DURHAM UNIVERSITY
DURHAM UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIES
SPECIAL TOPIC
READING LIST
BOOKLET
2013/2014
CONTENTS
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|Shakespeare on Film |ENGL2171 |2 |
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|W.B. Yeats |ENGL2201 |5 |
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|Irish Poetry Since Yeats |ENGL2321 |9 |
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|Arthurian Literature |ENGL2381 |16 |
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|The Brontës |ENGL2421 |21 |
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|The Australian Legend 1890s – 1990s |ENGL2501 |23 |
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|Toni Morrison: Texts and Contexts |ENGL2521 |34 |
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|Landscape and ‘the Condition of England’ |ENGL2551 |40 |
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|Fictions of Terrorism |ENGL2581 |41 |
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|Literature under Charles I and Cromwell |ENGL2601 |55 |
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|John Milton (1608 – 1674) |ENGL2611 |63 |
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|Modern Literature and the British Secret State |ENGL2621 |66 |
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|U.S. Cold War Literature and Culture |ENGL2631 |69 |
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|Poetry and Poetics |ENGL2641 |76 |
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|Literature of the Second World War |ENGL2651 |77 |
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|Early Modern America |ENGL2661 |82 |
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|Science and the Literary Imagination 1850 - 1900 |ENGL2671 |90 |
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|Literature (1900 to present), Cinema and Neuroscience |ENGL2681 |96 |
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|Evelyn Waugh |ENGL2691 |98 |
Shakespeare on Film, 2013-2014
Course Outline. Vacation Reading and Viewing
Convenors: Professor Corinne Saunders and Professor David Fuller
The seminars will discuss a range of Shakespeare films including a selection from the following: the classic films of Laurence Olivier (Henry V, Hamlet, Richard III and Othello), Orson Welles (Macbeth, Othello and The Chimes at Midnight), Peter Brook (King Lear), Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet), Peter Hall (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and Roman Polanski (Macbeth); Hollywood versions, such as the Max Reinhardt A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Julius Caesars of 1953 and 1969; foreign language versions, such as the Russian Hamlet and King Lear directed by Grigori Kozintsev, and the Japanese adaptations of Akira Kurosawa (Throne of Blood, Ran); television versions, including the BBC series of the complete plays; more recent films, including those of Kenneth Branagh (Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and As You Like It), Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet), Julie Taymor (Titus, The Tempest), Ralph Fiennes (Coriolanus), and Joss Whedon, Much Ado About Nothing; and experimental work by Celestino Coronado (Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Derek Jarman (The Tempest; The Angelic Conversation) and Peter Greenaway (Prospero’s Books).
During the vacation you should read some of the appropriate plays, and view a selection of these films. See the following draft seminar programme for guidance.
The course will begin with Laurence Olivier’s film of Henry V. You will be expected to have read the play, seen both this film and Kenneth Branagh’s film of Henry V, and read chapters 1 and 9 of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film before the first seminar. A full booklist will be distributed at the first seminar.
The Library has multiple copies of the films to be discussed in seminars. It will be helpful in using these if you can check that your college has DVD players (which must be multi-region, to play material sourced from the US). For the first time in 2011-12 the library mounted weekly screenings of films to be studied in seminars. These screenings will continue in 2013-14. Those taking the course will need to obtain their own copies of films discussed in assessed essays, and should make appropriate arrangements for doing this well in advance of the need. Copies cannot be obtained from the University bookshop, and the University has no multiple-copy ordering arrangements with video and DVD stores. Copies must, therefore, be ordered individually, in good time, from an appropriate supplier. With the exception of the films of Akira Kurosawa, assessed essays must be about films (or television productions) of works actually by Shakespeare (not films based on Shakespeare scenarios, such as Ten Things I Hate About You, or Kiss Me Kate).
An up-to-date introduction providing a basic survey of the topic is:
Russell Jackson (ed.), Shakespeare on Film. Cambridge Companions, Cambridge, 2000, 2nd edition 2007. Everyone taking the course should have his or her own copy of this. The module will also propose some reading in the practices of film and performance criticism, using David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction (McGraw-Hill, 9th edn., 2010). Please request a copy of this for your college library now.
All seminars will be concerned with one play and two films, which all participants will be expected to read and to view. (This is a relatively new structure, devised in response to questionnaire comments.)
Each seminar will also call for one or more pieces of critical reading – usually relevant sections of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film (ed. Russell Jackson, CUP, 2000; 2nd edition, 2007), sometimes an essay or article from some alternative source. Also for the first term’s seminars chapters on basic issues in film criticism are recommended from David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th or 9th editions. (There are several copies of each of these editions in the University Library, some in Short Loan, some available on 3-day loan.)
Play Texts and Film Texts. You should use up-to-date annotated editions of the plays on which you write assessed essays. Editions of individual works with introductions, annotation and textual apparatus include the Arden and Arden 3 (in which over thirty titles have now been issued), New Penguin, New Cambridge and Oxford series (now available as World’s Classics). It is best to use these, where you can, for seminar preparation. Many of these editions are available in multiple copies in the University Library and in College Libraries (all of which have been specifically asked to buy the Arden 3 titles as they come out – so please enquire of your college librarian if your college library does not have them). The full reading list for the module (to be distributed at the first seminar) will give details of audio recordings held by the University Library which may be helpful in getting to know the full text of a play relatively independent of directorial intervention.
Seminars will be organized partly round two student-led introductions, one of which will use a short passage from the primary film to consider detail of the film text and / or the play text, using either the particular issues raised by the section of Film Art read for that seminar (mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, sound, style), or the textual detail of the play for the section of the film chosen.
The organization of the course is largely in historical sequence, from the 1940s to the present. Experiments with alternative modes of adaptation (opera, ballet, and the completely filmic transformation, Throne of Blood) are gathered in the syllabus. For obvious reasons, films selected for comparison cannot be considered in historical sequence. The first term is concerned with twentieth-century films, the second term sequenced largely with twenty-first century productions. The emphasis of the course is on range of film types and variety of dramatic realizations. All types of Shakespeare films are represented: general release, ‘art house’, television, foreign language films, filmed theatre, and radical adaptation.
Draft Seminar Programme
The seminar programme will broadly follow the outline below, but may vary from it in a small number of cases.
Michaelmas Term
1. Laurence Olivier, Henry V (1944). Kenneth Branagh, Henry V (1989).
2. Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood (1957). Rupert Goold, Macbeth (RSC, 2010)
3. Orson Welles, Othello (1952). Franco Zeffirelli, Verdi, Otello (1986).
4. Franco Zeffirelli, Romeo and Juliet (1968). Kenneth MacMillan, Romeo and Juliet (2000, La Scala Ballet).
5. Kenneth Branagh, Twelfth Night (1988). Trevor Nunn, Twelfth Night (1995).
Epiphany Term
6. Peter Greenaway, Prospero’s Books (1991). Derek Jarman, The Tempest (1979).
7. Michael Radford, The Merchant of Venice (2004). Trevor Nunn, The Merchant of Venice (2003).
8. Trevor Nunn, King Lear (2007). Peter Brook, King Lear (1970).
9. Gregory Doran, Hamlet (2009). Grigori Kozintsev, Hamlet (1964).
10. Ralph Fiennes, Coriolanus (2011). Elijah Moshinsky, Coriolanus (1984, BBC).
Twenty films in ten seminars means that we are not, of course, able to accommodate all the films that have recently proved popular on the course, particularly:
Orson Welles, Macbeth (1948), and The Chimes at Midnight (1965), Joseph Mankiewicz, Julius Caesar (1953), Roman Polanski, Macbeth (1971), Grigori Kozintsev, King Lear (1971), Akira Kurosawa, Ran (1985 – an adaptation of King Lear), Richard Loncraine, Richard III (1995), Kenneth Branagh, Hamlet (1996), Oliver Parker, Othello (1996), Michael Almereyda, Hamlet (2000), and Julie Taymor, Titus (2000).
For assessed essays you may write about these, or any other films not on the seminar syllabus but with a Shakespeare text.
W. B. Yeats
Convener: Professor Michael O’Neill
(Single asterisk indicates the book has been placed on Reserve in the University Library; double asterisks indicate that the book has been placed on Three-Day Loan).
Essential Text
The essential book to buy for this module is Edward Larrissy (ed.), W. B. Yeats: the Major Works (OUP; 2001)*, first published in OUP’s Oxford Authors series. The introduction and notes to Daniel Albright’s edition of the poems are also highly recommended.
Seminars will be based on the Larrissy edition, which contains, along with a good selection of the poetry, ten plays by Yeats and a valuable amount of Yeats’s prose writings. The seminars will follow the course of Yeats’s career as indicated below (this is a provisional programme and can be changed should we so decide).
Initial Reading
Read the works listed under ‘Seminar Programme’. It will help you greatly to get some kind of overview of Yeats’s career from the start of the course. At the outset of the course, you should look at his late essay, ‘A General Introduction for My Work’, and read one or more from the following critical books/essays (fuller details under Bibliography) to get a sense of his career:
Daniel Albright, intro. to his edition of the poems
Terence Brown, The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography
Richard Ellmann, W. B. Yeats: The Man and the Masks
Louis MacNeice, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
Edward Malins, A Preface to Yeats
Alasdair D. F. Macrae, W. B. Yeats: A Literary Life
David Holdeman, The Cambridge Introduction to W. B. Yeats
Yeats’s Ideas/Irishness
Yeats evolved a fascinating and complex set of ideas about history, literature, culture and personality. It is important (i) to acquaint yourself with these ideas, helpfully summarised in Albright’s introduction, and (ii) not to be overwhelmed by them or suppose that they offer the best or only way of understanding Yeats’s poetry. Arguably, Yeats’s poems are far more about the drama of warring impulses than about the exposition of a philosophy; his poetry is responsive to many ways of reading. Certainly, there is no substitute for first-hand, independent engagement with the words, rhythms, moods, tones, syntax, and images of his work.
Yeats was a great Irish poet, deeply involved in Irish culture and politics, and it will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of his work if you familiarise yourself with the major events of Irish history and culture in his lifetime (1865-1939). See under Bibliography for suggested texts.
Seminar Programme
(All works are in Larrissy.)
1. Magic, Symbols, Nationhood: selections from Crossways (1889) and The Rose (1893), including ‘The Song of the Happy Shepherd’, ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, ‘The Sorrow of Love’, ‘When You Are Old’, ‘Who Goes with Fergus’, and ‘To Ireland in the Coming Times’, and from The Wind among the Reeds (1899): all the poems included by Larrissy. Also the following essays, ‘Magic’ and ‘The Symbolism of Poetry’.
2. Love and Politics: ‘Adam’s Curse’, ‘No Second Troy’, ‘The Fascination of What’s Difficult’, ‘All Things can Tempt Me’, ‘September 1913’, ‘Paudeen’, ‘Fallen Majesty’, ‘The Cold Heaven’.
3. Elegy and Vision: ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’, ‘In Memory of Major Robert Gregory’. ‘The Fisherman’, ‘Broken Dreams’, ‘Ego Dominus Tuus’. Also the following prose, ‘Anima Hominis’ from Per Amica Silentia Lunae.
4. History and Myth: ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘A Prayer for my Daughter’. See also letter to Lady Gregory [11 May 1916]. You should also read the excerpts from A Vision (1925 and 1937) for this and subsequent seminars.
5. The Tower (1928) (1): ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘The Tower’, ‘Among School Children’
6. The Tower (1928) (2) ‘Leda and the Swan’, ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’, ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’.
7. Three Plays: Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), On Baile’s Strand (1904) and Purgatory (1939). Also the essay ‘The Theatre’ and the letter to Sean O’Casey , 20 April 1928.
8. The Winding Stair (1933): ‘A Dialogue of Self and Soul’, ‘Coole Park, 1929’, ‘Coole and Ballylee, 1931’, ‘The Choice’, ‘Byzantium’
9. Late Yeats (1): ‘Meru’, ‘The Gyres’, ‘Lapis Lazuli’, ‘Beautiful Lofty Things’. Also re-read ‘A General Introduction for My Work’ (which should be read at the outset of the course) and ‘On the Boiler’.
10. Late Yeats (2): ‘Long-legged Fly’, ‘Man and the Echo’, ‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’. Also the play, ‘The Death of Cuchulain’.
The best thing to do, by way of preparing for the course, is to read the above poems, prose, and plays carefully, and to read, in addition, as much of the rest of the writings in Larrissy as possible.
Bibliography
Annotated editions:
Yeats’s Poems, ed. A Norman Jeffares (1989)** (Very helpful Appendices, including one on ‘pronunciation’, which is of use for Yeats’s Irish names).
W.B. Yeats: Selected Poetry, ed. Timothy Webb (1991)**
W.B. Yeats: The Poems, ed. Daniel Albright (1990)*
See also the volumes in the Cornell Yeats series (best caught scanning through ‘Yeats, W. B.’ on author search with OPAC), which transcribe valuable manuscript material and contain much important commentary; the variorum edition of the poems, ed. Allt and Alspach (1957), ** that allows you to explore the many revisions of his poems made by Yeats; and the concordance to his poems, ed. Stephen Maxfield Parrish (1963) (Ref. 828.5 YEA), which is useful for tracing Yeats’s handling of recurrent words and images.
Other Works by Yeats
Collected Letters, ed. by John Kelly and others (1986 - ): vol. I, 1865-1895; vol. 2, 1896-1900; vol. 3, 1901-1904, vol. 4, 1905-1907.
Letters, ed. Allan Wade (1954).
A Vision (1937)**
Autobiographies (1926)**
Mythologies (1959)**
Essays and Introductions (1961)**
The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938, ed. A. MacBride and A. Norman Jeffares (1993)**.
Selected Criticism and Prose, ed. A. Norman Jeffares (1980)*. (An invaluable collection).
Collected Plays (2nd.edn. 1952) – in case you wish to go beyond the selection in Larrissy.
Criticism and Biography
Harold Bloom, Yeats (1970)*. (Especially good on Yeats’s relations to Romanticism; provocatively sceptical about Yeats’s late poems).
Terence Brown, The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography (2001)*.
Cairns Craig, Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry (1981)**.
Elizabeth Cullingford (ed.), Yeats: Poems, 1919-1935: A Casebook (1984)**.
Elizabeth Cullingford, Yeats, Ireland and Fascism (1981)**.
Elizabeth Cullingford, Gender and History in Yeats’s Love Poetry (1993; 1996)**.
Karen Dorn, Players and Painted Stage: The Theatre of W. B. Yeats (1984).
Richard Ellmann, The Identity of Yeats, 2nd edn. (London, 1964)*.
Richard Ellmann, W.B. Yeats: The Man and the Masks, 2nd edn. (1961)*.
Richard Ellmann, Eminent Domain: Yeats among Wilde, Joyce, Pound, Eliot and Auden (1967)**. (A very good account of Yeats’s relations with other major writers of his time).
R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914 (1997)**
------------- W.B. Yeats: A Life, Volume II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939 (2003).**
George Mills Harper Yeats’s Golden Dawn (1974)** (Concerned with Yeats’s occult interests).
David Holdeman, The Cambridge Introduction to W. B. Yeats (2006) **
David Holdeman and Ben Levitas (eds), W.B. Yeats in Context (2010).
Marjorie Howes, Yeats’s Nations: Gender, Class and Irishness (1996)**.
Marjorie Howes and John Kelly (eds), The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats (2006) **
A Norman Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats (1984)*.
A. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: A New Biography (1988)*.
A. Norman Jeffares, A Commentary on the Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats (1975)*.
A. Norman Jeffares (ed.), W. B. Yeats: The Critical Heritage (1977)**.
Declan Kiberd, Inventing Ireland (1995)**. Sections on Yeats (search under index) are very good value.
Edward Larrissy, Yeats the Poet: the Measures of Difference (1994)**.
Edward Larrissy (ed.) , W. B. Yeats (2010).
David Lynch, Yeats: The Poetics of the Self (1979)**.
Louis MacNeice, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1967)** (One of the best introductory books on Yeats).
Alasdair D. F. Macrae, W. B. Yeats: A Literary Life (1995)**
Sam McCready, A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia (Ref 828.5 YEA/MCC).
Edward Malins, A Preface to Yeats (1974)**.
Francis Hughes Murphy, Yeats’s Early Poetry: The Quest for Reconciliation (1975)**.
Michael O’Neill (ed.), The Poems of W B Yeats: A Sourcebook( 2004) **
Michael O’Neill, The All-Sustaining Air: Romantic Legacies and Renewals in British, American, and Irish Poetry since 1900 (2007) **
David Richman, Passionate Action: Yeats’s Mastery of Drama (2000)**
M. L. Rosenthal, Running to Paradise: Yeats’s Poetic Art (1994)**. (Highly recommended).
Stan Smith, The Origins of Modernism: Eliot, Pound, Yeats and the Rhetoric of Renewal (1994).
Jon Stallworthy, Between the Lines: W. B. Yeats’s Poetry in the Making (1965)**.
Jon Stallworthy, Yeats: Last Poems, A Casebook (1984)*.
C. K. Stead, Pound, Yeats, Eliot, and the Modernist Movement (1986)**.
Richard Taylor, A Reader’s Guide to the Plays of W. B. Yeats (1984)**.
John Unterecker, A Reader’s Guide to William Butler Yeats (1959)*.
Peter Ure, Yeats the Playwright (1963)**.
Helen Vendler, Yeats’s ‘Vision’ and the Later Plays (1963)**.
The Yeats Eliot Review is a journal worth consulting.
Irish Literature
To sharpen your sense of Yeats as an Irish author, working in relation to other Irish writers, you will find it valuable to read widely in the following anthology: Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939, ed. Stephen Regan (2004).**
History
You should also familiarise yourself with the major events of Irish history in the late part of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries: R. F. Foster, Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 (1988) * is highly recommended, as is F. S. L. Lyons, Ireland since the Famine, 2nd edn. (1985)*. You might also like to read the relevant parts of The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland, ed. R.F. Foster (1989) and Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-2001 by Terence Brown (1985).
Web Site
Bear in mind that material posted on the web can vary greatly in reliability since such material is often not subject to the checks and monitoring that articles and books normally receive.
IRISH POETRY SINCE YEATS
Convener: Professor Stephen Regan
The essential book for this module is the anthology The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry, ed. Paul Muldoon (Faber, 1986; new edition 2006). Seminar discussion of a poet will normally be based on consideration of the relevant selection of poems in the anthology. Before the start of the module you should also read a selection of poems by W.B.Yeats, who will be an important reference point throughout the module. At the very least, you should read the following poems: ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’, ‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’. Good texts for Yeats are W.B. Yeats, ed. Edward Larrissy (OUP, 1997) and W.B.Yeats: The Poems, ed. Daniel Albright (Everyman, 1994).
The best reference work, which contains many valuable essays of a general and thematic kind, is The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry, ed. Fran Brearton and Alan Gillis (Oxford University Press, 2012).
The module will be examined by two extended essays of 3,000 words.
Listed below is a selection of significant titles by the poets studied on the module. All the poets have published volumes of poetry that are not listed (‘selected’ and ‘collected’ poems have been emphasized). However, many of these unlisted volumes are in the University Library, and if you are interested in following these up you are encouraged to search the Library OPAC.
Titles marked with a single asterisk (*) are on Reserve in the University Library. Titles marked with a double asterisk (**) are on 3-day loan.
* Patrick Kavanagh, Selected Poems (Penguin, 2000)
** Patrick Kavanagh, Collected Poems, ed. Antoinette Quinn (Penguin Classics, 2005)
** Patrick Kavanagh, Collected Poems (Martin Brian and O’Keefe, 1973) [O/P, but in Library]
Patrick Kavanagh, Marginal Economy (Carcanet, 2006)
See also:
Patrick Kavanagh, Tarry Flynn (fiction) (Penguin, 2000)
Patrick Kavanagh, The Green Fool (autobiography) (Penguin, 2001)
Patrick Kavanagh, No Earthly Estate: The Religious Poetry of Patrick Kavanagh
(an annotated selection) (Columba, 2002)
Patrick Kavanagh, A Poet’s Country: Selected Prose (Lilliput, 2002)
* Louis MacNeice, Poems Selected by Michael Longley (Faber, 2001)
** Louis MacNeice, Collected Poems, ed. Peter McDonald (New Edition: Faber, 2007)
** Louis MacNeice, Collected Poems, ed. E.R. Dodds (Faber, 1979) [O/P, but in Library]
See also:
** Louis MacNeice, The Strings Are False (1965; rpt. Faber, 1982)
Louis MacNeice, The Poetry of W.B. Yeats (1941; rpt. 1967) [O/P, but in Library]
Louis MacNeice, Selected Literary Criticism, ed. A. Heuser (Oxford, 1987)
[O/P, but in Library]
Louis MacNeice, Selected Prose, ed. A. Heuser (Oxford, 1990) [O/P, but in Library]
Louis MacNeice, Selected Letters, ed. Jonathan Allison (Faber, 2010)
* John Montague, Selected Poems (Penguin, 2001)
** John Montague, Collected Poems (Gallery, 1995)
John Montague, Smashing the Piano (Gallery, 1999)
John Montague, Drunken Sailor (Gallery, 2004)
See also:
John Montague, Company: a Chosen Life (autobiography) (Duckworth, 2001)
John Montague, The Pear Is Ripe: A Memoir, ed. Sean O'Keeffe (Liberties Press, 2007)
John Montague, The Figure in the Cave, and other essays, ed. A. Quinn (1989. Lilliput, 2001) [O/P, but in Library]
John Montague, Born in Brooklyn: John Montague’s America, ed. D. Lampe
(White Pine, 1991) [O/P, but in Library]
John Montague, An Occasion of Sin: Stories, ed. B. Callaghan & D. Lampe
(White Pine, 1991)
John Montague, Death of a Chieftain and Other Stories (Wolfhound, 1998)
** Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-96 (Faber, 1998)
Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level (Faber, 1996; rpt. 2004)
Seamus Heaney, Electric Light (Faber, 2001)
Seamus Heaney, District and Circle (Faber, 2006)
Seamus Heaney, Human Chain (Faber, 2010)
See also:
** Seamus Heaney, Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-78 (Faber, 1980)
** Seamus Heaney, The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose 1978-87 (Faber,
1988)
** Seamus Heaney, The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures (Faber, 1995)
** Seamus Heaney, Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 (Faber, 2002)
* Michael Longley, Selected Poems (Cape, 1998)
** Michael Longley, Collected Poems (Cape, 2006)
Michael Longley, Cenotaph of Snow: Sixty Poems About War (Enitharmon, 2003)
Michael Longley, Snow Water (Cape, 2004)
Michael Longley, The Rope-Makers (Enitharmon, 2005)
* Derek Mahon, Selected Poems (Penguin, 2000; new ed. 2006)
** Derek Mahon, Selected Poems (Viking, 1991) [O/P, but in Library]
** Derek Mahon, Collected Poems (Gallery, 2000)
Derek Mahon, The Hudson Letter (Gallery, 1995) [O/P, but in Library]
Derek Mahon, The Yellow Book (Gallery, 1998)
Derek Mahon, Harbour Lights (Gallery, 2006)
Derek Mahon, Life on Earth (Gallery, 2008)
Derek Mahon, Autumn Wind (Gallery, 2010)
See also:
Derek Mahon, Journalism: Selected Prose 1970-1995, ed. T. Brown (Gallery, 1996)
** Paul Muldoon, Poems 1968-98 (Faber, 2002)
Paul Muldoon, Madoc: A Mystery (Faber, 1990)
Paul Muldoon, Annals of Chile (Faber 1994)
Paul Muldoon, Hay (Faber, 1998)
Paul Muldoon, Bandanna (Faber, 1999)
Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel (Faber, 2002)
Paul Muldoon, Medley for Morin Khur (Enitharmon, 2005)
Paul Muldoon, Horse Latitudes (Faber, 2006)
Paul Muldoon, General Admission (Gallery, 2006)
Paul Muldoon, Maggot (Faber, 2010)
See also:
Paul Muldoon, To Ireland, I (Oxford, 2000) [O/P, but in Library]
Paul Muldoon, The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry (Faber, 2006)
Eavan Boland and Medbh McGuckian
Eavan Boland, New Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2005)
Eavan Boland, Domestic Violence (Carcanet, 2007)
See also:
Eavan Boland, Object Lessons (Carcanet, 2006)
Medbh McGuckian, The Book of the Angel (Gallery, 2004)
Medbh McGuckian, My Love has Fared Inland (Gallery, 2008)
Medbh McGuckian, The Currach Requires No Harbours (Gallery, 2006)
Medbh McGuckian, The Face of the Earth (Gallery, 2001)
Ciaran Carson, Collected Poems (Gallery, 2008)
Ciaran Carson, On the Night Watch (Gallery, 2009)
Ciaran Carson, Until, Before, After (Gallery, 2010)
Some Anthologies
20th Century Irish Poems, ed. Michael Longley (Faber, 2002)
The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, ed. Thomas Kinsella (OUP 1986; pb. 1989)
The Faber Book of Irish Verse, ed. John Montague (Faber, 1974)
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry, ed. Peter Fallon and Derek Mahon
(Penguin, 1990)
SELECTED BOOKS OF CRITICISM
Critical reading for this module is listed below, some of a general nature and some specific to the poets studied on the module. Lists are selective and you are encouraged to do your own searching in the University Library. Some books are out of print but are in the Library.
