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DURHAM UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIESLECTURE MODULESREADING LISTBOOKLET2014/2015CONTENTSReading Lists and Lecture ProgrammesTheory and Practice of Literary CriticismPage 2Shakespeare Page 6RestorationPage 14Post War Fiction and PoetryPage 20Literature of the Romantic PeriodPage 27ChaucerPage 35Old EnglishPage 44Theory and Practice of Literary CriticismIntroductory Reading List Module convenor: Dr Alastair Renfrewalastair.renfrew2@durham.ac.ukElvet Riverside A76This introductory list covers texts that shoulda. be acquired in advance of the course;b. be consulted during the long vacation in preparation for the course.*Please note that a full reading list covering each of the topics studied on the module, as well as additional general resources, will be available via DUO from the start of term.*a. The set text for the course is:The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2nd edition), ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al (Norton, 2010).A wide-ranging collection of excerpts and essays from the long history of theory and criticism, from Plato to the present day, with particular emphasis on the past century. With essays on all of the theoretical strands covered on the course, this will be your primary resource for preparatory reading in advance of lectures and will also provide much of the set reading for tutorials (although individual lecturers and tutors may also prescribe supplementary material from other sources). The anthology also features brief introductions to individual critics and theorists, as well as a comprehensive bibliography and index.b. It is advisable to read in advance one or more of the following introductions to theory and criticism:Jonathan Culler, A Very Short Introduction to Literary Theory (Oxford University Press, 1997).As the title suggests, this is a very short, lucid and accessible introduction to some of the key issues involved in reading and using theory.Patricia Waugh (ed.), Literary Theory and Criticism: an Oxford Guide (Oxford University Press, 2006).A collection of some 40 essays, with a long introduction, covering the history of modern theory and criticism, including the theorists and movements covered on the course.Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle (eds), An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (4th edition) (Routledge, 2009).As much an introduction to literary studies in general as it is to theory and criticism, this book is organised thematically, rather than by theorists and movements, and is particularly helpful in encouraging theoretical reflection that is integrated with your existing habits as readers. Also contains a brief but helpful glossary of terms; links to additional chapters are available at books/details/9781405859141/ENGL2011 – THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LITERARY CRITICISMLECTURE LIST 2014–15Lectures are every Monday from 10:00am to 11:00am in Elvet Riverside Room 140.Michaelmas Term 20146 OctoberIntroduction: What is Theory?Dr Renfrew13 OctoberCriticism, Canon and Value Dr Harding 20 OctoberFormalism(s)Dr Renfrew27 OctoberStructuralism and NarratologyProfessor Herman 3 NovemberContemporary Narrative TheoryProfessor Herman10 NovemberMarxism(s)Dr Renfrew17 NovemberThe Frankfurt SchoolDr Thomas24 November Psychoanalysis (i) Freud Professor James1 DecemberPsychoanalysis (ii) Lacan Dr Thomas8 DecemberDialogism: The Bakhtin SchoolDr Renfrew Epiphany Term 201512 JanuaryDeconstruction Professor Clark 19 January New Historicism Dr Grausam26 JanuaryPostcolonialism (i)Professor Regan2 FebruaryPostcolonialism (ii)Dr Terry9 FebruaryREADING WEEK16 FebruaryFeminism(s)Dr Wootton23 FebruaryQueer TheoryDr Botha2 MarchEcocriticismProfessor Clark9 MarchAnimal StudiesProfessor ClarkEaster Term 201520 AprilPostmodernismDr Grausam 27 AprilPosthumanismDr Mack4 MayThe Function of Criticism at the Present Time?Dr GrimbleShakespeareMichaelmas Term lectures will be on historical drama (Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 and 2), tragedies (Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear), and the comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. You should read all of these works during the summer vacation. Epiphany and Easter Term lectures will continue with other forms of comedy (pastoral – As You Like It, The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice and the tragicomedy, All’s Well), followed by the narrative poems (Venus and Adonis, and The Rape of Lucrece), the Roman plays (Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus), the Sonnets, as well as several later plays (including Cymbeline, Pericles and The Winter’s Tale). You need to engage with the full range of Shakespeare’s works, so it is important that you read as widely and as deeply as possible, rather than trying to rely on your A-Level knowledge.EditionsComplete Works: The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford: OUP, 1988, 2nd edn, 2005). This is the standard edition recommended by the Department and allowed for the open-book examination. Other more copiously annotated Complete Works are listed below; these may, however, not be taken into the examination:The Norton Shakespeare, ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. (New York: Norton, 1997) William Shakespeare: Complete Works, ed. Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen (New York: Random House, 2007; pbk Basingstoke: Macmillan / The Royal Shakespeare Company, 2008) represents a modernized version of Shakespeare’s First Folio edn (1623) The Riverside Shakespeare, gen. ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2nd edn, 1997) Complete Works [in original spelling], ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford: OUP, 1986) The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio, ed. Charlton Hinman, 1968 (2nd ed., intro. P. W. M. Blayney, 1996) Editions of individual works: To prepare an individual text adequately for the exam, you should consult one of the following:The Arden Shakespeare, launched in 1899, provides copious introductions, annotation, and textual apparatus of the highest scholarly standard. New Cambridge series (Cambridge University Press) Oxford series (World’s Classics) The recommended edition for non-dramatic verse is Complete Sonnets and Poems, ed. Colin Burrow (OUP, 2002).Editions suitable for the Shakespeare examination:The Shakespeare examination is an ‘open book’ paper: candidates must take a copy of the collected works into the examination. No loose papers or photocopies of the works must be brought to the exam. The editon must be an unannotated text. It must not contain any commentary or glosses of difficult words in the margins. Introductions to individual plays should not exceed one page. Texts should include a line count.Reference works and introductionsArmstrong, Katherine, and Graham Atkin. Studying Shakespeare: A Practical Introduction. London: Prentice Hall, 1998.Bate, Jonathan, and Russell Jackson, Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.Bullough, Geoffrey, ed. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare. 8 vols. London: Routledge, 1957-75.Dobson, Michael, and Stanley Wells, eds. The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.Findlay, Alison. Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary. London: Continuum, 2010. An A-Z of over 350 entries on how women were represented on the stage.Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642. CUP, 4th edn 2008.Kastan, David Scott, ed. A Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.Muir, Kenneth, and Samuel Schoenbaum, eds. A New Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1971.Schoenbaum, Samuel. William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life. Oxford: Clarendon, 1975.Smith, Emma, ed. Shakespeare’s Histories. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.Smith, Emma, ed. Shakespeare’s Tragedies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.Smith, Emma, ed. Shakespeare’s Comedies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.Wells, Stanley, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.Wells, Stanley, and Gary Taylor. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.Wells, Stanley, ed. Shakespeare: A Bibliographical Guide. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.CriticismThe following is a select list of the vast Shakespeare literature. Individual lecturers may recommend further specific works in tutorials and lectures.Pre-Twentieth CenturyJohnson, Samuel. Johnson on Shakespeare. Ed. A. Sherbo. New Haven: Yale UP, 1968 (The Works of Samuel Johnson, vols 7 and 8, 1958-85).Foakes, R. A., ed. Coleridge’s Criticism of Shakespeare: A Selection. London: Athlone, 1989.Bate, Jonathan, ed. The Romantics on Shakespeare. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992.1900-1960Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy. London: Macmillan, 1904. New ed. Ed. John Russell Brown. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992.Granville-Barker, Harley. Prefaces to Shakespeare. 5 vols. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1927-47.Knight, G. Wilson. The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1930. 4th ed., 1960. Wilson, John Dover. What Happens in “Hamlet.” Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1935 (3rd ed., 1956).Traversi, Derek. An Approach to Shakespeare. London: Hollis & Carter, 1938. 3rd ed. London, 1968-9.Tillyard, E. M. W. Shakespeare’s History Plays. London: Chatto & Windus, 1944.Barber, C. L. Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1959.Knights, L. C. Some Shakespearean Themes (1959) and An Approach to “Hamlet” (1960). Stanford: Stanford UP, 1966.1960-2013Kott, Jan. Shakespeare Our Contemporary. London: Methuen, 1964.Frye, Northrop. A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance. New York: Columbia UP, 1965.Jones, Emrys. Scenic Form in Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971.Lenz, Carolyn, Gayle Greene, and Carol Neely, eds. The Woman’s Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1980.Bayley, John. Shakespeare and Tragedy. London: Routledge, 1981.French, Marilyn. Shakespeare’s Division of Experience. London: Cape, 1982.Thomson, Peter. Shakespeare’s Theatre. London: Routledge, 1983; 2nd ed., London: Routledge, 1992.Empson, William. Essays on Shakespeare. Ed. David B. Pirie. Cambridge: CUP, 1985.Dollimore, Jonathan, and Alan Sinfield, eds. Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1985; 2nd ed., 1993.Barton, Anne. Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.Drakakis, John, ed. Alternative Shakespeares. Vol. 1. London: Methuen, 1985.Hawkes, Terence, ed. Alternative Shakespeares. Vol. 2. London: Routledge, 1996.Barber, C. L., and Richard Wheeler. The Whole Journey: Shakespeare’s Power of Development. Berkeley: U of California P, 1986.Greenblatt, Stephen. Shakespearean Negotiations. Berkeley: U of California P, 1988.Bradshaw, Graham. Shakespeare’s Scepticism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990.Hughes, Ted. Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being. London: Faber, 1992.Olson, Paul A., Beyond a Common Joy: An Introduction to Shakespearean Comedy (U of Nebraska P, 2009).Traub, Valerie. Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama. London: Routledge, 1992.Vickers, Brian. Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels. New Haven: Yale UP, 1994.Jones, John. Shakespeare at Work. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.Bate, Jonathan. The Genius of Shakespeare. London: Picador, 1997.Kermode, Frank. Shakespeare’s Language. London: Allen Lane, 2000.Loomba, Ania. Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism. Oxford UP, 2002.Vickers, Brian. Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays. Oxford UP, 2002.Erne, Lukas. Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.Lopez, Jeremy. Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.Edmondson, Paul, and Stanley Wells. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Oxford UP, 2004. Essential reading for candidates preparing the Sonnets for the exam.Rackin, Phyllis, Shakespeare and Women. Oxford UP, 2005.Nelsen, Paul, and June Schlueter, eds, Acts of Criticism: Performance Matters in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson P, 2006. Nuttall, AD, Shakespeare the Thinker. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007.Jowett, John. Shakespeare and Text. OUP, 2007. Stewart, Alan. Shakespeare’s Letters. OUP, 2008. Shows how and why Shakespeare put letters on stage in virtually all of his plays. Hammond, Paul. The Strangeness of Tragedy. OUP, 2009. Covering classical to neo-classical literature, including Sophocles, Seneca, Shakespeare and Racine.Findlay, Alison. Illegitimate Power: Bastards in Renaissance Drama. Manchester UP, 2009.Meek, Richard, Jane Rickard and Richard Wilson, eds. Shakespeare’s Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception. Manchester UP, 2009.Gurr, Andrew. Shakespeare’s Opposites: The Admiral’s Company, 1594-1625. CUP, 2009.Lerner, Ralph. Playing the Fool: Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times. U of Chicago P, 2010. Shapiro, James. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? London: Faber, 2010.Burt, Stephen, and David Mikics. The Art of the Sonnet. Harvard: Belknap, 2010.Jackson, Ken, and Arthur F. Marotti, eds. Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2011.Craig, Hugh, and Arthur Kinney, eds. Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship. CUP, 2011.Tanner, Tony, Prefaces to Shakespeare. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2012.Alexander, Michael, Reading Shakespeare. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013.Maguire, Laurie, and Emma Smith, Thirty Great Myths about Shakespeare. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.Academic Journals:A host of excellent journals is warmly recommended for exam purposes. You will find browsing the following very rewarding, as they offer a perfect alternative to oversubscribed books recommended in lectures:Shakespeare Quarterly (New York, 1950–present)Shakespeare Studies (Cincinnati, 1965–present)Shakespeare Survey (Cambridge, 1948–present)Shakespeare Jahrbuch (Heidelberg, 1965–present)English Literary RenaissanceEnglish Literary HistoryAudio-Visual MaterialThe Library and the Department have all of the plays of Shakespeare in BBC performances. Departmental copies can be borrowed from the Secretary, Mrs Anne Watts (Hallgarth House).Further Library holdings include: Tragedies: Titus (Titus Andronicus), dir. Julie Taymor, with Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange (2000).Romeo and Juliet, dir. Franco Zeffirelli (1968); Romeo and Juliet, dir. Baz Luhrmann, with Leonardo DiCaprio (1996).Julius Caesar, dir. Joseph Mankiewicz, with Marlon Brando, James Mason, and John Gielgud (1953); Julius Caesar, dir. Stuart Burge, with John Gielgud, Jason Robards, and Charlton Heston (1969).Hamlet, dir. Laurence Olivier (1948); Hamlet, dir. John Gielgud, with Richard Burton (1964); Hamlet, dir. Grigori Kozintsev (1964, in Russian); Hamlet, dir. Tony Richardson, with Nicol Williamson as Hamlet and Marianne Faithful as Ophelia (1969); Hamlet, dir. Franco Zeffirelli, with Mel Gibson (1990); Hamlet, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1996).Othello, dir. Orson Welles. (1952); Othello, dir. Stuart Burge, with Laurence Olivier (1965); Othello, dir. Trevor Nunn, with Ian McKellen as Iago (1989); Othello, with Laurence Fishburne as Othello and Kenneth Branagh as Iago (1995).King Lear, dir. Peter Brook, with Paul Scofield (1969); King Lear, dir. Grigori Kozintsev (1970, in Russian; screenplay by Boris Pasternak); a television production of King Lear, with Laurence Olivier (1984); and King Lear, dir. Brian Blessed (1999).Macbeth, dir. Orson Welles (1946); Macbeth, dir. Roman Polanski (1971); Macbeth, dir. Trevor Nunn, with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench (1979); Macbeth, dir. Jeremy Freeston, with Jason Connery and Helen Baxendale.Antony and Cleopatra, dir. Trevor Nunn, with Richard Johnson and Janet Suzman (1972).Comedies:The Taming of the Shrew, dir. Franco Zeffirelli, with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor (1966).Love’s Labour’s Lost, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1999).A Midsummer Night’s Dream, dir. Adrian Noble (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1995); Midsummer Night’s Dream, dir. Michael Hoffman, with Kevin Kline and Michelle Pfeiffer (1999).The Merchant of Venice, dir. Jonathan Miller, with Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright (National Theatre, 1969).Much Ado About Nothing, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1993).Twelfth Night, with Alec Guiness, Ralph Richardson, Joan Plowright and Tommy Steele (1969); a television production of Twelfth Night, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1988); Twelfth Night, dir. Trevor Nunn, with Helena Bonham-Carter and Ben Kingsley (1996).The Tempest, dir. George Schaefer, with Richard Burton as Caliban (1960).Histories:The Hollow Crown: BBC adaptations of Richard II, Henry IV, 1/2, and Henry V (2012).Henry VI, dir. Michael Bogdanov (English Shakespeare Company, 1990; the three plays cut to form two: The House of York, The House of Lancaster).Richard III, dir. Laurence Olivier (1955); Richard III, dir. Richard Loncraine, with Ian McKellen (1995).Henry V, dir. Laurence Olivier (1944); Henry V, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1989); Henry V, dir. Michael Bogdanov, with Michael Pennington (English Shakespeare Company, 1990).Adaptations:British Film Institute, Silent Shakespeares (films 1899-1911).Akira Kurosawa (dir.): Throne of Blood (1957, a version of Macbeth); The Bad Sleep Well (1960, which draws loosely on Hamlet); and Ran (1984, a free version of King Lear).Celestino Coronado (dir.), Hamlet, with David and Anthony Meyers as Hamlet (and Laertes) and Helen Mirren as Ophelia (and Gertrude) (1976, ‘the naked Hamlet’); and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with the Lindsay Kemp dance company.Derek Jarman (dir.), The Angelic Conversation (1985, fourteen of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, read by Judi Dench).Peter Greenaway (dir.), Prospero’s Books (1991, a version of The Tempest with John Gielgud).Michael Almereyda (dir.), Hamlet, with Ethan Hawke (2000).Performances on CD:These include Marlowe Society and Caedmon recordings of most of the plays; Renaissance Theatre Company recordings of a few [Kenneth Branagh in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, Sir John Gielgud in King Lear, CD 825.5 SHA]). Also BBC CDs: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1 Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, and Hamlet (disc 825.5 SHA). Also Great Shakespeareans (audio recordings, 1890-1950: Disc 825.5 SHA/GRE); and Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings (audio recordings, 1890-1950). CD-ROMs, Websites and Online CollectionsCD-ROM: Shakespeare: His Life, Times, and Works. (undergraduate office, Hallgarth House).CD-ROM: the Norton Shakespeare Workshop, ed. Mark Rose – on MND, Merchant of Venice, 1Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello, and The Tempest (University Library).The Cambridge King Lear CD-ROM: Text and Performance (University Library). The Internet Shakespeare Editions: with a section on Shakespeare’s life and times, play texts, commentaries, critical material, and materials from performance archives: ‘Hamlet on the Ramparts’, on Hamlet, includes annotated texts, production materials and films from 1913 (Forbes-Robertson), 1920 (Svend Gade), and 1964 (Burton-Gielgud): lists, gives access to, or describes other Shakespeare websites. (First time users are required to log on, and will be given a code name and password.) Blackwell Companions are now freely available online from Durham: .If prompted for a login, give your Durham user id and password.Finding further criticism:MLA database: accessible via Library Catalogue > databasesSHAKESPEARELECTURE LIST 2014-2015Lectures will be every Tuesday from 12 noon to 1:00pm in Elvet Riverside, room 201Michaelmas Term 20147 OctoberIntroduction Dr GreenHistories14 OctoberRichard II Dr Green21 OctoberHenry IV Parts 1 and 2Prof. FullerTragedies28 OctoberTheories of TragedyDr Carver 4 NovemberHamletProf. O’Neill11 NovemberOthello Dr Sugg 18 NovemberMacbethProf. O’Neill 25 NovemberKing LearDr SuggComedies2 DecemberTheories of ComedyDr Carver9 DecemberA Midsummer Night’s DreamDr Carver Epiphany Term 2015 13 JanuaryShakespeare and Pastoral: As You Like ItDr Gray20 JanuaryThe Comical History of the Merchant of VeniceDr Sugg 27 JanuaryTragicomedy? All’s Well That Ends WellProf. JamesNarrative verse3 FebruaryErotic Epyllia: Rape of Lucrece and Dr Green Venus and Adonis 9 FebruaryREADING WEEKRoman plays17 FebruaryJulius Caesar and Coriolanus Dr Gray24 February?Antony and Cleopatra? Dr Sugg3 MarchThe Sonnets Dr CraneLate plays10 March Tragicomedy and Romance: Cymbeline Dr Green Easter Term 201521 April Early and