2003 Summer Seminar Sylabus
"Reading and Everyday Life: Books, Texts, Histories"
Sunday, June 15-Friday, June 20, 2003
SEMINAR LEADERS:
- Barbara Hochman (Foreign Literatures, Ben Gurion
University of the Negev)
- David Stewart (English, National Central
University, Taiwan)
PRIMARY READING
Participants should read and be familiar with our two primary texts,
Uncle
Tom's Cabin (Norton) and My Life; or, The Adventures of George
Thompson
(University of Massachusetts Press). These will serve as the bases for
discussions throughout the seminar. Other readings are listed
below. Those marked with dark bullets () are required and can be found in
your seminar copy pack, with the exception of Jane Tompkins essay
Sentimental Power, which is included in your edition of Uncle Tom's
Cabin. Recommended readings, marked with light bullets (), are FYI
and
are neither required nor included in your seminar materials.
BACKGROUND READING
These are not required readings, but we suggest that if you are unfamiliar
with antebellum labor history (Voss), social history (Coontz), or history
of reading (Kaestle), you will want to have a look them. They are not
included in your packet.
Kim Voss, The Making of American Exceptionalism, Ch. 1 & 2 (Cornell
University Press, 1994)
Stephanie Coontz, The Social Origins of Private Life, Ch. 4, 5, & 6
(Verso
Books, 1988)
Carl Kaestle, "The History of Readers," Ch. 2 of Literacy in the United
States, (Hill & Wang Pub., 1983)
SUNDAY, JUNE 15TH
2:00-4:00 p.m. Registration
4:00-6:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions, Antiquarian Hall (AH)
- Exhibition of books and dissertations in American book history
researched
at AAS, Joanne Chaison, AAS research librarian
6:00 p.m. Reception and Dinner, Goddard Daniels
House (GDH)
MONDAY JUNE 16TH
9:00-10:30 READING HISTORY (GDH)
- Robert Darnton, First Steps Toward a History of Reading from The
Kiss of Lamourette (W.W. Norton & Co., 1990)
- Roger Chartier, "Texts, Printings, Readings" from The New Cultural
History, ed. Lynn Hunt (University of California Press, 1989)
- Elizabeth
Long, "Textual Interpretation as Collective Action" from The
Ethnography of
Reading, ed. Jonathan Boyarin (University of California Press, 1993)
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45-12:15 PRESCRIPTIONS FOR READING (GDH)
- Henry Ward Beecher, The Strange Woman from Lectures to Young Men
(John P. Jewett & Co., 1846)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Introductory Essay from Charles Beecher's
The Incarnation (Harper and Brothers, 1849)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Introductory Essay from Charles Beecher's
The Incarnation (Harper and Brothers, 1849)
- Recommended: Joan Hedrick, Nutplains and Litchfield from Harriet
Beecher Stowe: A Life (Oxford University Press, 1994)
12:15-1:15 LUNCH (GDH)
1:15-2:30 MARY KELLEY: READING HISTORY/ WOMEN'S HISTORY (GDH)
- Ann Douglas, The Legacy of American Victorianism: The Meaning of
Little Eva from The Feminization of American Culture (Alfred A. Knopf,
1977)
- Ann Douglas, The Legacy of American Victorianism: The Meaning of
Little Eva from The Feminization of American Culture (Alfred A. Knopf,
1977)
- Mary Kelley, "Reading Women/Women Reading: The Making of Learned
Women in Antebellum America," Journal of American History
(September 1996)
- Recommended: Richard D. Brown, "Daughters, Wives,
Mothers: Domestic Roles and the Mastery of Affective Information,
1765-1865" from Knowledge is Power (Oxford University Press,
1991)
2:30-2:45 BREAK
2:45-4:00 MARY KELLEY (GDH)
- Paper Presentation: Feeling Right: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle
Tom's Cabin, and the Power of Sympathy
4:15-5:00 PRESENTATION (COUNCIL ROOM CR)
- Georgia B. Barnhill, AAS Curator of Graphic Arts, Printmaking
Processes for Book Illustration.