General Criticism, and Books on Several Poets
Please consult the books listed under this heading before despairing that you cannot find any criticism on a particular poet! Many of these books contain chapters and sections on the poets we are studying.
Brearton, Fran, The Great War in Irish Poetry: W.B. Yeats to Michael Longley (OUP, 2000)
Brearton, Fran and Alan Gillis, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (Oxford University
Press, 2012).
Broom, Sarah, Contemporary British and Irish Poetry: An Introduction (Palgrave, 2006)
Brown, Terence and Nicholas Grene, Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Irish Poetry (Barnes & Noble, 1989)
** Cairns, David and Shaun Richards, Writing Ireland (Manchester UP, 1988)
Corcoran, Neil, After Yeats and Joyce (OUP, 1997)
** Corcoran, Neil (ed.), The Chosen Ground: Essays on the Contemporary Poetry of Northern Ireland (Seren Books, 1992)
** Corcoran, Neil (ed.), Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext (U of Wales P, 1999)
Dawe, Gerald, Against Piety: Essays in Irish Poetry (Lagan Press, 1995)
Devine, Kathleen (ed.), Modern Irish Writers and the Wars (Colin Smythe, 1999)
** Garratt, Robert F, Modern Irish Poetry: Tradition and Continuity from Yeats to Heaney (U. of California Press, 1986)
** Goodby, John, Irish Poetry Since 1950: From Stillness into History (Manchester UP, 2000)
Grant, Patrick, Breaking Enmities: Religion, Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland, 1967-1997 (Macmillan, 1999)
Jeffares, A Norman, Anglo-Irish Literature (1982)
** Johnston, Dillon, Irish Poetry after Joyce (2nd ed, Syracuse UP, 1997)
** Kenneally, Michael (ed.), Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature (Colin Smythe, 1995)
Kenneally, Michael (ed.), Cultural Contexts and Literary Idioms in Contemporary Irish Literature (Colin Smythe)
** Kiberd, Declan, Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation (Cape, 1995)
** Longley, Edna, Poetry in the Wars (Bloodaxe, 1986)
** Longley, Edna, The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland (Bloodaxe, 1994)
Longley, Edna, Poetry and Posterity (Bloodaxe, 2000)
** MacDonald, Peter, Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland (Clarendon P, 1998)
Mahoney, Christina Hunt, Contemporary Irish Literature (Macmillan, 1998)
** Matthews, Steven, Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation: The Evolving Debate (Macmillan, 1998)
Myers, James P, Writing Irish: Interviews with Irish Writers from ‘The Irish Literary Supplement’ (Syracuse UP, 1999)
Quinn, Justin, The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800-2000 (Cambridge, 2008)
Ramazani, Jahan, Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney
(U of Chicago, 1994)
Strachan, John and Alison O’Malley-Younger (eds), Essays on Modern Irish Literature – contains essays on Mahon and MacNeice by Brian Burton, and on Heaney and Paulin by Gareth Reeves (U of Sunderland P, 2007)
Ward, Alan J. (ed.), Northern Ireland: Living with the Crisis (Praeger, 1987)
On Kavanagh
** Agnew, Una, The Mystical Imagination of Patrick Kavanagh (Columba, 1999)
Kavanagh, Peter, Sacred Keeper: A Biography of Patrick Kavanagh (National Poetry Foundation, 1986)
** Warner, Alan, Clay is the Word: Patrick Kavanagh, 1904-1967 (Dolmen, 1973)
** Quinn, Antoinette, Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography (Gill & Macmillan, 2001)
Swords, Liam, In Their Own Words: Famine in North Connacht 1845-1849 (Columba, 1999)
On MacNeice
** Brown, Terence, Louis MacNeice: Sceptical Vision (Gill & Macmillan, 1975)
Devine, Kathleen and Alan Peacock, Louis MacNeice and his Influence (Colin Smythe, 1998)
** Longley, Edna, Louis MacNeice: A study (Faber, 1988)
** Marsack, Robyn, The Cave of Making: The Poetry of Louis MacNeice (Oxford, 1982)
** McDonald, Peter, Louis MacNeice: The Poet in his Contexts (Oxford, 1991)
McKinnon, William T, Apollo’s Blended Dream: A study of the Poetry of Louis MacNeice (Oxford, 1971)
Moore, Donald B., The Poetry of Louis MacNeice (Leicester UP, 1972) [O/P, but in Library]
O’Neill, Michael and Gareth Reeves, Auden, MacNeice, Spender: The Thirties Poetry (Macmillan, 1992)
** Stallworthy, Jon, Louis MacNeice (Faber, 1995)
Whitehead, John, A Commentary on the Poetry of W.H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender (E. Mellen, 1992)
On Montague
Kernowski, F., John Montague. The Irish Writers Series (Bucknell UP, 1975)
Redshaw, Thomas Dillon (ed), Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague (Creighton UP, 2004)
On Heaney
** Allen, Michael (ed), Seamus Heaney. New Casebooks (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997)
** Andrews, Elmer, The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: All the Realms of Whisper (Macmillan, 1988)
* Andrews, Elmer (ed), Seamus Heaney: A Collection of Critical Essays (1992)
* Andrews, Elmer (ed), The Poetry of Seamus Heaney. Icon Critical Guides (Icon, 1998)
Annwn, David, Inhabited Voices: Myth and History in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, George
Mackay Brown and Geoffrey Hill (Bran’s Head Books, 1984)
** Bloom, Harold (ed), Seamus Heaney: Modern Critical Views (Chelsea, 1986)
Brandes, Durkan, Seamus Heaney (G.K.Hall, 1997)
Burris, Sidney, The Poetry of Resistance: Seamus Heaney and the Pastoral Tradition
(Ohio UP, 1990)
Collins, Floyd, Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity (U of Delaware P, 2003)
** Corcoran, Neil, The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study (New ed, Faber,1998)
Crowder, A and J. Hall, Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator (Palgrave, 2007)
Curtis, Tony, (ed) The Art of Seamus Heaney (Poetry Wales, 1982)
Finn, Christine, Past Poetic: Archaeology and the Poetry of W.B.Yeats and Seamus Heaney
(Duckworth, 2004)
** Foster, Thomas C, Seamus Heaney (O’Brien P, 1989)
Garratt, Robert F. (ed.), Critical Essays on Seamus Heaney (G.K.Hall, 1995)
** Hart, Henry, Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions (Syracuse UP, 1992)
Hope, Warren, A Student Guide to Seamus Heaney (Greenwich Exchange, 2002)
James, Stephen, Shades of Authority: The Poetry of Lowell, Hill and Heaney (Liverpool UP,
2007)
Molino, Michael, Questioning Tradition, Language, and Myth: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Catholic U of America P., 1995)
Moloney, Karen, Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope (U of Missouri P, 2007)
**Morrison, Blake, Seamus Heaney (Methuen, 1982)
Murphy, Andrew, Seamus Heaney. Writers & Their Work (Northcote House, rev. ed. 2000))
O’Brien, Eugene, Seamus Heaney and the Place of Writing (U P of Florida, 2002)
** O’Donoghue, Bernard, Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry (Harvester, 1994)
** Parker, Michael, Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet (U of Iowa P, 1993)
Peach, Linden, Ancestral Lines: Culture and Identity in the Work of Six Contemporary Poets
(Seren, 1992)
Tobin, Daniel, Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (UP of Kentucky, 1999)
Tyler, Margaret B., A Singing Contest (Routledge, 2005)
**Vendler, Helen, Seamus Heaney. Modern Masters (Fontana, 1999)
**Vendler, Helen, Seamus Heaney (Harvard U.P., 2000)
Wade, Stephen, More on the Word-hoard: The Work of Seamus Heaney (Pauper’s P., 1993)
On Longley
**Brearton, Fran, Reading Michael Longley (Bloodaxe, 2006)
** Devine, Kathleen and Alan Peacock (ed), The Poetry of Michael Longley (Colin Smythe,
2002)
On Mahon
** Andrews, Elmer (ed), The Poetry of Derek Mahon (Colin Smythe, 2002)
** Haughton, Hugh, The Poetry of Derek Mahon (Oxford, 2007)
On Muldoon
Holdridge, Jefferson, The Poetry of Paul Muldoon (Liffey Press, 2008)
** Kendall, Tim, Paul Muldoon (Seren, 1996)
** Kendall, Tim and Peter McDonald, Paul Muldoon: Critical Essays (Liverpool English Texts & Studies, 2003)
** Wills, Clair, Reading Paul Muldoon (Bloodaxe, 1998)
On Boland and McGuckian
Randolph, Jody Allen (ed.) The Eavan Boland Sourcebook: Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism (Carcanet, 2007)
On Carson
Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer, Ciaran Carson: Critical Essays (Four Courts Press, 2009)
HISTORY
** Brown, Terence, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-1985 (Fontana, 1985)
** Buckland, Patrick, A History of Northern Ireland (Gill & Macmillan, 1981)
** Foster, R F, Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (Penguin, pb. 1989)
** Lyons, F S L, Ireland Since the Famine (revised edn., Fontana, 1973), especially Part III,
‘The Union Broken’
JOURNALS
The Irish Review (Cork University Press)
Irish University Review : A Journal of Irish Studies (Wolfhound Press)
INTERNET
If you have difficulty acquiring books (including O/P books), try these sites:
Read Ireland (Specialist Irish Interest Bookstore): readireland.ie
Books On Line: uk.
amazon.co.uk and
abebooks.co.uk and
Special Topic: Arthurian Literature
Arthurian Literature will be taught by Professor Elizabeth Archibald
This module is taught in seminar format, with 2-hour seminars held in alternate weeks. Please find below a provisional list of seminars. Essays will also offer the opportunity for individual research and specialisation. Two summative essays will be required, and there will be a 15-minute essay return session for each student.
Over the summer, you should aim to familiarise yourself with the main texts. You will find below a list of editions and translations. You should also read some background to the period, to begin to gain a sense of medieval history, literature and culture. If you have already taken a module such as The Age of Chivalry or Chaucer or Medieval Literature, this will also provide a useful context, but these are not prerequisites. One aim of the course is to introduce some of the works most influential for English medieval writers and for the romance tradition more generally, and it is worth remembering how closely England and France were connected in this period. Further reading on individual texts will be provided for each seminar, and some material will be available in the library.
Provisional Order of Seminars: Thursday 9-11
1.Introduction: did Arthur exist? The early ‘historical’ evidence and the Welsh tradition; the influence of Geoffrey of Monmouth
2. The Rise of Vernacular Romance. Knights in Love – Chrétien’s Lancelot and Yvain, Malory’s Lancelot (selected episodes from the last two tales)
3. The Grail: Chrétien’s Conte du Graal (Perceval), extracts from the Queste del Saint Graal, and Malory’s ‘Tale of the Sangreal’
4. Criticism and Comedy I: Marie de France’s Lanval, Chestre’s Sir Launfal, Lay of the Mantle, selections from the Alliterative Morte Arthure
5. Criticism and Comedy II: Wife of Bath’s Tale, Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
6. Death of Arthur – Mort Artu, Stanzaic Mort Artu and Malory, Morte Darthur
7. Tennyson, Idylls of the King (Selections)
8. Twain, A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court
9. Mary Stewart, The Wicked Day
10. Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur
**If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Professor Archibald during the vacation (e.f.archibald@durham.ac.uk).
Preliminary Reading List
N.B. Further bibliography, including secondary reading, will be given for individual seminars.
Editions and Translations:
The Romance of Arthur, 3rd edn, ed. Norris Lacy and James Wilhelm (London: Routledge, 2013) [ the 2nd edition would also be OK, but not the 1st]; includes early Welsh and Latin material. I strongly recommend buying this.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain, tr. Lewis Thorpe (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968); also excerpts in Romance of Arthur
Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances, tr. W. Kibler (London: Penguin, 1991); Lancelot is in Romance of Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: any reliable edition, for instance Tolkien and Gordon, or Andrew and Waldron; tr. Borroff (included in Norton Anthology); the Armitage translation is very free so not entirely reliable; another is in Romance of Arthur
Chaucer, ‘Wife of Bath’s Tale’, in Riverside Chaucer or Jill Mann’s Penguin edition, or the Norton Anthology
Marie de France, Lanval, in Lais, tr. G. Burgess and K. Busby, 2nd edn (London: Penguin, 1999)Sir Launfal, ed. A. J. Bliss (London: Nelson, 1960)
Lay of the Mantle: in Romance of Arthur
The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell, ed. T. Hahn in Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, TEAMS (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995) and online at TEAMS: lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm; also in Romance of Arthur
Malory, Morte Darthur, ed. Helen Cooper (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Tennyson, Idylls of the King ed. J. M. Gray (London: Penguin, 1996)
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court, ed. J. Kaplan
(London: Penguin, 1971)
Mary Stewart, The Wicked Day (London: Hodder, 1984)
Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur (London: Scholastic, 2007)
Reference Books
The Arthurian Encyclopedia, ed. Norris Lacy (New York and London: Garland, 1986)
The Arthurian Handbook, ed. Norris Lacy and Geoffrey Ashe (New York and London: Garland,
1988)
Arthurian Literature, annual volume published by Boydell & Brewer.
Loomis, Roger Sherman (ed.), Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959) [now out of date re bibliography but still useful]
Lupack, Alan, The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2009)
There is a useful series of Arthurian Casebooks published by Garland and later by Routledge.
Arthurian Characters and Themes, series editor Norris J. Lacy [essays by various authors, some reprinted, covering medieval and modern texts]:
King Arthur: A Casebook , ed. Edward Donald Kennedy (New York and London : Garland, 1996) . Tristan and Isolde: A Casebook , ed. Joan Tasker Grimbert (New York and London : Garland,1995) Arthurian Women: A Casebook , ed. Thelma Fenster (New York and London : Garland, 996). Lancelot and Guinevere: A Casebook , ed. Lori J. Walters (New York and London : Garland,1996) . The Grail: A Casebook , ed. Dhira Mahoney (New York and London : Garland, 2000). Perceval/Parzifal: A Casebook , ed. Arthur Groos and Norris J. Lacy (New York and London:
Routledge, 2002).
Merlin: A Casebook , ed. Peter H. Goodrich and Raymond H. Thompson (New York and London:
Routledge, 2003) .
Gawain: A Casebook , ed. Raymond H. Thompson and Keith (New York and London: Routledge,
2006).
Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, series editors †W. R. J. Barron and Ad Putter,all published by U of Wales Press. Up to date plot summaries and surveys of criticism and bibliography, though the Welsh vol is to be revised. Italian and Spanish vols to come.
The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature , ed. Rachel Bromwich,
A. O. H. Jarman and Brynley Roberts (Cardiff, 1991).
The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature , ed. W. R.
J. Barron (Cardiff, 1999)
The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature , ed.
W. H. Jackson and S. A. Ranawake (Cardiff, 2000).
The Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature , ed.
Glyn S. Burgess and Karen Pratt (Cardiff, 2006)
The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature, ed. Siân Echard (Cardiff, 2011)
The Arthur of the North: the Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus Realms, ed. Marianne Kalinke,
(Cardiff, 2011)
Companions
A Companion to Malory, ed. Elizabeth Archibald and A. S. G. Edwards (Cambridge: Brewer,
1996)
The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend, ed. Elizabeth Archibald and Ad Putter
(Cambridge: CUP, 2009)
A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes, ed. Norris J. Lacy and Joan Tasker Grimbert (Cambridge: D. S.
Brewer, 2005).
A Companion to the Gawain Poet, ed. Derek Brewer and Jonathan Gibson (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1997
A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, ed. Carol Dover (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003)..
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c. 1350-1550, ed. Peter Brown (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2007)
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature, ed. Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay
(Cambridge: Cambridge UP , 2008) .
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance, ed. Roberta L. Krueger (Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 2000).
A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary, ed. Corinne Saunders (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2004)
General Criticism and Background
Barber, Richard, King Arthur: Hero and Legend, 3rd edn revised (Woodbridge: Boydell P,
1986)
------------------, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief (London: Allen Lane, 2004)
Beer, Gillian, The Romance (London: Methuen, 1970)
Chambers, E. K., Arthur of Britain (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1927) [a classic; useful
collection of early medieval allusions to Arthur]
Cooper, Helen, The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of
Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004)
Dean, Christopher, Arthur of England: English Attitudes to King Arthur and the Knights of
the Round Table in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1987)
Faral, Edmond, La Légende arthurienne: études et documents, 3 vols (Paris: Champion, 1929).
Fletcher, R. H., The Arthurian Material in the Chronicles especially those of Great Britain and
France (Boston: Ginn, 1906).
Frye, Northrop, The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance (Cambridge MA:
Harvard UP, 1976)
Kennedy, Elspeth, ‘Failure in Arthurian Romance’, Medium Aevum 50.1 (1991), 16-32; repr. in The Grail: A Casebook, ed Mahoney, pp. 279-99
Knight, Stephen Arthurian Literature and Society (London: Macmillan, 1983).
Lacy, Norris J., ed., Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature (New York and London:
Garland, 1996)
-----------------, The Fortunes of King Arthur (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005)
Larrington, Carolyne, King Arthur’s Enchantresses: Morgan and her sisters in Arthurian Tradition
(London: I.B. Tauris, 2006)
Gaunt, Simon, Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 1995).
Girouard, Mark, The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman (New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 1981) [on C19th medievalism]
Kaueper, Richard, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford: OUP, 1999)
---------------------, Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry (Philadelphia: U of
Pennsylvania P, 2009)
-------------------- and Elspeth Kennedy, The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text,
Context and Translation (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1996)
Keen, Maurice, Chivalry (London: Yale UP, 1984)
Morris, Rosemary , The Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1982) .
Padel, Oliver, Padel, O., Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature (Cardiff: U of Wales P, 2000)
Pearsall, Derek, Arthurian Romance: A Short Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003)
Reid, Margaret J. C., The Arthurian Legend: A Comparison of Treatments in Modern and
Mediaeval Literature: A Study in the Value of Myth and Legend (New York: Barnes &
Noble, 1970)
Rouse, Robert, and Cory Rushton, The Medieval Quest for Arthur (Stroud: Tempus, 2005)
Schmolke-Hasselmann, Beate, The Evolution of Arthurian Romance: The Verse Tradition from
Chrétien to Froissart, trans. Margaret and Roger Middleton (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998).
Shichtman, Martin and James Carley, eds., Culture and the King: Social Implications of the Arthurian
Legend (Albany: State University of New York, 1994) .
Taylor, Beverly, and Elisabeth Brewer, The Return of King Arthur: British and American Arthurian
Literature since 1800 (Cambridge: Brewer, 1983)
Vinaver, Eugene, The Rise of Romance (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1971)
Websites: there is much Arthurian material on the web, not all reliable. I recommend:
The Camelot Project, lib.rochester.edu/Camelot
Arthurian Resources, Arthuriana.co.uk
Britannia History, history/h12.html
Films: you may wish to watch some Arthurian films over the holidays – we shall certainly have opportunities to discuss them during the course. As well as the obvious ones (Excalibur, First Knight, King Arthur, Monty Python and the Holy Grail), you might try Bresson’s Lancelot du Lac, very atmospheric (in French). Do bring other recommendations to class!
THE BRONTËS
Module Convenor: Dr Sarah Wootton
Vacation Reading
The first part of this module will focus on the early writings of the Brontës. We will begin by discussing the juvenilia and poetry. A selection of material will be distributed before the first seminar. You may also wish to have a look at the selection of prose and poetry in The Brontës: Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal: Selected Writings, ed. Christine Alexander (OUP, 2010) and Charlotte Brontë’s Tales of Angria, ed. Heather Glen (Penguin, 2006). The main library holds copies of these and all the texts mentioned below. We will then proceed to a detailed analysis of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (with reference to Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey), Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Please read or reread these novels before the start of the academic year. It is important to refamiliarise yourself with these novels even if you have read them before.
The second part of the module will begin with an examination of the critical reception of these novels, including early reviews and Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë. We will then discuss the later works of the Brontës, specifically Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and Shirley. These are substantial Victorian novels. It is strongly recommended that you begin reading these novels before the start of the academic year. In a subsequent section devoted to ‘afterlives’, imaginative reworkings of the novels will be considered. Particular emphasis will be accorded to the visual arts and a selection of film and television adaptations of the Brontë novels. As preparation for this section of the module, you may wish to watch some or all of the following: William Wyler’s Wuthering Heights (with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon), Peter Kosminsky’s Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche), Coky Giedroyc’s Wuthering Heights (with Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley), Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights (with Kaya Scodelario and James Howson); Orson Welles’s Jane Eyre, Franco Zeffirelli’s Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (with William Hurt and Charlotte Gainsbourg), Julian Amyes’s Jane Eyre (with Timothy Dalton and Zelah Clarke), Susanna White’s Jane Eyre (with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens), Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre (with Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender); and Mike Barker’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (with Tara Fitzgerald and Rupert Graves). Copies of these and additional screen adaptations are available in the main and departmental libraries. For an interesting, if controversial, modern reworking of Wuthering Heights, see Sally Wainwright’s Sparkhouse (with Sarah Smart, Joseph McFadden and Richard Armitage).
A seminar schedule and more extensive reading list will be distributed at the start of the module. If you wish to begin any background or contextual reading over the summer, an interesting introduction to the subject is Juliet Barker’s The Brontës (1994) and The Brontës: A Life in Letters (1998). The following critical works reflect a range of different ways in which to approach the novels and afterlives of the Brontës:
Miriam Allott, ed., The Brontës: The Critical Heritage (1974)
Heather Glen, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës (2002)
Patricia Ingham, ed., The Brontës, Longman Critical Readers (2003)
Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann, eds, A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre (2007)
Patsy Stoneman, Brontë Transformations: The Cultural Dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights (1996)
Marianne Thormählen, ed., The Brontës in Context (2012)
Anything on the Brontës by Edward Chitham, Winifred Gérin or Tom Winnifrith is well worth a look. The journal Brontë Studies (previously Brontë Society Transactions) is held by the library and is available in hardcopy, at 058.2 BRO, and online.
Finally, a trip to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth is highly recommended. A six-mile round walk across the moors takes you to the ruined farmhouse of Top Withens, thought to have been the inspiration for Wuthering Heights (Sylvia Plath’s sketch, from 1956, is shown below). Information on the Parsonage and Brontë events can be found at . There is an interesting section on contemporary artwork inspired by the Brontës and the countryside where they lived, , as well as details of the creative writing competition, .
I look forward to meeting you in October.
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The Australian Legend, 1890s-1990s
Module Convenor: Dr Carver
A. Books Recommended for Purchase
Bail, Murray. Eucalyptus. London: Harvill, 1999. [Any of the various editions will do].
Carey, Peter. True History of the Kelly Gang. London: Faber, ?2002. ISBN: 0571209874. Amazon.co.uk: £4.79.
Franklin, Miles. My Brilliant Career. London: Virago, 1980. [Any of the various editions will do]
Keneally, Thomas. The Playmaker. London: Sceptre, 1988. [Any of the various editions will do]
______ The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, 1972. [Any of the various editions will do]
Lawson, Henry. Selected Short Stories. A& R Classics. ?Sydney: HarperCollins, 2002. 566 pp. ISBN: 0207197083. Amazon.co.uk: £7.68.
White, Patrick. The Tree of Man. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956. ?London: Vintage, 1994. ISBN: 0099324512
White, Patrick. Voss. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956. London: Vintage, 1994. [Any of the various editions will do].
B. RECOMMENDED READING
Background Studies
Alomes, Stephen. A Nation at Last? The Changing Character of Australian Nationalism, 1880-1988. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1988.
Baynton, Barbara. Bush Studies. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1993.
Bird, Delys, Robert Dixon, and Christopher Lee. Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism, 1950-2000. St Lucia, Qld: UQP, 2001.
Dixson, Miriam. The Real Matilda: Women and Identity in Australia, 1788 to the Present Day. 4th ed. Sydney: UNSW P, 1999.
______. The Imaginary Australian: Anglo-Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present Day. Sydney: UNSW P, 2000.
Blainey, Geoffrey. The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia’s History. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1966. Rept. 1968. DUL 911.94 BLA
Boyd, Robin. The Australian Ugliness. Melbourne: Cheshire, 1960. Rev. ed, 1963. DUL 711.0994 BOY
Carter, Paul. The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History. New York: Knopf, 1987. DUL 911.94 CAR
Coad, David. Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities. France, 2002.
Dutton, Geoffrey. The Squatters: An Illustrated History of Australia’s Pastoral Pioneers. Penguin, 1989.