Late:The Comedy of Errors and Prof. ArchibaldPericles 28 April Romance and The Winter’s Tale Dr Gray 5 MayShakespearean Legacies: Prof O’Neill Thomas Gray to Sylvia Plath RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE:PRELIMINARY READING, LEVELS 2 AND 3This module includes a good deal of fiction, some of which is quite lengthy. If you think you may be interested in pursuing work on (for example) Richardson, Fielding, Sterne or Burney, it’s a very sensible idea to use the summer vacation to get ahead with some of the reading (which is not to say, of course, that you shouldn’t also read some poetry and/or drama as well if you wish!). The lecture series follows a broadly chronological order, so writers from earlier in the period (Rochester, Etherege, Congreve, Behn, Bunyan, Defoe, Swift, Dryden, Pope, Centlivre) will be covered in Michaelmas, while later writers (Garrick and Colman, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Thomson, Johnson, Burke, Collins, Gray, Leapor, Yearsley) will be dealt with in Epiphany and Easter. These are the recommended editions of works to be focused on in lectures. Aphra Behn: Janet Todd (ed.), ‘Oroonoko’, ‘The Rover’ and Other Works (Penguin).John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress (Norton).Edmund Burke: Adam Phillips (ed.), A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Oxford).Frances Burney: Vivien Jones (ed.), Evelina (Oxford), and Margaret Anne Doody and Peter Sabor (eds), Cecilia (Oxford).Susanna Centlivre: John O’Brien (ed.), The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (Broadview) and Nancy Copeland (ed.), A Bold Stroke for a Wife (Broadview).William Congreve: Malcolm Kelsall (ed.), Love for Love (New Mermaids). Daniel Defoe: Paula R. Backscheider (ed.), A Journal of the Plague Year (Norton) and John Mullan (ed.), Roxana (Oxford).John Dryden: Paul Hammond & David Hopkins (eds), Selected Poems (Longman). We shall definitely be looking at ‘Mac Flecknoe’, Absalom and Achitophel, and ‘The Medal’.George Etherege: John Barnard (ed.), The Man of Mode (New Mermaids).Henry Fielding: Thomas Keymer (ed), Joseph Andrews (Oxford) and John Bender & Simon Stern (eds), Tom Jones (Oxford). David Garrick and George Colman: Noel Chevalier (ed.), The Clandestine Marriage (Broadview).Samuel Johnson: Donald Greene (ed.), Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford). Contains Rasselas, the ‘Life of Savage’, excerpts from The Rambler and both his major poems, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, all of which will be covered in lectures.Alexander Pope: Pat Rogers (ed.), Selected Poetry (Oxford). The Dunciad will be covered in a lecture.Samuel Richardson: Peter Sabor & Thomas Keymer (eds), Pamela (Penguin) and Angus Ross (ed.), Clarissa (Penguin).Rochester: David Vieth (ed.), The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Yale).Jonathan Swift: Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins (eds), The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift (Norton Critical Editions). We shall definitely be looking at A Modest Proposal and Gulliver’s Travels. Alternatively you could buy Gulliver’s Travels (Oxford) and/or Modest Proposal (Penguin) separately. The Rawson and Higgins may be cheaper than buying both in separate editions.Laurence Sterne: Howard Anderson (ed.), Tristram Shandy (Norton). Some authors/texts to be lectured on in the course are not available in cheap paperback editions, but can be found in the library and/or accessed via the internet, as follows:Thomas Gray and William Collins: Roger Lonsdale (ed.), Thomas Gray and William Collins: Poetical Works (Oxford). See also Fairer and Gerrard anthology, recommended below.Mary Leapor: Richard Greene & Ann Messenger (eds), Works (Oxford). See also Fairer and Gerrard.Thomson: The Seasons, ed. James Sambrook (Oxford). ‘Spring’ is reproduced in its entirety in Fairer and Gerrard.Ann Yearsley: Tim Burke (ed.), Selected Poems (University of Gloucestershire Press). See also Fairer and Gerrard.Anthologies for possible purchase: David Fairer and Christine Gerrard (eds), Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell), offers a useful and well-annotated selection of verse from a good range of poets, including Pope, Thomson, Johnson, Collins, Gray, Leapor and Yearsley. Selections from Rochester, Dryden and Behn are included in Paul Hammond’s Restoration Literature: An Anthology (Oxford). David Womersley’s Restoration Drama: An Anthology (Blackwell) is a comprehensive selection, of which Behn’s The Rover, Etherege’s The Man of Mode and Congreve’s Love for Love will definitely be covered on the module. There are copies of these anthologies in the library.Several texts on the course are also available in the Norton Anthology of English Literature. Other useful resources:J. Douglas Canfield & Maja-Lisa von Sneidern (eds), The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Concise Edition (Broadview) includes The Man of Mode, The Rover and A Bold Stroke for a Wife and has useful introductions, annotations and glossary.The database Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) is accessible via the library and offers access to a huge range of eighteenth-century publications (and eighteenth-century editions of earlier works). For works earlier than 1700, there is also the equally valuable Early English Books Online (EEBO).Preliminary secondary reading:Paul Goring’s brief introduction, Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Continuum) is a good place to start. Goring’s limit dates are 1688 and 1789 (the rationale for which he explains in the first pages of the book); for an excellent overview which includes the earlier period from 1660, see John Spurr’s chapter, ‘England 1649-1750’ in The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 (Cambridge, 1998). For a broad examination of the context, Roy Porter’s Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (Penguin, 2000) offers a wide-ranging and eminently readable portrait of the period, in which literature figures as just one of the many cultural forms in which he is interested. For a beautiful as well as fascinating book about culture and the arts, go to John Brewer’s The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (London: Harper Collins, 1997). For a more specifically literary approach (and one more narrowly focused historically), Moyra Haslett’s Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) provides a lively discussion of the literary culture of the eighteenth century (and finishes with brief chapters discussing three major texts, The Dunciad, Gulliver’s Travels, and Pamela). Brean Hammond and Shaun Regan’s Making the Novel: Fiction and Society in Britain, 1660-1789 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) is a helpful starting-point for thinking about the emergence of the novel form in the period. You could also look at some of the following:David Fairer, English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century (Harlow: Longman, 2003).Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature from 1740 to 1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004).Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989) and The Eighteenth Century: 1688-1815 (Short Oxford History of the British Isles; Oxford: OUP, 2002).Susan J. Owen, Perspectives on Restoration Drama (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2002).Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century (London: Penguin, 1982). James Sambrook, The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1700-1789, Longman Literature in English (2nd ed. Longman, 1993).David Womersley, A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001).Stephen Zwicker (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998).These are, of course, all things to borrow from a library (or read online) rather than purchase.Given that you may find yourself on a beach over the summer holiday, I also have a couple of suggestions for reading that conveniently combines relaxation with module preparation. Treat yourself to Wendy Moore’s Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match (Phoenix, 2009) and/or Ian Kelly’s Mr Foote’s Other Leg: Comedy, Tragedy, and Murder in Georgian London (Picador 2013): two meticulously well-researched, fascinating, informative and thoroughly readable biographies that will contribute to your understanding of the context for the literature of the period, as well as being hugely enjoyable.Have a good summer, and happy reading.Dr. Gillian Skinner Module Convenor June 2014RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURELECTURE LIST 2014-15Lectures will be held every Friday from 10:00am to 11:00am Michaelmas Term 201410 OctoberER 142Introduction: the Restoration and early eighteenth centuryDr Skinner17 OctoberER 201RochesterDr Sugg24 OctoberER 142Restoration comedy (Etherege, The Man of Mode; Congreve, Love for Love)Dr Skinner31 OctoberER 142Behn (The Rover, The Fair Jilt, Oroonoko)Dr Green7 NovemberER 141Bunyan (Pilgrim’s Progress)Dr Gray14 NovemberER 201Defoe (Journal of the Plague Year, Roxana)Dr Crane21 NovemberER 201Swift (Gulliver, Modest Proposal)Dr O’Connell28 NovemberER 142Classicism and the satiric mode (Dryden, ‘Mac Flecknoe’; Pope, Dunciad)Dr Green5 DecemberER 142Political poetics (Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, ‘The Medal’)Dr Green12 DecemberER 142Eighteenth-century comedy 1 (Susanna Centlivre, The Wonder, A Bold Stroke for a Wife)Dr SkinnerEpiphany Term 201516 JanuaryER 142Introduction: the mid- and later eighteenth centuryDr Skinner23 JanuaryER 142Eighteenth-century comedy 2: An Evening at the Theatre (Garrick and Colman, The Clandestine Marriage)Dr Skinner30 JanuaryER 142Richardson (Pamela/Clarissa)Dr Skinner6 FebruaryER 142Fielding (Joseph Andrews/Tom Jones)Dr Skinner9 February READING WEEK20 FebruaryER 201Sterne (Tristram Shandy)Dr Renfrew27 FebruaryER 142Burney (Evelina/Cecilia)Dr Skinner6 MarchER 140Ideas of Nature (Thomson, Seasons)Professor O’Neill13 MarchER 201Journalism and the public sphere (Johnson, Rambler,Rasselas, Life of Savage)Dr CraneEaster Term 201524 AprilER 142Johnson and Juvenal (London, The Vanity of Human Wishes)Dr Carver1 MayER 141The Sublime and the Beautiful (Burke, Collins)Dr Grimble8 mayER 142Poetry and the labouring classes (Gray, ‘Elegy’; Leapor, Yearsley)Dr SkinnerPost-War Fiction and Poetry: Preliminary Reading List and Module GuideThis module examines a selection of the major fiction and poetry written between 1945 and the present. The module also situates this writing in the context of intellectual and cultural histories of the period and examines a range of poetic and fictional forms. The module is organised broadly chronologically, but highlights key themes of the period as well covering a selection of the major authors. Please note that this is not a set text module; it is a set author module and in your formative essays and in the examination you will be expected to write on authors taught on the module. The reading list below is a preliminary guide to the primary material that will be covered in lectures, and also suggests some useful general books and essay collections that cover the period as a whole. Individual author- and topic reading lists will be provided separately. You are advised to begin reading some of the authors over the vacation, and you may also wish to read some of the background/general books suggested below. Primary TextsPost-War Themes and Ideas / Englands and Scotlands of the MindAl Alvarez (ed.), The New Poetry (1962. Penguin, revised edition, 1966).Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (Penguin, 1992)Martin Amis, Money (Vintage new edition, 2005)London Fields (Vintage new edition, 1999)Time’s Arrow (Vintage, 2003)J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World (Harper Perennial, 2006 ) The Atrocity Exhibition (Flamingo Modern Classics / Harper Perennial, 2006).Jonathan Coe, What a Carve Up! (Penguin, 2001)Robert Conquest (ed.), New Lines (Macmillan, 1956)Donald Davie, Selected Poems?(Carcanet, 1997)William Golding, The Inheritors (Faber, 2011) Pincher Martin (Faber, 2013)Thom Gunn,?Collected Poems (Faber, 1993)Geoffrey Hill, Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006)Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (Picador, 2005)Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems 1957-1994 (Faber, 2001)Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (Faber, 2005) Never Let Me Go (Faber, 2005)Elizabeth Jennings, New Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2002)Philip Larkin, Collected Poems (Faber, 2003)Ian McEwan, Enduring Love (1996) Saturday (Vintage, 2006)Iris Murdoch, Under the Net (Penguin, 1971)George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin, 2008)Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Harper Perennial, 2008)Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin, 2000)The Comforters (Virago, 2009)David Storey, This Sporting Life (Vintage, 2000)John Wain, Hurry on Down (Valancourt, 2013)Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (Penguin, 2000)African and Black Diasporic WritingStewart Brown and Mark McWatt (eds), The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse (2005)Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Penguin, 2006)J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (Secker and Warburg, 1999); Elizabeth Costello (Secker and Warburg, 2003)Andrea Levy, Small Island (Headline Review, 2004)Zadie Smith, On Beauty (Penguin, 2006)Derek Walcott, Selected Poems (Faber, 2007)Contemporary PoetryJames Fenton, The Memory of War and Children In Exile: Poems 1968-1983 (Penguin, 1983)Tony Harrison, Selected Poems (Penguin, 1987)Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 (Faber, 1998).Paul Muldoon (ed.), The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (Faber, 1986).?Secondary CriticismGeneral Books/Essay Collections on Literature 1945-presentArana, Victoria and Lauri Ramey (eds), Black British Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)Brook, Susan, Literature and Culture in the 1950s (Palgrave, 2007)Davies, Alistair and Alan Sinfield, British Culture of the Post-War (Routledge, 2000)Cockin, Katherine and Jago Morrison, The Post-War British Literature Handbook (Continuum, 2010)Dabydeen, David and Nana Wilson-Tague, A Reader’s Guide to West Indian and Black British Literature (Hansib, 1988)Gilroy, Paul, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (1987)Gilroy, Paul, After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture (2004)Hall, Stuart, and Martin Jacques (eds), The Politics of Thatcherism (1983)Hewison, Robert, In Anger (Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1981)Innes, C.L. (ed.), The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English (CUP, 2007)Irele, Abiola (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel (2009)King, Bruce, The Internationalisation of English Literature (OUP 2004) Marcus, Laura and Peter Nicholls, The Cambridge History of English Literature: the Twentieth Century (CUP, 2005)Morgan, Kenneth O., Briatin Since 1945: The People’s Peace (OUP, 2001)Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986)Owusu, Kwesi (ed.), Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader (2000)Stevenson, Randall, The Oxford English Literary History, vol. 12: 1960-2000 (Oxford, 2005) Stevenson, Randall and Brian McHale, The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth Century Literature (Edinburgh UP, 2006)Taylor, John Russell, Anger and After (Methuen, 1962)Waugh, Patricia, The Harvest of the Sixties (Oxford, 1995)General Books/Essay Collections on Post-war FictionBaker, Stephen, The Fiction of Postmodernity, (Edinburgh, 2000)Byatt, A.S. ,On Histories and Stories (Vintage, 2001)Bentley, Nick, Contemporary British Fiction (Edinburgh UP, 2008)Brannigan, John, Orwell to the Present (Palgrave, 2003)Carpenter, Humphrey, The Angry Young Men (Penguin, 2002)Connor, Steven, The English Novel in History 1950-95 (Routledge, 1996)Donnell, Alison, and Sarah Lawson Welsh (eds), The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (1996)Gasiorek, Andre, Post-War British Fiction (Edward Arnold, 1995)Head, Dominic, The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction (Cambridge, 2002)Irele, Abiola, The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora (2001)English, James (ed.), A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (Blackwell, 2006)Gikandi, Simon, Reading the African Novel (1987)Kannick, Geoffrey, Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture (Palgrave, 2010)Lodge, David, The Novelist at the Crossroads and Other Essays (Edward Arnold, 1971)Lazarus, Neil (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (2004)Lee, A. Robert (ed.), Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction (1995)Proctor, James, Dwelling Places: Post-War Black British Writing (Manchester, 2003)Sage, Lorna, Women in the House of Fiction: Post-War Women Novelists (London, 1992)Shaffer, Brian (ed.), A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2001 (Blackwell, 2005) Taylor, Brian, After the War: The Novel and English Society Since 1945 (Chatto, 1993)Tew, Brian, Rod Mengham and Richard Lane, Contemporary British Fiction (Polity, 2003)Waugh, Patricia, Metafiction: The Theory and Practise of Self-Conscious Fiction (Methuen, 1984)---------------------Feminine Fictions (Edward Arnold, 1989) ------------- Practising Postmodernism/Reading Modernism (Arnold, 1992) Wood, Michael, Children of Silence: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (Pimlico, 1998)General Books/Essay Collections on Post-war PoetryBrearton, Fran and Alan Gillis (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (OUP, 2012).Corcoran, Neil,?English Poetry Since 1940 (Longman, 1993)Neil Corcoran (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry (CUP, 2008).Matthew Campbell, The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (CUP, 2003).?. Davie, Donald,?Purity of Diction in English Verse (1952; Routledge, 1967)Davie, Donald,?Articulate Energy: An Inquiry into the Syntax of English Poetry ?? (1955; Routledge, 1976)Davie, Donald, Thomas Hardy and British Poetry (Routledge, 1973)Davie, Donald, The Poet in the Imaginary Museum: Essays of Two Decades, ed.Barry Alpert (Carcanet, 1977)Davie, Donald, Trying to Explain: Essays (Carcanet, 1980)Davie, Donald, Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain 1960-1988???? (Carcanet,?1989)Gunn, Thom, Shelf Life: Essays, Memories and an Interview (Faber, 1994)Haffenden, John,?Viewpoints: Poets in Conversation (Faber, 1981)Hill, Geoffrey,?Collected Critical Writings of Geoffrey Hill (OUP, 2008)Jones, Peter &?M. Schmidt (eds), British Poetry Since 1970: A Critical Survey??? ??????? (Carcanet, 1980)Leader, Zachary (ed.),?The Movement Reconsidered:? Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, ???????? Davie,?and their Contemporaries (OUP, 2009)Morrison, Blake, The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950’s (OUP,??????? 1980) O’Neill, Michael, The All-Sustaining Air (OUP, 2007).O’Neill, Michael (ed.), The Cambridge History of English Poetry (CUP, 2010)Regan, Stephen (ed.), Philip Larkin, Macmillan New Casebook (Macmillan, 1997)Roberts, Neil (ed.), A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry? (Blackwell, 2001)Robinson, Peter (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (OUP, 2013) Schmidt, Michael, An Introduction to Fifty Modern British Poets (Pan, 1979)Schmidt, Michael?& G. Lindop (eds), British Poetry Since 1960: A Critical Survey??????? (Carcanet, 1972)Thurley, Geoffrey, The Ironic Harvest: English Poetry in the Twentieth Century???????? (Arnold, 1974)Wilmer, Clive, Poets Talking: The ‘Poet of the Month’ interviews from BBC Radio 3???????? (Carcanet, 1994).Wormald, Mark, Neil Roberts and Terry Gifford, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected (Palgrave, 2013)POST-WAR FICTION AND POETRYLECTURE LIST 2014/2015Lectures will take place every Tuesday from 11:00am to 12 noon in Elvet Riverside 201. Michaelmas Term 2014Post-War Themes and Ideas 7 OctoberAfter the War: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four?and Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead RevisitedDr Harding14 OctoberAngry Young Men: John Wain, Hurry on Down; Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; David Storey, This Sporting LifeDr Harding21 OctoberWilliam Golding: The Inheritors and Pincher MartinProf Waugh28 OctoberSecularisation and Satire: Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The ComfortersProf Waugh4 NovemberGeoffrey Hill and Elizabeth Jennings?Prof O’Neill11 NovemberTed HughesDr Sandy18 NovemberThatcherism and the Novel: Jonathan Coe, What a Carve Up and Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of BeautyProf James25 NovemberAffective Cosmopolitanism: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Late Modernism: Never Let Me Go and Remains of the DayProf Waugh2 DecemberBiopolitics and the Novel from the 1990s (Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Saturday; Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow)Prof Waugh9 