Course Syllabus

Date

Topic

Reading

Assignment

Jan 24

Introductions

Lecture Topics - Introducing the Romantics

• Based on Broadview - Intro to Romanticism (1-31)

Handouts

• 19th-century timeline
• 19th-century reading materials
• Romantic Era Poetic Forms
• KSJ 50 Voices CFP

Jan 31

Sublime & Identity

Discussion

• Our Research Question
• Opportunity to share research @ CESTA Stanford
• “oriental” - Google NGram Viewer
• 19th-century Print Culture Intro (slides)
• Elements of Gothic (pdf)
• Male vs. Female Gothic (pdf)
• Terror vs. Horror (pdf)
• Gothic Novel, Byronic Hero, Frankenstein
• Timeline of Events in Frankenstein
• 1831 Frankenstein frontispiece

• Frankenstein character map

• Discuss Grade distribution
• Discuss finalized syllabus schedule & assignment
• Select Visitor Introduction Teams (in-class)
• Select Presentation Days (in-class)
• Discuss The Oriental Annual & The Bengal Annual facsimiles

Feb 7

Nature & the Individual

Literature - Primary Texts

• Frankenstein (all)

Keep in mind

• FRAMING THE READING: Nature, sublime, women’s issues, growth of the individual, poet’s mind/technology, horror/terror, landscape/picturesque, monster as slave
• Elements of Gothic (pdf)
• Male vs. Female Gothic (pdf)
• Terror vs. Horror (pdf)
• Gothic Novel, Byronic Hero, Frankenstein (pdf)
• Timeline of Events in Frankenstein (pdf)
• 1831 Frankenstein frontispiece (pdf)
• Frankenstein character map (pdf)

• Discuss #bigger6 on Twitter
• Discuss new instructions: Lab Reports, Team Intros, Individual Presentations

Feb 14

Nature & the Individual

Literature - Primary Texts

• “The Natural...Sublime” (BV 227-276) - choose 3 - everyone
• PB Shelley, “Prometheus” (BV 366) - Dan, Sam
• Austen “Plan of a Novel” (pdf) - Keith, Taylor
• Wordsworth, “Tintern Abbey” (BV 145-147) - everyone + Sam
• Barbauld “Rights of Woman” (BV 40-41) - Michelle (on discussion board)
• Wollstonecraft, Vindication (BV 85-102) - skim - Keith + Michelle (on discussion board)
• Preface, Lyrical Ballads (BV 147-154) - Marisa
• Wollstonecraft, Letters - choose 1 as representation of Gilpin’s picturesque - everyone
• Arnold, Observations on Insanity… - skim (published 1782 - pathologizes imagination as the first step towards insanity if overused) - Marisa

Supplemental

• Broadview - Intro to Romanticism (BV 1-31) - skim as refresher for overall view of British Romantics

• Harris Frankenstein brief, mini-lectures: video 1, video 2, video 3
• Harris mini-lecture on an introduction to the Gothic (video)
• Nature defined by Wordsworth & PB Shelley (pdf)

• Respond to Dr. Leuner's #bigger6 #scubritlit queries onThe Woman of Colour? 
• Did you read the discussion post about cholera cartoons & Indian woman?

Feb 21

Abolition & Empire

Literature - Primary Texts

• FRAMING questions from SCU Brit lit:
  • honesty/emotional openness in the letters of Walton and Frankenstein vs. the letters of Olivia tell us about gender norms?
  • what their letters tell us about the character's values, beliefs, relationships, and desires?
  • How are Olivia and the "monster" both foreigners in their respective settings?
  • How do the letters as a framing device affect the novel? - mediation creates distance?
  • How is this novel formulaic - similar Austen's Plan of a Novel?
  • How are all of our Romantic concepts represented/engaged in this novel -- or not (as we articulated on 2/14)?
• A Woman of Colour (all)
• P.B. Shelley, “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (BV 397)

Supplemental - A Woman of Colour

• Matthews, Review
• Fielder, “Black Atlantic”

Supplemental - Slavery & Slave Trade

• Contexts on the Abolition of Slavery (BV 345-360)
• See Resources page, section on Slavery & Imperialism
• History of Race (pdf)
• “A Soldier in Suriname Accidentally Wrote an Anti-Slavery Narrative”

Supplemental - Historical Context

• Rhodes, “Coverture” (podcast)
• Fleishman, "Flong Time, No See" (print culture article)
• Brewer, “Authors, Publishers, and the Making of Literary Culture” (BH) -- EVERYONE READ THIS ONE
• Pear’s Soap ads (pdf)