______, ed. The Literature of Australia. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964.
Gibson, Ross. The Diminishing Paradise: Changing Literary Perceptions of Australia. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1984.
Hergenhan, Laurie (gen. ed.), Bruce Bennett, ed. The Penguin New Literary History of Australia. Penguin, 1988. ISBN: 0140075143)
Martin, Susan K. “Dead White Male Heroes: Ludwig Leichhardt and Ned Kelly in Australian Fictions.” Imagining Austalia: Literature and Culture in the New World. Ed. Judith Ryan and Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004.
Nile, Richard, ed. Australian Civilisation. Melbourne: OUP, 1994.
______, ed.. The Australian Legend and its Discontents. St Lucia, Qld: UQP in association with the API Network, 2000. ISBN 0702229857 (pbk)
Palmer, Vance. The Legend of the Nineties. Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 1954.
Phillips, A. A. The Australian Tradition: Studies in a Colonial Culture. Melbourne: Cheshire, 1958.
Salusinszky, Imre, ed. Oxford Book of Australian Essays. Melbourne: OUP, 1997. (Contains Louisa Lawson’s “The Australian Bush-Woman.”)
Schaffer, Kay. Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988.
Serle, Geoffrey. From Deserts the Prophets Come: The Creative Spirit in Australia 1788-1972. Melbourne: Heinemann, 1973.
Spender, Dale. Writing a New World: Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988.
Summers, Anne. Damned Whores and God’s Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.
Ward, Russel. The Australian Legend. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1966. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995. DUL Level 4, 994 WAR
Welsh, Frank. Great Southern Land: A New History of Australia. London: Penguin, 2005.
White, Richard. Inventing Australia: Images and Identity 1688-1980. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1981. DUL 994 WHI (3 copies)
C. SEMINAR READING
Seminar 1. Introduction
First Encounters
Selections will be provided from:
Dampier, William. A New Voyage round the World: A Continuation of A Voyage to New-Holland, &c. in the Year 1699. London: James Knapton, 1709.
Beaglehole, J. C., ed. The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery, vol. 1, The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771. Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1955.
Darwin, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H. M. S. “Beagle” round the World, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R. N. London: John Murray, 1845.
Conceptualizing ‘Australia’
Poems: W. C. Wentworth, ‘Australasia’; Bernard O’Dowd, ‘Australia’; James McAuley, ‘Terra Australis’; A. D. Hope, ‘Australia’ (copies supplied).
Australian Bucolic: A. B. (“Banjo”) Patterson, “The Man from Snowy River”; “Clancy of the Overflow”; “The Man from Ironbark”; “Waltzing Matilda” (copies supplied).
Timeline of Major Historical and Literary Events
Overview of Themes and Genres
Seminar 2. Convict Tales
Required reading:
Keneally, Thomas. The Playmaker. London: Sceptre, 1988. [Any of the various editions will do]
Recommended reading:
Robert Hughes. The Fatal Shore. London: Harvill Press, 1996.
Selections will be supplied from:
Tench, Waktin. 1788: Comprising: A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and a Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson. Ed. Tim Flannery. Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 1996.
Savery, Henry. Quintus Servinton. Hobert Town: [n.p.], 1830-31. Repr. Brisbane: Jacaranda P, 1962.
Mudie, James. The Felonry of New South Wales. London: Whaley, 1837. Repr. Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1964.
Warung, Price (pseudonym of William Astley). Tales of the Early Days. London: George Robertson, 1894.
Ward, Russell, ed. The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads. London: Penguin, 1964.
Seminar 3. Explorers
Required reading:
White, Patrick. Voss. London: Vintage, 1994. [Any of the various editions will do].
Selections will be supplied from:
Leichhardt, F. W. L. (Ludwig). The Letters of F. W. L. Leichhardt. 3 vols. Ed. M. Aurousseau. London: Hakluyt Society, 1968.
Mitchell, T. L. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia. London: Longmans, 1848.
Seminar 4. The Legend of the Bush, Part I: Battlers
Required Reading:
Henry Lawson, Selected Short Stories (inc. “The Drover’s Wife”).
Geoff Page, “Grit”; Les Murray, “The Widower in the Country” (copies supplied)
Seminar 5. The Legend of the Bush, Part II: “Australia’s Book of Genesis”(?)
Required Reading:
Patrick White, The Tree of Man.
Seminar 6. The Legend of the Bush, Part III: Bushrangers
Required Reading:
Poetry: A. B. (“Banjo”) Patterson, “How Gilbert Died” (copy supplied)
Prose: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang.
Seminar 7. Resisting the Legend: Australian Modernism / Australian Classicism
Required Reading:
A. D. Hope; James McAuley (1917-76).
Recommended Reading:
Heyward, Michael. The Ern Malley Affair. Introd. Robert Hughes. London: Faber and Faber, 2003. 392 pp. ISBN: 0571221211. Amazon.co.uk:£6.99. Availability: usually dispatched within 24 hours.
Suggested Further Reading: Peter Carey, My Life as a Fake. London: Faber, 2003. DUL 829.4 CAR
Seminar 8: Indigenous Voices
Required reading:
Keneally, Thomas. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, 1972. [Any of the various editions will do]
Selections will be provided from:
Ramsay Smith, W. Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals. London: Spottiswood, 1930. Repr. Dover, 2003.
Gilbert, Kevin. Black from the Edge. Melbourne: Hyland House, 1994.
Walker, Kath (Oodgeroo Noonuccal). Stradbroke Dreamtime. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1993.
Recommended Reading:
Healy, J. J. Literature and the Aborigine in Australia. St Lucia, QLD: UQP, 1978.
Shoemaker, Adam. Black Words White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988. New ed. Canberra: ANU E Press, 2004.
Johnson, Colin (Mudrooroo Narogin). Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World. London: Hyland House, 1987. [Any of the various editions will do]
Seminar 9: Writing Women in Australia
Required reading:
Franklin, Miles. My Brilliant Career. London: Virago, 1980. [Any of the various editions will do]
Selections will be provided from:
Henry Lawson. ‘The Drover’s Wife.’
Murray Bail. ‘The Drover’s Wife.’
Wright, Judith. Collected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994.
Seminar 10: Legend to Myth
Required reading:
Bail, Murray. Eucalyptus. London: Harvill, 1999. [Any of the various editions will do].
D. SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
Australian Literature
Durham University Library Holdings
(A Selection)
PRIMARY
Bail, Murray. Eucalyptus. London: Harvill, 1998. DUL 829.4 BAI
Carey, Peter (b. 1943). Bliss. 1981. London: Faber, 1991. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. Oscar and Lucinda. London: Faber, 1988. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. The Tax Inspector. London: Faber, 1991. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith. London: Faber, 1994. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. Collected Stories. London: Faber, 1995. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. Illywhacker. London: Faber, 1996. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. Jack Maggs. London: Faber, 1997. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. My Life as a Fake. 2003. London: Faber, 2003. DUL 829.4 CAR
Chatwin, Bruce (1940-?). The Songlines. London: Pan, 1988. (5 copies). Queen’s Campus 823.912 CHA
Clarke, Marcus (1846-81). For the Term of His Natural Life. 1913. DUL N5, Store XX 828.4 CLA
Franklin, Miles (1879-1954). My Brilliant Career. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1901. New introd. Carmen Callil. Virago Modern Classics. London: Virago, 1980. 828.5 FRA
Hope, A. D. (1907-199?). Collected Poems, 1930-1970. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1972. DUL 829.2 HOP
______. Selected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet, 1986. DUL 829.2 HOP
Lawson, Henry (1867-1922). The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories. Ed. and introd. John Barnes. Ringwood, VIC: Penguin Books, 1986. 229 pp. (2 copies) DUL 828.5 LAW
______. Best Stories of Henry Lawson. Selected by Cecil Mann. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1966. Rept. 1981. DUL 828.5 LAW
Lindsay, Norman. The Magic Pudding: Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1963. Education,TRC 823/LIN
Murray, Les (b. 1938). Selected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet, 1986. (151 pp.). DUL 829.3 MUR
______. Collected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet, 1991. DUL 829.3 MUR
______. Subhuman Redneck Poems. Manchester: Carcanet, 1993. DUL 829.3 MUR
______. Translations from the Natural World (67 pp.). Manchester: Carcanet, 1993. DUL 829.3 MUR
______. Fredy Neptune. (A Verse Novel). Manchester: Carcanet, 1998. DUL 829.3 MUR
______. Conscious and Verbal. Manchester: Carcanet, 1999. DUL 829.3 MUR
_____, ed. Fivefathers: Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era. Presented and Edited by Les Murray. Manchester: Fyfield, 1994. (Kenneth Slessor – Roland Robinson –David Campbell –James McAuley – Francis Webb). 207 pp. DUL 821.29 FIV
______ , compiler. Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry. North Blackburn: Collins Dove, 1986. DUL 821.29 ANT
Porter, Peter (b. 1929). The Cost of Seriousness. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1978. DUL 829.3 POR
______. Collected Poems. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. DUL 829.3 POR
Richardson, Henry Handel (nom de plume of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, 1870-1946). The Getting of Wisdom. Ringwood, VIC: Penguin, 1998. DUL 828.5 RIC
______.Maurice Guest. London: Heinemann, 1935. DUL 828.5 RIC
______. Letters of Henry Handel Richardson to Nettie Palmer. Ed. Karl-Johan Rossing. Essays and Studies on English Language and Literature 14. Uppsala: Lundequistska bokhandeln; Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, [1953]. XX 828.5 RIC
Wallace-Crabbe, Chris (b. 1934). I’m Deadly Serious. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988. DUL 829.4 WAL
Webby, Elizabeth, ed. Colonial Voices: Letters, Diaries, Journalism and other Accounts of Nineteenth-Century Australia. St Lucia, Qld: U of Queensland P, 1989. DUL 821.78 COL
White, Patrick (1912-1990). The Living and the Dead. 1941.London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. The Tree of Man. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. Voss. [London]: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. 2 copies. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. The Burnt Ones.London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1964. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. Four Plays. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1965]. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. The Solid Mandala: A Novel. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1966. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. The Vivisector. London: Cape, 1970. DUL 829.2 WHI; N5, Store XX 829.2 WHI
______. The Eye of the Storm. London: Cape, 1973. DUL N5, Store XX 829.2 WHI
______. The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories. London: Cape, 1974. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. A Fringe of Leaves. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. Flaws in the Glass: A Self-portrait. London: Cape, 1981. DUL 829.2 WHI
Anthologies
A Book of Australian Verse. Selected and with and introduction by Judith Wright. London: Oxford UP: 1956. 266 pp. DUL 821.21 WRI
The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse. Chosen by Les A. Murray. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1996. DUL 821.21 NEW
The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories. Ed. Murray Bail. London: Faber, 1988. DUL 821.59 FAB
The Oxford Book of Australian Religious Verse. Ed. Kevin Hart. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994. 286 pp. 821.29 OXF
Thieme, John, ed. The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. London: Arnold, 1996. Generous selection in Part II: Australia, from Charles Harpur to David Malouf (pp. 150-307). DUL 821.19 ARN
SECONDARY
Ackland, Michael. That Shining Band: A Study of Australian Colonial Verse Tradition. St Lucia, Qld: U of Queensland P, 1994. xii, 243pp. DUL 820.92 ACK
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 1989. viii, 246p; 20cm. DUL Reserve 820.91 ASH.
Dixon, Robert. Writing the Colonial Adventure: Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. DUL 820.15 DIX
Goodwin, Ken. A History of Australian Literature. London: Macmillan, 1986. DUL 820.11 GOO
Hodge, Robert, and Vijay Mishra. Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind. North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991. DUL 820.91 HOD
Morgan, Wendy. Writings from Australia. Melbourne: Cambridge UP, 1994. Not in DUL.
Murray, Les A. The Paperbark Tree: Selected Prose. Manchester: Carcanet, 1992. 390 p. DUL 829.3 MUR.
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. London: Routledge, 1992. DUL 809.93 PRA.
Samuels, Selina, ed. Australian Literature, 1788-1914. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. DUL Ref 803 DIC(230) xx, 499 p : ill ; 29 cm.
______. Australian Writers, 1915-1950. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, c2002. DUL Ref 803 DIC(260).
______. Australian Writers, 1950-1975. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, c2004. DUL Ref 803 DIC(289)
Schaffer, Kay. In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser Stories. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. Queen’s Campus 820.9351 SCH
Stewart, Ken. Investigations in Australian Literature. Sydney: Sydney Studies: Shoestring Press, 2000. DUL 820.11 STE.
Sturrock, John, ed. The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997. (Repub’d as The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997). Contains a chapter on ‘Australia’ by Peter Craven (pp. 39-55). DUL 809.04 OXF
Wright, Judith. Preoccupations in Australian Poetry. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1965. xxi + 217 pp. Contents: Introduction: Australia’s Double Aspect. – Charles Harpur. – Henry Kendall. – The Growth and Meaning of the Bush. – Adam Lindsay Gordon and Barcroft Boake. – The Reformist Poets. – Christopher Brennan – The Affirmation of Hugh McCrae. – John Shaw Neilson. – Vision. – Kenneth Slessor, Romantic and Modern. – R. D. Fitzgerald. – J. P. McAuley. – A. D. Hope. – Poets of the ’forties and ’fifties. DUL N5, Store XX 820.12 WRI
STUDIES OF INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS
Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
Clark, Manning. Henry Lawson: The Man and the Legend. Melbourne University Press Australian Lives. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1995. (Originally published as In Search of Henry Lawson. [South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1978]). DUL 828.5 LAW/CLA
Murray-Smith, Stephen. Australian Writers and Their Work: Henry Lawson. Oxford: OUP, 1975.
Roderick, Colin, ed. and introd. Henry Lawson Criticism, 1894-1971. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1972. (Includes bibliography). DUL 828.5 LAW/HEN
Wright, David McKee. Poetical Works of Henry Lawson. Angus & Robertson, 1979.
Miles Franklin
Barnard, Marjorie. Miles Franklin: The Story of a Famous Australian. 1967. St Lucia: UQP, 1988.
Pratt, C. Walking round the World: Miles Franklin, Henry Handel Richardson and Christina Stead as Expatriate Australian Writers. Routledge, 1998.
Roderick, Colin. Miles Franklin: Her Brilliant Career. Adelaide: Rigby, 1982.
Patrick White
Argyle, Barry. Patrick White. Writers and Critics. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1967. (109 pp.). DUL 829.2 WHI/ARG
Giffin, Michael. Arthur’s Dream: The Religious Imagination in the Fiction of Patrick White. Paddington, NSW: Spaniel Books, 1996. DUL 829.2 WHI/GIF
Lawson, Alan. Patrick White. Australian Bibliographies. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1974. xi, 131 pp. DUL Ref 012 WHI/LAW
Marr, David. Patrick White: A Life. London: Cape, 1991. DUL 829.2 WHI/MAR
Morley, Patricia A. The Mystery of Unity: Theme and Technique in the Novels of Patrick White. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1972. DUL 829.2 WHI/MOR
Walsh, William. Patrick White: “Voss.” Studies in English Literature 62. London: Edward Arnold, 1976. 53 pp. DUL 829.2 WHI/WAL
Kenneth Slessor
Semmler, Clement. Kenneth Slessor. Writers and Their Work 194. London: Longmans, Green, [c. 1966]. 44 pp. DUL Pam 829.2 SLE/SEM
Les Murray (b. 1938)
Kinsella, John, ed. ‘The Republic of Sprawl.’ Poetry Review 89.1 (1999): 3-120.
Matthews, Steven. Les Murray. Contemporary World Writers. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2001. 184 pp. DUL 829.3 MUR/MAT
Peter Carey
Hassall, Anthony J. Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey’s Fiction. St Lucia, QLD: U of Queensland P, 1998. xxi, 251 pp. DUL 829.4 CAR/HAS
Larsson. Christer. The Relative Merits of Goodness and Originality: The Ethics of Storytelling in Peter Carey’s Novels. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Anglistica Upsaliensa 116. Dissertation (Ph.D) in English, Uppsala University, 2001. Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2001. DUL 829.4 CAR/LAR
Woodcock, Bruce. Peter Carey. Contemporary World Writers. 2nd ed. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003. DUL 829.4 CAR/WOO
Murray Bail
“Enchanted Forest.” Review of Bail’s Eucalyptus, by Michael Upchurch. New York Times, 4 October 1998 (Books section).
Frow, J. ‘A Pebble, a Camera, a man who Turns into a telegraph Pole.’ Critical Enquiry 1 (Autumn 2001): 270-85.
JOURNALS
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (from 1965). DUL 058.2 JOU.
Quadrant: An Australian Quarterly Review. (Sydney: H. R. Krygier, for the Australian Committee for Cultural Freedom). Holdings Vols 1-7, vol. 8 (no. 29-31), 1956-64. DUL Store XX 050
Southern Review: Literary and Interdisciplinary Essays. (Dept. of English, Univ. of Adelaide). Vol.15-27 (1982-94). DUL 058.2 SOU
COMPANIONS
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature. Ed. William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton, Barry Andrews. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1985. DUL Ref 820.11 OXF
The Oxford History of Australian Literature. Ed. Leonie Kramer; with contributions by Adrian Mitchell ... [et al.]. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1981. DUL 820.11 KRA
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Ed. Elizabeth Webby. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. (ISBN-10: 0521651220 | ISBN-13: 9780521651226). 348 pages. Hardback £45. Paperback: (ISBN-10: 0521658438 | ISBN-13: 9780521658430) (£16.99). DUL 820.11 CAM.
The Oxford Companion to Australian History. Ed. Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre. Oxford: OUP, 1998. DUL (Level 4) Ref 994 OXF
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia. Ed. Ed. Susan Bambrick. Cambridge: CUP, 1994. DUL (Level 4) + 994 CAM
BACKGROUND
Australian Dictionary of Biography. General ed. D. Pike ... [et al.]. London: Melbourne UP., 1966- Library has: vols 1-12 (1788-1939), vols 13-16 (1940-2002) A-Z. DUL Ref 920.994 AUS
This is now available in a free on-line edition hosted by the Australian national University (ANU):
The Australian National Dictionary: A Dictionary of Australianisms on Historical Principles. Ed. W. S. Ramson. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1988. DUL Ref 427.994 AUS
Carboni, Raffaello. The Eureka Stockade. 1855. Boston, MA: Indypublish Com., 2003. (210 pp.). DUL 994.503 CAR
Clark, C. M. H. A History of Australia. 6 vols. [Parkville, VIC]: Melbourne UP; London: Cambridge UP, [1962]-1987. DUL 994 CLA
Contents:
1: From the Earliest Times to the Age of Macquarie.
2: New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, 1822-1838.
3: The Beginning of an Australian Civilization, 1824-1851.
4: The Earth Abideth Forever, 1851-1888.
5: The People Make Laws, 1888-1915.
6: The Old Dead Tree and the Young Tree Green, 1916-1935, with an Epilogue.
Hughes, Robert. The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868. London: Collins Harvill, 1987. London: Vintage, 2003. (3 copies). DUL 994.02 HUG
Molony, John. Eureka. 1984. Carlton South, VIC: Melbourne UP, 2001. DUL 994.503 MOL
Ward, Russell. The History of Australia: The Twentieth Century, 1901-1975. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1978. DUL 994.04 WAR
USEFUL WEBSITES
Australian Dictionary of Biography. A free on-line edition hosted by the Australian national University (ANU):
The Complete Review: lists reviews of recent books (with some web-links to actual reviews, e.g. from The Economist and New York Times) as well as providing a “review of reviews” of each work.
Samela Harris & Shyl-Lee Kerr
R. H. F. Carver
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One of the most highly acclaimed contemporary novelists, Toni Morrison in her fiction offers a powerful engagement with black diasporan experience and US society. This module will encourage students to gain a detailed understanding of the full range of Morrison’s writing, examining her short fiction, novels, children’s literature and critical work, as well as introduce significant political, historical, intellectual and cultural contexts and a selection of supplementary material, including literature by African American contemporaries and samples of oral and musical heritage.
As an introduction to the module and the fiction, it might be useful for you to take a look at the chapter on African American literature in Beginning Ethnic American Literatures by Helena Grice, Candida Hepworth, Maria Lauret and Martin Paget (2001). Jill Matus’s book Toni Morrison (1998) is another very good starting point. Because of the substantial primary reading load for this module, it is also highly recommended that you make a start on the programme’s novels (which are indicated in bold below) over the summer break, although you will probably need to return to them during term time. DUO resources are available for this module and should be of use in getting started at the beginning of the year as well as with seminar preparation and writing your essays.
Week One – Introduction: A sample of music, short fiction (‘Recitatif’) and Morrison’s
critical commentary [I will provide these materials at the start of term]
Week Two – The Bluest Eye (1970) and Morrison’s children’s literature [You do not need to
buy the children’s literature. The Big Box (1980), The Book of Mean People (2002), Who’s Got Game?: Three Fables (2003), Peeny Butter Fudge (2009) and Little Cloud and Lady Wind (2010) will be on reserve in the library]
Week Three – Sula (1973) and short fiction by Alice Walker and / or Toni Cade Bambara
[I will provide the short stories]
Week Four – Song of Solomon (1977), ‘Sonny’s Blues’ by James Baldwin (1957) and a
representative black ‘flying’ tale [I will provide the Baldwin short fiction and the folk story]
Week Five – Tar Baby (1981). Our supplementary text this week is an extract from
Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall (1983) [Which I will provide]
Week Six – Beloved (1987) and Dessa Rose by Sherley Anne Williams (1986) [We will also
be looking at the historical documentation of Margaret Garner’s story but I will provide this material.]
Week Seven – Jazz (1992) and a selection of early twentieth-century music and poetic representations of Harlem [I will provide the poetry]
Week Eight – Paradise (1998)
Week Nine – Love (2003) / Home (2012)
Week Ten – A Mercy (2008) and some of Morrison’s more recent critical work
Other Key Publications
Demme, Jonathan (dir.) Beloved (1998) [The DVD of this film adaptation is available in the
library and the department collection]
Denard, Carolyn (ed.) Toni Morrison: Conversations (2008)
Gates, Henry Louis, and Nellie Y. McKay (eds) The Norton Anthology of African American
Literature (2004)
Hasnaoui, Mustapha (dir.) Margaret Garner (2007) [A documentary about the Margaret
Garner opera, including Morrison talking about her involvement – DVD available in the library]
Hill, Patricia Liggins, Bernard W. Bell et al (eds) Call and Response: The Riverside
Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (1997)
Mitchell, Angelyn, Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism
from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present (1994)
Morrison, Toni, Desdemona (2012) [A re-working of Shakespeare’s Othello]
Morrison, Toni, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1993)
[Morrison’s main critical contribution, exploring how issues of race underlie canonical American literary texts]
Morrison, Toni (ed.) Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence
Thomas and the Construction of Social Reality (1993)
Morrison, Toni, Remember: The Journey to School Integration (2004)
Morrison, Toni, Toni Morrison: What Moves at the Margins ed. by Carolyn Denard (2008)
[collects together many of Morrison’s essays, reviews and articles]
Morrison, Toni, and Claudia Brodsky Lacour (eds) Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script and
Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case (1997)
Taylor-Guthrie, Danille (ed.) Conversations with Toni Morrison (1994)
Selected Criticism on Toni Morrison
Significant resources for this module are the library’s periodical holdings. You will find useful articles on Toni Morrison’s work in the journals listed below and these might be especially helpful if you choose to write on her most recent novels: African American Review, Journal of American Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, Callaloo, MELUS, Obsidian and Black American Literature Forum.
There are special issues on Toni Morrison’s writing in Studies in the Literary Imagination (1998), African American Review (2001) and Modern Fiction Studies (1993 and 2006). I recently co-edited a special issue of MELUS, ‘Toni Morrison: New Directions’ 36, 2 (2011) and this includes criticism on the latest novels.