DecemberJ.G. Ballard: The Drowned World and The Atrocity ExhibitionDr ThomasEpiphany Term 2014Englands and Scotlands of the Mind13 JanuaryThe Movement and Beyond (1):? Thom Gunn and Donald DavieProf O’Neill20 JanuaryThe Movement and Beyond (2):? Philip Larkin??Prof Regan27 JanuaryKingsley Amis, Lucky Jim?and Iris Murdoch, Under the NetDr Mackay3 FebruaryContemporary Scottish Fiction Dr Mackay9 February READING WEEKAfrican and Black Diasporic Writing17 FebruaryDerek Walcott and Caribbean PoetryDr Terry23 FebruaryBlack African Fiction: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart and Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous ConditionsDr Terry3 MarchJ.M. Coetzee: Disgrace, Elizabeth CostelloProf Waugh10 MarchBlack British Fiction: Andrea Levy, Small Island and Zadie Smith, On BeautyDr TerryEaster Term 2014Easter Term: British and Irish Contemporary Poetry21 AprilSeamus Heaney?Prof Regan28 AprilMahon, Longley, MuldoonProf Regan5 MayTony Harrison and James FentonDr BatchelorRevision Session: The Challenge of the Contemporary: responding to contemporary literature. Forum with lecturers on the module, followed by Q and A. LITERATURE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, LEVEL 2 AND LEVEL 32014-15PRELIMINARY READING LISTThe convenors for this module are Professor Michael O’Neill (m.s.o’neill@durham.ac.uk) and Dr Sarah Wootton (s.e.wootton@durham.ac.uk). Other members of staff lecturing on the module include Professor Tim Clark, Dr Simon Grimble, Professor Simon James, Dr Chris Murray, Dr Helen O’Connell, and Dr Mark Sandy. In the lectures for this module (see list at end of this reading list) we aim to provide a basis for understanding Romantic literature through a combination of lectures on general topics, individual authors, and specific texts. This preliminary list gives recommended texts, a few introductory critical studies, and a selection of useful electronic resources. A more extensive critical reading list will be available at the start of the module. AnthologiesA good range of the poetry is included in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th edition, vol. 2 (New York and London: Norton, 2012) and in Romanticism: An Anthology, ed. D. Wu, 4th edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2012). Wherever an author is particularly well represented in the Norton or Blackwell anthologies, this is indicated in the list below.See also:M. O’Neill and C. Mahoney (eds), Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007).F. Robertson (ed.), Women’s Writing, 1778-1838: An Anthology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).The list follows the order of the lecture series, and organizes reading by author or topic. The ‘recommended preliminary reading’ specifies the texts that you are advised to read in advance of the lecture. MICHAELMAS TERM 2014The best preparation for the general lectures is the introductory section to the Romantic Period in the Norton anthology. Relevant sections and introductions in the Blackwell anthologies listed above are also useful.WILLIAM BLAKEMany of the poems discussed in the lectures are available in the Norton and Blackwell anthologies. The Book of Urizen, discussed in the second Blake lecture, is included in the Blackwell anthology but not in the Norton. The best all-round paperback text to buy is either Blake’s Poetry and Designs, ed. Mary Lynn Johnson and John E. Grant (New York and London: Norton, 1979: 0393090833) or the more fully annotated William Blake: Selected Poems and Prose, ed. D. Fuller (London: Longman, rev edn, 2008: 1408204134). To see the poetry in the context of Blake’s designs, you should use the following paperback editions, which include colour reproductions: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, ed. A. Lincoln (Princeton, 1991: 0691037906); or the less good Songs of Innocence and of Experience, ed. G. Keynes (Oxford paperback, 1970: 0192810898); The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, ed. G. Keynes (Oxford paperback, 1975: 0192811673).Recommended preliminary reading: see lecture list.REVOLUTIONARY CONTEXTSEdmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790, ed. Conor Cruise O’Brien (Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1986: 0140432043). Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings, ed. Mark Philp (Oxford: World’s Classics, 2008: 019953800X). Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, ed. Janet Todd (Oxford: World’s Classics, 1993: 019955546X).Recommended preliminary reading: all three texts.WILLIAM WORDSWORTHWilliam Wordsworth, ed. S. Gill (Oxford Authors, 2012: 0199699593), offers an excellent selection of Wordsworth, including Lyrical Ballads and the text of the 1805 Prelude. Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose, ed. N. Halmi (New York and London: Norton, 2013: 0393924785) also offers a generous selection of the poetry (including the 1805 Prelude), prose works, and criticism. Those wishing to concentrate on Wordsworth’s long poem may prefer Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850, ed. J. Wordsworth, M.H. Abrams, S. Gill (New York and London: Norton, 1979: 039309071X), which contains the poem in its preliminary 1799 two-book form, and parallel 1805/1850 texts. Both the Norton and Blackwell anthologies contain a good selection of Wordsworth’s work. Recommended preliminary reading: for the first Wordsworth lecture, ‘The Ruined Cottage’, ‘The Idiot Boy’, ‘Simon Lee’, ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘The Two April Mornings’, ‘A slumber did my spirit seal’, ‘She dwelt among th’untrodden ways’, ‘Strange fits of passion I have known’, ‘Michael’, ‘Resolution and Independence’, ‘Ode (“There was a Time”)’ [better known as ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’]; for the second Wordsworth lecture, The Prelude, 1805 version, books 1, 2, 6 and 11; see also Preface to Lyrical Ballads.SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoems, ed. J. Beer (Everyman, new edn., 1996: 0460878263). Biographia Literaria, ed. G. Watson (Everyman, 1956, 1991: 0460873326). Both the Norton and the Blackwell anthology include a good selection of Coleridge’s poetry and a good sample of chapters from Biographia Literaria.Recommended preliminary reading: for the first Coleridge lecture, ‘The Eolian Harp’, ‘Frost at Midnight’, ‘The Nightingale’, and ‘Dejection: An Ode’; for the second Coleridge lecture, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Christabel’, and ‘Kubla Khan’. WOMEN’S POETRY: SMITH, HEMANS, LANDONMany of the poems discussed in the lecture are available in F. Robertson (ed.), Women’s Writing, 1778-1838 (Oxford: OUP, 2001: 075678347X). The following editions are also recommended: The Poems of Charlotte Smith, ed. S. Curran (OUP, 1993: 019507873X); Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose and Letters, ed. G. Kelly (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002: 1551111373); Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, ed. Susan Wolfson (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000: 0691050295); Selected Writings of Letitia Landon, ed. J.J. McGann and D. Riess (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1997: 1551111357). Electronic texts of all the poems discussed in the lecture may be found via Literature Online (LION) at preliminary reading: Charlotte Smith’s ‘Beachy Head’, ‘The Jay in Masquerade’ and ‘The Glow-Worm’; Felicia Hemans’s Records of Woman (in particular, ‘Indian Woman's Death-Song’ and ‘Properzia Rossi’) and ‘The Last Song of Sappho’; Letitia Landon’s ‘Felicia Hemans’ and ‘Lines of Life’.THE GOTHIC NOVELAnn Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, ed. J. Howard (Penguin Classics, 2001: 0140437592). William Godwin, Caleb Williams, ed. Pamela Clemit (Oxford: OUP, 2009: 0199232067). Recommended preliminary reading: both novels.EPIPHANY TERM 2015JANE AUSTENSense and Sensibility, ed. Ros Ballaster (Penguin Classics, 2003: 9780141439662). Persuasion, ed. and introd. Linda Bree (Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 1998: 1551111314)Recommended preliminary reading: both novels. LORD BYRONByron: The Major Works, ed. J.J. McGann (Oxford: World’s Classics, 2000: 0192840401): the most useful selection, including a complete text of Don Juan. The Norton anthology includes a good selection of shorter poems and extracts from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan; the Blackwell anthology includes extracts from these two works and a reasonable selection of shorter poems. Recommended preliminary reading: for the first lecture, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, cantos 3 and 4, and Manfred; for the second lecture, Don Juan, cantos 1-4 (and as much beyond as you can manage).PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPercy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, ed. Z. Leader and M. O’Neill (Oxford: World’s Classics, reissue 2009; 0199538972), or Shelley’s Poetry and Prose, ed. D. H. Reiman and N. Fraistat (New York and London: Norton, 2002: 0393977528). Both editions contain a full text of A Defence of Poetry. Both the Norton and Blackwell anthologies include good selections of Shelley’s poetry but only extracts from A Defence of Poetry.Recommended preliminary reading: for the first lecture: Alastor, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’, Mont Blanc, Julian and Maddalo, and Epipsychidion; for the second lecture: ‘Ode to the West Wind’, Prometheus Unbound, Adonais, The Triumph of Life, ‘The Two Spirits – An Allegory’, some of the late poems to Jane Williams.JOHN KEATSThe Complete Poems, ed. J. Barnard (Penguin, 1973: 0140422102). Both the Norton and Blackwell anthologies include good selections from the poetry and extracts from the letters.Recommended preliminary reading: for the first lecture, ‘Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil’, ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’, ‘Lamia’, and ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’; for the second lecture, the Odes, ‘Hyperion’ and ‘The Fall of Hyperion’. EASTER TERM 2015JOHN CLAREJohn Clare: Major Works, ed. E. Robinson and D. Powell (Oxford World’s Classics, 2008: 0199549796), which contains a good selection of prose as well as poems; John Clare: Selected Poems, ed. G. Summerfield (Penguin, 2000: 9780140437249). Recommended preliminary reading: ‘The Lament of Swordy Well’, among other poems to be advised ahead of the lecture. WILLIAM HAZLITTThe Fight and Other Writings, ed. Tom Paulin and David Chandler?