Feb 28

Orientalism

Presenter:  Keith Giles

Literature - Primary Texts

• “The Rajpootni Bride” (pp.144-170) ch 8-9—Rev Hobart Caunter, Oriental Annual (1835)
• “Life” D.L. Richardson (pp. 38), Bengal Annual (1830)
• “Sonnet to England” D.L. Richardson (pp. 40), Bengal Annual (1830)
• “To __________” by Captain McNaghten (pp. 117), Bengal Annual (1830)

Supplemental - Literary Annuals & Publishing

• Harris, “A Family History of British Literary Annuals” (pdf)
• Harris Lecture on American Literary Annuals (video)
• Conder, “Reviewers Reviewed” (pdf) - read a few pages
• Southey, “1814 letter” re reviewers’ role in creation of art critique

Supplemental - Historical Context

• Contexts “India and the Orient” (BV pdf supplement)
• “Rethinking Company Paintings” Romantic Circles

• The Containment & Re-Deployment of English India, a Romantic Circles collection of essays -- choose 1
• Heinowitz, “The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism”

Supplemental - Print Culture - Read these to get a jump on the final project

• “Reading Writing” (BV 211-226)
• White, excerpts from From Little London to Little Bengal (pdf)
• Banham, “Industrialization of the Book” (CHB)
• Eliot, “From Few and Expensive” (BH)

Do any of today's queries inspire a research question for our Overarching Research Question ?(edit the page!)

Anything to add to our RESOURCE: The Bengal Annual or RESOURCE: The Oriental Annual

Consider requirements of Lab Report: Prof. Krishnaswamy Visit & Orientalism

Mar 7

Orientalism (contd) & Women Romantics

Visitor: Dr. Revathi Krishnaswamy (confirmed)

Introduction Team: Michelle & Keith

Readings

• Handout on Orientalism (pdf) - NEW
• Schwab, “Oriental Renaissance” (pdf)
• Said, excerpt from Orientalism (pdf)
• Krishnaswamy, “Nineteenth Century Language” (pdf)

Discussion Points from Talk

• "orientalism" in Google's NGram Viewer
• "orientalism" etymology in the Oxford English Dictionary Database (requires SJSU log-in)

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Presenter: Sam

Literature - Primary Texts

• Charlotte Smith, from Elegiac Sonnets (BV 43-46)
• Hemans, “Casabianca” (BV 425)
• Landon, “The Chinese Pagoda” Fisher’s 1833

Supplemental - Women Authors

• Charlotte Smith Story Map, Romantic Circles
• Example of Ekphrasis, excerpt From Song to Print
• Fang, on ekphrasis by poet Landon

Supplemental - Print Culture & Publishing

• Ledbetter, “Using Periodicals in Research” (pdf)
• Price, “Cultures of the Commonplace” (BH)
• Wald, “Periodicals” (CHB)

Do any of today's queries inspire a research question for our Overarching Research Question ?(edit the page!)

Consider requirements of Lab Report: Dr. Chander & Brown Romantics

Mar 14

Brown Romantics

Visitor: Dr. Manu Chander @profchander (confirmed)

Introduction Team: Dan Dirilo & Sam

Readings:

• Chander, Introduction & Chp 1, Brown Romantics (pdf)
• Derozio, “To India My Native Land”

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Presenter: Taylor-Dawn Francis

Literature - Primary Texts

• Prince, The History of Mary Prince (BV 327-344)

Supplemental - Colonial Point of View

• Land, “Sierra Leone” at BRANCH
• Gibson, “Transforming Late Romanticism, Transforming Home” from A History of Indian Poetry in English
• Fhlathuin, Intro & Chp 1, excerpts from British Indian and Victorian Literary Culture

• Circulations: Romanticism and the Black Atlantic in Romantic Circles - related to The History of Mary Prince - choose 1 -- FIXED LINK

Do any of today's queries inspire a research question for our Overarching Research Question ?(edit the page!)

Lab Report on Dr. Krishnaswamy’s visit & “orientalism”

Mar 21

Periodicals & Imagined Communities

Presenter: Dan Dirilo

Literature - Primary Texts

• "The Minstrel" pg. 119, "The Song of Cymry" pg. 327, and "The Renovating Fount: Part 1 and 2" pg. 286, The Bengal Annual 
• Lyrical Ballads comparison

Supplemental - Secondary Criticism

• Queering Romanticism (issue of Romanticism on the Net - choose 1 article)
• Ahmed, “‘An Unlimited Intercourse": Historical Contradictions and Imperial Romance in the Early Nineteenth Century’”

Supplemental - Print Culture History & Theory

• Anderson, “Imagined Communities” (pdf) -- REQUIRED
• Synopsis of "imagined communities" by Benedict Anderson (video)
• Andrews, “Ephemera” (CBH)
• Patten, “When is a Book Not a Book” (BH)

Do any of today's queries inspire a research question for our Overarching Research Question ?(edit the page!)