Andrews, William L, and Nellie Y. McKay (eds) Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook
(1999)
Babb, Valerie, ‘E Pluribus Unum?: The American Origins Narrative in Toni Morrison’s A
Mercy,’ MELUS 36, 2 (2011): 147-164
Beaulieu, Elizabeth Ann (ed.) The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia (2003)
Bloom, Harold (ed.) Toni Morrison (2002)
Bloom, Harold (ed.) Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon (1999)
Bow, Leslie, ‘“Playing in the Dark” and the Ghosts in the Machine,’ American Literary
History 20, 3 (2008): 556-65
Carlacio, Jami (ed.) The Fiction of Toni Morrison: Reading and Writing on Race, Culture,
and Identity (2007)
Conner, Marc C. (ed.) The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable (2000)
Delois Jennings, La Vinia, Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa (2008)
Durrant, Sam, Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson
Harris, and Toni Morrison (2004)
Dussere, Erik, Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery
(2003)
Duvall, John N, The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and
Postmodern Blackness (2000)
Eckard, Paula Gallant, Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason and
Lee Smith (2002)
Ferguson, Rebecca, ‘History, Memory and Language in Toni Morrison’s Beloved’ in Susan Sellers, ed., Feminist Criticism: Theory and Practice (1991), 109-28
Ferguson, Rebecca, Rewriting Black Identities: Transition and Exchange in the Novels of Toni Morrison (2007)
Fultz, Lucille, Toni Morrison: Playing with Difference (2003)
Furman, Jan, Toni Morrison’s Fiction (1996)
Furman, Jan (ed.) Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: A Casebook (2003)
Gates, Henry Louis, and K.A. Appiah (eds) Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and
Present (1993)
Gillespie, Carmen, Critical Companion to Toni Morrison: A Literary Reference to Her Life
and Work (2007)
Goyal, Yogita, ‘The Gender of Diaspora in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby,’ Modern Fiction
Studies 52, 2 (2006): 393-414
Grewal, Gurleen, Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison (1998)
Heinert, Jennifer Lee Jordan, Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison
(2009)
Heinze, Denise, The Dilemma of "Double-Consciousness": Toni Morrison’s Novels (1993)
Higgins, Therese E, Religiosity, Cosmology and Folklore: The African Influence in the Novels
of Toni Morrison (2001)
Iyasare, Solomon Ogbede, and Marla Iyasare (eds) Toni Morrison: Critical Insights (2010)
King, Lovalerie, and Lynn Orilla Scott (eds) James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative
Critical and Theoretical Essays (2006)
Kolmerten, Carol A, Stephen M. Ross and Judith Bryant Wittenberg (eds) Unflinching Gaze:
Morrison and Faulkner Re-envisioned (1997)
Lister, Rachel, Reading Toni Morrison (2009)
Lourdes López Ropero, María ‘“Trust Them to Figure It Out”: Toni Morrison's Books for
Children,’ Atlantis 30, 2 (2008): 43-57
Matus, Jill, Toni Morrison (1998)
Mayberry, Susan, Can’t I Love What I Criticize?: The Masculine and Morrison (2007)
Mbalia, Doreatha Drummond, Toni Morrison's Developing Class Consciousness (2008)
McKay, Nellie Y. (ed.) Critical Essays on Toni Morrison (1988)
Middleton, David L. (ed.) Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Contemporary Criticism (1997)
O’Reilly, Andrea, Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart (2004)
Page, Philip, Dangerous Freedom: Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison’s Novels
(1995)
Peach, Linden, Toni Morrison (2000)
Peach, Linden (ed.) Toni Morrison New Casebooks (1998)
Peterson, Nancy, Beloved (2008)
Plasa, Carl, Toni Morrison: Beloved (1998)
Reames, Kelly, Toni Morrison's Paradise: A Reader's Guide (2001)
Roynon, Tessa, The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison (2012)
Russell, Danielle, Between the Angle and the Curve: Mapping Gender, Race, Space, and
Identity in Willa Cather and Toni Morrison (2006)
Smith, Valerie (ed.) New Essays on Song of Solomon (1995)
Smith, Valerie, Toni Morrison: Writing The Moral Imagination (2012)
Solomon, Barbara H. (ed.) Critical Essays on Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1998)
Stave, Shirley A. (ed.) Toni Morrison and the Bible: Contested Intertextualities (2006)
Stave, Shirley, and Justine Tally (eds), A Mercy: Critical Approaches (2011)
Tally, Justine (ed.) Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison (2007)
Tally, Justine, Paradise Reconsidered: Toni Morrison’s (Hi)stories and Truths (1999)
Tally, Justine, The Story of "Jazz": Toni Morrison's Dialogic Imagination (2001)
Tally, Justine, Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Origins (2009)
Weinstein, Philip M., What Else But Love?: The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison
(1996)
Winfrey, Oprah, and Ken Regan, Journey to Beloved (1998) [About the making of the film
Beloved]
Wyatt, Jean, ‘Love's Time and the Reader: Ethical Effects of Nachträglichkeit in Toni
Morrison's Love,’ Narrative 16, 2 (2008): 192-221
Zauditu-Selassie, K, African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison (2009)
Social and Historical Contexts
Abrahams, Roger D, Singing the Master: The Emergence of African American Culture in the
Plantation South (1992)
Berlin, Ira, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (2003)
Berlin, Ira, Marc Favreau and Steven F. Miller (eds) Remembering Slavery: African
Americans Talk about their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation (1998)
Carson, Clayborne (ed.) The Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader (1991)
Cook, Robert, Sweet Land of Liberty?: The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the
Twentieth Century (1998)
Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred A. Moss, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African
Americans (2000) [Helpful historical overview]
Giddings, Paula, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in
America (1984)
Klein, Martin A, Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition (2002)
Lerner, Gerda, Black Women in White America: A Documentary History (1972)
Morgan, Kenneth J. (ed.) Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide (2004)
Weisenburger, Steven, Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the
Old South (1998) [Examines the Margaret Garner case]
General Critical and Theoretical Reading
Abel, Elizabeth, Barbara Christian and Helene Moglen (eds) Female Subjects in Black and
White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (1997)
Andrews, William L, Frances Smith Foster and Trudier Harris (eds) The Concise Oxford
Companion to African American Literature (2001)
Baker, Houston A, Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory
(1984)
Baker, Houston A, Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing
(1991)
Balshaw, Maria, Looking for Harlem: Urban Aesthetics in African American Literature
(2000)
Bell, Bernard W, The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition (1987)
Bell, Bernard W, The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern
Literary Branches (2004)
Binder, Wolfgang (ed.) Slavery in the Americas (1993)
Boyce Davies, Carole, Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (1994)
Bracks, Lean'tin L, Writings on Black Women of the Diaspora: History, Language and
Identity (1998)
Bröck, Sabine, White Amnesia Black Memory?: American Women's Writing and History
(1999)
Carby, Hazel V, Race Men (1998)
Carby, Hazel V, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman
Novelist (1987)
Cartwright, Keith, Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables and Gothic Tales
(2002)
Christian, Barbara, Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers (1985)
Christian, Barbara, Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892-1976
(1980)
Diedrich, Maria, Henry Louis Gates and Carl Pedersen (eds) Black Imagination and the
Middle Passage (1999)
Dixon, Melvin, Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American
Literature (1987)
Dubey, Madhu, Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism (2003)
Evans, Mari (ed.) Black Women Writers: Arguments and Interviews (1983)
Eversley, Shelly, The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African
American Literature (2003)
Eyerman, Ron, Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity
(2001)
Fabre, Geneviève, and Robert O'Meally (eds) History and Memory in African-American
Culture (1994)
Gates, Henry Louis (ed.) Black Literature and Literary Theory (1990)
Gates, Henry Louis (ed.) Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology (1990)
Gates, Henry Louis, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
(1988)
Gilroy, Paul, Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures (1993)
Gilroy, Paul, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993)
Gordon, Lewis R, and Jane Anna Gordon (eds) A Companion to African American Studies
(2006)
Graham, Maryemma (ed.) Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel (2004)
Greene, Gayle, and Coppélia Kahn (eds) Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism
(1985)
Grice, Helena, Candida Hepworth, Maria Lauret and Martin Paget, Beginning Ethnic
American Literatures (2001)
James, Joy, and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (eds) The Black Feminist Reader (2000)
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia (ed.) Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism:
Writings on Black Women (1996)
Jones, Gayle, Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature (1991)
Kanneh, Kadiatu, African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-
Africanism, and Black Literatures (1998)
Lewis, Samella, African American Art and Artists (1990)
McClure, John, Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Thomas Pynchon and Toni
Morrison (2007)
McDowell, Deborah E, and Arnold Rampersad (eds) Slavery and the Literary Imagination
(1989)
Nielsen, Aldon Lynn, Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation (2004)
Orrells, Daniel, Gurminder K Bhambra and Tessa Roynon (eds) African Athena: New
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Peterson, Nancy J., Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of
Historical Memory (2001)
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(1994)
Pryse, Marjorie, and Hortense J. Spillers (eds) Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction and Literary
Tradition (1985)
Rainwater, Catherine, and William J. Scheick (eds) Contemporary American Women Writers:
Narrative Strategies (1985)
Rice, Alan, Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic (2003)
Rushdy, Ashraf, Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of A Literary Form (1999)
Russell, Sandi, Render Me My Song: African-American Women Writers from Slavery to the
Present (2002)
Simawe, Saadi A. (ed.) Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem
Renaissance to Toni Morrison (2000)
Smith, Valerie, Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative (1987)
Sollors, Werner, and Maria Diedrich (eds) The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in
African American Literature and Culture (1994)
Spillers, Hortense J. (ed.) Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex and Nationality in the
Modern Text (1991)
Sundquist, Eric J, To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (1993)
Tate, Claudia, Black Women Writers at Work (1984)
Walker, Alice, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
Walker, Melissa, Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the
Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989 (1991)
Wall, Cheryl A, (ed.) Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory and Writing by
Black Women (1989)
Wall, Cheryl A, Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage and Literary Tradition
(2005)
Wallace, Maurice, Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African
American Men’s Literature and Culture 1775-1995 (2002)
Washington, Mary Helen, Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960 (1987)
Wilentz, Gay, Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora (1992)
Willis, Susan, Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience (1987)
Zamora, Lois Parkinson (ed.) Contemporary American Women Writers: Gender, Class,
Ethnicity (1998)
Landscape and ‘the Condition of England’: preliminary reading list
This is an introductory reading list of primary texts, in a roughly chronological order, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present: it would be excellent if you read widely in the texts you are unfamiliar with, thinking about the various ways in which they see and imagine the landscape of England and how they relate that to the condition of its people.
Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854) (R.E.: Norton, ed. George Ford and Sylvère
Monod, 0393975606)
John Ruskin, ‘Unto This Last’ and Other Writings, ed. Clive Wilmer (Penguin,
0140432116), especially ‘The Two Boyhoods’.
Richard Jefferies, After London; or, Wild England (1885) (the Echo Library,
1846378672)
A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (1896) in Collected Poems (Penguin, 0140587500)
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895) (R.E.: Norton, ed. Norman Page,
039397278X)
E.M. Forster, Howards End (1910) (R.E.: Penguin, ed. Oliver Stallybrass,
0141183357)
Edward Thomas, Collected Poems (R.E.: Faber, ed. R. George Thomas, 0571222609)
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Four Quartets in Collected Poems (Faber:
0571105483)
W.H. Auden, Poems (1930), in The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic
Writings (Faber, 0571115020: available second-hand online. Aud en’s
Collected Poems (Faber, 0571237401) also contains the same poems)
Edward Upward, ‘The Railway Accident’, in The Railway Accident and Other Stories
(Penguin: available second-hand online; photocopies of this story will
be distributed next year)
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) (R.E: Penguin, ed. Peter Davison,
0141185295)
Philip Larkin, Collected Poems (Faber, 0571216544)
Roy Fisher, ‘City’ in The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2005 (Bloodaxe,
1852247010)
Jonathan Coe, What A Carve Up! (Penguin 0141033290)
Iain Sinclair, Lights Out For the Territory (1997) (Penguin, 0141014830)
Owen Hatherley, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 1844677001)
The following films will also be discussed:
‘The Olympics Opening Ceremony, 2012’, dir. Danny Boyle (especially the second section, ‘Pandemonium’)
Listen to Britain (1942), dir. Humphrey Jennings
It would also be very helpful to read widely in Raymond Williams’ critical work, The Country and the City (1973). A full reading list, including all secondary works, will be distributed at the beginning of the academic year. During the module connections will be made to geography, politics, social and intellectual history, and other art forms, including painting, photography, film and music. Do feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Dr Simon Grimble, June 2013 (simon.grimble@durham.ac.uk)
Fictions of terrorism
Module Convenor: Dr S. Thomas
samuel.thomas@durham.ac.uk
This module explores the relationship between various types of fiction and various types of terrorism. In doing so, the module is both wide-ranging and strategically focused. Organised around a series of historical/conceptual ‘snapshots’, it begins with dynamite violence at the dawn of the twentieth century and moves forward to encompass the mass-media spectacles and neo-colonial wars of the present day. Within this framework, the module touches down in a range of geopolitical settings and contexts — from Sheffield to Nablus, New York to Khartoum. The structure of the module is therefore designed to actively dramatise the complex network of global relations that defines the reality and representation of terror. If, as Salman Rushdie asserts, “everywhere is now a part of everywhere else” — if “our lives, our stories” flow “into one another’s” (with potentially explosive results) — then the texts and topics we will study together reflect this.
Special attention will be paid to the following questions: What is the precise nature of the relationship between fiction and terrorism? And in what ways might the line between reality and representation become blurred? How has our understanding of terrorism been shaped, influenced or subverted by textual production? Is it legitimate to speak of an ‘aesthetics’ of terrorism? And can a terrorist ever be described as a kind of ‘author’ or ‘interpreter’ of culture? Why do fantasies of terroristic destruction have such a hold on the creative imagination? Does the critical analysis of fiction take us closer to (or indeed further away from) a stable definition of what terrorism actually is? The module will also address ongoing debates about multiculturalism, globalization, ‘disaster capitalism’, civil liberties, trauma and so on. Students will give short seminar presentations and the module will be examined by two extended essays.
PRIMARY TEXTS
▪ Texts marked with an asterisk * will be provided as photocopies.
▪ Important: As this module is running on a weekly basis in Michaelmas term only, it is essential that you get ahead with your reading over the course of the summer.
▪ A note on purchasing texts: Whilst nearly all of the texts here are readily available in shops, bear in mind that discounted and second-hand copies can be found through online sellers. Shop around, in other words, and you’ll most likely save yourself some money.
▪ A note on films: Group screenings will be set up when appropriate. However, given the difficulties in finding a time slot to suit everyone, DVDs of all the films included here will be made available through the department and the main library (online rental is another option). Please be considerate of the needs of your fellow course-mates when borrowing films and try, where possible, to watch films with others. If you decide to write on a particular film, it might be advisable to purchase a copy for yourself. I will pass on plenty of tips and pointers on film studies for those of you who might be writing about film for the first time.
▪ “We half-read a lot of theory, which we fully understood” (Anonymous member of the Baader-Meinhof Gang). A note on theory: You should bear in mind that this module will, necessarily, involve engaging with a range of theoretical material. As such, it should complement and/or extend the work you’ve done (or are doing) on ‘The Theory & Practice of Literary Criticism’. The ‘narrative’ of the course is dependent on certain theoretical concepts and you will be expected to respond to these in class discussions and in your written work. I should stress, however, that the course adheres to no fixed theoretical approach (although the lessons and legacies of Marxism, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis and trauma studies will figure prominently). You should see this as an open-ended opportunity to explore and critique a variety of contested theoretical positions on your own terms.
▪ For those of you looking for some initial background reading, I would recommend Matthew Carr, The Infernal Machine: An Alternative History of Terrorism (2011) as a good starting point.
I. Explosions, Passions and After-Shocks (Introductory Session)
Slavoj Žižek, extracts from Welcome to the Desert of the Real! Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (2002).*
II. “Countermoves in the same game”: Anarchism, Dynamite & Modernity
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (1907).
III. Letter Bombs: Authorship & Incorporation
Don DeLillo, Mao II (1991).
Paul Auster, Leviathan (1992).
Note: You may also want to consult selections from Theodore Kaczynski’s ‘Industrial Society and its Future’, aka The Unabomber Manifesto (1995). Available via DUO.
IV. “Yours in Revolution”: Celebrity, Spectacle & the Cause
Film: Carlos (dir. Olivier Assayas, 2010).
Note: Please watch the full version (338 mins), which is divided into 3 parts on DVD.
V. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce…
Film: Paradise Now / الجنّة الآن (dir. Hany Abu-Assad, 2005).
Film: Four Lions (dir. Chris Morris, 2010).
VI. Archaeologies of Terror / Civil War and International Justice
Michael Ondaatje, Anil’s Ghost (2000).
VII. Globalization and its Discontents
Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown (2006).
VIII. Trauma Culture / Works of Mourning
Film: United 93 (dir. Paul Greengrass, 2006).
Bharati Mukherjee, ‘The Management of Grief’ (from The Middleman and Other Stories, 1988).*
IX. No Compromise in the Defense of Mother Earth! Eco-Resistance / Eco-Terror?
Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975).
Note: You should also watch the documentaries Earth First! The Politics of Radical Environmentalism (dir. Chris Manes, 1987) and If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (dir. Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman, 2011). The Manes film is available via youtube here:
X. Scat Attack / Entertaining Pain
David Foster Wallace, ‘The Suffering Channel’ (from the collection Oblivion: Stories, 2004).*
Note: You should also try to read Wallace’s short magazine pieces ‘Just Asking’ and ‘9/11: The View From the Midwest’ (both available via DUO).
FURTHER READING
▪ Please bear in mind that it would be impossible to reproduce every critical work that might be relevant to a particular author, filmmaker or theme. The following information (divided into clear categories to help with your planning) is therefore not exhaustive by any means and should not prevent you from exploring the field for yourself: journalism and reportage, legislation, documentary evidence etc. The possibilities are near enough endless, especially if you embrace the interdisciplinary spirit of the module. I will provide more specific tips about theoretical and historical reading as the weeks roll by. Also note that there are numerous studies of the major authors featured on the primary list. You can of course use these in your research, regardless of whether the question of terrorism is directly addressed. In terms of seeking out materials on the most recent work we’re looking at (where secondary criticism might be thin on the ground), browsing reviews and blogs can be a useful starting point.
▪ Books on fiction and terrorism
Almeida, Rochelle. The Politics of Mourning: Grief Management in Cross-Cultural Fiction (Carnbury, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson, 2004).
Boehmer, Elleke and Stephen Morton (eds). Terror and the Postcolonial (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Bradley, Arthur and Andrew Tate. The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy and Polemic After 9/11 (Continuum, 2010).
Bragard, Véronique et al. Portraying 9/11: Essays on Representations in Comics, Literature, Film and Theatre (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011).
Cilano, Cara (ed). From Solidarity to Schisms: 9/11 and After in Fictions from Outside the US (New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009).
Clymer, Jeffory. America’s Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word (University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
Cvek, Sven. Towering Figures: Reading the 9/11 Archive (New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011).
Durand, Alain-Philippe and Hilary Mandel (eds). Novels of the Contemporary Extreme (Continuum, 2007).
Eagleton, Terry. Holy Terror (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Gomel, Elana. Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject (Ohio University Press, 2003).
Gray, Richard. After the Fall: American Literature Since 9/11 (Wiley, 2011).
Greenberg, Judith (ed). Trauma at Home: After 9/11 (Bison Books, 2003).
Hapgood, Lynne and Nancy Paxton (eds). Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the English Novel, 1900-30 (Palgrave, 2000). See chapter by R. Caserio, ‘G. K. Chesterton and the Terrorist Outside Modernism’.
Houen, Alex. Terrorism and Modern Literature (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Hyvärinen, Matti and Lisa Muszynski (eds). Terror and the Arts: Artistic, Literary, and Political Interpretations of Violence from Dostoyevsky to Abu Ghraib (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Kabir, Ananya Jahanara. Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Kaplan, Ann. Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature (Rutgers University Press, 2005).
Keniston, Ann (ed). Literature After 9/11 (Routledge, 2008).
Kubiak, Anthony. Stages of Terror: Terrorism, Ideology and Coercion as Theatre History (Indiana University Press, 1991).
Lentricchia, Frank and Jody McAuliffe, Crimes of Art and Terror (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Also available online via ‘MyiLibrary Reader’.
Liao, Pei-Chen. Post 9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction: Uncanny Terror (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Melnick, Jeff, 9/11 Culture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Osborne, Richard. Literature and Terrorism (Pluto Press, 2007).
Pesso-Miguel, Catherine and Klaus Stierstorfer (eds). Fundamentalism and Literature (Palgrave, 2007).
Randall, Martin. 9/11 and the Literature of Terror (Edinburgh UP, 2011).
Ray, Gene. Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory: From Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
Scanlan, Margaret. Plotting Terror: Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction (University of Virginia Press, 2001). Also available online via ‘MyiLibrary Reader’.
Schopp, Andrew and Matthew Hill (eds). The War on Terror and American Popular Culture: September 11 and Beyond (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009).
Siddiqi, Yumna. Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. See chapters on Ondaatje and Rushdie.
Tew, Philip. The Contemporary British Novel (Continuum, Second Edition, 2007). See final chapter ‘The Post-Millennial, 9/11 and the Traumatological’.
Versluys, Kristiaan. Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel (Columbia University Press, 2009).
Wisnicki, Adrian. Conspiracy, Revolution and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel (Routledge, 2007).
▪ Selected Articles (these are available through Project Muse unless otherwise indicated)
Go to library website. Select ‘Resources and Collections’ > ‘Online Resources’ > ‘Databases’ > Select appropriate letter e.g. ‘P’ for ‘Project Muse’. Enter Durham log-in details when prompted. Search for article titles, journals, authors, keywords etc.
Anker, Elizabeth S. ‘Allegories of Falling and the 9/11 Novel’, American Literary History, 23.3, 2011.
Appelbaum, Robert and Alexis Paknadel. ‘Terrorism and the Novel 1970-2001’, Poetics Today, 29:3, 2008. Online here:
Baker, Peter. ‘The Terrorist as Interpreter: Mao II in Postmodern Context’, Postmodern Culture, 4.2, 1994.
Blessington, Francis. ‘Politics and the Terrorist Novel’, Sewanee Review, 116.1, 2007.
Bolland, John. ‘Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost: Civil Wars, Mystics, and Rationalists’, Studies in Canadian Literature, 29.4 (2004).
Bowen, Deborah. ‘Spaces of Translation: Bharati Mukherjee’s “The Management of Grief”’, Ariel, 28.3, 1997.
Buell, Lawrence. ‘What is Called Ecoterrorism’, Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, 16, 2009.
Burgoyne , Robert. ‘Embodiment in the War Film: Paradise Now and The Hurt Locker’, Journal of War & Culture Studies , 5.1, 2012.
Burrows, Victoria. ‘The Heterotopic Spaces of Postcolonial Trauma in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost’, Studies in the Novel, 40.1-2, 2008.
Cole, Sarah. ‘Dynamite Violence and Literary Culture’, Modernism/Modernity, 16.2, 2009.
DeLillo, Don. ‘In the Ruins of the Future’, The Guardian, Saturday 22 December 2001.
Online here:
Duvall, John N. and Robert P. Marzec. ‘Narrating 9/11’, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 57.3, Fall 2011.
Fernández-Kelly, Patricia. ‘On Shalimar the Clown’, Sociological Forum, 24.2, 2009.
Gamal, Ahmed. ‘Encounters with Strangeness in the Post- 9/11 Novel’, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 14.1, 2012.
Gana, Nouri. ‘Reel Violence: Paradise Now and the Collapse of the Spectacle’. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Volume 28.1, 2008.
Haines, Christian. ‘The Biopolitical Ambivalence of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent’, Criticism, 54.1, 2012.
Hantke, Steffen. ‘God Save Us from Bourgeois Adventure: The Figure of the Terrorist in Contemporary American Conspiracy Fiction’, Studies in the Novel, 28.2, 1996.
Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. ‘Symbolic Terror’, Critical Inquiry, 28.2, 2002.
Houen, Alex. ‘The Secret Agent: Anarchism and the Thermodynamics of Law’, English Literary History, 65.4, 1998.
Marrouchi, Mustapha. ‘Neither Their Perch Nor Their Terror: Al-Qaida Limited’, Callaloo, 31.4, 2008.
McClanahan, Annie. ‘Future’s Shock: Plausibility, Preemption, and the Fiction of 9/11’, Symplokē, 17.1-2, 2009.
Medovoi, Leerom. ‘Terminal Crisis?: From the Worlding of American Literature to World-System Literature’, American Literary History, 23.3, 2011.
Michaels, Walter Benn. ‘Empire of the Senseless: (The Response to) Terror and (the End of) History’, Radical History Review, 85, 2003.
Miller, DeMond Shondell et al. ‘Civil Liberties: The Line Dividing Environmental Protest and Ecoterrorists’, Journal for the Study of Radicalism 2.1, 2008.
Morag, Raya. ‘The Living Body and the Corpse — Israeli Documentary Cinema and the Intifadah’, Journal of Film and Video, 60.3-4, 2008.
Roberts, Gillian. ‘Ethics and Healing: Hospital/ity and Anil’s Ghost’, University of Toronto Quarterly, 76.3, 2007.
Rowe, John Carlos. ‘Mao II and the War on Terrorism’, South Atlantic Quarterly, 103.1, 2004.
Scanlan, Margaret. ‘Anil’s Ghost and Terror’s Time’, Studies in the Novel, 36.3, 2004.
Shostak, Debra. ‘In the Country of Missing Persons: Paul Auster’s Narratives of Trauma’, Studies in the Novel, 41.1, 2009.
Simmons, Ryan. ‘What Is a Terrorist? Contemporary Authorship, the Unambomber and Mao II’, Modern Fiction Studies, 45.3, 1999.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. ‘Terror: A Speech After 9-11’, Boundary, 31.2, 2004.