(London: Penguin, 2000: 0140436138) has a very good selection of Hazlitt's essays, whilst The Spirit of the Age?is the most important collection of his criticism?(Dodo Press, 2007: 1406544183). The Spirit of the Age is also available from the library in a number of different editions, and via Literature Online (LION) and Project Guttenberg:. ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’ can be found in the Norton.?Recommended preliminary reading: ‘On Gusto’, ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’, ‘Mr Wordsworth’, ‘Mr Coleridge’?(the latter two are both from The Spirit of the Age and also in the Penguin selection), ‘The Fight’ and ‘The Indian Jugglers’ (in the Penguin). CRITICAL READINGThis is a list of surveys, guides, and reference works which will help to orientate you during your reading for the module. Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background, 1760-1830 (Oxford, 1981).Marilyn Gaull, English Romanticism: The Human Context (Norton, 1988).Aidan Day, Romanticism, New Critical Idiom Series (Routledge, 1996).Gary Kelly, English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830, Longman Literature in English Series (1989).J.R. Watson, English Poetry of the Romantic Period, 1789-1820, Longman Literature in English Series (2nd edn., 1992).Stuart Curran (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism (Cambridge, 1993: 2nd edn., 2010).David Pirie (ed.), The Romantic Period, vol. 5 of The Penguin History of Literature (Penguin, 1994).Michael Ferber, Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2010).Charles Mahoney (ed.), A Companion to Romantic Poetry (Blackwell, 2011).Michael O’Neill (ed.), Literature of the Romantic Period: A Bibliographical Guide (Oxford, 1998).Special Issue of the journal Romanticism, devoted to ‘Romanticism and its Legacies’, guest ed. M O’Neill, 14:1 (2008).INTERNET SITESThere are three especially useful web sites for Literature of the Romantic Period, each of which act as gateways to many others:Romantic Chronology, gen. ed, Laura Mandell and Alan Liu (searchable chronology of political events, religious debates, and intellectual controversies of the period, setting key works in context, with links to other valuable resource sites on specific authors and topics), at: Circles, ed. Neil Fraistat and Steven E. Jones (includes electronic editions of primary texts, especially of Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley, lists of recent publications, and links to other valuable resources sites on specific authors and topics (Austen, Blake, Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft, amongst others), at: and Victorianism on the Net, ed. Michael Laplace-Sinatra and Dino Franco Felluga (on-line journal which includes critical essays and reviews on all aspects of Romanticism, together with links to other valuable resource sites), at: Professor Michael O’Neill and Dr Sarah WoottonModule ConvenorsLITERATURE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIODLECTURE LIST 2014-2015 Lectures take place every Thursday from 11.00am to 12 noon in Elvet Riverside Room 201.Michaelmas Term 20149 OctoberThemes, Images, and Definitions Dr Wootton16 OctoberBlake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience Professor O’Neill23 OctoberBlake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Book of Urizen, and ‘The Mental Traveller’Professor O’Neill 30 October Revolutionary Contexts Dr O’Connell6 NovemberWordsworth: Lyrical and Narrative PoemsProfessor O’Neill13 November Wordsworth: The 1805 Prelude Professor Clark20 NovemberColeridge: Conversation PoemsDr Murray27 NovemberColeridge: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, Dr Sandy‘Christabel’, and ‘Kubla Khan’4 December Women’s Poetry: Smith, Hemans, and Landon Dr Wootton11 December The Gothic Novel: The Mysteries of UdolphoProfessor Jamesand Caleb Williams Epiphany Term 201515 JanuaryJane Austen: Sense and Sensibility and PersuasionProfessor James22 JanuaryRomantic Dialogues: Austen, Byron, and the Gothic VillainDr Wootton29 JanuaryByron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, III-IV, and ManfredDr Sandy5 FebruaryByron: Don Juan, 1-IVProfessor O’Neill9 FebruaryREADING WEEK19 February Shelley: Alastor, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’, and ‘Mont Blanc’ Dr Sandy26 February Shelley: ‘Ode to the West Wind’, Prometheus Unbound, and AdonaisProfessor O’Neill5 MarchKeats: The Narrative PoemsDr Wootton 12 MarchKeats: The OdesDr SandyEaster Term 201523 April John Clare and EcocriticismProfessor Clark30 AprilHazlitt: The Figure of the Critic in the Romantic Period Dr Grimble7 May Retrospect: Romantic IdeologiesProfessor Clark Chaucer:General Reading ListConvener: Professor Elizabeth ArchibaldLectures for this module will begin with The Canterbury Tales and then move on to the Dream Vision poems (Book of the Duchess, Parliament of Fowls, House of Fame, Legend of Good Women), concluding with Troilus and Criseyde. The library has very good holdings for Chaucer, including a large amount of audio material. Numbers of students registered for this course will be large, however, which means that there will be inevitable pressure on books. Copies of the main critical works on this list will be placed on short loan. If you are browsing along the shelves, do take note of the publication date of the work you are reading - views on Chaucer have changed markedly in recent years. Try checking your college library before leaving for the summer, to see whether books can be ordered over the summer in time for the autumn. Particularly useful would be the Oxford Guides series (see under Reference Works and Companions, below).You should equip yourself with the Riverside Chaucer, which provides a good, cheap edition of all the texts, excellent notes and a reasonably up-to date bibliography. The other editions listed offer fuller introductions to the specific texts. The two Durham Medieval Texts editions are reasonably priced, and Helen Phillips’ edition of the Book of the Duchess offers a large selection of the French source texts. Individual editions of the Canterbury Tales have not been listed. There are some relatively inexpensive critical works in paperback, such as the Oxford Guides series, which provides an excellent way into the subject, and contains extremely useful background, textual, source and critical material. The various other Companion works are also useful.The following is a basic reading list for the course. Of course, you are not expected to read everything on it, nor even a major part of it. It is most important that your reading during the summer vacation focus on the texts themselves; the Riverside edition contains ‘foot of the page’ quick glosses, a full glossary and notes. Vacation reading is essential as Middle English is difficult at first, and does require time; it will become easier and speedier to read. Listening to recordings is an excellent way into the texts. Chaucer himself was writing within a sophisticated intellectual tradition, and working constantly with literary sources, so that it will also be very helpful to read in translation some of the most formative influences on his work (e.g. Boethius, Boccaccio, Dante, Ovid, The Romance of the Rose,). Translations of Chaucer's works have not been included in this reading list as it is expected that students will read the texts in the original language. Particularly useful works are marked with *. The Library is asked to place these on three-day loan.Editions:*The Riverside Chaucer (3rd. ed.), ed. Larry D. Benson, OUP 1988. With a new introduction by Christopher Cannon, 2008.(Recommended edition: the previous edition (The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (2nd. ed.), ed. F.N. Robinson, OUP 1957) will provide an adequate text but its notes and bibliography are out of date).Canterbury Tales, ed. Jill Mann, OUP, 1985 (brief but useful notes) Chaucer’s Dream Poetry, ed. Helen Phillips and Nick Havely, Longman, 1997.Geoffrey Chaucer: Dream Visions and Other Poems, ed. Kathryn Lynch, Norton 2007 (useful extracts from sources and critical essays)The Book of the Duchess, ed. Helen Phillips, Durham Medieval Texts, 1982, 2nd.ed. 1994.The House of Fame, ed. N.R. Havely, Durham Medieval Texts, 1994.The Parlement of Foules, ed. D.S. Brewer, Manchester University Press, 1960 (useful but now out of date).Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde, ed. B .A. Windeatt, Longman, 1984 (paperback 1990) (excellent edition with an aligned texts of the sources).Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Barry Windeatt, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. (excellent, convenient edition, fully glossed and annotated)Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Stephen Barney, Norton 2006 (aligned texts of Boccaccio and Chaucer; useful extracts from critical essays)Sources:(N.B. The editions listed above also have information on source material; most of the works below contain source texts)Boccaccio, Il Filostrato, ed. N.E. Griffin and A.B. Myrick, Philadelphia, 1929.*Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. V.E. Watts, 2nd edn, Penguin, 1999.Bryan, W.F. and Dempster, G., Sources and Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, New York, 1941, repr. 1958.Correale, Robert M. and Mary Hamel, Sources and Analogues of The Canterbury Tales, Volumes I and II, Chaucer Studies 28 and 35, Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2002 and 2005. *Guillaume de Lorris & Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose, trans. Frances Horgan, Oxford World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1999 trans. in prose, Charles Dahlberg, University Press of New England, 1986. *Gordon, R.K., The Story of Troilus, London, 1934.*Havely, N.R., Chaucer's Boccaccio, Chaucer Studies 5, D.S. Brewer, 1980.Macrobius, Commentary on the ‘Somnium Scipionis’, trans. W.H.Stahl, Cornell UP, 1952. Miller, R.P., Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds, OUP 1977. Nolan, B., Chaucer and theTradition of the ‘Roman Antique’, CUP, 1992.*Windeatt, B.A., Chaucer's Dream Poetry: Sources and Analogues, Chaucer Studies 7, D. S. Brewer, 1982. Reference Works and Companions:Andrew, Malcolm, The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer, Palgrave Literary Dictionaries, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.*Brown, Peter, ed., A Companion to Chaucer, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.Burnley, David, A Guide to Chaucer’s Language, Macmillan Press, 1983.