Course Bibliography and Internet Bibliography   

Martha Woodmansee, The Author, Art, and the Market, 35-55, 157-63

Clifford Siskin, The Work of Writing, 103-52, 248-59

Case Study:

Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College; Elegy Written

in a Country Churchyard

Samuel Johnson, The Adventurer No. 115

Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition

wk 6 - O.22 - Constructing the Canon and the Reader

Critical Reading:

Paula McDowell, "Consuming Women: The Life of the `Literary Lady' as

Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century England"

Leah Price, The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel, 67-104, 171-

81

Paul Keen, The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s, 25-75, 257-61

Clifford Siskin, The Work of Writing, 193-227, 265-69

Case Study:

Samuel Johnson, "Life of Gray"

Anna Laetitia Barbauld, "The Invitation" and "Washing-Day"

Samuel Johnson, "Life of Gray" 
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, "The Invitation" and "Washing-Day"

The Nineteenth Century: Print, the Culture Circuit, and Imagined Communities - Margaret

 
wk 7 – O.29 – Imagining Nationhood in the Age of Empire: Three “Snapshots” of 19^th c. Print Culture

Critical Reading:

            Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 1-46, 83-111, 163-206

            Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather, 353-368

            Brantlinger, Rule of Darkness, 3-16

Case Study:

From The Keepsake, 1829: preface, presentation plate and frontispiece, “Fancy Descending Among the Muses”; Wordsworth, “The Country Girl” (poem, engraving, and commentary) and Reynolds, “On Two Sisters” – on web

            From The Germ, 1850: Title page, vol 1; Thomas Woolner, “My Beautiful Lady” and

            illustration by Holman Hunt – on web          

    From the Yellow Book, 1894: Title page and editorial note; Frederic Leighton, “A

            Study”(two plates I and II) – on web

Week 8 – N.05 – The Keepsake: Decorating the Nation’s Interiors

Critical Reading:

            Terence Hoagwood and Kathryn Ledbetter, “Introduction to The Keepsake of 1829" and

             “Commentary)” on Landon’s Verses – on web

            Cindy Dickinson, “Creating a World of Books, Friends, and Flowers”

            Susan Stewart, On Longing (excerpts)

Case Study:

            Letitia Landon, " (poem, engraving, and commentary); and “The Altered River” – 
                page 310/ page 311 on web

            Mary Shelley, “The Sisters of Albano” (short story and plate)  

November 12 – Remembrance Day holiday – no class                       

            (TBA: Website Construction Workshop – Marie Krbavac, Lab Instructor)

wk 9 – N.19 – The Germ: Modern Cult and National Culture

Critical Reading:

            Jerome McGann, “The Iconic Page”

            Kathy Alexis Psomiades, “Whose Body? Christina Rossetti and Aestheticist Femininity”

            Jonathan Crary, “Modernity and the Problem of the Observer” and “Techniques of the

            Observer”

Case Study:

            Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Hand and Soul,” “The Blessed Damozel,” “My Sister’s Sleep”

            Christina Rossetti, ““Dream Land”; “A Pause of Thought”; “Song”

wk 10 – N. 26 – The Yellow Book: Launching the Human Body in Imperial Space

Critical Reading:

            N. Katherine Hayles, “Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers”

            Regenia Gagnier, “Productive Bodies, Pleasured Bodies: On Victorian Aesthetics”

            Kelly Hurley, “The Abhuman”

Case Study:

Vol 1:Arthur Symons, “Stella Maris” and Aubrey Beardsley’s illustration “Night Piece” – on web; Max Beerbohm, “A Defense of Cosmetics”

            Vol 2:  Charlotte Mew, “Passed”                                                                                 

Course Conclusion 

wk 11 – D.03

Guest Lecture: Miranda Burgess (Assoc. Prof., Dept. of English, UBC), “The Gothic

Nation in Hyperspace”

            Concluding discussion