VPM = Victorian Print Media Reader
PDF = Articles provided as pdf copies from the below anthologies (if interested, purchase the recommended textbooks)
- A Companion to the History of the Book. Eds. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose. Wiley Blackwell: 2009. (abbreviated as Companion in syllabus)
- The Book History Reader. 2nd ed. Eds. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery. Routledge: 2006. (abbreviated as Book History in syllabus)
Note: Syllabus subject to change
Date |
Topics |
Reading Due |
Assignment Due |
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Thur 1/26 |
Introductions
(Note: no office hours today; Fiction candidate talk) |
Introductions:
Discussions:
Class Field Trips (dates tbd by class):
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What are your days of availability for meeting off campus? at Stanford & at Printing Workshop (Los Altos)? (add your comments to the discussion post) - due 9am, Friday |
Tue 1/31 |
What's Going on in the 19th Century? |
Opening Discussion
Readings
In-Class Activity
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Post due by 12pm Intellectual Autobiography (credit/no credit) Discussion Post on comparing Dickensian London to Silicon Valley due by 12pm (credit/no credit) |
Thur 2/2 |
Who is Queen Victoria? |
Questions:
Readings:
Watch (Video):
Accompanying Information:
Interesting Stuff from Class Discussion
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Post: Team post on Discovering the 19th Century by 12pm |
Tue 2/7 |
Narrating the 19th-century in Magazines, Serials & more |
Literary annuals, serial novels, magazines, newspapers (you’ll work with original 19th-century materials during class on a discussion post Interpreting the Material Text) Reading:
Activity (in-class)
Helpful Links
Interesting Stuff
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Thur 2/9 |
Manuscript Magazines & Commonplace/Albums Books |
Some Tech
Questions
Readings
Show n'Tell
Interesting Stuff
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Post: Post on Interpreting the Material Text by 12pm -- UPDATE: DUE BY 12PM ON TUESDAY |
Tue 2/14 |
The Victorians & Dickens |
Questions
Readings:
Video (watch before class - ignore references to 56B-Brit Lit):
Discussion:
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Post: Post on Interpreting the Material Text by 12pm -EXTENDED FROM THUR |
Thur 2/16 |
How far did the British Empire Extend? |
Bonus Reading Questions
Readings
Interesting Stuff from our Discussions:
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Post on Advertisements due by Monday, 12pm |
Tue 2/21 |
Reading as Social Control
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Topics
Readings
Interesting Stuff
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Thur 2/23 |
Reading Hard Times serials |
Questions
Readings
Helpful Links for reading serials
Interesting Topics from Today's Dicken's discussion:
Tangents from Today's Discussion
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Post on Imagined Communities in 19th-Century England by Monday, 12pm -- REVISED WED 5PM |
Tue 2/28 |
CLASS CANCELLED - EXCHANGE ISSUES OF Hard Times among yourselves |
Post on Imagined Communities in 19th-Century England by Monday, 12pm -- REVISED WED 5PM | |
Thur 3/2 |
Reading Hard Times serials - Print Culture & Materiality of the Text Questions |
Topics
Readings
Helpful Links for reading serials |
Post on Hard Times serials & Materiality of the Text by Tuesday, 12pm |
Tue 3/7 |
Reading Hard Times serials - What's Missing? Gender, Working Class, Propriety & Social Control |
Questions
Readings
Helpful Links for reading serials |
Post on Hard Times serials & Materiality of the Text by Tuesday, 12pm Printing Workshop: Submit field trip forms |
Thur 3/9 |
Reading Hard Times & Great Expectations serials (distribute) |
Questions
Readings |
Post on Hard Times serials & "Imagined Communities" by Tuesday, 12pm |
Saturday, 3/11, 2-5pm
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Printing Workshop 2pm: Meet in front of Brian's Restaurant, 680 Fremont Avenue, Los Altos |
See all photos, printing design, printing outcome & descriptions of equipment |
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Tue 3/14 |
Reading Great Expectations serials |
Exchange Great Expectations serials in Engl. Dept Student Lounge (FO 113, open M-F 9-5) -- magazine rack, last slot, in red folder that has "Do Not Remove - For Digital Dickens"
