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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
| This course is an introduction to a number of the theoretical approaches
used in studies of print culture. It will be structured around 3
modules, each taught by a different faculty member and focused on a
different and theoretical issue: the making of the author (and of
literature), nationalism and colonialism, and the production of culture.
Readings for each module will include both theoretical and primary
texts. Assignments will arise out of the 3 modules, and will include one
research project based on our library's Special Collections or another
primary source. Thus, while introducing students to the history of print
culture 1700-1900, the course will also serve as an orientation to
debates about the implications of the various critical approaches that
can be adopted to this period. We will be pursuing questions about what
it means to study literature in terms of history, how specific forms of
print media can be situated within a particular field of cultural
production, and the ways that specific cultural fields are themselves
shaped by wider struggles over different forms of cultural and civic
authority. |
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