Stadtler, Florian. ‘Terror, Globalization and the Individual in Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 45.2, 2009.
Staels, Hilde. ‘A Poetic Encounter with Otherness: The Ethics of Affect in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost’, University of Toronto Quarterly, 76.3, 2007.
Taylor, Bron. ‘The Tributaries of Radical Environmentalism’, Journal for the Study of Radicalism 2.1, 2008.
Thomas, Samuel. ‘Outtakes and Outrage: The Means and Ends of Suicide Terror’, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 57.3, 2011.
Walker, Joseph S. ‘Criminality and (Self) Discipline: The Case of Paul Auster’, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 48.2, 2002.
— ‘A Kink in the System: Terrorism and the Comic Mystery Novel’, Studies in the Novel, 36.3, 2004.
Whitebrook, Maureen. ‘Reading Don DeLillo’s Mao II as a Commentary on Twentieth-Century Politics’, European Legacy 6.6, 2001.
▪ General Resources
Amis, Martin. The Second Plane: September 11 2001-2007 (Vintage, 2008).
Aust, Stefan. The Baader-Meinhof Complex (Bodley Head, revised edition, 2008).
Burleigh, Michael. Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism (HarperPress, 2008).
Burke, Jason. Al Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam (Penguin, 2003).
Carr, Matthew. The Infernal Machine: An Alternative History of Terrorism (Hurst & Co., 2011).
Chomsky, Noam. The Culture of Terrorism (Pluto Press, 1988).
Crenshaw, Martha and John Pimlott (eds). Encyclopedia of World Terrorism, 3 vols. (Sharpe Reference, 1997).
Davis, Mike. Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (Verso, 2007).
Follain, John. Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal (Arcade, 2011).
Gearty, Conor. Terrorism (Phoenix, 1997).
Graham, Robert (ed). Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Vols. 1 and 2 (Black Rose Books, 2005 and 2007).
Graham, Stephen (ed). Cities, War and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004).
Hobsbawm, Eric. Globalization, Democracy and Terrorism (Little-Brown, 2007).
Hoffman, Bruce. Inside Terrorism (Columbia University Press, 2006).
Husain, Ed. The Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left (Penguin, 2007).
Jalal, Ayesha. Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia (Harvard University Press, 2008).
Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, 2000).
Kushner, Harvey (ed). The Future of Terrorism: Violence in the New Millennium (Sage Publications, 1998)
Laqueur, Walter. The Age of Terrorism (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987).
— A History of Terrorism, New Edition (Transaction Publishers, 2001).
— The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction (Phoenix, 2001).
— No End to War: Terrorism in the 21st Century (Continuum, 2004).
Liddick, Don. Eco-terrorism: Radical Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements (Praeger, 2006).
Mukherjee, Bharati and Clark Blaise. The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy (Viking, 1987).
Napoleoni, Lorretta Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005).
O’Sullivan, N (ed). Terrorism, Ideology and Revolution (Westview Press, 1986).
Pedahzur, Amir. Suicide Terrorism (Polity, 2005).
Pyszczynski, Tom et al. In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror (American Psychological Association, 2003).
Roy, Arundhati (ed). 13 Dec: A Reader: The Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament (Penguin, 2010).
Rubenstein, R. E. Alchemists of Revolution: Terrorism in the Modern World (Basic Books, 1987).
Smith, Colin. Carlos: Portrait of a Terrorist: In Pursuit of the Jackal, 1975-2011 (Penguin, 2012).
Townshend, Charles. Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Various. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (W. W. Norton & Co, 2004).
Wall, Derek. Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement: Radical Environmentalism & Comparative Social Movements (Routledge, 1999).
Whittaker, David (ed). The Terrorism Reader (Routledge, 2003).
Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda’s Road to 9/11 (Penguin, 2006).
Zulaika, Joseba and William Douglass. Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables and Faces of Terrorism (Routledge, 1996).
▪ Interrogations: Terror, Trauma and Critical Theory
Afary, Janet and Kevin B. Anderson (eds). Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (Chicago University Press, 2005).
Agamben, Giorgio. States of Exception (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Baudrillard, Jean. The Spirit of Terrorism (Verso, 2003).
— ‘Our Theatre of Cruelty’ (1982), in Chris Kraus and Syvlvère Lotringer (eds), Hatred of Capitalism: A Reader (Semiotext (e), 2001).
Battersby, Christine. The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference (Routledge, 2007).
Borradori, Giovanna (ed). Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (Chicago UP, 2003).
Buck-Morss, Susan. Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (Verso, 2003).
Butler, Judith. Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence (Verso, 2006).
Cavarero, Adriana. Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence (Columbia University Press, 2008).
Chomsky, Noam. 9/11 (Open Media / Seven Stories Press, 2001).
— Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (Owl Books, 2004).
Fukuyama, Francis. America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy (Yale University Press, 2006).
Gray, John. Al-Qaeda and What It Means to be Modern (Faber and Faber: 2004).
— Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (Allen Lane, 2007).
Gregory, Derek. The Colonial Present: Afghanistan-Palestine-Iraq (Blackwell, 2004).
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Empire (Harvard UP: 2000).
— Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (Penguin, 2006).
Hauerwas, Stanley and Frank Lentricchia (eds). Dissent from the Homeland: Essays After September 11 (Duke UP, 2003).
Jackson, Richard. Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counter-Terrorism (Manchester UP, 2005).
Klein, Naomi. Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Allen Lane, 2007).
Krishnaswamy, Revathi and John C. Hawley, The Postcolonial and the Global (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
Luckhurst, Roger. The Trauma Question (Routledge, 2008).
Said, Edward. The Question of Palestine (Vintage, 1980).
Virilio, Paul. Ground Zero (Verso, 2003).
— The Original Accident (Polity Press, 2006).
Zimmerman, Michael E. Contesting Earth’s Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity (University of California Press, 1994).
Žižek, Slavoj. Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Verso, 2002).
— Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle (Verso, 2005).
— The Universal Exception: Selected Writings (Continuum, 2007).
— Violence (Big Ideas Series: Profile Books, 2008).
— In Defense of Lost Causes (Verso, 2008).
— First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (Verso, 2009).
— Living in the End Times (Verso, 2010).
▪ Some Online Resources
The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV):
Academic . Terrorism Studies / War on Terrorism Directory of Online Resources:
Library of Congress September 11 Web Archive:
University of Göteborg Resistance Studies Network:
Trauma Theory Resources:
LSE seminars on conflict in Kashmir:
▪ Some Audiovisual Resources
— Discussion of Literature & Political Violence at the Royal Society for Literature, Monday 27 October 2008. Participants: Adam Foulds, Pankaj Mishra, Chris Petit, Kamila Shamsie. Available as MP3 via ‘Course Documents’ on DUO.
— Discussion of Literature and Terrorism at the Centre for New Writing, Manchester University, 3 December 2007. Participants: Martin Amis, Ed Husain, Maureen Freely. Available via DUO.
— European Graduate School (An excellent collection of videos of various key theorists relevant to this course — Žižek, Baudrillard, Agamben, Hardt, Badiou etc). Highly recommended:
▪ More Fiction to Explore…
Again, neither an exclusive nor exhaustive list. However, for those of you inclined to seek out fictional works beyond the primary list, here are a few suggestions of how to orientate yourself in this ever-widening field. Basic themes have been indicated. Note that this list does not include film.
Abish, Walter. How German Is It (1980). Baader-Meinhof-style radical group/Postwar Germany.
Aldiss, Brian. Remembrance Day (1993). Irish Republicanism.
Aslam, Nadeem. The Wasted Vigil (2008). Roots of conflict in Afghanistan.
Ballard, J. G. Millennium People (2003). Middle Class terrorism/ Dystopia.
Brady, John. Kaddish in Dublin (1992). Irish Republicanism.
Castel-Bloom, Orly. Human Parts (trans. D. Bilu, 2004). Israel/Palestine.
Chesterton, G. K. The Man Who Was Thursday (1908). Anarchism. Comic metaphysical thriller, interesting counterpoint to Conrad.
Cleave, Chris. Incendiary (2005). Deals with the aftermath of a (fictional) terror attack in London, written in the form of a private letter to Osama Bin Laden.
Coetzee, J. M. The Master of Petersburg (1994). Includes fictionalised version of Russian anarchist Sergei Nechayev.
Beigbeder, Frédéric. Windows on the World (trans. F. Wynne, 2005). Post-9/11.
DeLillo, Don. Players (1977). American anarchism/Anti-establishment violence.
— Libra (1988). Assassination of JFK.
— Falling Man (2007). Post-9/11.
Easton Ellis, Bret. Glamorama (1998). Models-as-terrorists/Consumer culture and violence.
Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). Post-9/11 trauma narrative/Child’s perspective/Experimental form.
Gauhar, Feryal Ali. No Space for Further Burials (2006). Afghanistan/War on Terror.
Gibson, William. Pattern Recognition (2003). Post-9/11/Cyber-punk thriller/Technology/Globalization etc.
Greene, Graham. The Quiet American (1955). Terrorism and espionage in Vietnam/CIA conspiracy.
— The Honorary Consul (1973). Paraguayan revolutionary group/Kidnapping.
Halaby, Laila. Once in a Promised Land (2007). Post-9/11 and Arab-American identity.
Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). Post-9/11 and American-Pakistani relations.
Hanif, Mohammed. The Case of Exploding Mangoes (2009). Pakistan/Conspiracy/Assassination of General Zia.
Harris, Frank. The Bomb (1908). Novelisation of the Haymarket Bomb in Chicago/Anarchism.
Houellebecq, Michel. Platform (trans. F. Wynne, 2002). Islamist terrorist attack in Thailand/Tourism/Globalization.
James, Henry. The Princess Casamassima (1886). Fin de siècle anarchism.
Khadra, Yasmina. The Attack (trans. J. Cullen, 2006). Israel/Palestine.
Khalifah, Sahar. Wild Thorns (trans. T. LeGassick and E. Fernea, 1984). Israel/Palestine.
Kuehn, Felix and Alex Strick van Linschoten (eds). Poetry of the Taliban (2012).
Le Carré, John. The Little Drummer Girl (1983). Espionage thriller/Israel-Palestine.
— Absolute Friends (2003). International espionage.
Lessing, Doris. The Good Terrorist (1985). British revolutionary group/Decline of the radical left/Class politics/Femininity and Domesticity.
McCabe, Patrick. Breakfast on Pluto (1998). Irish Republicanism/Sexual identity.
McCarthy, Mary. Cannibals and Missionaries (1979). Hijacking/Middle East/Art and Terror.
McEwan, Ian. Saturday (2005). Post-9/11.
McNamee, Eoin. Resurrection Man (1994). Northern Irish Ultras.
Mendlesohn, Farah (ed). Glorifying Terrorism (2007). Anthology of Sci-Fi short stories. A collective protest work. The anthology is, technically, illegal — because every story deliberately breaks the current UK law that bans the “glorification of terrorism”.
Messud, Claire. The Emperor’s Children (2006). Post-9/11.
Moore, Lorie. A Gate at the Stairs (2009). American life post-9/11.
Naipaul, V. S. Guerrillas (1977). Caribbean revolutionary politics.
O’Neill, Joseph (2008). Netherland. Expatriate life in New York post-9/11.
Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club (1996). Anti-establishment violence/Masculinity etc.
Pamuk, Orhan. Snow (trans. M. Freely, 2004). Political Islamism in Turkey/Terror and Theatricality.
Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto (2001). Peruvian revolutionary group.
Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (2006). Complex, ‘metahistorical’ reimagining of fin de siècle anarchism in United States and Europe.
Roth, Philip. American Pastoral (1997). Weathermen-style anarchists.
Sacco, Joe. Palestine (2001). Graphic novel.
Speigelman, Art. In the Shadow of No Towers (2004). Post-9/11 graphic novel.
Shamsie, Kamila. Burnt Shadows (2009). Post-9/11/Migrancy/Globalization.
Stevenson, Robert Louis and Fanny Van de Grift. The Dynamiter (1884). Short stories about a bomb plot on behalf of Irish independence.
Updike, John. Terrorist (2006). Much debated (and criticised) story of an Arab-American teenager drawn into a suicide plot.
Literature under Charles I and Cromwell, 1625-1660
Reading List 2013-14
Module Convenor: Professor Barbara Ravelhofer
General Period Reading, Introductions, and Reference Works
• Robert C. Evans and Eric J. Sterling, eds. The Seventeenth Century Literature Handbook (London: Continuum, 2009)
• Kevin Sharpe, The Personal Rule of Charles I (New Haven: Yale UP, 1992). A classic.
• Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology, 1450 to 2000 (OUP, 2008). Also available online via library catalogue.
• Graham Parry, The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1603-1700 (London: Longman, 1989)
Criticism
• Ian Atherton and Julie Sanders, eds, The 1630s: Interdisciplinary Essays on Culture and Politics in the Caroline Era (Manchester UP, 2006)
• Rebecca Bailey, Staging the Old Faith: Queen Henrietta Maria and the Theatre of Caroline England, 1625-42 (Manchester UP, 2009)
• David Baker, On Demand: Writing for the Market in Early Modern England (Stanford UP, 2010)
• Jonas Barish, The Antitheatrical Prejudice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981)
• Alain Besançon, The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm, tr. Janet M. Todd (1994; U of Chicago P, 2000)
• Stacy Boldrick and Richard Clay, eds, Iconoclasm: Contested Objects, Contested Terms (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)
• Haig Bosmajian, Burning Books (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006). Conceptually low-key, but full with interesting examples of book burning from the first Chinese imperial dynasties to modern-day immolations of Harry Potter in the Bible belt. Good as a thought-provoking start; to verify dates and facts turn to other literature on censorship in this list.
• Robert Buccola and Lisa Hopkins, eds, Marian Moments in Early Modern British Drama (Farnham: Ashgate, 2007). Iconoclasm in post-Reformation England, stage representations that evoke moments form the medieval Catholic past.
• Stephen Burt and David Mikics, The Art of the Sonnet (Harvard: Belknap, 2010)
• Martin Butler, Theatre and Crisis: 1632-1642 (CUP, 1984). Important standard work.
• Ira Clark, Professional Playwrights: Massinger, Ford, Shirley, and Brome (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1992)
• Simon Critchley, On Humour (London: Routledge, 2002)
• Peter Davidson, The Universal Baroque (Manchester UP, 2007)
• Barbara Donagan, War in England, 1642-1649 (OUP, 2008). Drawing extensively on primary sources, this book illuminates the human cost of war and its effect on society, both in our own day as well as in the seventeenth century.
• Terry Eagleton, Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003)
• Lori Anne Ferrell, The Bible and the People (New Haven: Yale UP, 2008) – fresh cross-period approach, succinctly put together.
• Alison Findlay, S. Hodgson-Wright, G. Williams, eds, Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700 (Harlow: Pearson, 2000)
• Alan J. Fletcher, Drama, Performance, and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland (U of Toronto P, 2000)
• Verna Foster, The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)
• Patricia Fumerton, Anita Guerrini and Kris McAbee, Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)
• Darryll Grantley, London in Early Modern English Drama: Representing the Built Environment (London: Palgrave, 2008)
• Ernest B. Gilman, Iconoclasm and Poetry in the English Reformation: Down Went Dagon (U of Chicago P, 1986)
• Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642 (CUP, 4th edn 2008)
• Hannibal Hamlin and Norman W. Jones, eds, The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic and Cultural Influences (CUP, 2010)
• Paul Hammond, The Strangeness of Tragedy (OUP, 2009). Covering classical to neo-classical literature, including Sophocles, Seneca, Shakespeare and Racine.
• Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments: From George Gascoigne to Ben Jonson (OUP, 2010)
• Peter C. Herman, Royal Poetrie: Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2010)
• Christopher Highley, Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (OUP, 2008)
• Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975)
• Christopher Hill, God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970)
• Helen Hills, ed., Rethinking the Baroque (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)
• David Hirst, Tragicomedy (London: Methuen, 1984)
• Edward Holberton, Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate (OUP, 2008)
• Lisa Hopkins, The Female Hero in English Renaissance Tragedy (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002). A discussion of canonical plays by Webster, Ford &c.
• Arnold Hunt, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and Their Audiences, 1590-1640 (CUP, 2010)
• Ronald Hutton, The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year, 1400-1700 (Oxford: OUP, 1994)
• Nora Johnson, The Actor as Playwright in Early Modern Drama (CUP, 2003). Studies of Anthony Munday, Nathan Field, Thomas Heywood, Robert Armin and others.
• James Kearney, The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2009)
• Michael Kelly, Iconoclasm in Aesthetics (CUP, 2003)
• John R. Knott, Discourses of Martyrdom in English Literature, 15630-1694 (CUP, 1993)
• Dorothea Krook, Elements of Tragedy (New Haven: Yale UP, 1969)
• Richard Leacroft, The Development of the English Playhouse (London: Methuen, 2nd edn 1988). Excellent selection of floor plans and illustrations of designs and machinery.
• Ralph Lerner, Playing the Fool: Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times (U of Chicago P, 2010). From Erasmus and More to Rabelais, Lear, Bacon and Burton, as well as Gibbon.
• David Loewenstein, Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the Literary Imagination (CUP, 1990)
• Jeremy Lopez, Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama (CUP, 2003)
• Christina Luckyj, A Moving Rhetoricke: Gender and Silence in Early Modern England (MUP, 2010)
• Nancy Klein Maguire, Renaissance Tragicomedy: Explorations in Genre and Politics (New York: AMS Press, 1987)
• Nancy Klein Maguire, Regicide and Restoration: English Tragicomedy, 1660-1671 (CUP, 1992).
• Leah Marcus, The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes (U of Chicago Press, 1986)
• Gordon McMullan & Jonathan Hope, eds, The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After (London: Routledge, 1992)
• Peter McCullough, Hugh Adlington and Emma Rhatigan, eds, The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (OUP, 2011)
• Mary Morrissey, Politics and the Paul’s Cross Sermons, 1558-1642 (OUP, 2011)
• Victoria Moul, Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition (CUP, 2010)
• Alexander Nagel, The Controversy of Renaissance Art (U of Chicago P, 2010)
• Michael O’Connell, The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early Modern England (NY: OUP, 2000)
• Stephen Orgel, The Illusion of Power: Political Theater in the English Renaissance (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1975)
• Stephen Orgel, Spectacular Performances: Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books and Selves in Early Modern England (MUP, 2011)
• John Peacock, The Stage Designs of Inigo Jones: the European Context (Cambridge: CUP, 1995)
• Andrew Pettegree, The Book in the Renaissance (Yale UP, 2010)
• John Phillips, The Reformation of Images: Destruction of Art in England, 1535-1660 (Berkeley: U of California P, 1973)
• Helen Pierce, Unseemly Pictures: Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England (New Haven: Yale UP, 2009)
• Karen Raber, Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class, and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001)
• Dale B. Randall, Winter Fruit: English Drama, 1642-1660 (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1995)
• Joad Raymond, ed., The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660 (OUP, 2011)
• Thomas Rist, Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming England (Ashgate, 2008)
• Julie Sanders, Caroline Drama: The Plays of Massinger, Ford, Shirley and Brome (Plymouth: Northcote, 1999)
• Roger D Sell and Anthony W Johnson, eds, Writing and Religion in England, 1558-1689: Studies in Community-Making and Cultural Memory (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009). Essays on dissenters, English Catholicism, Donne’s satires, Jonson and Beaumont, women translators, George Herbert, Milton, civil war prophets, Marvell.
• L.E. Semler, The English Mannerist Poets and the Visual Arts (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1998)
• Kevin Sharpe, Image Wars: Promoting Kings and Commonwealths in England, 1603-60 (Yale UP, 2010)
• Alison Shell, Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England (CUP, 2007)
• Lauren Shohet, Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century (OUP, 2010)
• James Simpson, Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (OUP, 2010)
• Nigel Smith, Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (New Haven: Yale UP, 2010)
• Adam Smyth, Autobiography in Early Modern England (CUP, 2010)
• Julie Spraggon, Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil Wars (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003)
• Matthew Steggle, Laughing and Weeping in Early Modern Theatres (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, the Reformation, and Social Change (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001). Nine essays on the European witch-craze and Puritan pressure in England. A classic.
• Erica Veevers, Images of Love and Religion: Queen Henrietta Maria and Court Entertainments (CUP, 1989)
• Eugene M. Waith, Ideas of Greatness: Heroic Drama in England (London: Routledge, 1971)
• John Walter, ‘Abolishing Superstition with Sedition? The Politics of Popular Iconoclasm in England, 1640-1642’, Past and Present, 183 (2004), 79-124
• Karen Weisman, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy (OUP, 2010)
• Eric Walter White, A History of English Opera (London: Faber, 1983)
• Blair Worden, Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham (OUP, 2009)
Anthologies:
• Thomas Birch, The Court and Times of Charles the First, 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1849). A most intriguing edition of letters and other documents from the seventeenth century, progressing in chronological order. They give you an excellent idea of the period as reflected in the correspondence of individuals.
• Alastair Fowler, ed., The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse (OUP, 1991/2008)
• Germaine Greer, ed., Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women’s Verse (London: Virago, 1988)
• Helen C. White et al., ed., Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose (New York: Macmillan, 2nd edn, 1971-)
• David Norbrook and Henry Woudhuysen, eds, The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse, 1509-1659 (London: Penguin, 1992). Exemplary, lucid introduction – recommended to anyone interested in studying Caroline poetry in greater depth.
• Robert Cummings, ed., Seventeenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000)
• Stephen Burt and David Mikics, The Art of the Sonnet (Harvard: Belknap, 2010). Sonnets from Petrarch to today.
• David Lindley, ed., Court Masques (Oxford: OUP, 1995)
• A Book of Masques, eds TJB Spencer, S. Wells (Cambridge: CUP, 1967)
• Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance, ed. H. Chalmers, J. Sanders, S. Tomlinson (Manchester UP, 2006)
• Nehemiah Wallington, Historical Notices of Events Occurring Chiefly in the Reign of Charles I ... cited from the original MSS. with notes and illustrations, 2 vols (London: Bentley, 1869)
Individual Authors:
Richard Brome
Richard Brome Online (complete works):
Secondary:
*Matthew Steggle, Richard Brome: Place and Politics on the Caroline Stage (Manchester UP, 2004)
Thomas Carew
The Poems of Thomas Carew, with His Masque ‘Coelum Britannicum’, ed. R. Dunlap (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1949)
Secondary:
C. J. Summers and T.-L. Pebworth, Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben (Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1982)
L. E. Semler, The English Mannerist Poets and the Visual Arts (Madison: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 1998). Also covers Marvell, Lovelace, Herrick, Donne.
Richard Crashaw
The Poems, English, Latin and Greek, ed. L. C. Martin (Oxford: Clarendon P, 2nd edn, 1957)
John Cosin, A Collection of Private Devotions, ed. P. G. Stanwood (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1967)
Secondary:
Peter Davidson, The Universal Baroque (Manchester UP, 2007)
John R. Roberts, New Perspectives on the Life and Art of Richard Crashaw (Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1990)
C. J. Summers and T.-L. Pebworth, ‘Bright Shootes of Everlastingnesse’: The Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1987)
William Davenant
The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1972)
Secondary:
Rebecca Bailey, Staging the Old Faith: Queen Henrietta Maria and the Theatre of Caroline England, 1625-42 (Manchester UP, 2009)
Dawn Lewcock, Sir William Davenant, the Court Masque, and the English Seventeenth-Century Scenic Stage, c.1605- c.1700 (Amherst, NY: Cambria, 2008)
William Dowsing
The Journal of William Dowsing: Iconoclasm in East Anglia during the English Civil War, ed. Trevor Cooper (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2001)
Frederick Brittain and Bernd Manning, eds, Babylon bruis’d and Mount Moriah mended: being a compendiouse & authentic narracioun of the proceedinges of the William Dowsing Societie in a visitatione of all the parisshe churches & college chapells of Cambridge during a longe vacation (Cambridge: Heffer, 1940)
John Ford
John Ford, Three Plays: ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Broken Heart, Perkin Warbeck, ed. Keith Sturgess (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970)
Selected Plays: The Broken Heart, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Perkin Warbeck, ed. Colin Gibson (Cambridge: CUP, 1986)
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, ed. Brian Morris (London: Black, 1990)
The Lover’s Melancholy, The Broken Heart, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Perkin Warbeck, ed. Marion Lomax (Oxford: OUP, 1998)
Love’s Sacrifice, ed. AT Moore (Manchester UP, 2008)
Robert Herrick
Selected Poems, ed. David Jesson-Dibley (Manchester: Carcanet, 1980)
Poems, ed. L.C. Martin (London: OUP, 1965)
Complete Poetry, ed. J. Max Patrick (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1963)
Secondary:
Ruth Connolly and Tom Cain, eds, ‘Lords of Wine and Oile’: Community and Conviviality in the Poetry of Robert Herrick (OUP, 2011)
Stephen Romer, Robert Herrick (London: Faber, 2010)
Syrithe Pugh, Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)
Ann Baynes Coiro, Robert Herrick’s Hesperides and the Epigram Book Tradition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1988)
Thomas Heywood
A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays, ed. Martin Wiggins (OUP, 2008).
