SP17: ENGL-181 Sec 01 - Special Topic

Thur 1/26

Introductions

(Note: no office hours today; Fiction candidate talk)

Introductions:

• Incubator Classroom & Laptop Bays
• Introducing Abigail Droge, PhD Candidate from Stanford Univ
• Coffee with a Professor Program (free coffee/tea!)
• 8th edition of MLA Citation Style - mandatory
• Writing Center: Workshops & Tutor Appointments (free!)

Discussions:

• Sociology of the Text & 19th-century Print Culture show n'tell (Harris)
• Dickensian London - Silicon Valley (Droge)

Class Field Trips (dates tbd by class):

• Stanford Special Collections (to see serials/periodicals) - required
• 19th-century Printing Press Workshop - required
• American Bookbinding Museum - optional

Tue 1/31

Opening Discussion

• 19th c vs. 21st C (see posts)
• Recording in your commonplace books

Readings

• Introduction, VPM 1-7
• Introduction to "Setting the Scene," VPM 11-13

In-Class Activity

• What's happening in the 19th century?
• 19th-century Historical Highlights (pdf)
• British History Timeline (uses Flash)

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

Questions:

• What have you written in your commonplace book?
• What are primary sources?

Readings:

• Queen Victoria's Journals - read through your 20 year designation first; then read other interesting stuff

Watch (Video):

• Watch (ignore references to 56B Brit Lit)Introduction to Victorians Video Lecture

Accompanying Information:

• Transition to the Victorians (pdf)
• 19th C Timeline-abbreviated(pdf)
• Database of Mid-Victorian Images (keyword search)
• 19th-century Historical Highlights (pdf)
• British History Timeline (uses Flash)

Interesting Stuff from Class Discussion

• The Timetables of History by Grun (get a used copy?)
• Image of slave ship (1789)
• A Brief History of Typewriters
• "A Rake's Progress" (1733)
• Queen Victoria & Anesthesia
• History of Bethlem Hospital (Bedlam for the insane!)
• Observations on Insanity... (Arnold 1782 - pathologizes imagination as the first step towards insanity if overused)
• "The British Empire, Trading Routes & Construction" (video)
• Colony Trade Routes (image)
• "Dissecting Pregnancy"
• "London Cafes: The Surprising History of London's Coffee Houses" (Green, Telegraph 2013)
• The Early History of Coffee Houses in England (Robinson 1893)

Post: Team post on Discovering the 19th Century by 12pm

Tue 2/7

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:

• "Reading as a Means of Culture" (VPM 61)
• "Periodical Literature" (VPM 14)
• "Progress of the People" (VPM 22)
• "The Influence of the Press" (VPM 25)
• "The Printed Image in the West" (MetMuseum)
• "Print Culture" (Taunton)
• Introduction, from Popular History in Victorian Magazines Database
• Wax Recording of Tennyson reading “Charge of the Light Brigade“

Activity (in-class)

• British History Timeline (uses Flash)
• Maps of the British Isles
• Oxford English Dictionary Database (SJSU log-in) English LibGuide
• Google N-Gram Viewer
• Making Sense of Evidence

Helpful Links

• Cost & Types of 19th-century Reading Materials (pdf)
• Timeline of David Rumsey's Maps
• See Geographic Nomenclature in Norton
• London to Luton Hoo (1767)
• Great Britain in the 19th C
• Greenwood’s Map of London (1827)
• Maps of London through the 19th Century
• British History Online
• Current Value of Old Money
• Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1245 to Present

Interesting Stuff

• Girl's Own Magazine tweets advice! Compare to Boy's Own Magazine advice column

Thur 2/9

Some Tech

• Screen Sharing demo by Klaus

Questions

• What have you written in your commonplace books?
• Is your 19th-century material available in Internet Archive?
• What did you find out about your 19th-century material (from Tuesday)?
• Do you have anything for the Book Traces project?

Readings

• Guide for using primary sources to assess historical object (reminder)
• "Periodicals and Periodicity," Wald, A Companion to the History of the Book (pdf)
• "Popular Writing" (VPM 170)
• "The Industrialization of the Book 1800-1970," Banham, A Companion to the History of the Book (pdf)

Show n'Tell

• Manuscript Culture & Manuscript Magazines (Droge)

Interesting Stuff

• "So you need a typeface" (poster)
• Pear’s Soap ads (commercializing imperialism)
• Example of a crossed handwritten letter (hard to read!)
• Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project (attempt to separate crossed journal writing)

Tue 2/14

Questions

• What did you find out about your 19th-century material (contd - Jerry, Sharon, Kiersten, Natalie, Darren, Bethany)
  

Readings:

• "Dickens as Soap Opera"
• "The Importance of Ephemera," Andrews, Companion (pdf)
• "Victorian Advertisements in Charles Dickens' Serial Novels"
• Our Mutual Friend Advertisements
• Darwin, Origin of Species
  (skim "Natural Selection" section)
• Dickens, “A Visit to Newgate” read online

