Seminar List

Module 1: Print and the Professional Author

Week 2, Sept. 15: The Construction of John Dryden, Author

1. “Dryden” as constructed by Dryden: Josh Toth

2.  “Dryden” as constructed by Rochester: Stefania Forlini

3.  “Dryden” as constructed by Johnson: Laila Ferreira


Week 3, Sept. 22: Alexander Pope and Grub Street

1.  Pope’s Dr. Arbuthnot: Chris Chapman

2.  Pope’s Dunciad: Juliet O’Keefe

3.  Duck: Jamie Hilder
                                   

Week 4, Sept. 29: The Professionalization of Authorship

1.  Young: Wendy Thompson

2.  Gray: Katrina Harack

3.  Barbauld: 


Module 2: Print Culture and the Production of the Nation

Week 5, Oct. 6: Bardic Nationalism

1.  Wardlaw: Juliet O’Keefe

2.  Macpherson: Josh Toth

3.  Percy:

Week 6, Oct. 13: Rethinking Romanticism from the Borders

1. Burns’s epistles: Wendy Thompson

2.  “The Vision”: Stefania Forlini

3.  “Resolution and Independence”: Laila Ferreira

Week 7, Oct. 20: Gender and the Nation

1. Brooke: Katrina Harack

2.  Little: Chris Chapman

3.  Owenson: Jamie Hilder
                 

Module 3: Print and the Culture Circuit

Week 9, Nov. 3: The Literary Annual and Cultures of Hypertext

1.  Wordsworth and Reynolds:

2.  Landon: Wendy Thompson

3.  Shelley: Laila Ferreira

Week 10, Nov. 10: The Germ: Manifesting Culture as Cult

1.  Woolner and Hunt: Josh Tosh

2.  DG Rossetti: Katrina Harack

3.  C Rossetti: Juliet O’Keefe

Week 11, Nov. 17: The Yellow Book and the Body Encoded

1.  Illustrations and Beerbohm: Chris Chapman

2.  Symons and Beardsley: Jamie Hilder

3.  Mew: Stefania Forlini