English 803: Literary Movements and Historical Periods |
| Week 1, May 3: Introduction |
| Week 2, May 10: Production and Reproduction Case Study Hypertext Keepsake - "Introduction to The Keepsake of 1829" Preface and prefatory material Engraved Title plate (Nine Muses) Readings Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Jean Baudrillard, Simulations and Simulacra Recommended: Anne Renier, "Friendship's Offering" |
| Week 3, May 17: Writing as Image and Performance Case Study Hypertext Keepsake - Presentation Plate Friendship's Offering Presentation Plate Readings Cindy Dickinson, "Creating a World of Books, Friends, and Flowers" Johanna Drucker, "The Material Word" and "The Art of the Written Image" Susan Stewart, On Longing, chs 1-2 |
| Week 4, May 24: Collecting Case Study Hypertext Keepsake -Wordsworth, "The Country Girl" (poem, engraving and commentary) Other Poems by Wordsworth: "The Triad," "The Wishing Gate," "A Gravestone Upon the Floor in the Cloisters of Worchester Cathedral," and "A Tradition of (Oker Hill in) Darley Dale, Derbyshire." Readings Peter Manning, "Wordsworth in the Keepsake, 1829" Susan Stewart On Longing 3-5 |
| Week 5, May 31: Text and Hypertext I Case Study Poetry by Reynolds - "On Two Sisters" (Hypertext Keepsake) Other poems (handouts and Special Collections) Readings George Landow, Hypertext 2.0 |
| Week 6, June 7: Text and Hypertext II Case Study Hypertext Keepsake - Moore, "Extempore" and commentary Readings Silvio Gaggi, "Hyperrealities and Hypertexts" Espen Aarseth, Cybertext, ch.1-2 Lee Erikson, The Economy of Literary Form, ch.1 |
| Week 7, June 14: Consumer to Gift-Giver to Cyborg Case Study "Pocket Books and Keepsakes" from the Keepsake, 1828 Thomas Carlyle, "Sign of the Times" Readings Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto" N. Katherine Hayles, "The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman" Mid-term paper due |
| Week 8, June 21: Mechanics of Beauty Case Study Hypertext Keepsake - Letitia Landon "Verses" (poem, engraving, and commentary); "The Altered River" Felicia Hemans "The Broken Chain"; "Evening Prayer at a Girl's School" (illustration) from the Forget-Me-Not, 1826 (handouts) Readings Anne Balsamo, "Reading Cyborgs, Writing Feminism" Glennis Stephenson, '"For Women of taste and refinement' :The use and Abuse of the Drawing-Room Annual.'" Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. |
| Week 9, June 28: Copy and Original Case Study Keepsake - Scott, "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror"; "The Tapestried Chamber" Readings James Watt, "The Field of Romance: Walter Scott, the Waverly Novels, the Gothic" Bolter and Grusin, Remediation (Intro and Part I) |
| Week 10, July 5: Border States Case Study Mary Shelley "The Sisters of Albano" and plate; "Ferdinando Eboli" and plate Readings Sonia Hofkosh, "Disfiguring Economies: Mary Shelley's Short Stories" Alphonso Lingis, "The Subjectification of the Body" |
| Week 11, July 12: Networking the Nation Case Study Title Plate of Mrs. Peel Lord F.L. Gower, "Stanzas"; Lord Porchester, "To a Pearl"; R. Bernal, M.P., "Stanzas"; William Roscoe "Lines Written in an Album"; Lord Nugent "Apropos of Bread"; Lord Normanby, "Clorinda, or the Necklace of Pearl" and plate (Special Collections) Readings Haraway, Modest Witness 1-45 Lori Anne Loeb, "Community and the Individual" |
| Week 12, July 19: Virtual Communities Case Study Selections from Heath's Book of Beauty, 1839 and from the Keepsake for 1852 (Dickens, "To be Read at Dusk" and Carlyle, "The Opera") Readings Baudrillard, "The Ecstasy of Communication" Hayles, "Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers" in How We Became Posthuman |
| Week 13, July 26: Colonial Gothic Case Study Landon, "Immolation of a Hindoo Widow" and Plate, Fisher's Drawing Room Scrapbook, 1836 (handout) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "India. A Romance of the Ganges," Finden's Tableaux, 1838 and "The Romaunt of the Page," Finden's Tableaux, 1839. Readings Joseba Gabilondo, "Postcolonial Cyborgs: Subjectivity in the Age of Cybernetic Reproduction" Beverly Taylor, "Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Subversion of the Gift Book Model" |
| Course Requirements: 20% Two brief presentations (approx. 15. min each); typed outline must be distributed in class) 30% Mid-Term paper; 5-7 pages; DUE WEEK 7 50% Final Assignment: Either a 12-15 page paper or a web site |