Three Marriage Plays: The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon, The English Traveller, The Captives, ed. Paul Merchant (MUP, 1996)
David M. Bergeron, ed., Thomas Heywood’s Pageants (New York: Garland, 1986)
Martin Wiggins, ed., A Woman Killed With Kindness and Other Domestic Plays (OUP, 2008).
Secondary:
Joseph Courtland, A Cultural Studies Approach to Two Exotic Citizen Romances by Thomas Heywood (New York: Peter Lang, 2001)
Kathleen McLuskie, Dekker and Heywood: Professional Dramatists (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994)
Richard Rowland, Thomas Heywood’s Theatre, 1599-1639: Locations, Translations, and Conflict (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes, Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years’ War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes, ed. Noel Malcolm (OUP, 2010). A propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years’ War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original.
Leviathan, ed. Richard Tuck (Cambridge: CUP, 1996)
Secondary:
Quentin Skinner and Nicholas Phillipson, eds, Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge: CUP, 1993)
Quentin Skinner, Hobbes and Republican Liberty (Cambridge: CUP, 2009) – in general, Quentin Skinner’s works are excellent approaches to understanding political and historical writing in the seventeenth century.
Ben Jonson
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, ed. David Bevington, Martin Butler and Ian Donaldson, 7 vols (CUP, 2012)
Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford, P. and E. Simpson, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925-52)
Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets: Authoritative Texts, Criticism, ed. Hugh Maclean (New York: Norton, 1974)
Secondary:
AD Cousins, Alison V Scott, eds, Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre (CUP, 2009)
Robert C Evans, Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage (Lewisburg: Buckness UP; London: Associated UPs, 1989)
Sara J van den Berg, The Action of Ben Jonson’s Poetry (Newark: U of Delaware P, 1987)
Claude J Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds, Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben (Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P; London: Feffer and Simons, 1982)
Richard S Peterson, Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson (New Haven: Yale UP, 1981)
Judith Kegan Gardiner, Craftsmanship in Context: The Development of Ben Jonson’s Poetry (The Hague: Mouton, 1975)
William Laud
The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, ed. William Scott and James Bliss 7 vols (Oxford: Henry Parker, 1847-60)
Secondary:
Graham Parry, The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation: Glory, Laud and Honour (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006). With specifics on bishop Cosin and Durham Cathedral.
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645 (1962; London: Phoenix, 2000). Historical/biographical account.
Anthony Milton, Laudian and Royalist Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: The Career and Writings of Peter Heylyn (Manchester: MUP, 2007)
Andrew Marvell
The Poems of Andrew Marvell, ed. Nigel Smith (London: Longman, 2003)
Andrew Marvell: Selected Poetry and Prose, ed. Robert Wilcher (London: Methuen, 1986)
Secondary:
Nigel Smith, Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (New Haven: Yale UP, 2010)
Annabel Patterson, Marvell: The Writer in Public Life (Harlow: Longman, 2000)
Warren Chernaik and Martin Dzelzainis, eds, Marvell and Liberty (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999)
Philip Massinger
Philip Massinger, Believe as You List (1631), in The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger, 5 vols, ed. Philip Edwards and others (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), vol. 3.
The Renegado, ed. Michael Neill (London: Arden, 2010).
The Roman Actor, ed. Martin White (MUP, 2007).
The Selected Plays of Philip Massinger, ed. Colin Gibson (Cambridge: CUP, 1978). Features The Duke of Milan; The Roman Actor; A New Way to Pay Old Debts; The City Madam.
The Roman Actor, Royal Shakespeare Company acting edn (London: Nick Hern, 2002)
Secondary:
Massinger: The Critical Heritage, ed. Martin Garrett (London: Routledge, 1981)
Massinger: A Critical Reassessment, ed. Douglas Howard (Cambridge, 1985), 139-70
Joanne Rochester, Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)
John Milton vs. Charles I [John Gauden]
Eikon Basilike: The Portraiture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings, with Selections from Eikonoklastes, ed. Jim Daems and Holly Faith Nelson (Peterborough, Ont: Broadview, 2006)
Eikon Basilike: The Portraiture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings, ed. Philip A. Knachel (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1966)
Secondary:
Susan Howe, A Bibliography of The King’s Book or, Eikon Basilike (Providence, RI: Paradigm Press, 1989)
William Prynne
Histrio-Mastix (London: E.A, W.I, 1633). Download from EEBO.
Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, ed., Documents Relating to the Proceedings against William Prynne, in 1634 and 1637, new series, vol.18 (London: Camden Society, 1877)
Secondary
Fry, Mary Isabel, and Godfrey Davies, ‘William Prynne in the Huntington Library’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 20/1 (1956), 53-93
Lamont, William M., Marginal Prynne, 1600-1669 (London: Routledge, 1963)
Mukhtar, Ali Isani, ‘Hawthorne and the Branding of William Prynne’, New England Quarterly, 45/2 (1972), 182-95
James Shirley
The Cardinal, ed. EM Yearling, Revels plays (Manchester UP, 1986)
The Lady of Pleasure, ed. Ronald Huebert, Revels plays (Manchester UP, 1986)
The Bird in a Cage, in Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance, ed. H. Chalmers, J. Sanders, S. Tomlinson (Manchester UP, 2006)
The Traitor, ed. John Steward Carter (London: Arnold, 1965)
Edmund Waller
Selected Poems of Abraham Cowley, Edmund Waller and John Oldham, ed. Julia Griffin (London: Penguin, 1998)
Secondary:
Alexander B. Chambers, Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller: Seventeenth-Century Praise and Restoration Satire (University Park, London; Pennsylvania State UP, 1991)
Warren Chernaik, The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller (New Haven: Yale UP, 1968)
George Wither
A Collection of Emblemes, intr. Michael Bath, facs. edn of 1635 edn A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne (Aldershot: Scolar, 1989)
Secondary:
Michael Bath and Daniel Russell, eds, Deviceful Settings: The English Renaissance Emblem and Its Contexts (New York: AMS P, 1999)
Charles S Hensley, The Later Career of George Wither (The Hague: Mouton, 1969)
journals:
SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Modern Philology: A Journal Devoted to Research in Medieval and Modern Literature
ELH: English Literary History
ELR: English Literary Renaissance
The Seventeenth Century
Renaissance Quarterly
Renaissance Studies
RORD: Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama
Restoration and 18th-Century Theatre Research
web sites:
• LION: Literature Online. Can be accessed via Library (go to: databases). Provides full texts of most literary works on this reading list.
• EEBO: Early English Books Online. Can be accessed via Library (go to: databases). Provides facsimile texts of seventeenth-century works in pdf format. Most primary texts of this reading list are available on EEBO.
John Milton (1608-1674) [ENGL 2611]
Module Convenor: Dr Mandy Green
Editions
You will need to bring the appropriate text(s) to each seminar (see draft programme), so it’s worth considering purchasing a copy of Milton’s poetical works. There are a number of excellent editions in print. All the editions mentioned below are available from the Main Library, so if you intend to make a purchase, you could take a look, and try before you buy.
I have always found the notes in the Longman edition particularly detailed and helpful (though some pages are more ‘note’ than ‘text’). NB the spelling of the poems has been modernized, so the text is reader friendly, but not suitable for the purists amongst you! It is available in two paperback volumes, or a more weighty, single tome:
The Complete Shorter Poems. Ed. John Carey. London: Longman. 2nd edn 1997. 826.2
Paradise Lost. Ed. Alastair Fowler. London: Longman.2nd edn. 1998. 826.2
The hardback Riverside Milton, although it is rather more unwieldy, printed on very thin paper in a small type-size, has the advantage of including some of the Early Lives of Milton, a selection of his personal letters and some of the important English prose works (eg the Areopagitica), together with translations of a number of the Latin prose works too. (Unlike the Longman edition, the spelling has not been modernized so it gives a more authentic feel to the texture of the verse.)
The Riverside Milton. Ed. Roy Flannagan. Boston. New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1998. 826.2
John Milton. Eds. Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg (The Oxford Authors series). Oxford: 1991. 826.2
Good, affordable volume – though binding not particularly strong. The notes are detailed, but are located at the back rather than footnoted. This cleans up the body of the text, but may result in constant flipping of pages.
Milton: Complete Poems. Ed. John Leonard. Harmondsworth: 1998. 826.2
Well-presented volume with informative notes. Good value for money.
Milton: The Complete English Poems. Ed Gordon Campbell. London: David Campbell. 1992 826.2
Well-presented volume with a useful chronology of the life and times of the author. As well the English poetry, this edition also contains the prose works, "Of Education" and "Areopagitica".
There are a number of multi-volume editions in progress, which will prove a useful resource when we come to focus on particular texts in the seminars:
A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970- 826.2 MIL/HUG
The Complete Works of John Milton. Oxford: OUP. 2008- 826.2 MIL/COM
Three volumes are available to date:
VoI. I, The 1671 Poems: Paradise Regain’d and Samson Agonistes. Ed Laura Lunger Knoppers
Vol. II, The Shorter Poems. Eds Barbara Kiefer Lewalski and Estelle Haan
Vol. De Doctrina Christiana
Summer Vacation
By far the most valuable preparation for this module is to read the longer works over the vacation: Lycidas, A Masque at Ludlow (Comus), Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain’d, Samson Agonistes. (A full reading list of recommended secondary reading will be made available once we have established the full programme in Michaelmas Term 2013.)
Another helpful exercise would be to familiarise yourself with the main contours of Milton’s life. There are a number of early ‘Lives’ compiled by those who knew him or spoke to those who did, notably those by his nephew and pupil Edward Philips, the anonymous biography likely to have been written by his pupil, Cyriack Skinner, and the notes towards a biography compiled by John Aubrey. The ‘Life’ by Anthony à Wood (from the Annals of Oxford University) is derived from the notes by Aubrey, but is still interesting for the ‘spin’ put on the material at times, showing the royalist sympathies of the biographer. (These Early Lives are all included in the Riverside Milton.) Also worth reading for his strongly pronounced views on Milton and his poetry, is Samuel Johnson’s ‘Life of Milton’ in his Lives of the Poets.
Biographies
The Early Lives of Milton. Ed. Helen Darbishire. London: Constable. 1932. 826.2 MIL/DAR
The Riverside Milton. Ed. Roy Flannagan. Boston. New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1998. 826.2
Lives of the Poets. Samuel Johnson. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2006. 827.2JOH
There are a number of recent biographies of Milton:
Milton: a biography. Walter Riley Parker. Ed Gordon Campbell. 2nd ed. Rev. version. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1996. 826.2 MIL/PAR The standard biography recently revised and edited by Gordon Campbell.
The Life of John Milton: a critical biography. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing. 2001. 826.2 This is a richly documented, densely packed and scholarly work (available in paperback). Very useful for reference.
John Milton: life, work and thought. Gordon Campbell and Thomas Corns. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2010. Richly detailed and readable biography.
Also available are the following lively and accessible biographies:
Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot. Anna Beer. Bloomsbury, 2008.
John Milton: a literary life. Cedric Brown. Basingstoke: Macmillan. 1995. 826.2 MIL/BRO
John Milton: a biography. Neil Forsyth. Oxford: Lion. 2008. 826.2 MIL/FOR
A reading list of relevant secondary literature will be given out at each seminar and posted on DUO. Meanwhile here are a couple of useful starting points:
General
The Cambridge Companion to Milton. Ed Dennis Danielson. Cambridge: CUP, 1999.
826.2 MIL/CAM (NB You can browse this volume online by following the library link)
The Oxford Handbook of Milton. Ed. Nicholas McDowell and Nigel Smith. Oxford: OUP. 2011 (on order for the main library)
Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Student’s Guide. Isabel Rivers. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1992.This is an extremely accessible guide that supplies useful source material together with a helpful discussion of relevant contexts. (It is useful background reading for Renaissance and Shakespeare too.)
Online resources
A valuable resource of current criticism on Milton’s works is provided by the two journals devoted to Milton studies:
Milton Quarterly and Milton Studies.
Both are available to browse online through the library website by following the link to E-journals.
You might also find the following websites of interest:
A collection of 24 lively lectures by Professor John Rogers on Milton as part of the Open Yale Courses.
The Milton-L Home Page is devoted to the life, literature and times of the poet John Milton. On this site you will find links to web resources, information about upcoming events, and information on recently published works of interest to Milton scholars and students.
Milton’s works and selected criticism.
A web resource for studying Paradise Lost in particular but provides some useful contexts for Milton’s work as a whole.
Draft programme
This is an outline of the seminar programme; I would like to leave open the possibility of some minor changes depending on the interests of the group etc. In each case participants will be expected not simply to have read the set text(s), but to be ready to discuss them in detail. (Supplementary handouts for Seminars 1, 5 and 8 will be supplied beforehand.) After the first session, the running-order will be roughly chronological:
1 Milton and the Art of Authorial Self-representation:
Elegia prima (Elegy 1’), Elegia sexta (‘Elegy 6’), Ad Patrem (‘To his Father’), ‘How Soon Hath Time’, Mansus; selected passages from the Prolusions, Reason of Church–government, Defensio Secunda (Second Defence), Paradise Lost
2 Early English poems: ‘Nativity Ode’, ‘On Shakespeare’, ‘At a Vacation Exercise’, ‘L’Allegro’ and ‘Il Penseroso’
3 Pastoral Elegies: Lycidas (1638) and Epitaphium Damonis (1639-40)
4 Milton and the Masque Tradition: A Masque at Ludlow (Comus, 1637)
5 Milton and Education: Selected passages from the Prolusions, Of Education (1644)
6 Milton and Marriage: Selected passages from the divorce tracts (1644-45) and Paradise Lost (1667); ‘Methought I saw’ (1658?)
7 Milton and Civil Liberty: Areopagitica (1644)
8 Milton and the Classical and Christian Tradition: Paradise Lost (1667); selected passages from De doctrina Christiana (1655?)
9 The Genre of the Brief Epic: Paradise Regain’d (1671)
10 A Greek Tragedy on a Biblical Theme: Samson Agonistes (1671)
Modern Literature and the British Secret State
Provisional Seminar Plan and Reading List
Module convenor: Dr James Smith
james.smith3@durham.ac.uk
Office: Elvet Riverside A67
This course will analyse the numerous and often highly controversial interactions Britain’s secret services (such as MI5 and MI6) have had with modern literature and culture. It will look at how the espionage novel has portrayed the activities of British intelligence agencies, how key espionage scandals have been depicted in literary works, and how ex-intelligence officers have launched careers as writers. It will also examine elements such as the actual surveillance records kept on authors, and how the secret state subsidised or supported certain events in literary history.
As is clear from the provisional seminar plan below, we will be ranging widely in our seminars, moving across novels, plays, memoirs, archival documents, films and television shows. Over summer, it is very strongly recommended that you acquire and read the texts listed as required reading (there might be some last minute additions, deletions or substitutions in these lists, but these texts will form the core). Some seminars do have two texts listed as required reading, but as most of these are either short and/or quite readable, the reading load shouldn’t be unduly onerous if you plan ahead. Many of these texts are available cheaply second-hand and it will not matter which particular edition of a work you read.
A more extensive further reading list will be available on the DUO site, which will also host PDFs of some secondary material, links to digital resources, and further teaching material. Also, please don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions.
Seminar Plan
1) The British Secret State: Fiction, Fantasy, and Reality
In the opening seminar we will undertake an overview of the various bodies that make up the British intelligence community, consider some of the myths and realities that surround it, and discuss some of the issues and themes at stake. Required reading: to be provided.
2) Invasion Paranoia, the Spy Novel, and the Founding of the Secret State
This seminar will look at the fears that gripped Edwardian Britain concerning the activities of foreign spies, and see how such fears gave rise to the British intelligence services and the British spy novel. Required reading: John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915). Suggested reading: Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands (1903) (extracts will be provided, but you are encouraged to acquire and read the entire work).
3) Bond, James Bond
James Bond is arguably the most famous British literary character of the twentieth century. In this seminar we will probe how Fleming's creation has fundamentally shaped perceptions of the British secret state, how 'Bond' became a site for acting out Britain's post-war anxieties, and how the franchise has evolved over time. Required reading: Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (1953).
1 4) The Cold War and the Espionage Novel
This seminar will examine how the covert manoeuvres of the Cold War were depicted in British literature of the era, with a focus on novels by two of Britain’s most sophisticated espionage writers (who also happen to be former MI6 officers). Required reading: John le Carré, The Spy who Came in from the Cold (1963), Graham Greene, The Quiet American (1955).
2 5) Authors and the Secret State: Surveillance, Censorship and Collaboration
In this seminar, using Orwell as a case study, we will look at the concerns authors held about the reach of state surveillance, see how authors sometimes collaborated with state agencies, and examine how intelligence agencies had a hand in modifying and disseminating certain major literary works. Required reading: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and Animal Farm (1945), Animal Farm, cartoon directed by Halas and Batchelor (and sponsored by the CIA) (1954, freely available on Youtube).
3 6) The Cambridge Spies
The Cambridge spy ring was arguably the greatest espionage scandal of the twentieth century, and in this seminar we shall consider how these spies became a prism through which issues such as sexuality, class, and political ideology were viewed. Required reading and viewing: Alan Bennett, Single Spies (1989), Cambridge Spies (BBC television drama, 2003, available on DVD).
4 7) Official Secrets and the Intelligence Officer Memoir
This seminar will study how the Official Secrets Act has been deployed to restrict the publication of information concerning British intelligence services, and how various intelligence officers have nonetheless attempted to publish their autobiographies. Required reading: Peter Wright, Spycatcher (1987) (extracts will be provided, but you are encouraged to acquire and read the entire work), Stella Rimington, Open Secret (2001).
5 8) The Spy Satire and Parody
This seminar will consider how certain ex-intelligence officers drew on their experiences to create works that both parodied the conventions of the espionage novel and also the activities of the intelligence services themselves. Required reading: Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana (1958). Suggested reading: Compton Mackenzie, Water on the Brain (1933) (extracts will be provided, but you are encouraged to acquire and read the entire work).
6 9) The Spy Novel and the 'War on Terror'
In this seminar we will examine the impact that events such as the ‘War on Terror’ have had upon perceptions of the secret state, and ask how espionage novelists have responded to these recent political and social developments. Required reading: John le Carré, Absolute Friends (2003), Stella Rimington, At Risk (2005).
7 10) Current Trends in Imagining the Secret State
In this final seminar we will examine two major recent works that engage with the secret state, and ask what they can tell us about Britain's current perceptions and concerns. Required reading, Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth (2012), Skyfall (2012, available on DVD).
Further Preliminary Material
Films
Many of the novels covered in the course have been adapted into films, and you will have the opportunity to use these adaptations in class discussions and essays. Thus Casino Royale (2006, directed by Martin Campbell -- the original 1967 spoof is cringe-worthy), The 39 Steps (1935, directed by Alfred Hitchcock), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965, directed by Martin Ritt), Our Man in Havana (1959, directed by Carol Reed), and the two versions of The Quiet American (1958, directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, and 2002, directed by Phillip Noyce) are recommended for summer viewing.
8 The secret state in fiction
There are, of course, a vast number of fictional works that depict aspects of the secret state (with many being of forgettable quality). Conrad’s novels The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911) stand out as modernist works that tackle the espionage genre. Of the dedicated espionage novel writers, John le Carré’s works are probably the most sophisticated and, besides the novels already specified for seminars, the Looking Glass War (1965), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), Smiley’s People (1980) and A Perfect Spy (1986) are recommended (as are the BBC TV miniseries adaptations, which are excellent works in themselves). But there are many other authors that you might want to browse through to get a sense of how the genre has developed: William Le Queux, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Len Deighton, Eric Ambler, and W. Somerset Maugham, just to name a few…
Intelligence Histories
While there are quite a few works that offer accounts of Britain’s intelligence services, many are patchy in their accuracy or reliant on unverifiable sources. The following are some of the more important works based on credible archives and research, and it is highly recommended that you consult at least one as background reading for this course.
Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (Allen Lane, 2009).
Christopher Andrew, Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community (Sceptre, 1986).
Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-1949 (Bloomsbury, 2010).
JBS 2013
US Cold War Literature and Culture
Module Convenor: Dr Daniel Grausam
2013-2014
Primary Texts: Literature (in order of reading). I have listed readily available editions, but please feel free to use any that you find/have.
John Hersey, Hiroshima (1946; 1985). You need an edition that includes Hersey’s 1985 addition (‘The Aftermath’).
Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe (1962; Ecco 1999)
Arthur Miller, The Crucible (1952; Penguin, 2000).
E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel (1971; Penguin, 2006).
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977; Penguin, 2006).
Joan Didion, The Last Thing He Wanted (1996; Fourth Estate, 2011)
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (1987; Titan, 1987).
Don DeLillo, Underworld (1997; Picador, 1999).
Lydia Millet, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2004; Vintage, 2007).
Films we will be viewing/discussing (in order).
Alain Resnais (dir.), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959).
Fred Zinnemann (dir.), High Noon (1952).
John Frankenheimer (dir.), The Manchurian Candidate (1962).
Stanley Kubrick (dir.), Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
Nicholas Meyer (dir.), The Day After (1983).
Errol Morris (dir.), The Fog of War: Eleven Lesson from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003).
Zack Snyder (dir.), Watchmen (2009)
Seminar Schedule
Seminar 1: The (Early) Nuclear Age and the Question of Form
John Hersey, Hiroshima (1946; 1985).
Alain Resnais (dir.), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Seminar 2: The Cold War Intensifies: What Will the Future Hold?
Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe (1962)
Fred Zinnemann (dir.), High Noon (1952)
Seminar 3: McCarthyism and Political Repression
Arthur Miller, The Crucible (1952)
E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel (1971)
Seminar 4: The Body Politic: Domesticity, Gender and Sexuality in the Cold War
Sylvia Plath, selected poems (to be supplied)
John Frankenheimer (dir.), The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Seminar 5: Laughing at the End of the World: Black Humour and Nuclear Threat
Donald Barthelme, ‘Game’ (1965)
Carol Cohn, ‘Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals’ Signs 12.4 (Summer 1987): 687-718. Available through JSTOR
Stanley Kubrick (dir.), Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Seminar 6: After: Traumatised Subjects
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977)
Nicholas Meyer (dir.), The Day After (1983)
Seminar 7: Beyond Bipolarity: The Cold War as an Age of Three Worlds
Joan Didion, The Last Thing He Wanted (1996)
Errol Morris (dir.), The Fog of War: Eleven Lesson from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
Seminar 8: The Ends of Victory Culture
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (1987)
Zack Snyder (dir.), Watchmen (2009)
Seminar 9: Cold War Nostalgia?
Don DeLillo, Underworld (1997)
John Mearsheimer, ‘Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War’. The Atlantic Monthly 266.2 (August 1990): 35-50. Available online at
Seminar 10. Time Travel; or After the Cold War
Lydia Millet, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2004)
Alan Burdick ‘The Last Cold-War Monument’. Harper’s (August 1992): 62-67.
Selected Background Reading: This list is extensive, and by no means do I expect you to read all (or even most) of it! However, those interested in getting a head start on engaging some of the key issues of the module would do well to begin with the following:
Belletto, Steven. ‘Curbing Containment: Cold War Studies in the Twenty-First Century’. Contemporary Literature 48.1 (2007): 150–164. (A very useful review essay that discusses cultural criticism concerning the Cold War)
Douglas, Ann. ‘Periodizing the American Century: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Postcolonialism in the Cold War Context’. Modernism/Modernity 5.3 (1998): 71–98. (An account of how these various periodizing terms might be put into conversation with each other)
May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound. New York: Basic Books, 2008. (The appearance of the first edition in 1988 helped to launch the field of Cold War studies, and Homeward Bound continues to be a very useful account of the impact of foreign on domestic life during the Cold War.)
Nadel, Alan. Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. (Along with May and Schaub, Nadel helped to define the field’s contours, and this book offers an elegant blend of close readings and broad claims.)
Piette, Adam. The Literary Cold War, 1945-Vietnam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. (Piette’s introductory chapter is an especially helpful survey of critical responses to Cold War literature and culture.)
Schaub, Thomas H. American Fiction in the Cold War. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. (Those interested in the relationship between politics (esp. the history of the left) and fiction will find Schaub’s book especially stimulating).
Cold War Literature
Belletto, Steven. No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.
Belletto, Steven, and Daniel Grausam, eds. American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment. Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, 2012.
Brians, Paul. Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1987.
Brunner, Edward J. Cold War Poetry. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
Caute, David. Politics and the Novel During the Cold War. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2010.
Cordle, Daniel. States of Suspense: The Nuclear Age, Postmodernism and United States Fiction and Prose. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008.
Davidson, Michael. Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Dewey, Joseph. In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1990.