TUESDAY JUNE 17TH
9:00-10:15 SERIAL READING (GDH)
- Susan Belasco Smith, "Serialization and the Nature of Uncle
Tom's
Cabin" from Belasco Smith and Kenneth Price, Periodical Literature
in
Nineteenth-Century America (University Press of Virginia, 1995)
- Margaret Beetham, "Toward a Theory of the Periodical as a
Publishing Genre" from Investigating Victorian Journalism (Palgrave
Macmillan, 1990)
- Recommended: Michael Winship, "The Greatest Book of its Kind: A
Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin," Proceedings of the
American
Antiquarian Society 109.2 (1999)
10:15-10:30 BREAK
10:30-12:30 WORKSHOP: UNCLE TOM AND THE PERIODICAL PRESS (CR)
- National Era, The Liberator, Frederick Douglass' Newspaper,
National Anti-Slavery Standard, Godey's Ladies Book
12:30-1:30 LUNCH (GDH)
1:30-2:45 TEXTS AND PICTURES (GDH)
- W.J.T. Mitchell, The Pictorial Turn from Picture Theory
(University of Chicago Press, 1994)
- Barbara Hochman, Visual Power and Uncle Tom's Cabin
1850/1890: Illustrations in History (work-in-progress)
- Karen Sanchez-Eppler, from Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism,
and the Body, pp 6-7 (University of California Press, 1993)
- Recommended: Marcus Wood, Beyond the Cover: Uncle Tom's Cabin
and
Slavery as Global Entertainment from Blind Memory: Visual Representations
of Slavery in England and America: 1780-1865 (Routledge, 2000)
2:45-3:00 BREAK
3:00-5:00 WORKSHOP: ILLUSTRATING UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (CR)
- First edition (Jewett, 1852); six illustrations by Hammat Billings
and advertisements. Gift edition (Jewett, 1853); one hundred illustrations
by Billings. English edition with illustrations by George
Cruikshank. Editions of the 1890s (Houghton Mifflin, 1892,
1896). Illustrations by E. W. Kemble.
- Also: Godey's Ladies Book, Frank Leslie's Illustrated
Newspaper,
Harper's Monthly, Primers, Children's adaptations of Uncle Tom's
Cabin
7:30-9:00 EVENING ROUNDTABLE ON TEACHING ABROAD, with drinks
and snacks (GDH)
WEDNESDAY JUNE 18TH
9:00-10:30 THE ETHICS OF ADVOCACY (GDH)
- Wendell Phillips, "Public Opinion" (1852) and excerpt from
"Philosophy of the Abolition Movement" (1853) from Speeches, Lectures,
and
Letters (James Redpath, 1863)
- Ann Douglas, "The Legacy of American Victorianism: The Meaning of
Little Eva" (from Monday P.M.)