Readings
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Post on Hard Times serials & "Imagined Communities" by Tuesday, 12pm |
Thur 3/16 |
Reading Great Expectations serials |
Exchange Great Expectations serials in Engl. Dept Student Lounge (open M-F 9-5) -- magazine rack, last slot, in red folder that has "Do Not Remove - For Digital Dickens" Questions
Readings
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Lab Report on printing workshop due Tuesday, 12pm |
Tue 3/21 |
Reading Great Expectations serials -- No class meeting; work on all assignments & exchange your Great Expectations serials |
Exchange Great Expectations serials in Engl. Dept Student Lounge (open M-F 9-5) -- magazine rack, last slot, in red folder that has "Do Not Remove - For Digital Dickens" |
Lab Report on printing workshop due by 12pm |
Thur 3/23 |
Reading Great Expectations serials -- No class meeting; work on all assignments & exchange your Great Expectations serials |
Exchange Great Expectations serials in Engl. Dept Student Lounge (open M-F 9-5) -- magazine rack, last slot, in red folder that has "Do Not Remove - For Digital Dickens" |
Post on Great Expectations & Ideology/Aesthetics on Friday, 3/31, 5pm |
3/28-3/30 |
Spring Break |
Exchange Great Expectations serials in Engl. Dept Student Lounge (open M-F 9-5) -- magazine rack, last slot, in red folder that has "Do Not Remove - For Digital Dickens" |
Post on Great Expectations & Ideology/Aesthetics on Friday, 3/31, 5pm
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Tue 4/4 |
Reading Great Expectations serials Special Guest, Professor James Mussell (via Skype @12:45pm) |
Exchange Great Expectations serials in Engl. Dept Student Lounge (open M-F 9-5) -- magazine rack, last slot, in red folder that has "Do Not Remove - For Digital Dickens" Discuss
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Lab Report on Reading by Candlelight by Wed 5pm Stanford Special Collections: Submit field trip forms |
Thur 4/6 |
Off-Campus Trip to Stanford Special Collections 12:30-1:30pm |
See instructions |
Required Revise & re-submit Great Expectations & Ideology/Aesthetics by Mon, 4/10, 12pm (for anyone earning lower than 8pts; see instructions in post) |
Tue 4/11 |
Discussion
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Lab Report on annotating a page from the Stanford Visit due Wed, 5pm | |
Thur 4/13 |
Digital Project: Starting |
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Tue 4/18 |
Writing about the Material Object: Aesthetics & Ideology |
Watch
Discuss
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Thur 4/20 |
Digital Project: Working in the Archive -- NO CLASS SESSION |
NO CLASS SESSION -- VISIT SPECIAL COLLECTIONS -- to discuss on Tuesday Readings (for the post)
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Make 1 visit (apportion at least 30 mins) to Special Collections by 4/25 to start looking at Bleak House Post on Bibliographical Utopianism & Archive due by 12pm (moved from Tuesday) |
Tue 4/25 |
Digital Project: Working with Materials |
Questions
Prep for Thursday Guest
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Thur 4/27 |
Digital Project: Working with Materials Special Guest, Professor Andrew Stauffer on Book Traces & Digital Projects |
Guest Speaker (alt 5/2)
Discuss
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Tue 5/2 |
Digital Project: Working with Materials |
Discuss
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Post on Dr. Stauffer's representation of a digital project due by 12pm |
Thur 5/4 |
Digital Project: Working with Materials |
Discuss
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Post draft of your argument for in-class discussion (by 12pm) |
Tue 5/9 |
Digital Project: Drafting your Argument & Creating the Exhibit |
Omeka
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Complete all of your scans for the project In Class Work:
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Thur 5/11 |
No Class Session - Work on Omeka |
Lab Report on your commonplace book by 5pm -- drop off commonplace book on Tuesday or bring on final day |
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Tue 5/16 |
No Class Session - Work on Omeka | Post on Participation Self-Analysis due by 5pm | |
FINAL EXAM: May 24, 9:45am-12pm Final Project & Presentation due: Digital Exhibit |