Gery, John. Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry: Ways of Nothingness. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996.
Grausam, Daniel. On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Hammond, Andrew. Cold War Literature. Taylor & Francis, 2007.
Hammond, Andrew, ed. Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict. New York: Routledge, 2009.
---. Global Cold War Literature: Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2011.
Hungerford, Amy. The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2003.
Jackson, Tony. ‘Postmodernism, Narrative, and the Cold War Sense of an Ending’. Narrative 8.3 (2000): 324–338.
Kim, Jodi. Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War. Minneapolis, MN: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Klein, Christina. Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003.
Mickenberg, Julia L. Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2005.
Nadel, Alan. Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
Nelson, Deborah. Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Piette, Adam. The Literary Cold War, 1945-Vietnam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
Schaub, Thomas H. American Fiction in the Cold War. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
Seed, David. American Science Fiction and the Cold War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002.
Spanos, William V. The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
Cold War Culture
Belletto, Steven. ‘Curbing Containment: Cold War Studies in the Twenty-First Century’. Contemporary Literature 48.1 (2007): 150–164.
Belletto, Steven, and Daniel Grausam, eds. American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment. Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, 2012.
Engelhardt, Tom. The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
Field, Douglas, ed. American Cold War Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Foertsch, Jacqueline. Enemies Within: The Cold War and the AIDS Crisis in Literature, Film, and Culture. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Henriksen, Margot A. Dr. Strangelove’s America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997.
Kuznick, Peter J. Rethinking Cold War Culture. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2010.
May, Lary, ed. Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1989.
Medovoi, Leerom. “Cold War American Culture as the Age of Three Worlds.” Minnesota Review: A Journal of Committed Writing 55-57 (2002): 167–186.
---. Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2005.
Nadel, Alan. Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
Redding, Arthur. Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2008.
Rubin, Andrew N. Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Saunders, Frances Stonor. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. New York: New Press, The, 2001.
Schreiber, Rebecca M. Cold War Exiles in Mexico: U. S. Dissidents and the Culture of Critical Resistance. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P, 2008.
Whitfield, Stephen J. The Culture of the Cold War. 2nd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Cold War Film, Television, and Visual Art
Corkin, Stanley. Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.
Doherty, Thomas. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Guilbaut, Serge. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1985.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye, and Gaspar Gonzalez. What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Litvak, Joseph. The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.
Shaw, Tony. Hollywood’s Cold War. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
Shaw, Tony, and Denise J. Youngblood. Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds. Lawrence, KS: UP of Kansas, 2010.
Nuclear Culture
Bartter, Martha A. The Way to Ground Zero: The Atomic Bomb in American Science Fiction. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Belletto, Steven. “The Game Theory Narrative and the Myth of the National Security State.” American Quarterly 61.2 (2009): 333–357.
Binstock, Jonathan P., and Corcoran Gallery of Art. Atomic Time: Pure Science and Seduction. Washington, D.C: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2003.
Bird, Kai, and Martin J. Sherwin. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York: Vintage Books, 2006.
Boyer, Paul S. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Bradley, John. Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader. Tucson, AZ: U of Arizona P, 2000.
Canaday, John. The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.
Chaloupka, William. Knowing Nukes: The Politics and Culture of the Atom. Minneapolis, MN: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1992.
Cirincione, Joseph. Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Cordle, Daniel. States of Suspense: The Nuclear Age, Postmodernism and United States Fiction and Prose. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008.
Davis, Tracy C. Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
DeGroot, Gerard J. The Bomb: A Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Derrida, Jacques. “No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Seven Missiles, Seven Missives).” Diacritics 14.2 (1984): 20–31.
Dowling, David. Fictions of Nuclear Disaster. Iowa City: Univ of Iowa Press, 1987.
Ghamari-Tabrizi, Sharon. The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Goin, Peter. Nuclear Landscapes. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Grausam, Daniel. “Games People Play: Metafiction, Defense Strategy, and the Cultures of Simulation.” ELH 78.3 (2011): 507–532.
Jacobs, Robert A. The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
Klein, Richard. “The Future of Nuclear Criticism.” Yale French Studies 77 (1990): 76–100.
Luckhurst, Roger. “Nuclear Criticism: Anachronism and Anachorism.” Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism 23.2 (1993): 89–97.
Norris, Margot. Writing War in the Twentieth Century. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000.
Rhodes, Richard. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
---. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Saint-Amour, Paul K. “Bombing and the Symptom: Traumatic Earliness and the Nuclear Uncanny.” Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism 30.4 (2000): 59–82.
Schell, Jonathan. The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Schwenger, Peter. Letter Bomb: Nuclear Holocaust and the Exploding Word. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Zins, Daniel L. “Exploding the Canon: Nuclear Criticism in the English Department.” Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature 26.1 (1990): 13–40.
Nuclear Strategy
Freedman, Lawrence. The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy. 3rd ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Kahn, Herman. On Thermonuclear War. New Brusnwick, N.J., Transaction Publishers, 2007.
Kaplan, Fred. The Wizards of Armageddon. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Landa, Manuel de. War in the Age of Intelligent Machines. New York: Zone, 1991.
Schelling, Thomas C. Arms and Influence: With a New Preface and Afterword. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Cold War History
Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin, 2006.
---. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 1998.
McMahon, Robert J. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
The Cold War and Domesticity
May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
McEnaney, Laura. Civil Defense Begins at Home. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Monteyne, David. Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War. Minneapolis, MN: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Rose, Kenneth D. One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture. New York: NYU Press, 2004.
The Cold War and Gender/Sexuality
Clark, Suzanne. Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
Corber, Robert J. Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
---. Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
---. In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
Friedman, Andrea. “The Smearing of Joe McCarthy: The Lavender Scare, Gossip, and Cold War Politics.” American Quarterly 57.4 (2005): 1105–1129.
Jackson, Tony. “The Manchurian Candidate and the Gender of the Cold War.” Literature Film Quarterly 28.1 (2000): 34–40.
Johnson, David K. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2006.
The Cold War and Political Repression
Carmichael, Virginia. Framing History: The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War. Minneapolis, MN: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Carruthers, Susan L. Cold War Captives: Imprisonment, Escape, and Brainwashing. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009.
Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Johnson, David K. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2006.
Schrecker, Ellen. Many Are the Crimes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
The Cold War and Religion
Herzog, Jonathan P. The Spiritual-Industrial Complex: America’s Religious Battle Against Communism in the Early Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.
Stevens, Jason W. God-Fearing and Free: A Spiritual History of America’s Cold War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2010.
The Cold War’s Cultural Legacy
Cohen, Samuel. After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s. Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, 2009.
Gallagher, Carole. American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War. New York: Random House, 1994.
Grausam, Daniel. “‘It Is Only a Statement of the Power of What Comes After’: Atomic Nostalgia and the Ends of Postmodernism.” American Literary History 24.2 (2012): 308–336.
Knight, Peter. ‘Beyond the Cold War in Don DeLillo’s Mao II and Underworld.’ American Fiction of the 1990s: Reflections of History and Culture. London, England: Routledge, 2008. 193–205.
Mraović-O’Hare, Damjana. “The Beautiful, Horrifying Past: Nostalgia and Apocalypse in Don DeLillo’s Underworld’. Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 53.2 (2011): 213–239.
Schaub, Thomas Hill. ‘Underworld, Memory, and the Recycling of Cold War Narrative’. Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld, Falling Man. New York, NY: Continuum, 2011. 69–82.
Shambroom, Paul. Face to Face with the Bomb: Nuclear Reality After the Cold War. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Taylor, Bryan C. ‘Radioactive History: Rhetoric, Memory, and Place in the Post-Cold War Nuclear Museum’. Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials. Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 2010. 57–86.
Vanderbilt, Tom. Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2010.
Wegner, Phillip E. Life Between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2009.
Poetry and Poetics, 2013-2014
Module Convenor: Professor David Fuller, with the poet Gillian Allnutt.
The course will focus on the theory and criticism of poetry, including close reading and the writing of poetry. Seminars will foreground the reading of a range of poetic texts in different forms and different genres, and also work by poets that theorizes about the writing of poetry. Close examination of poetry will help to understand the relation between reading and writing, theory and practice. We shall consider how poems are made, and how they are conceived and received. Those taking the course will be expected to build up a small portfolio of their own writing in the poetic forms and modes studied, on the basis of writing exercises given for each seminar. This portfolio will not in itself be part of the assessment for the course, but work for it will be presented and discussed in seminars, along with reflections on the writing process, and it may form part of the basis for the second assessed essay.
The syllabus will be drawn primarily from two books on poetry and poetics:
Mark Strand and Eavan Boland, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, New York: Norton, 2001.
W. N. Herbert and Matthew Hollis (eds.), Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry, Tarset: Bloodaxe, 2000.
All those taking this course will be expected to have their own copies of these two books. During the vacation you should read widely in both collections.
Seminars in Michaelmas term will be concerned with Part I of the Strand and Boland anthology, ‘Verse Forms’ (Sonnet, Ballad, blank verse, heroic couplet, the stanza, etc.). Seminars in Epiphany term will be concerned with Part III, ‘Shaping Forms’ (elegy, pastoral, the ode) and Part IV, ‘Open Forms’.
Strand and Boland, Part II, ‘Meter’. A developed ear for the rhythms of verse is essential to all the above. You can develop your ear for rhythm by reading aloud poetry written in traditional forms, or by reading in one of the books suggested by Strand and Boland (p. 161), or by listening to good readers read. The University Library has a good collection of modern and contemporary poets reading their own work, and of work by earlier poets read by actors (on cassette tape and on CD). To find these use the limiting function ‘sound recordings’ (by replacing ‘full catalogue’ in a keywords search).
There are many online sources of modern and contemporary poetry reading their own work. See, for example:
On form and rhythm you may also find helpful one of the following short books (both by poets, the second available in multiple copies):
G. S Fraser, Metre, Rhythm and Free Verse, The Critical Idiom, London: Methuen, 1970.
Philip Hobsbaum, Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form, The New Critical Idiom, London: Routledge, 1996.
A full reading list will be issued at the first seminar of the course.
LITERATURE OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR [ENG 2651]
Module Convenor: Dr Marina MacKay
Overview:
This module examines the literature of and about the Second World War, the major historical watershed of the twentieth century. Our emphasis, as students of English literature, will be on English-language works from the UK and US, but we shall be reading them alongside some writing in translation from other combatant nations (France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the USSR), aiming to approach the war’s literature in the global terms appropriate to the war’s catastrophic scope. Close attention to the details of individual works will lead us to some of the broader literary and theoretical questions these texts raise about, for example, the intersections and disparities between literary and historical representations; about the psychological consequences and social effects of historical crisis; about the nature of citizenship; about literature’s engagements of ethical and juridical problems; and about literature’s relationships, whether propagandistic or antagonistic, to political authority.
Below you will find the schedule for our meetings, with the required readings noted. The longer works – the books you will ideally buy – are asterisked*; the more you read of these over the summer, the better. Shorter works will be disseminated as the year goes on.
In terms of general preparation, this course will absolutely not assume that you’re already familiar with the war’s history, but if you would like to seek out a mainstream single-volume history of the war that you could read in advance and/or consult as the term proceeds, you might find R.A.C. Parker’s The Second World War: A Short History (2001) particularly reader-friendly. You can buy it for less than £10 new, and it is only around 300 pages long. Also with regard to introductory reading, you’ll be altogether unsurprised to learn that the general orientation of the course is much like that of Marina MacKay, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II (2009), to which you have electronic access via the library. In terms of situating our material in the broader context of war writing more generally, you might find Kate McLoughlin’s The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (2009) useful; again, you have full-text electronic access to this via the library.
Seminar 1: The Ends of Appeasement
Required reading:
• Patrick Hamilton, Hangover Square *
• W.H. Auden, ‘September 1, 1939’
Optional reading:
‘Cato’, Guilty Men (320.94109043 CAT)
Cunningham, Valentine, British Writers of the 1930s (820.91 CUN)
Goulding, Simon. ‘Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square and the Landscapes of Fascism’ (E-Rea: open access)
Hynes, Samuel. The Auden Generation (820.91 HYN)
Parker, R.A.C. Chamberlain and Appeasement (327.41 PAR)
Taylor, A.J.P. Origins of the Second World War (940.53112 TAY)
Seminar 2: Blitz Warfare and the Battle for Britain
Required reading:
• Henry Green, Caught *
• Louis MacNeice, ‘Brother Fire’
• T.S. Eliot, ‘Little Gidding’
Optional reading:
Calder, Angus. The Myth of the Blitz (941.084 CAL)
Calder, Angus. The People’s War (941.084 CAL)
Deer, Patrick. Culture in Camouflage (820.91 DEE)
Harrisson, Tom. Living through the Blitz (941.084 HAR)
Mellor, Leo. Reading the Ruins (electronic)
Miller, Kristine. British Literature of the Blitz (820.91 MIL)
Piette, Adam. Imagination at War (820.91 PIE)
Rawlinson, Mark. British Writing of the Second World War (820.91 RAW)
Smith, Malcolm. Britain and 1940 (941.084 SMI)
Stansky, Peter. The First Day of the Blitz (940.54211 STA)
Seminar 3: The Soldier’s Story
Required reading:
• Keith Douglas, Alamein to Zem Zem *
• Keith Douglas, ‘How to Kill’, ‘Aristocrats’, ‘Vergissmeinnicht’, ‘Dead Men’
• Sorley MacLean, ‘Death Valley’, ‘Going Westwards’
Optional reading:
Bourke, Joanna. An Intimate History of Killing (355.9 BOU)
Fussell, Paul. Wartime (840.5488673 FUS)
Graham, Desmond. Keith Douglas (829.3 DOU/GRA)
Holmes, Richard. Acts of War: The Behaviour of Men in Battle (355.02019 HOL)
Kendall, Tim. Modern English War Poetry (821.29 KEN)
Kendall, Tim, ed. Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (820.92 OXF)
Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain (128.6 SCA)
Shires, Linda. British Poetry of the Second World War (820.92 SHI)
Seminar 4: Women and War
Required reading:
• Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day *
• Marguerite Duras, The War (first section)
• Virginia Woolf, ‘Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid’
Optional reading:
Hartley, Jenny. Millions Like Us: British Women’s Fiction of the Second World War (820.95 HAR)
Higgonet, Margaret, et al. Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars (940.315 BEH)
Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writers of World War II (820.91 LAS)
Lassner, Phyllis. Elizabeth Bowen (829.1 BOW/LAS)
Miller, Kristine. British Literature of the Blitz (820.91 MIL)
Noakes, Lucy. War and the British (355.942082 NOA)
Plain, Gill. Women’s Fiction of the Second World War (820.95 PLA)
Rose, Sonya. Which People’s War? (941.084 ROS)
Schneider, Karen. Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War (820.91 SCH)
Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas (829.1 WOO)
Seminar 5: Literature of Collaboration and Resistance
Required reading:
• Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children *
• Albert Camus, The Plague *
• Vasily Grossman, ‘The Old Man’
Optional reading:
Atack, Margaret. Literature and the French Resistance (840.95 ATA)
Atack, Margaret. Framing Narratives of the Second World War and Occupation in France (840.19 FRA)
Camus, Albert. Resistance, Rebellion and Death (849.2 CAM)
Cruickshank, John. Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt (849.2 CAM/CRU)
Grossman, Vasily. A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army (829.1 GRO/GRO)
Ousby, Ian. Occupation: The Ordeal of France 1940-44 (944.09 OUS)
Thomson, Peter, and Glendyr Sacks. The Cambridge Companion to Brecht (electronic)
Seminar 6: Prisoners of War
Required reading:
• Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five *
• William Spanos, In the Neighborhood of Zero (selections)
Optional reading:
Allen, William. Understanding Kurt Vonnegut (819.3 VON/ALL)
Antelme, Robert. The Human Species (940.547243 ANT)
Dawes, James. The Language of War (810.11 DAW)
Friedrich, Jörg. The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-45 (940.54213 FIR)
Singh, Sukhbir. The Survivor in Contemporary American Fiction (810.95 SIN)
Vonnegut, Kurt. Armageddon in Retrospect (819.3 VON)
Walsh, Jeffrey. American War Literature, 1914 to Vietnam (810.91 WAL)
Seminar 7: Genocide
Required reading:
• Primo Levi, If This Is a Man
• Tadeusz Borowski, ‘This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen’
Optional reading:
Agamben, Giorgio. Remnants of Auschwitz (940.5318 AGA)
Bigsby, Christopher. Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust (809.93358 BIG)
Dawidowicz, Lucy. The War against the Jews, 1933-45 (940.5318 DAW)
De Pres, Terrence. The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps (940.5472 DES)
Friedlander, Saul, ed. Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the ‘Final Solution’ (940.5318 PRO)
Gordon, Robert S.C., ed, The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi (electronic)
Gordon, Robert S.C. Primo Levi’s Ordinary Virtues (859.2 LEV/GOR)
Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews (940.5318 HIL)
Langer, Lawrence. The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (809.93 LAN)
Young, James. Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust (940.5318 YOU)
Seminar 8: Traumatic Aftermaths
Required reading:
• Tamiki Hara, ‘Summer Flowers’
• J.G. Ballard, ‘The Dead Time’
• Heinrich Boll, The Silent Angel
Optional reading:
Barnouw, Dagmar. Germany 1945: Views of War and Violence (943.087 BAR)
Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History (809.93353 CAR)
Caruth, Cathy, ed. Trauma: Explorations in Memory (616.8521 TRA)
Felman, Shoshana, and Dori Laub. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History (801.92 FEL)
Hersey, John. Hiroshima (XX355.94053 HER)
Oe, Kenzaburo. The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath (PLJ472 CRA)
Ryan, Judith. The Uncompleted Past: Post-War German Novels and the Third Reich (830.11 RYA)
Tachibana, Reiko. Narrative as Counter-Memory: A Half-Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and Japan (830.95 TAC)
Treat, John Whittier. Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb (PLJ470 TRE)
Seminar 9: Justice?
Required reading:
• Rebecca West, ‘Greenhouse with Cyclamens I’
• Martha Gellhorn, ‘Dachau’, ‘Das Deutsche Volk’
• Jean Améry, ‘Resentments’
Optional reading:
Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem (940.5318092 EIC/ARE)
Felman, Shoshana. The Juridical Unconscious (340.19 FEL)
Gellhorn, Martha. The Face of War (909.82 GEL)
McLoughlin, Kate. Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text (070.4333092 MCL)
Reichman, Ravit. The Affective Life of Law (809.93355 REI)
Sebald, W.G. On the Natural History of Destruction (830.91 SEB)
Stonebridge, Lyndsey. The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (electronic)
Seminar 10: Millennial and Memorial Perspectives
Required reading:
• Ian McEwan, Atonement
Optional reading:
Barnouw, Dagmar. The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators and Postwar Germans (940.53072043)
Head, Dominic. Ian McEwan (829.4 MCE/HEA)
Maier, Charles S. ‘A Surfeit of Memory? Reflections on History, Melancholt, and Denial’, History and Memory 5.2 (Fall-Winter 1993): 136-52 (electronic)
Plain, Gill, ed. War-Torn Tales (920.91 WAR)
Stewart, Victoria. The Second World War in Contemporary Fiction (electronic)
Suleiman, Susan Rubin. Crises of Memory and the Second World War (940.53019 SUL)
Torgovnick, Marianna. The War Complex: World War II in Our Time (940.53 TOR)
Whitehead, Anne. Memory (128.3 WHI)
Winter, Jay, and Emmanuel Sivan. War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (355.9 WAR)
Early Modern America: Outline and Reading List
Module Convenor: Dr Richard Sugg
In the case of works available in modern editions, please do ensure that you obtain the ones listed below. Date of publication may vary, but aside from the value of certain introductions, we do need to be referring, in classes, to texts with the same pagination.
Week One: Beginnings and the Black Legend
José de Acosta, Natural and Moral History of the Indies (1604)
BOOK I - Chaps 1, 9, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23-25
BOOK II - Chaps 3, 8-9
BOOK III - Chaps 15, 25
BOOK IV - Chaps 2-5, 22, 34-36
BOOK V - Chaps 1-5, 7, 19-22
Bartolomé de las Casas, 1474-1566
The Spanish Colony (1583)
Week Two: Early British Adventurers
Thomas Harriot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588).
Walter Ralegh, The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana (1596) (EEBO) or: The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana, ed. Neil L. Whitehead (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997).
Week Three: Cannibals
Andre Thevet, The New Found World (1568)
Chaps 61, 63, 77-78.
'The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthonie Knivet', in:
Purchas his Pilgrims (1625), pp. 1201-1232 - 2nd edn - STC 20509.
Michel de Montaigne, 'Of the Cannibals', in Essays, trans John Florio (1613), 100-107.
Week Four: Wonder and Danger: the Poetry of the New World
Donne's Poems and Elegies
Elegy 18, ‘Love’s Progress’
Elegy 19, ‘To his Mistress Going to Bed’
‘A Valediction: of Weeping’, 'The Sun Rising', 'The Good Morrow'
Verse Letters: 'To Countess of Huntingdon' ('That unripe side of earth...'); To Mr RW ('If, as mine is...')
George Chapman, 'De Guiana' (this poem will be available on duo).
The Penguin edition of Donne's poems (ed. A.J. Smith) is recommended.
Week Five: Dramatising Utopia
Shakespeare, The Tempest.
A True Reportory of the Wracke, and redemption of Sir THOMAS GATES Knight; vpon, and from the Ilands of the Bermudas: his comming to Virginia, and the estate of that Colonie then, and after, vn|der the gouernment of the Lord LA WARRE, Iuly 15. 1610. written by WILLIAM STRACHY, Esquire, in:
Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrims (1625), STC (2nd ed.) / 20509, Part I, 1734-1742; Part III, 1747-1758.
Council for Virginia, A True and Sincere Declaration of the Purpose and Ends of the Plantation begun in Virginia (1610).
The Oxford World's Classics edition of The Tempest (ed. Stephen Orgel) is the most useful for this course.
Week Six: Evangelism or Annihilation? The Struggle for Protestant Conversion in the Early Seventeenth Century
John Donne, sermon: 'To the Honourable, the Virginia Company' in: Four Sermons Upon Special Occasions (1625), or: Five Sermons upon Special Occasions (1626)
William Symonds, Virginia. A Sermon Preached … 25 April 1609 (1609)
Patrick Copland, Virginia's God be Thanked (1622)
Christopher Brooke, A Poem on the Late Massacre in Virginia (1622) (this poem will be available on duo).
Edward Waterhouse, A Declaration of the State of the Colony and affairs in Virginia With a relation of the barbarous massacre (1622) - pp.1-34 (do not use image numbers, which begin earlier).
Week Seven: Writing America
(sels from): Thomas Hutchinson, A History of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 2 vols (1795)
VOL I 259-mid280 - incl footnotes; 310-313 - incl footnotes; 404-425
VOL II 101-105; 126-135; 152-58 236-240 266-69 284-88
Mary Rowlandson, The Account of Mary Rowlandson and other Indian Captivity Narratives (Dover, 2005).
Week Eight: Hybrid America (I)
John Tanner, The Falcon, intr. Louise Erdrich (Penguin, 2008).
(You may want to order this book soon; it is not expensive, but can sometimes be slow to obtain.)
Week Nine: Hybrid America (II)
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757, ed. John McWilliams (1826; Oxford World's Classics).
Week Ten: The Mother of America: Pocahontas
EEBO: Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia... (1615), 1-11.
John Smith, The General History of Virginia (1624), Chap Two, 44-50; Chap Seven, 66-70; Chap Eight, 74-78; Chap Ten, 83-85: Chap Twelve, 89-94; 111-117 (‘The Govt returned again to Sir T Gates’ – ‘The Declaration of the contents of the lottery’); 121- end of 123.
ECCO: William Stith, The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia (1753), 127-138, 142-145.
'The History of Pocahontas' in: Caleb Bingham, The American Preceptor (1795), 148-151.
Hannah Webster Foster, The Boarding School (1798), 206-207.
LION: L.H. Sigourney, 'Pocahontas' (1841).
READING LIST
* Asterisk indicates books which are well worth buying. Ones thus marked are all available cheaply.
Primary
Unless otherwise indicated, early-modern texts are available (usually in digitised form) on Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). You should also find Literature Online (LION) valuable for a range of texts, especially nineteenth century and after.
As your interests develop, you may also want to make use of newspaper databases such as Nineteenth Century newspapers; Times Online; New York Times online; and Gale Newsvault. Most scholars now agree that these resources have revolutionised the possibilities of primary research.
For excellent general introductions to authors and other relevant historical figures, please use the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) and American National Biography. All these are available under library databases. Preliminary reading and use of these should be undertaken as soon as possible. Similarly, please do make active use of Jstor, MLA, and hard copy and electronic journal searches/articles in order to shape and follow your particular interests in the subject.
This list is suggestive, rather than exhaustive. It is probably best to start with some good secondary overviews, and then move to some of the primary texts on EEBO and other databases. This subject is a very large and rich one, and you will be encouraged to develop your own interests among the many possible angles available.