*Cooper, H., The Canterbury Tales, Oxford Guides to Chaucer, Clarendon Press, 1989.Davis, N., D. Gray, P. Ingham, A. Wallace Hadrill, A Chaucer Glossary, Oxford 1979. *Ellis, Steve, ed., Chaucer: An Oxford Guide, Oxford: OUP, 2005.* Gray, Douglas, ed., The Oxford Companion to Chaucer, Oxford: OUP, 2003.Leyerle, J. and Anne Quirk, Chaucer: A Bibliographical Introduction, University of Toronto Press, 1986. *Minnis, A.J., J. Scattergood & J.J. Smith, The Shorter Poems, Oxford Guides to Chaucer, Clarendon Press, 1996. The Oxford Classical Dictionary (for information on classical references, myths etc.) *Saunders, Corinne, ed., Chaucer. Blackwell Guides to Criticism, 2001. (A survey of and extracts from Chaucer criticism).*Saunders, Corinne, ed., A Concise Companion to Chaucer, Blackwell, 2006.Saunders, Corinne, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry, Blackwell, 2010.Tatlock, J. S. P, A Concordance to the Complete Works of Chaucer, Gloucester, MA, 1963 (all words used by Chaucer, listed by text)*Windeatt, B. Troilus and Criseyde, Oxford Guides to Chaucer, Clarendon Press, 1992.Background:Bennett, H.S., Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century, OUP, 1947.Boitani, P. (ed.), Chaucer and the Italian Trecento, CUP, 1983. Burnley, J.D., Chaucer's Language and the Philosophers' Tradition, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1979. Burrow, J.A., Ricardian Poetry, Routledge & Kegan Paul ,1971.Horobin, Simon, The Language of the Chaucer Tradition, Chaucer Studies 32, Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003.Lewis, C.S., The Discarded Image, Cambridge, 1964. Mathew, G., The Court of Richard II, John Murray, 1968. McKisack, M., The Fourteenth Century 1307-1399, Oxford History of England, OUP, 1959 (standard historical reference). Murphy, James J., Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from St Augustine to the Renaissance, University of California Press 1974.Murphy, James J. Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts, University of California Press, 1971.Muscatine, C., Chaucer and the French Tradition, Berkeley 1957, University of California Paperback, 1964. Pearsall, D., The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography, Blackwell, 1992.Prendergast, Thomas A., Chaucer’s Dead Body: From Corpse to Corpus, London; New York: Routledge, 2004.Robertson, D.W., A Preface to Chaucer, Princeton UP, 1962 (Interesting, but use with care). Scattergood, V.J. & J.W. Sherborne, English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages, Duckworth, 1983.Strohm, Paul, Hochon’s Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts, Princeton UP, 1992.Wimsatt, James I., Chaucer and the Poems of ‘Ch’, Chaucer Studies IX, D.S. Brewer, 1982.Wimsatt, James I., Chaucer and His French Contemporaries. Natural Music in the Fourteenth Century, University of Toronto Press 1991, Paperback 1993.General:Aers, David, Chaucer, Harvester, 1986.Blamires, Alcuin, Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender, Oxford: OUP, 2006.Burlin, Robert B., Chaucerian Fiction, Princeton UP, 1977.Brewer, Derek, A New Introduction to Chaucer, 2nd edn, Longman, 1998.Burger, Glenn, Chaucer’s Queer Nation, University of Minnesota Press, 2003.Butterfield, Ardis, The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War, OUP, 2009.Davenport, W.A., Chaucer: Complaint and Narrative, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1988.Dinshaw, Carolyn, Chaucer's Sexual Poetics, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.Donaldson, E.T., Speaking of Chaucer, London, 1970.Ferster, Judith, Chaucer on Interpretation, Cambridge UP, 1985.Fradenburg, Louise, Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer, University of Minnesota Press, 2002.Ganim, John M., Chaucerian Theatricality, Princeton University Press, 1990.Hansen, Elaine Tuttle, Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender, University of California Press, 1992.Hermann, J.P., & J.J.Burke Jr., Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry, University of Alabama Press,1981.Horobin, Simon, The Language of the Chaucer Tradition, Chaucer Studies 32, Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003.Lawton, David, Chaucer's Narrators, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1985.Mann, Jill, Geoffrey Chaucer, Harvester/Wheatsheaf Feminist Readings Series, 1991.Martin, Priscilla, Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons, Macmillan, 1990.Mehl, D., Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction to his Narrative Poetry, CUP, 1986.Mitchell, J. Allan, Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower, Chaucer Studies 33, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004.Norton Smith, J., Geoffrey Chaucer, Medieval Writers and their Work, Routledge, 1974.Patterson, Lee, Chaucer and the Subject of History, London Routledge, 1991.Rigby, S. H., Chaucer in Context: Society, Allegory and Gender, Manchester UP, 1996.Sklute, Larry, Virtue of Necessity: Inconclusiveness and Narrative Form in Chaucer’s Poetry, Ohio State UP, 1984.Strohm, Paul, Social Chaucer, Harvard UP, 1989.Trigg, Stephanie, Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern, University of Minnesota Press, 2002.Van Dyke, Carolynn, Chaucer’s Agents: Cause and Representation in Chaucerian Narrative, Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses; Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson U P, 2005.Weisl, Angela Jane, Conquering the Reign of Femeny: Gender and Genre in Chaucer’s Romance, D. S. Brewer, 1995.Collections of Essays:Allen,Valerie and Ares Axiotis, ed., Chaucer, New Casebooks Series, Macmillan, 1997.Benson, C. David, Critical Essays on Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and his Major Early Poems, Open University Press, 1991.Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, eds, New Readings of Chaucer’s Poetry, Chaucer Studies 31, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003. Boitani, P. and J. Mann, eds, The Cambridge Chaucer Companion, CUP, 1986. Butterfield, Ardis, ed., Chaucer and the City, Chaucer Studies 37, Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006.Rowland, B., ed., Companion to Chaucer Studies, rev. ed. New York & Oxford, 1979. Saunders, Corinne, ed., A Concise Companion to Chaucer, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.Schoek, R.J. and J. Taylor, eds, Chaucer Criticism, 2 vols., Notre Dame Paperback, 1961.Dream Poems:(The Philips and Havely editions supply material and bibliography for this section)Bennett, J.A.W., The Parlement of Foules: An Interpretation, OUP 1957.Bennett, J.A.W., Chaucer 's Book of Fame, OUP 1968.Boitani, P., Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame, Chaucer Studies X D.S.Brewer, 1984.Cherniss, M.D., Boethian Apocalypse: Studies in Middle English Vision Poetry, Pilgrim Books, 1987.Minnis, A.J., J. Scattergood and J.J. Smith, The Shorter Poems, Oxford Guides to Chaucer, Clarendon Press, 1996.Schibanoff, Susan, Chaucer’s Queer Poetics: Rereading the Dream Trio, Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 2006.Spearing, A. C., Medieval Dream Poetry, Cambridge, 1976.The Legend of Good Women:Collette, Carolyn P, ed., The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception, Chaucer Studies 36, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006. Delaney, Sheila, The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, University of California Press, 1994.Frank, R.W. Jr., Chaucer and 'The Legend of Good Women', Harvard U.P., 1972.Kiser, Lisa J., Telling Classical Tales: Chaucer and the Legend of Good Women, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.Rowe, Donald W., Through Nature to Eternity: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.Troilus and Criseyde:Barney, S. A. (ed)., Chaucer's Troilus: Essays in Criticism, London, 1980.Bishop, I., Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde': A Critical Study, Bristol, 1981.Condren, Edward I, Chaucer from Prentice to Poet: The Metaphor of Love in Dream Visions and Troilus and Criseyde, University of Florida Press, 2008.Mann, Jill, Geoffrey Chaucer, Harvester/Wheatsheaf Feminist Readings Series 1991.McAlpine, M., The Genre of 'Troilus and Criseyde’, Cornell University Press, 1978.Patterson, Lee, Chaucer and the Subject of History, London, Routledge, 1991.Pugh, Tyson and Marcia Smith Marzek, ed., Men and Masculinities in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, D. S. Brewer, 2008.Salu, M..(ed)., Essays on Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer Studies 2, D.S.Brewer, 1979.Vitto, Cindy L. and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds, New Perspectives on Criseyde, Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 2004.Windeatt, B. Troilus and Criseyde, Oxford Guides to Chaucer, Clarendon Press, 1992.The Canterbury Tales:Andrew, Malcolm, ed., Critical Essays on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Open U.P., 1991.Benson, C. David, Chaucer’s Drama of Style: Poetic Variety and Contrast in the Canterbury Tales, University of North Carolina Press, 1986.Bishop, Ian, The Narrative Art of the Canterbury Tales, Everyman's University Library, 1987.Blamires, Alcuin, An Introduction to the Variety of Criticism . The Canterbury Tales, The Critics’ Debate, Macmillan, 1987 (useful sectioned bibliography up to 1987).Brown, P. & A. Butcher, The Age of Saturn. Literature and History in the Canterbury Tales, OUP, 1991.Brown, Peter, Chaucer at Work: The Making of the Canterbury Tales, Longman, 1994.Cooper, H., The Structure of the Canterbury Tales, Duckworth, 1983.Cooper, H., The Canterbury Tales, Oxford Guides to Chaucer, Clarendon Press, 1989.Crane, Susan, Gender and Romance in the Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’, Princeton UP, 1994.Hirsh, John, Chaucer and the ‘Canterbury Tales’: A Short Introduction, Blackwell, 2003.Howard, D.R., The Idea of the Canterbury Tales, Berkeley, 1976.Kean, P.M., Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry: vol.2 The Art of Narrative, 1972, shortened into 1 vol. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982.Knapp, Peggy, Chaucer and the Social Contest, Routledge, 1990.Kolve, V.A., Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative. The First Five Canterbury Tales, Arnold, 1984.Laskaya, Anna, Chaucer’s Approach to Gender in the ‘Canterbury Tales’, D. S. Brewer, 1995.Leicester, H. Marshall Jr., The Disenchanted Self: Representing the Subject in the Canterbury Tales, University of California Press 1990.Lumiansky, R.M., ‘Of Sondry Folk’: The Dramatic Principle in the Art of the Canterbury Tales, University of Texas, 1955.Mann, Jill, Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire, CUP, 1973.Minnis, Alistair, Fallible Authors: Chaucer’s Pardoner and Wife of Bath, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.Pearsall, D., The Canterbury Tales, London, 1985.Phillips, Helen, An Introduction to the ‘Canterbury Tales’: Reading, Fiction, Context, Macmillan, 2000.Ruggiers, P.G., The Art of the Canterbury Tales, Madison, 1965.Shoaf, R. A., Chaucer’s Body: The Anxiety of Circulation in the Canterbury Tales, University Press of Florida, 2001.Wetherbee, Winthrop, Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, Landmarks of World Literature, CUP, 1989.Websites and CD-ROMs:Chaucer: Life and Times CD-ROM (1995). Reading: Primary Source Media.Chaucer: ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue’ on CD-ROM. Ed. Peter Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press on CD-ROM, Chaucer: ‘The General Prologue’ on CD-ROM (2000). Ed. Elizabeth Solopova. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press on CD-ROM. The Hengwrt Chaucer Digital Facsimile CD-ROM (2000). Ed. Estelle Stubbs. Leicester: Scholarly Digital Editions. (The Essential Chaucer (Annotated Bibliography of Chaucer Studies 1900-1984))medlit/chaucer.htm (beginner’s guide to Chaucer) (beginner’s guide to Chaucer) mideng.browse.html (complete original text of Canterbury Tales) (text of Canterbury Tales put into modern spelling and glossed by Michael Murphy) (ELF Edition of Canterbury Tales: original text and modern rhymed translation) (Canterbury Tales Project: transcriptions of all manuscripts and early printed versions into computer-readable form) (guide to Chaucer’s pronunciation with audio illustrations)vmi.edu/english/audio/audio_index.html (guide to Chaucer’s pronunciation with audio extracts) (The Electronic Canterbury Tales with extensive links to other sites)Audio and Video Recordings:*Audio and video recordings may be borrowed from the Main Library Information Desk. Chaucer, Geoffrey. ‘The Canterbury Tales’: ‘The Prologue’. The English Poets from Chaucer to Yeats. The British Council and Oxford University Press. Argo Record Company RG 401.Chaucer, Geoffrey. ‘The Canterbury Tales’: ‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’. The English Poets from Chaucer to Yeats. The British Council and Oxford University Press. Argo Record Company RG 466.Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde (extracts). The English Poets from Chaucer to Yeats. The British Council and Oxford University Press. Argo Record Company ZPL 1003-4.Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Read by Trevor Eaton. Wadhurst: Pavilion Records, 1986-93.The Miller’s Tale (1986) THE 595.The General Prologue, The Reeve’s Tale (1988) THE 606.The General Prologue, The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale (1988) THE 607.The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale (1989) THE 612.The Franklin’s Prologue and Tale (1989) THE 616.The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale (1990) THE 618.The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The Shipman’s Tale, The Prioress’s Prologue and Tale (1990) THE 619.The Friar’s Prologue and Tale, The Summoner’s Prologue and Tale, The Tale of Sir Thopas (1991) THE 620.The Clerk’s Tale, The Physician’s Tale (1991) THE 621.The Knight’s Tale (1992) THES 625 (2 cassettes).The Man of Law’s Tale, The Cook’s Tale, The Manciple’s Tale (1992) THE 626.The Second Nun’s Prologue and Tale, The Canon’s Yeoman’s Prologue and Tale (1992) THE 629.The Squire’s Tale, The Monk’s Tale (1993) THE 630.The Tale of Melibee (1993) THE 632.The Parson’s Tale (1993) THE 633.The Chaucer Studio, an organisation assisted by the English departments of the University of Adelaide and Brigham Young University, in conjunction with the New Chaucer Society, has recorded an almost complete Canterbury Tales. For full details, see , Geoffrey. The Animated Epics: The Canterbury Tales. 3 videos. Wetherby: BBC Educational Publishing. 474157; 474165; 542047.CHAUCERLECTURE LIST 2014/2015Lectures will take place every Wednesday 9:00am to 10:00am in Elvet Riverside 142. Michaelmas Term 20148 OctoberChaucer’s Life and TimesProfessor Cartlidge15 OctoberReading Chaucer AloudProfessor Fuller22 OctoberChaucer and the Classical PoetsProfessor Cartlidge29 OctoberThe Idea of the Canterbury TalesProfessor Fuller5 NovemberThe Romance Genre and the Canterbury TalesProfessor Archibald12 NovemberChaucer’s FabliauxProfessor Cartlidge19 NovemberGender in the Canterbury TalesDr Chambers26 NovemberFable and Parody in the Canterbury TalesDr Ashurst3 DecemberSaints and Devils in the Canterbury TalesProfessor Fuller10 DecemberThe Exotic in the Canterbury TalesProfessor CartlidgeEpiphany Term 201414 JanuaryDream Visions and Dream TheoryProfessor Fuller21 JanuaryThe Book of the DuchessDr Ashurst28 JanuaryThe House of FameDr Barraclough4 FebruaryThe Parliament of FowlsDr Ashurst9 February READING WEEK18 FebruaryThe Legend of Good Women: PrologueProfessor Archibald25 FebruaryThe Legend of Good Women: LegendsProfessor Cartlidge4 MarchTroilus and Criseyde: IntroductionProfessor Fuller11 MarchTroilus and Criseyde: TroilusProfessor ArchibaldEaster Term 201422 AprilTroilus and Criseyde: CriseydeProfessor Archibald29 AprilTroilus and Criseyde: PandarusProfessor Cartlidge6 MayChaucer as a LyricistProfessor CartlidgeOLD ENGLISH – Levels 2 and 3Convenors: Dr Ashurst and Dr BarracloughTo prepare for this module you should read as widely as possible in Old English literature in translation. For the poetry use Bradley or Hamer, and for the prose use Swanton if you can get hold of it (see below for details). You would also do well to read a study such as that by North and Allard or the one by Fulk and Cain. The only book you must have your own copy of is Marsden, which is the set text for the module and will be used in all the translation classes. You will be taught Old English grammar from scratch – no prior knowledge is required. Before Easter you sit a two-hour examination in which you are asked to translate a short passage that you have not previously seen, as well as several you have studied in class, and to write a short literary-critical essay; the exam counts for fifty percent of the assessment. After sitting the exam you produce a summative essay of 3,000 words, which counts for the other fifty percent of the overall mark. Introductory BibliographyExtensive bibliographies for specific topics, including standard editions of the Old English texts, will be available on Duo. For the purposes of this introductory bibliography, Old English texts without translations have been excluded; the point is that you should be able to read any of this material during the summer if you wish. Asterisked items are recommended for possible purchase.1. Grammars* Marsden, Richard, The Cambridge Old English Reader, Cambridge: CUP, 2004. (Essential. You do not need any other grammar book, although an alternative could be useful.)Mitchell, Bruce, and Fred. C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, 7th edn, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.Sweet, Henry, Old English Primer, 9th edn, rev. Norman Davis, Oxford: OUP, 1965.Quirk, Randolph, and C.L. Wrenn, Old English Grammar, 2nd edn, London: Methuen, 1957.2. Texts and Translations*Anglo-Saxon Poetry, ed. and trans. S.A.J. Bradley, London: Dent Everyman, 1982.*A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse, ed. and trans. Richard Hamer, London: Faber, 1970.Anglo-Saxon Prose, ed. and trans. Michael Swanton, rev. edn, London: Dent Everyman, 1993.Old and Middle English: An Anthology, ed. Elaine Treharne, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ed. and trans. Michael Swanton, rev. edn, London: Dent Everyman, 2000.Beowulf, ed. and trans. Michael Swanton, Manchester: Manchester UP, 1978 (Old English text with facing page translation).Beowulf and its Analogues, trans. G.N. Garmonsway and Jacqueline Simpson, London: Dent, 1980 (includes a translation of Beowulf and much other legendary material).Shippey, T.A., ed. and trans., Poems of Wisdom and Learning in Old English, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1976 (texts and facing page translations).Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, trans. Leo Sherley-Price, rev. edn, London: Penguin, 1990.3. Introductory Studies*North, Richard, and Joe Allard, eds, Beowulf and Other Stories: A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures, Harlow: Pearson, 2007.*Fulk, R.D. and Christopher M. Cain, A History of Old English Literature, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.*Companion to Medieval Poetry, ed. Corinne Saunders, Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. This volume contains many useful essays on Old English poetry.Greenfield, Stanley B. and Daniel G. Calder (with Michael Lapidge), A New Critical History of Old English Literature, New York and London: New York UP, 1986.Godden, Malcolm, and Michael Lapidge, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature, Cambridge: CUP, 1991.Pulsiano, Philip, and Elaine Treharne, A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.4. Reference and History*The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Michael Lapidge and others, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.Fisher, P.J.V., The Anglo-Saxon Age, c. 400-1042, London: Longman, 1973.Hunter Blair, Peter, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, 2nd edn, Cambridge: CUP, 1977.Stenton, F.M., Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd edn, Oxford: OUP, 1971.OLD ENGLISHLECTURE LIST 2014-2015All lectures take place in Michaelmas Term.Lectures will be held Thursdays 10:00am to 11:00am in Elvet Riverside 142.Michaelmas Term 20149 OctoberIntroduction: Alfredian Prose Dr Ashurst16 OctoberApolloniusProfessor Archibald23 OctoberSaints in the Exeter Book: Dr BarracloughJuliana and Guthlac30 October Old English Riddles Professor Cartlidge6 NovemberWisdom PoetryDr Ashurst13 NovemberOld English ElegiesDr Barraclough20 November Old Testament Heroic Poetry: Professor McKinnellExodus and Genesis B27 NovemberBeowulfProfessor Cartlidge4 DecemberWulfstanDr Ashurst 11 DecemberBody and SoulProfessor CartlidgeIn addition there are seminars that happen weekly throughout Michaelmas and Epiphany terms; these are devoted to grammar, translation and practical criticism. The texts to be studied will include selections from the following: Apollonius, Riddles, Deor, The Dream of the Rood, Wulfstan’s De falsis deis,The Seafarer, Judith, Exodus, Genesis B, Beowulf. ................
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