Video (watch before class - ignore references to 56B-Brit Lit):

• Talking about Dickens Video Lecture

Discussion:

• Steamroller Printer (video)
• “1 in 200 Men Direct Descendents of Genghis Khan“
• "Political Posters" as ephemera or job printing

Thur 2/16

Bonus Reading

• "From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800-1890" Book History (pdf)

Questions

• What have you written in your commonplace books?
• Have you seen the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography? (SJSU log-in required)

Readings

• 1898 Empire
• “The Black Victorians: Astonishing Portraits Unseen for 120 Years” (The Guardian)

• Colonial Trade Routes
• European Colonial Expansion (video)
• Hottentot Venus (images)
• The Victorian Circus

Interesting Stuff from our Discussions:

• Bethlem Hospital Archives
• Old Bailey Online
• Stamp Act of 1765
• Invention of Photography (British Library Exhibit)
• Statute of Anne, 1710
• "Wordsworth and the Copyright Act of 1842" (Zall - JSTOR, requires SJSU log-in)
• British Copyright overview (Victoria Web)
• Saying: "the sun never sets on the British empire"
• "Copyright and Copywrong" (Hood)
• "Almanac Day at Stationer's Hall" image
• Legacies of British Slave Ownership database, including maps of plantations in Jamaica, Grenada, and Barbados
• Inside the Slave Ship, History of American Slavery episode 2 (15 min podcast) - from Slate)
• Animated interactive map of 315 years. 20,528 voyages 1600-1860 all over the world - from Slate.com (The interactive animates more than 20,000 voyages cataloged in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.)

Tue 2/21

Reading as Social Control

Topics

• What topics aren't in the Penny Magazine (Droge)
• What's wrong with "imagined communities"?

Readings

• Synopsis of "imagined communities" by Benedict Anderson (video)
• Excerpt from Imagined Communities (pdf)
  
• "The Literature of the Working Classes" (VPM 40)
• "What Girls Read" (VPM 68)
• "Prosecution for Publishing an Alleged Obscene Book" (VPM 105)
• "The Commercial History of a Penny Magazine" (VPM 126)
• Introduction to Monthly Repository, Nineteenth Century Serials Edition
  • Choose 3 editions of the Monthly Repository to read through (available online) - find something about revolution, something about gender, something about social control of readers, and something about novels
• Introduction to The English Woman's Journal, Nineteenth Century Serials Edition
  • Choose 3 editions of The English Woman's Journal to read through (available online) - find something about social conditions abroad, something about women's social condition in England, and a poem or two

Interesting Stuff

• Chinese Railroad Workers Project (American but Sophia interested?)

Thur 2/23

Questions

• What have you written in your commonplace books?
• How do we distribute the Hard Times serials?

Readings

• Victorian Serial Novels (available at University of Victoria)
• "Dickens and His Readers"
• "How to Use a Novel as a Guidebook" (NYT)
• "Why Read the Serial Versions of Victorian Novels?"
• Stanford's Introduction & Information on Hard Times serials - also digital copies of each issue of this serial

Helpful Links for reading serials

• Google N-Gram Viewer
• Oxford English Dictionary Database (SJSU log-in required)

Interesting Topics from Today's Dicken's discussion:

• Chronology of Dicken's Life, Dickens Project UCSB
• Chronology of Dicken's Publications, Victorian Web
• "Five Myths about Charles Dickens" (not paid by the word!)

Tangents from Today's Discussion

• Interview with the author of The Map Thief
• "After Slavery: Searching for Loved Ones in Wanted Ads," NPR
• "Hidden Patterns of the Civil War" (in our conversation about migration of freed slaves & Digital Humanities)

Tue 2/28

Thur 3/2

Topics

• What have you written in your commonplace books?
• Exchange issues
• Discuss materiality of the text

Readings

• "Notes on the Present State of Engraving in England" (VPM 399)
• "Illustrated Periodical Literature" (VPM 391)
• "Discovering Dickens," Stanford's facsimile project with introductions & annotations to Hard Times

Helpful Links for reading serials

• Google N-Gram Viewer
• Oxford English Dictionary Database (SJSU log-in required)
• Stanford's Introduction & Information on Hard Times serials - also digital copies of each issue of this serial

Tue 3/7

Questions

• What have you written in your commonplace books?
• Writing analysis of archival materials: discuss #6 from Imagined Communities in 19th-Century England post
• Working through plot & content of Hard Times
• Complexity of sentences in Hard Times - using Voyant -- compared to the "Gettysburg Address'"
• Who are the "imagined communities?"
• The Victorian Circus - returns for discussion!

