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808: Theoretical Approaches to Print Culture, 1700-1900
Betty
A. Schellenberg, Coordinator Course
Schedule General Introduction
wk
1 - S.10 Course
description - Betty What
Is Print Culture? - Margaret & Betty The
Eighteenth Century: Print,
the Professional Author, and the Reader -
Betty wk
2 - S.17 - Print and "The Age of the Book" Critical
Reading: Ivan
Illich, In the Vineyard of the Text,
1-5, 93-124 Michel
Foucault, "What is an Author?", 121-38 Clifford
Siskin, The Work of Writing, 1-26,
229-38 Case
Studies: presented
by guest lecturers Ralph Stanton (Director, Special wk
3 - S.24 - The Construction of John Dryden, Author Critical
Reading: Harold
Love, "`Publication' in the Scribal Medium," 35-54 Terry
Belanger, “Publishers and Writers in Eighteenth-Century England” Case
Study: John
Dryden, MacFlecknoe; Absalom and
Achitophel, ll. 1-84, 811f.; preface to All
for Love;
Alexander's Feast John
Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, An Allusion
to Horace Samuel
Johnson, "Life of Dryden" and "Life of Pope" (excerpts) wk
4 - O.01 - The Author in Grub Street Critical
Reading: Mark
Rose, Authors and Owners: The Invention
of Copyright, 49-66 Catherine
Ingrassia, Authorship,
Commerce and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century
England,
40-76, 182-89 Clifford
Siskin, The Work of Writing, 29-53,
238-42 Case
Study: poems
in praise of Eliza Haywood's Love in
Excess Alexander
Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot;
"Martin Scriblerus of the Poem"
and Book the First of The Dunciad;
from The
Grub-Street Journal
(1731) Presenter: Josh Stephen
Duck, The
Thresher's Labour October
8 - Thanksgiving - no class (TBA:
Web Research Workshop - Heather-Ann Tingley, Liaison Librarian) wk
5 - O.15 - Depth, Disciplinarity, and Professionalization Critical Reading: 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" The
Nineteenth Century: Print,
the Culture Circuit, and Imagined Communities - Margaret 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) – 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, “Verses” (poem and engraving) and “The Altered
River” – 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) The
Nineteenth Century: 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"
“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” – 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 |