Lab Report on Dr. Chander’s visit & “brown romantics”

For Discussion:

• KSJ 50 Voices - Draft due during Spring Break
• Annotating our readings
• How to begin a DH Project
• Sample Workflow for DH Project

Mar 28

Print Culture, the Letterpress, and Printing Press Workshop

Visitor: Professor Beverly Grindstaff (7-8pm, Clark 111)

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Printing Press Workshop 8:20-9:45pm (Rm. 306/307, Art Building)

For Fun:

• Job Case Game
• "An Immovable Type Who Won’t Abandon His Movable Type" NYT illustrated article (3/21/19)
• Letterpress Podcast!

April 4

SPRING BREAK

Submit KSJ 50 Voices for peer review to class by April 1; peer review completed by April 9

April 11

Digital Project & Omeka Workshop

Visitor: Dr. Kirstyn Leuner @KLeuner (confirmed)

Introduction Team: Marisa & Taylor-Dawn

Readings:

• About, Stainforth
• “Oriental Scenes,” Leuner blog post, Stainforth

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Presenter: Marisa 

History of Gothic Short Stories pub in Literary Annuals

• Harris, Introduction, Forgotten Gothic (pdf)
• Harris, Images from Forgotten Gothic compared in video
• Harris, Publication rates of Gothic short stories published in annuals via dynamic visualization

Supplemental - Theory

• Borges, “Tower of Babel” (pdf)
• Harris, “Archive” Keywords (pdf)
• What is a Book/Archive/etc.? (pdf)

Supplemental - Textual & DH Projects

• Beardstair, JITP - REQUIRED
• Guide to Descriptive Bibliography (pdf)
• Creating an argument about material artifacts: Harris, “Feminizing” (pdf)
• “Spatial History Project: Intelligent Cities Case Study” - possibility to use these tools for our DH project?
• Digitization Advice from SJSU Special Collections (pdf)
• Forlini et al, “Mining the Material Archive”
• Archive from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities
• How to begin a DH Project - REQUIRED

Supplemental - Omeka

• What is Omeka & Digital Exhibits?
• Omeka Tutorial: video
• Examples of Omeka projects
• Project Planning before diving in
• Signing up for an Omeka.net account

Combined Lab Report on Grindstaff visit & Printing Press Workshop

Discuss DH Project & Team division of labor

April 18

Digital Project Meeting

Query: Does anyone need more help on KSJ drafts? (submit by 5/1 to KSJ & to Canvas for a grade) -- all decided to submit to the KSJ 50 Voices - FINAL by 12pm on 5/1 to allow Harris to cluster them & write an intro

Readings - Constructing Digital Projects

• Eschner on big data and 19th-century women novelists
• Text analysis from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities
• Visualizations from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities

REMINDER: Writing & Organization phase of Collaborative Final Digital Project

Project Agenda (volunteer note-taker?):

1. Review project timeline and project management tabs
2. Discuss the gender/body references we each explored in the text
3. Thoughts about significance/interest? Disappointing findings?
4. Review doc with streamlined research questions and possible directions
5. Thoughts on final thesis
6. Thoughts on tools and what our project output should be / look like -- what would something complete look like?
7. Thoughts on our possible directions with input/discussion with Dr. Harris
8. Thoughts on research questions we should keep in mind
   5. What next week looks like -- what can we commit to?
   

Lab Report on Stainforth Project, Digital Humanities, & recovery of British Romantic women’s writing

April 25

Digital Project Meeting

Query: Does anyone need more help on KSJ drafts? (submit by 5/1 12pm to KSJ Final only)

Readings

• ADDED: What is a DH Project & What are we doing? (Discussion post)

Keats-Shelley Journal: 50 Voices -- all decided to submit to the KSJ 50 Voices - FINAL by 12pm on 5/1 to allow Harris to cluster them & write an intro (don't email to KSJ on your own)

May 2

Digital Project Workshop

Read

• Risam, “Colonial Violence and the Postcolonial Digital Archive” Chp 2, New Digital Worlds (pdf) -- IMPORTANT

• instructions for the individual 1000-1500 word essay due on 5/16 about your experience (let's talk about what goes into this essay)

May 9

Digital Project Workshop

May 16 - 7:45-9:45pm

Final Presentation Day

Team Presentation + Discussion

Invite outside audience to presentation?

What next? Submit the project for peer review to ABO? (See final instructions in Collaborative Final Digital Project)

Submit/complete DH project on The Bengal Annual

Submit individual essays (1000-1500 words) about Collaborative Final Digital Project