- Lauren Berlant, "Poor Eliza" American Literature 70 (1998)
- Recommended: Marianne Noble, The Ecstasies of Sentimental Wounding
in Uncle Tom's Cabin from The Masochistic Pleasures of
Sentimental
Literature (Princeton University Press, 2000)
- Recommended: Jane Tompkins "The Other American
Renaissance" from
Sensational Designs (Oxford University Press, 1985)
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45-12:15 MODELS OF EVIDENCE (GDH)
- Jürgen Habermas "The Public Sphere: The Encyclopedia
Article" New
German Critique 1:3 (Telos Press, Ltd., 1974)
- Carlo Ginzburg "Clues: Roots of an Evidentiary Paradigm" and "The
Inquisitor as Anthropologist" from Clues, Myths, and Historical
Method
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989)
- Recommended: Lynn Hunt History Beyond Social Theory" from
The
States of "Theory" ed. David Carroll (Columbia University Press, 1990)
12:15-1:00 LUNCH (GDH)
1:05-1:15 GROUP PHOTOGRAPH (AH)
1:15-2:30 ROBERT GROSS: THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD JENNER
CARPENTER (CR)
- "Journal of Edward Jenner Carpenter," Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian Society 98 (1988)
- Richard Brown, "Choosing One's Fare: Northern Men in the 1840s" from
Knowledge is Power (Oxford University Press, 1989)
- Robert Gross, "The History of the Book: Research Trends and Source
Materials" from The Book (November 1993)
- Recommended: Soltow and Stevens "An Ideology of Literacy and
the
Spread of Reading Materials" from The Rise of Literacy and the Common
Schools in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 1981)
2:30-2:45 BREAK
2:45-5:00 WORKSHOP: EDWARD JENNER CARPENTERS READING (CR)
5:15-6:00 CONVERSATION with Albert Greco, optional. (GDH)
THURSDAY JUNE 19TH
9:00-10:30 THE ADVENTURES OF GEORGE THOMPSON: RECREATING MEN
(GDH)
- Richard Brodhead, "Sparing the Rod" from Cultures of
Letters
(University of Chicago Press, 1993)
- Michael Warner, "Franklin: The Representational Politics of the
Man
of Letters" from Letters of the Republic (Harvard Universtiy Press,
1990)
- "The Doings of a Rum Shop" from the Hampden Washingtonian
(1843)
- Images of Drunkards
- Recommended: Glenn Hendler Sentimental Experience: White
Manhood
in 1840s Temperance Narratives from Public Sentiments (University
of North
Carolina Press, 2001)
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45-12:15 THE ADVENTURES OF GEORGE THOMPSON: RECREATING
FRANKLIN (GDH)
- Andrew Ross, "No Respect: An Introduction" from No Respect
(Routledge, 1989)
- Eric Lott, "Genuine Negro Fun" from Love and Theft (Oxford
University Press, 1993)
- Carlo Ginzburg, "The Inquisitor as Anthropologist" (from Wednesday
A.M.)
- Recommended: "Michel de Certeau, Reading as Poaching" from
The
Practice of Everyday Life (University of California Press, 1984)
12:15-1:15 LUNCH (GDH)
1:15-2:45 CLASS, CRIME, AND CITIES (GDH)
- George Thompson, "The Housebreaker; or, the Mysteries of Crime"
- Karen Halttunen, "The Era of the Confidence Man" from
Confidence
Men/Painted Women (Yale University Press, 1982)
- Roger Lane, "Conclusion" from Violent Death in the City
(Harvard
University Press, 1979)
- Henry Ward Beecher, "The Strange Woman" from Lectures to Young
Men
(from Monday A.M.)
- Images of Mose and the B'hoys
- Recommended: Chris Looby, "George Thompson's 'Romance of
the
Real'"
American Literature 65 (1993)
2:45-3:15 BREAK
3:15-5:00 SEX AND THE SINGLE READER (GDH)
- George Thompson, "The Housebreaker; or, the Mysteries of Crime"
(continued
from 1:15 p.m. session)
- T. Walter Herbert, "The Erotics of Purity" Representations
36
(University of California Press, 1991)
- Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "Davy Crockett as Trickster: Pornography,
Liminality, and Symbolic Inversion in Victorian America" from
Disorderly
Conduct (Alfred A. Knopf, 1985)
- Recommended: G. J. Barker-Benfield, The Horrors of the
Half-Known
Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century
America (HarperCollins, 1976)
- Recommended: Karen Lystra, Searching the Heart: Men,
Women, and
Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press,
1989)
6:00 p.m. DINNER at the home of John and Lea Hench
FRIDAY JUNE 20TH
9:00-10:30 THREE PROJECTS (GDH)
- 3 presentations by seminar participants
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45-12:15 INTERDISCIPLINARITY (GDH)
- David Stewart Reading the Republic: Interdisciplinarity on the
Barricades from Connecticut History 40 (Spring 2001)
12:15-1:15 LUNCH AND GOODBYE (GDH)
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