Please do get in touch with any questions as soon as you wish. I will be contactable on e-mail more or less continuously across the vacation period.
PRIMARY
(I have standardised spelling here; when searching on EEBO please use 'variant spellings' or just begin searching via authors' names).
Jean de Lery: History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, otherwise called America trans. Janet Whatley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)
Bartolomé de las Casas, The Spanish Colony (1583)
- The Tears of the Indians (1656).
These are integral to Protestant notions of 'The Black Legend'. There are many other versions under las Casas' name on EEBO.
Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)
José de Acosta, Natural and Moral History of the Indies (1604)
Walter Ralegh, The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana (1596)
or: The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana, ed. Neil L. Whitehead (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997).
Joannes Boemus, The Manners, Laws, and Customs of all Nations ... the like also out of the history of America, or Brasil, written by John Lerius
(1611)
John Smith (on Pocahontas esp)
- A True Relation (1608)
- A Map of Virginia (1612)
- The General History of Virginia (1624)
John Donne: Complete English Poems, ed. AJ Smith (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990)*
William Strachey, The History of Travel into Virginia (1612), ed. R.H. Major (London: Hakluyt Society, 1849)
- For the colony in Virginea Britannia. Lavves diuine, morall and martiall (1612).
(A brief look at this text gives a good sense of the social and class problems which beset the early Virginian colony.)
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, ed. Stephen Orgel (Oxford: World's Classics, 1994)*
Edward Waterhouse, A Declaration of the State of the Colony and affaires in Virginia With a relation of the barbarous massacre in the time of peace and league (1622).
John Donne, sermon: 'To the Honourable, the Virginia Company' in: Four Sermons Upon Special Occasions (1625), or: Five Sermons upon Special Occasions (1626)
William Symonds, Virginia. A Sermon Preached … 25 April 1609 (1609)
Anthony Knivet, 'Anthony Knivet, his coming to the R de Janeiro...' in Purchas his Pilgrims (1625)
Thomas Hutchinson, A History of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 2 vols (1795)
Mary Rowlandson, The Account of Mary Rowlandson and other Indian Captivity Narratives (Dover, 2005)
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826)*
John Tanner, The Falcon: A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (1830; Penguin, 1994)*
Secondary
General
Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: an Interpretation (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Inga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Louis B. Wright, The Cultural Life of the American Colonies, 1607-1763 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1957)
Lewis Hanke, Aristotle and the American Indians: a study in race prejudice in the modern world (London : Hollis & Carter, c1959; repr. 2011)
William S. Maltby, The Black Legend in England: the Development of anti-Spanish Sentiment, 1558-1660 (Durham, N.C : Duke University Press, 1971)
D.B.Quinn, England and the Discovery of America, 1481-1620 (London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1974) (electronic resource)
Hugh Honor, The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time (Allen Lane, 1975)
Discovering the New World: based on the works of Theodore de Bry, ed. Michael Alexander (London: London Editions, 1976)
First Images of America: the Impact of the New World on the Old, ed. Fredi Chiapelli (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
The Westward Enterprise: English Activities in Ireland, the Atlantic, and America 1480-1650 ed. K. R. Andrews, N. P. Canny and P. E. H. Hair (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1979)
Alden T. Vaughan, New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675 (New York : Norton, 1979)
Bernadette Bucher, Icon and Conquest: a Structural Analysis of the Illustrations of de Bry's Great Voyages, trans. Basia Miller Gulati (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981)
Puritans among the Indians: Accounts of Captivity and Redemption, 1676-1724 ed. Alden Vaughan and Edward W. Clark (Harvard University Press, 1981) (e-book)
Robert Silverberg, The Golden Dream: Seekers of El Dorado (1967; repr. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1996)
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas Volume 1, North America, ed. Bruce G Trigger, Wilcomb E Washburn, 3 vols (CUP, 1996-99)
Patricia Seed, Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) (also as electronic resource).
Gary L Ebersole, Captured by Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian Captivity (Univ Press of Virginia, 1995)
Michael Leroy Oberg, Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685 (London: Cornell UP, 1999).
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, ed. Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) (also as electronic resource).
Karen Kupperman, The Jamestown Project (London: Harvard University Press, 2007)
Ken Macmillan, Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: the Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576-1640 (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Religion and Evangelism
Lewis Hanke, Aristotle and the American Indian: A Study in Race Prejudice in the Modern World (London: Hollis & Carter, 1959)
W.S. Maltby, The Black Legend in England: The Development of Anti-Spanish Sentiment, 1558-1660 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1971)
Claire Jowitt, ‘Radical Identities? Native Americans, Jews and the English Commonwealth’, The Seventeenth Century, 10 (1995), 101-19.
Walter S. H. Lim, The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism From Ralegh to Milton (London: Associated University Press, 1998)
Tom Cain, ‘John Donne and the Ideology of Colonization’, English Literary Renaissance, 31 (2001), 440-76.
Cannibalism
Hermann Helmuth, 'Cannibalism in Paleoanthropology and Ethnology', in Man and Aggression, ed. Ashley Montagu, (New York, 1973), 229-254
Philip L Boucher, Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763 (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1992) (electronic resource)
Ellen B. Basso, The Last Cannibals: a South American Oral History (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995)
Frank Lestringant, Cannibals : the discovery and representation of the cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne, trans. Rosemary Morris (Cambridge : Polity Press, 1997)
Eating their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity ed. Kristen Guest
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001)
Beth L Conklin, Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001)
Daniel Korn, Mark Radice & Charlie Hawes, *Cannibal: the History of the People-Eaters (London: Channel 4 Books, 2002).
Merrall Llewelyn Price, Consuming Passions: the Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 2003)
Hans Staden's True History : an Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil, ed. Neil L. Whitehead ; trans. Michael Harbsmeier (Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2008).
Richard Sugg, Mummies, Cannibals, and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians (London: Routledge, 2011)
Culture and Anthropology
L.P. Kellogg, 'Pocahontas and Jamestown', The Wisconsin Magazine of History, 25.1 (1941): 38-42.
Stanley Johnson, ‘John Donne and the Virginia Company’, English Literary History, 14 (1947), 127-38
Philip Young, 'The Mother of Us All: Pocahontas Reconsidered', The Kenyon Review, 24.3 (1962): 391-415
Philip L Barbour, Pocahontas and her World: a Chronicle of America's First Settlement (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970)
John Berger, Ways of Seeing (Penguin, 1977).
David L. Greene, ‘New Light on Mary Rowlandson’, Early American Literature 20.1 (1985): 24-38.
Peter Hulme, Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492- 1797 (London: Methuen, 1986).
Kathryn Zabelle Derounian, ‘The Publication, Promotion, and Distribution of Mary Rowlandson's Indian Captivity Narrative in the Seventeenth Century’, Early American Literature 23.3 (1988): 239-261.
Stephen Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World (Oxford, 1991)
Louis Montrose, ‘The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery’, Representations 33 (1991), 1-41.
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (London: Fontana, 1993)
New World Encounters, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993)
(and as electronic resource)
Tiffany Potter, ‘Writing Indigenous Femininity: Mary Rowlandson's Narrative of Captivity’, Eighteenth Century Studies 36.2 (2003): 153-167.
Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: the Evolution of an American Narrative (CUP, 1994)
Rene Girard, Violence and the Sacred, trans. Patrick Gregory (London: Athlone Press, 1995)
Karen Robertson, 'Pocahontas at the Masque', Signs, 21.3 (1996): 551-583
Anne Abrams, The Pilgrims and Pocahontas: Rival Myths of American Origin (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1999)
Bryce Traister, ‘Mary Rowlandson and the Invention of the Secular’, Early American Literature 42.2 (2007): 323-354
Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America (New York : W.W. Norton, 2008)
SCIENCE AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION, 1850-1900
Module Convenor: Dr Peter Garratt
INTRODUCTION
This Special Topic examines the relationship between literature and science in the second half of the nineteenth century—conflicts, rivalries, and interactions—with particular reference to the dramatization of scientific understanding in imaginative literature and the ‘literary’ aspects of scientific writing. A range of Victorian texts will be explored to assess different responses to developments in science: in poetry by Tennyson and Meredith; in fiction by George Eliot, Hardy and Wilkie Collins (whose novel Heart and Science revolves around vivisection); and in shorter fiction by Dickens and Henry James (whose story ‘In the Cage’, about a female telegraphist, explores the relationship between humans and technology). Less familiar works will include Richard Marsh’s mesmerist novel The Beetle and the autobiography of Charles Darwin. These primary texts will be supplemented by extracts and readings from scientific authors such as Babbage, Bichat, Tyndall, Huxley, Ruskin, Arnold, Spencer and G. H. Lewes, and seminar discussion will be given over in part to the exploration of their writing and ideas in conjunction with the primary imaginative literature. Topics will include evolutionary theories, medicine and doctors, mind/body relations, the theory of knowledge, scientific experimentation, telegraphy, telepathy and spiritualism. Students will develop a greater appreciation of scientific contexts while being encouraged to see how Victorian science engaged, like literature, with values and ethics.
A NOTE ON READING
The aim of the course is to explore scientific ideas that were in circulation during the second half of the nineteenth century, mainly from the perspective of Victorian literary culture. No particular knowledge of science, or the history of science, is expected. But nonetheless it will be important to grasp something of the intellectual excitement, controversy, and detail of these ideas themselves, to appreciate the ways in which imaginative writing mediated scientific knowledge in the nineteenth century and contributed to its formation and debate. Some material from Victorian scientists, philosophers and intellectuals (these distinctions often blur in the period) will be made available through digitization, and some material can be found electronically, for instance on Google books. Helpfully, there is also an excellent modern anthology currently in print edited by Laura Otis, which is worth highlighting as a recommended purchase in addition to the primary texts:
Otis, Laura (ed.). Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Otis’s introduction would be an ideal starting point, as it foregrounds some of the questions that will guide this course and includes a bibliography of relevant secondary material. The reading list below indicates the primary texts you will study, in preferred editions; these will be supplemented by further reading and preparation ahead of each seminar, drawing on selections from Otis and elsewhere. It would be advisable to read as many of the primary texts as possible during the summer vacation.
PRIMARY READING
Seminar 1
Introduction: The Victorians and the ‘two cultures debate’
Snow, C. P. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 1998) [library e-book; read introduction by Stefan Collini]
‘Prologue’ to Otis, Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century [extracts from John Tyndall, T. H. Huxley and Matthew Arnold]
Seminar 2
Eliot, George. The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob, ed. Sally Shuttleworth (Penguin, 2009).
Seminar 3
Browning, Robert. ‘Caliban upon Setebos’ [in Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2]
Tennyson, Alfred. The Major Works, ed. Adam Roberts (Oxford University Press, 2009).
[In Memoriam; ‘Lucretius’]
Seminar 4
Collins, Wilkie. Heart and Science, ed. Steve Farmer (Broadview, 1996).
Seminar 5
Eliot, George. Middlemarch, ed. Rosemary Ashton (Penguin Classics, 1994).
Seminar 6
Meredith, George. Modern Love [digitized extracts provided]
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. The Major Works, ed. Catherine Phillips (Oxford World’s Classics, 2009)
[‘The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe’; ‘God’s Grandeur’; ‘Duns Scotus’s Oxford’]
Hardy, Thomas. ‘Hap’; ‘God’s Funeral’; ‘To Outer Nature’ [digitized poems provided]
Seminar 7
Darwin, Charles. Autobiography, ed. Michael Neve (Penguin Classics, 2002).
Butler, Samuel. Erewhon, ed. Peter Mudford (Penguin Classics, 1985).
Seminar 8
Hardy, Thomas. Two on a Tower, ed. Sally Shuttleworth (Penguin Classics, 1999)
Seminar 9
Dickens, Charles. ‘The Signalman’ [digitized version provided and available online]
James, Henry. Selected Tales, ed. John Lyon (Penguins Classics, 2001) [‘In the Cage’]
Seminar 10
Marsh, Richard. The Beetle: A Mystery (Penguin, 2008).
FURTHER READING
Orientation
Some sense of the scope of the module, and familiarity with key literary critics who have helped shape the field of literature and science, can be gained by consulting these five items of secondary reading:
Beer, Gillian. Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 3rd edn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Levine, George. Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002).
Levine, George. Realism, Ethics and Secularism: Essays on Victorian Literature and Science (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Shuttleworth, Sally. George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Make-Believe of a Beginning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Sleigh, Charlotte. Literature and Science (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
General
Altick, Richard D. Victorian People and Ideas. (London: J. M. Dent, 1974).
Amigoni, David. Colonies, Cults, and Evolution: Literature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy, ed. Jane Garnett (Oxford: OUP, 2000).
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life (Penguin, 1997).
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: An Unconventional Victorian (London: Pimlico, 2000).
Bailin, Miriam. The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill (Cambridge: CUP, 1994).
Baldick, Chris. In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing (Oxford: Clarendon, 1987).
Beer, Gillian. Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 3rd edn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Beer, Gillian, George Eliot (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester, 1986).
Beer, John. Romanticism, Revolution and Language: The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009).
Bourne Taylor, Jenny and Sally Shuttleworth (eds). Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts, 1830-1890 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).
Burney, Ian. ‘Medicine in the Age of Reform’ in Rethinking the Age of Reform, eds. Joanna Innes and Arthur Burns (Cambridge: CUP, 2007), pp. 163-181.
Byerly, Alison. Realism, Representation and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Cambridge: CUP, 1997).
Byrne, Katherine. Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Caldwell, Janis McLarren. Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004).
Carroll, David. George Eliot and the Conflict of Interpretations (Cambridge: CUP, 1992).
Chase, Karen (ed). Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford: OUP, 2006).
Coleman, Deidre and Hilary Fraser. Minds, Bodies, and Machines, 1770-1930 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Daly, Nicholas. Literature, Technology and Modernity, 1860-2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species, ed. Gillian Beer (Oxford: OUP, 2008).
Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, eds. James Moore and Adrian Desmond (London: Penguin, 2004).
David, Deirdre (ed). The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (Cambridge: CUP, 2001).
Davies, Tony. Humanism (London: Routledge, 1997).
Davis, Michael. George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
Davis, Philip. The Oxford English Literary History: The Victorians / Vol.8, 1830-1880 (Oxford: OUP, 2002).
Davis, Philip. Why Victorian Literature Still Matters (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008).
Dollimore, Jonathan. Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture (London: Routledge, 1998).
Dupre, John. Darwin’s Legacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Eldridge, Richard (ed). The Oxford Handbook of Literature and Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Ermarth, Elizabeth. Realism and Consensus in the English Novel (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1998).
Ermarth, Elizabeth. The English Novel in History 1840-1895 (London: Routledge, 1997).
Fleishman, Avram. George Eliot’s Intellectual Life (Cambridge: CUP, 2010).
Furst, Lilian. Realism (London: Longman, 1992).
Furst, Lilian. ‘Struggling for Medical Reform in Middlemarch’, Nineteenth-Century Literature 48 (1994): 341-61.
Garratt, Peter. Victorian Empiricism (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010).
Garrison, Laurie. Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (New Haven: Yale UP, 1979).
Glendinning, John. The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).
Halliwell, Martin and Andy Mousley. Critical Humanisms (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003).
Hancock, Stephen. The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel (London: Routledge, 2005).
Hertz, Neil. George Eliot’s Pulse (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003).
Holmes, John. Darwin’s Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009).
Innes, Joanna and Arthur Burns (eds). Rethinking the Age of Reform (Cambridge: CUP, 2007).
Jordan, John and Robert Patten (eds). Literature in the Marketplace (Cambridge: CUP, 1995).
Kermode, Frank. The Sense of an Ending (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968).
Kontou, Tatiana and Sarah Willburn. The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012).
Leavis, F. R., The Great Tradition (London: Chatto, 1960).
Levine, George. Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
Levine, George. Darwin the Writer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Levine, George. Dying to Know (Chicago: Chicago UP, 2002).
Levine, George. How to Read the Victorian Novel (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008).
Logan, Peter Melville. Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty and the Subjection of Women, ed. Alan Ryan (London: Penguin, 2006).
Miller, J. Hillis. The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-Century Writers, 4th edn. (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000).
Morris, Pam. Realism (London: Routledge New Critical Idiom, 2003).
Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Nietzsche Reader, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson and Duncan Large (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006).
O’Gorman, Francis. The Victorian Novel (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002).
Otis, Laura (ed.). Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Otis, Laura. Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).
Oulton, Carolyn. Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England: From Dickens to Eliot (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
Page, Michael. The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H. G. Wells: Science, Evolution and Ecology (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012).
Payne, David. The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, and Serialization (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005).
Reilly, Jim. Shadowtime: History and Representation in Hardy, Conrad, and George Eliot (London: Routledge, 1993).
Rignall, John (ed). The Oxford Reader's Companion to George Eliot (Oxford: OUP, 2001).
Rose, Jacqueline. Sexuality in the Field of Vision (London: Verso, 2005).
Ruskin, John. Selected Writings, ed. Dinah Birch (Oxford: OUP, 2009).
Rylance, Rick. Victorian Psychology and British Culture, 1850-1880 (Oxford: OUP, 2000).
Schmiit, Cannon. Darwin and the Memory of the Human (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Secord, James. Victorian Sensation (Chicago: Chicago UP, 2000).
Shuttleworth, Sally. George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Make-Believe of a Beginning (Cambridge: CUP, 1987).
Sleigh, Charlotte. Literature and Science (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Sparks, Tabitha. The Doctor in the Victorian Novel (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009).
Spinks, Lee. Friedrich Nietzsche (London: Routledge, 2003).
Stevenson, Lionel. Darwin Among the Poets (Russell and Russell, 1963).
Stiles, Ann. Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Wheeler, Michael. English Fiction of the Victorian Period, 1830-1890 (London: Longman, 1985).
Wheeler, Michael. Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Wilkes, Joanne. Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010).
Willis, Martin. Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920: Ocular Horizons (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011).
Winter, Alison. Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1998).
ENGL2681 Literature (1900 to present), Cinema and Neuroscience
Module Convenor: Dr Michael Mack
Bibiliography
Cavell, Stanely The World Viewed: Selections on the Ontology of Film, (London: Harvard University Press, 1979).
Damasio, Antonio, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain, (London: Vintage, 2010).
---, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain, (London: Harcourt, 2003).
Deleuze, Gilles, Cinema 1: The Movement Image, translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Haberjam, (London: Bloomsbury, 2009).
----, Cinema 2: The Time Image, translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta, (London: Bloomsbury, 2010).
Elsaesser T. with A. Barker (eds), Early cinema : space, frame, narrative London : British Film Institute, 1990.
Franzen, Jonathan, How To Be Alone, (London: Fourth Estate, 2002).
---, The Corrections, (London: Harper, 2001).
Gorra, Michael, Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, (New York: London, 2012)
Griffin, Susan M. (ed.), The Men who Knew Too Much: Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Hadjioannon, Markos, From Light to Byte: Toward an Ethics of Digital Cinema, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012)
James, Henry, The Portrait of a Lady, ed. by Robert D. Bamberg, (London: Norton, 1995).
Kandel, Eric R., In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of the Mind, (London: Norton, 2006)
--- Age of Insight, (London: Norton, 2013).
Leader, Darian, What is Madness, (London: Penguin, 2011).
MacCabe, C James Joyce and the revolution of the word, London : Macmillan, 1978
----- The Eloquence of the Vulgar: Language, Cinema and the Politics of Culture London: BFI Publishing, 1999.
Mack, How Literature Changes the Way we think, London: Bloomsbury, 2012
Marcus, Laura The tenth muse : writing about cinema in the modernist period, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Palahniuk, Chuck, Fight Club, (London: Vintage: 1997)
Pippin, Robert, Fatalism in America: Film Noir; Some Cinematic Philosophy, (London: University of Virginia Press, 2012).
---, Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawk and John Ford for Political Philosophy, (London: Yale University Press, 2010).
Pisters, Patricia, The Neuro-Image: Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012).
Powers, Richard, The Echo Maker, (London: William Heinemann, 2006).
---Ploughing the Dark, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000). (Optional further suggested reading. Focus of discussion will be on The Echo Maker)
Rombes, Nicholas, Cinema in the Digital Age, (London: Wallflower Press, 2009).
Shail, Andrew, The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism, (London: Routledge, 2012).
Trotter, David, Cinema and Modernism, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007
---- The Uses of Phobia: Essays on Literature and Film Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Virilio, Paul, War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception, (London: Verso, 2009).
Wallace, Forster David Brief Interview with Hideous Men , (London: Abacus, 2001)
--- This Is Water - David Foster Wallace Full Commencement Speech at Kenyon College:
Evelyn Waugh
Module Convenor: Dr Jason Harding
All the novels have been reprinted in Penguin editions, along with the travel writings. These volumes are affordable and quite adequate for our purposes (an annotated scholarly edition from OUP is in progress with two Durham staff members – myself and Professor Simon James – among the editorial team). The following bibliography is selective rather than exhaustive [Durham shelfmark in square brackets].
A Little Learning, 1964, first volume of a projected autobiography [829.2 WAU]
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Michael Davie, 1976 [829.2 WAU]
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory, 1980 [829.2 WAU]
The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Donat Gallagher, 1983 [829.2 WAU]
The Complete Short Stories and Selected Drawings, ed. Ann Pasternak Slater, 1998 [829.2 WAU]
Evelyn Waugh: A Checklist of Primary and Secondary Material, ed. Robert Murray, Davis, Paul A. Doyle, Heinz Kosok & Charles E. Linck Jr., 1981 [STORE 47763, see also 829.2 WAU/BIB]
Evelyn Waugh: A Chronology, ed. Norman Page, 1997 [829.2 WAU/PAG]
Secondary Criticism:
Beaty, Frederick L., The ironic world of Evelyn Waugh : a study of eight novels, 1992 [829.2 WAU/BEA]
Bradbury, Malcolm, Evelyn Waugh, 1964 [829.2 WAU/BRA]
Brennan, Michael G., Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family, 2013 [electronic resource]
Carpenter, Humphrey, The Brideshead Generation, 1989 [Newcastle 823.91 WAU/CAR]
Carens, James F. The Satiric Art of Evelyn Waugh, 1966 [829.2 WAU/CAR]
Connolly, Cyril. Enemies of Promise, 1938 [829.2 CON]
Davis, Robert Murray, Evelyn Waugh, Writer, 1981 [829.2 WAU/DAV]
De Vitis, A. A., Roman Holiday: The Catholic Novels of Evelyn Waugh, 1958 [829.2 WAU/DEV]
Dyson, A. E., “Evelyn Waugh and the Mysteriously Disappearing Hero” in The Crazy Fabric, 1965 [820.11 DYS]
Eagleton, Terry, Exiles and Emigres, 1970 [820.91 EAG]
Fussell, Paul, Abroad, 1980 [820.97 FUS]
Garnett, Robert, From Grimes to Brideshead : the early novels of Evelyn Waugh, 1990 [829.2 WAU/GAR]
Green, Martin, Children of the Sun, 1977 [820.98 GRE]
Hastings, Selina, Evelyn Waugh: A Biography, 1994 [Newcastle 823.91 WAU/HAS]
Heath, Jeffrey, The Picturesque Prison, 1982 [829.2 WAU/HEA]
Hollis, Christopher, Evelyn Waugh, 1966 [829.2 WAU/HOL]
Kermode, Frank, “Mr Waugh’s Cities” in Puzzles and Epiphanies, 1962 [Newcastle 804 KER]
Lodge, David, Evelyn Waugh, 1971 [York MA 183.9 WAU/L]
McCartney, George, Evelyn Waugh and the Modernist Tradition, 2004 [829.2 WAU/MCC]
McDonnell, Jacqueline, Waugh on Women, 1986 [Newcastle 823.91 WAU/MAC]
Myers, William, Evelyn Waugh and the Problem of Evil, 1991 [Newcastle 823.91 WAU/MYE]
O’Donnel, Donat [Conor Cruise O’Brien], Maria Cross: Imaginative Patterns in a Group of Modern Catholic Writers, 1952 [809.94 OBR]
Patey, Douglas Lane, The Life of Evelyn Waugh, 1998 [829.2 WAU/PAT]
Pryce-Jones, David. Evelyn Waugh and his World, 1973 [829.2 WAU/PRY]
Spender, Stephen, “The World of Evelyn Waugh” in The Creative Element, 1953 [820.91 SPE]
Stannard, Martin, Evelyn Waugh: The Critical Heritage, 1984 [829.2 WAU/STA]
Stannard, Martin, Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903-1939, 1986 (volume one of the fullest biography) [829.2 WAU/STA]
Stannard, Martin, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992 (volume two of the fullest biography) [829.2 WAU/STA]
Stopp, Frederick J., Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of an Artist, 1958 [829.2 WAU/STO]
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Toni Morrison: Texts and Contexts
(ENGL2521)
Module Convenor: Dr Jennifer Terry
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