* Jerome McGann, "The Rationale of HyperText"

Critical reading:

* Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, ed. Hannah Arendt (Schocken, 1969), pp. 217-51.

* Jerome McGann, "The Rationale of HyperText"

*NB: this text is also available in print in Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web (Palgrave, 2001), pp. 53-74, 250-52.

Primary texts:

* William Blake, "Frontispiece" and "Introduction" to Songs of Innocence at the Blake Archive:

* Thomas Moore, from Irish Melodies (HANDOUT)

* N. Katherine Hayles, ch.2: "Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers," How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (U of Chicago P, 1999), pp. 25-49, 297-300.

* Jay David Boulter, "Degrees of Freedom"

Critical reading:

* N. Katherine Hayles, ch.2: "Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers," How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (U of Chicago P, 1999), pp. 25-49, 297-300.

* Jay David Boulter, "Degrees of Freedom"

Primary texts:

* Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Blessed Damozel":

* Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" (poem and illustrations)

No class. Work on website construction.

Conclusion of course: presentation of websites