Readings

• "Cultures of the Commonplace," Price Book History (pdf)
• "Authors, Publishers and the Making of Literary Culture," Brewer Book History  (pdf)
• "The Coffee Houses of London" (VPM 246)

Helpful Links for reading serials

• Google N-Gram Viewer
• Oxford English Dictionary Database (SJSU log-in required)
• Stanford's Introduction & Information on Hard Times serials - also digital copies of each issue of this serial

Post on Hard Times serials & Materiality of the Text by Tuesday, 12pm

Printing Workshop: Submit field trip forms

Thur 3/9

Questions

• What should we print at the workshop? Victorian calling cards?
• Discuss transportation to Los Altos Hills for Saturday, 2-5pm
• Exchanging issues of Great Expectations - in Student Lounge, Faculty Offices Building

Readings

• "When is a Book Not a Book?" Patten Book History (pdf)
• "Discovering Dickens," Stanford's facsimile project with introductions & annotations to Great Expectations

Saturday, 3/11, 2-5pm

Printing Workshop

2pm: Meet in front of Brian's Restaurant, 680 Fremont Avenue, Los Altos

•  Dress in something that can get dirty
• Bring your cell phones to take images of the process

See all photos, printing design, printing outcome & descriptions of equipment

Tue 3/14

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

• "When is a Book Not a Book?" Patten Book History (pdf) - contd from last Thursday
• "Discovering Dickens," Stanford's facsimile project with introductions & annotations to Great Expectations

Thur 3/16

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

• What have you written in your commonplace books?
• Have you seen Victoria on PBS?

Readings

• "The Magazine Market," West Book History (pdf) - an American POV

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"

"Discovering Dickens," Stanford's facsimile project with introductions & annotations to Great Expectations

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"

"Discovering Dickens," Stanford's facsimile project with introductions & annotations to Great Expectations

Post on Great Expectations & Ideology/Aesthetics on Friday, 3/31, 5pm

3/28-3/30

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

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"

"Discovering Dickens," Stanford's facsimile project with introductions & annotations to Great Expectations

Discuss

• Instructions for the Stanford Visit
• Lab Report: Annotating a Page
• Transportation to Stanford on Thursday (meeting at 12:30pm sharp)

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

Tue 4/11

Discussion

• Stanford visit

Thur 4/13

• Meeting in Schiro Room, Special Collections with Digital Librarian, Diane Maelstrom
• Demo of scanner

Tue 4/18

Watch

• "Matthew Carter: My Life in Typefaces" (in-class)
• Helvetica (trailer)
• Helvetica (full documentary)
• "The Art of Letterpress" (documentary)
• Linotype (documentary)

Discuss

• Begin visiting Special Collections to assess the Bleak House serials & collect images (30 min visit before Thursday's class)
• Struggling with analysis of aesthetics -- see Harris examples from Forget Me Not: The Rise of the British Literary Annual 1823-1835: Excerpt from Chp 7 (brief) & Chp 2 (long but extended example of discussing ideology & aesthetics)
• Exemplary annotations - Kiersten

Thur 4/20

Readings (for the post)

• Harris "Archive" article
• Watch Dr. Jim Mussell lecture (1 hr video) - this will be the focus of our conversation; don't skip it

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

• What interesting thing did you find about Bleak House in Special Collections?

Prep for Thursday Guest

• About, Book Traces Project

Thur 4/27

Digital Project: Working with Materials

Special Guest, Professor Andrew Stauffer on Book Traces & Digital Projects

Guest Speaker (alt 5/2)

• Andrew Stauffer (Professor, University of Virginia) on Book Traces digital project

Discuss

• Remaining discussion posts
• What have you written in your commonplace books? -- MUST BRING
• Discuss instructions for digital exhibit
• Best practices for scanning (& file naming) -- see handout from Special Collections
• What is the value of a digital project?
• What kinds of digital projects/exhibits are out there? (see our database page)
• Theorizing the Digital Exhibit/Edition (pdf)

Tue 5/2

Discuss

• How to write a bibliographic entry of a part of Bleak House
  (see Catalog entry & Guide to Descriptive Bibliography)
• Return to Bibliographical Utopianism
• Discuss Commonplace books & Lab Report
• Google Drive for shared scans from Special Collections

Thur 5/4

Discuss

• Draft of your argument

Tue 5/9

BRING COMMONPLACE BOOK TODAY

• Another draft workshop: Post another version of your draft based on Thursday's conversation (see Final Project Argument - Draft)
• How do links, images, design, and layout of a digital exhibit represent an argument?

Omeka

• Omeka Tutorial: video
• Examples of Omeka projects
• Project Planning before diving in
• Signing up for an Omeka.net account
• Our Google Drive of Bleak House scans has lots of images in it
• About page: include working with Omeka (limitations?) & if digital exhibits building changed your argument (changes made to instructions)
• Omeka discussion area -- post for cool stuff or help

Complete all of your scans for the project

In Class Work:

• Preliminary Maps of your Omeka Exhibits
• Sharing Bibliographic Descriptions - deciding on who is writing which description(s)
• Omeka Questions, Brainstorming, or Sharing
• What goes into your About page? (write it last!)
• Can you link to other exhibits from class? (see the draft maps)
• Request final scans; double check pages in Special Collections

Thur 5/11

Tue 5/16

FINAL EXAM: May 24, 9:45am-12pm

Final Project & Presentation due: Digital Exhibit