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Reading
Schedule General
Introduction Week
1, Sept. 8 Answering the Question: What is Print
Culture? Week
2, Sept. 15 The
Construction of John Dryden, Author Critical
Reading:
(Guest Seminar) Paul Dutton and Paul Budra, “From Manuscript to
Print”
Harold Love, “‘Publication’ in the Scribal Medium”
(excerpt)
Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?” (excerpt) Case
Study:
Dryden, MacFlecknoe; Absolom and Achitophel,
ll.1-84, 811 f.; preface to All for
Love; Alexander’s
Feast
Rochester, An Allusion to Horace
Johnson, “Life of Dryden” and “Life of Pope” (excerpts) Critical
Reading:
Terry Belanger, “Publishers and Writers in Eighteenth-Century
England”
Catherine Ingrassia, “Alexander Pope, Gender, and the Commerce
of Culture” Case
Study:
poems in praise of Haywood’s Love in Excess
Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot; “Martin Scriblerus of
the Poem” and Book the First of
The Dunciad; from The Grub-Street Journal (1731)
Duck, The Thresher’s Labour
Week 4,
Sept. 29 The
Professionalization of Authorship Critical
Reading:
Martha Woodmansee, “Genius and Copyright”
Margaret J.M. Ezell, “Making a Classic: The Advent of the
Literary Series and the
National Author”
Clifford Sisken, “The Georgic at Work” Case
Study:
Johnson, The Adventurer No. 115
Young, Conjectures on Original Composition
Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College and Elegy
Written in a Country
Churchyard
Barbauld, “The Invitation” and “Washing-Day” Module
2: Print Culture and the Production of the Nation
– Davis Week 5,
Oct. 6 Bardic Nationalism Critical
Reading:
Susan Stewart, excerpt from Crimes of Writing
Katie Trumpener,
“The End of an Auld Sang: Oral Tradition and Literary History” Case
Study:
Elizabeth Wardlaw, “Hardyknute: A Fragment”; James Macpherson,
“Fingal”
Thomas Percy, “On Ancient Minstrels”; “Chevy Chase”
Joseph Ritson, “The Origin and Progress of National Song” Module
1 paper due Week 6,
Oct. 13 Rethinking Romanticism from the Borders Critical
Reading:
Peter Murphy, “Robert Burns” and “William Wordsworth”
from Poetry as an
Occupation and an Art in Britain 1760-1830
Robert Crawford, “British Burns” from Devolving English
Literature Case
Study:
Burns, “Epistle to John Lapraik”; “The Vision”; songs
Wordsworth, “Resolution and Independence”; “The Solitary
Reaper”; “To the Sons of
Burns”; Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns
Critical
Reading:
Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality
in the Colonial
Context
(excerpts)
R. Radhakrishnan, “Nationalism, Gender and Narrative”
Joseph Valente, “The Myth of Sovereignty: Gender in the
Literature of Irish Nationalism” Case
Study:
excerpts from Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry
poems by Janet Little
Sidney Owenson, Hibernian Melodies
Jared Curtis on The Wordsworth Collection, 1971-1999
Heather-Ann Tingley on library resources, 1700-1900 Module
2 paper due Module
3: Print and the Culture Circuit – Linley Week 9,
Nov. 3 The Literary
Annual and Cultures of Hypertext Critical
Reading:
Terence Hoagwood and Kathryn Ledbetter, “Introduction to The
Keepsake of 1829"
Cindy Dickinson, “Creating a World of Books, Friends, and
Flowers”
Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext (excerpts) Case
Study: From The Keepsake, 1828: “Pocket Books and Keepsakes”
(excerpts); From The Keepsake, 1829: “Preface”; presentation
plate; engraved presentation plate (Nine Muses) Wordsworth, “The Country Girl” (poem,
engraving, and
commentary) and
Reynolds, “On Two Sisters” Letitia Landon "Verses" (poem, engraving, and commentary);
Mary Shelley, “The Sisters of Albano” (short story and plate)
Web site Workshop with Marie Krbavac
Critical
Reading:
Herbert Sussman, “Artistic manhood: the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood”
Kathy Alexis Psomiades, “Whose Body? Christina Rossetti and
Aestheticist Femininity”
Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” (excerpt) Case
Study:
William Michael Rossetti, “Sonnet” and “Introduction” to
1899 edition (excerpt)
Thomas Woolner, “My Beautiful Lady” and
illustration by
Holman Hunt
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Hand and Soul” and “The Blessed
Damozel”
Christina Rossetti, “Dream
Land”; “A Pause of Thought”;
“Song”
Week 11,
Nov. 17 The Yellow
Book and the Body Encoded Critical
Reading:
N. Katherine Hayles, “Virtual Bodies and Flickering
Signifiers”
Regenia Gagnier, “Productive Bodies, Pleasured Bodies: On
Victorian Aesthetics”
Mark Samuels Lasner, “Introduction” Case
Study:
Vol 1: Arthur Symons, “Stella Maris”; Max Beerbohm, “A Defense
of Cosmetics”
Vol 2: Charlotte Mew, “Passed” Illustrations: Vol 1: Frederic Leighton, “A Study” (I
and II) (two plates);
Aubrey Beardsley, “Night Piece”;
Vol 4: Aubrey Beardsley, “Three Drawings”; (Title,
"The Mysterious Rose
Garden," "The
Repentance of Mrs. * * * *," and "The
Portrait of Miss Winifred Emery" Week 12,
Nov. 24 No class Module
3 paper due
Students present web sites based on one of the seminar papers;
final
version due Dec. 8 Evaluation Preparation
and participation:
10% Three
module seminars: 10% each; total 30% Three short
papers: (5-7 pages) 15% each; total
45% Web presentation: 15%
Course Instructors
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