2004 Summer Seminar Sylabus
"Enriching American Studies Scholarship
through the History of the
Book"
Sunday, June 20, through Friday, June 25, 2004
Philip F. Gura
Department of English
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
gura@email.unc.edu
June 20 (Sunday)
| 4:30-6:00 p.m. |
Session I. Welcome and Introductions, Antiquarian
Hall:
Philip F. Gura and Joanne Chaison
Exhibition of books and dissertations
in American
book history researched at AAS, Joanne Chaison, AAS research
librarian
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| 6:00 pm |
Reception and Dinner, Goddard Daniels House (GDH) |
June 21 (Monday)
| 9:00-10:30 |
Session II. History of the Book: What It Is, How One
"Does"
It (introduction and autobiographical rumination) (GURA)
(GDH)
Readings: Robert Darnton, "What is the History of Books" in
Davidson,
ed., Reading in America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP,
1989), 27-52;
David D. Hall, "On Native Ground: From the History of Printing to
the
History of the Book," Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian
Society 93 (1983), 313-36; reprinted in Hall, Cultures of
Print:
Essays in the History of the Book (Amherst: Univ. of
Massachusetts
Press, 1996), 15-35; and Robert Gross, "Texts for the Times," in
Casper
et. al., eds., Perspectives on American Book History
(Amherst:
Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2002), 1-16.
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45-12:00 |
Session III. History of the Book: Introduction
(cont'd)
Resources for the Study of American Book
History:
Print and Manuscript (JOANNE CHAISON and THOMAS KNOLES) (COUNCIL
ROOM)
Reading: Joanne Chaison, "Resources for Studying American Book
History,"
in Casper et. al., eds., Perspectives on American Book
History,
441-58.
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| 12:15 |
Lunch (GDH) |
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1:15-2:45
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Session IV. The Materiality of Texts (JAMES
GREEN)
(COUNCIL ROOM)
Readings: Philip Gaskell, A New Introduction to
Bibliography (1972;
New Castle, Del: Oak Knoll Press, 2000).
Readings: pp. 5-8, 40-43, 57-60, 78-84; figs. 46, 47, 50, 55, 59;
pp.
142-63, 189-90, 201-06, 231-34, 266-73.
Recommended: Skim other parts of the book, as time permits.
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| 2:45-3:00 |
Break |
| 3:00- 5:00 |
Session V. The Materiality of Texts (cont'd)
(COUNCIL
ROOM)
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June 22 (Tuesday)
| 9:00-10:30 |
Session VI. Practicum: History of the Book and the
History
of American Religion: The Great Awakening as a Textual Event
(GURA)
(GDH)
Readings: Patricia Crain, "Print and Everyday Life in the
Eighteenth
Century," in Casper, et. al., eds., Perspectives on American
Book History,
47-78; Frank Lambert, "Commercial Strategies" in "Pedlar in
Divinitie":
George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals (Princeton:
Princeton
Univ. Press, 1994), 52-94; and Frank Lambert, "The First Fruits"
in Inventing
the "Great Awakening" (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press,
1999), 69-81.
Recommended: Harry S. Stout, "Religion, Communications, and the
Ideological
Origins of the American Revolution," William and Mary
Quarterly
34: 4, 319-41; Jon Butler, "Enthusiasm Described and Decried,"
Journal
of American History 69: 305-25.
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45-12:00 |
Session VII. History of Religion: Hands-On, and Needs
and
Opportunities (GURA) (COUNCIL ROOM)
The Textual History of Edwards's Faithful Narrative.
Orality vs. Print: Sinners in the Hands of An Angry
God
The 19th Century Invention of Edwards: The American
Tract
Society publications
Recommended: Joseph Conforti, "The Second Great Awakening and the
Cultural
Revival of Edwards," in Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition,
and
American Culture (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press,
1995),
36-61.
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| 12:15 |
Lunch (GDH) |
| 1:15-2:45 |
Session VIII. Practicum:
Intersecting
Technologies: Photography and the Book (GURA) (GDH)
Readings: Alan Trachtenberg, "Prologue," in Reading American
Photographs
(New York: Hill & Wang, 1989), 3-20; Susan Williams, "The
Inconstant
Daguerreotype: The Narrative of Early Photography," in Williams,
Confounding
Images (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1997),
36-65; and
Williams, "Manufacturing Intellectual Equipment: The Tauchnitz
Edition
of The Marble Faun," in Michele Moylan and Lane Stiles,
eds., Reading
Books (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1996),
117-50.
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| 2:45-3:00 |
Break |
| 3:00-5:00 |
Session IX. Hands-On: Photography and the Book
(GEORGIA
BARNHILL) (COUNCIL ROOM)
Readings: Alan Fern, "John Plumbe and the 'Plumbeotype,'"
Philadelphia
Printmaking. American Prints Before 1860, Robert F. Looney,
ed. (West
Chester, Penn.: Tinicum Press, 1976), 149-64; William F. Stapp,
"The Life
and Work of Francis D.Avignon," American Portrait Prints,
Wendy
Wick Reaves, ed. (Washington: National Portrait Gallery, 1984),
194-231.
daguerreotype and engraving (frontispieces, city views)
Carvahlo's expedition
Fremont's Memoirs
Hawthorne's The Marble Faun
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June 23 (Wednesday)
| 9:00-10:30 |
Session X. Practicum: History of the Book and
19th-Century
American Literature (GURA) (GDH)
Readings: Susan S. Williams, "Publishing an Emergent 'American'
Literature,"
in Casper et. al., eds., Perspectives on American Book
History,
165-94; David S. Reynolds, "The American Writers and Their
Environment"
and "Reconstructive Criticism: Literary Theory and Literary
History,"
in Beneath the American Renaissance (New York: Knopf,
1988), 3-12
and 561-68.
Recommended: Jane Tompkins, "The Other American Renaissance," in
Sensational
Designs (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1985) 147-85; Susan K.
Harris,
"But Is It Any Good: Evaluating Nineteenth-Century Women's
Fiction," American
Literature 63: 1, 43-61.
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45-12:00 |
Session XI. Hands-On: Sentiment and Sensation in
American Literature.
(GURA) (COUNCIL ROOM)
Sentiment: Fanny Fern (various editions of Fern Leaves and
Ruth
Hall)
Sensation: George Thompson (examples of his work)
Readings: Susan Belasco Smith, "Introduction," Fanny Fern,
Ruth Hall
(NY: Penguin, 1997), xv-xlvii; David S. Reynolds, .Introduction,.
George
Thompson, Venus in Boston (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts
Press,
2002), ix-liv.
Recommended: Lauren Berlant, "The Female Woman: Fanny Fern and
the Form
of Sentiment," in Shirley Samuels, ed., Culture of
Sentiment (New
York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992), 265-82; Christopher Looby,
.George Thompson.s
.Romance of the Real,.. American Literature 65: 4 (1993),
651-72.
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| 12:15 |
Lunch (GDH) |
| 1:00 |
Group Photograph (location to be announced) |
| 1:15-2:45 |
Session XII. Practicum: Canon Revision and the Example of
Poetry
(ELIZA RICHARDS) (GDH)
Readings: Poems:
.The Poet.: Edgar Allan Poe (selected poems)
.The Poetess.: Frances Sargent Osgood (selected poems)
_________: Critical Works:
Meredith McGill, Chapter Four (.Unauthorized Poe.) from
American Literature
and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 (Philadelphia:
Univ.
of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), 141-86; also notes from pages
310-19.
Eliza Richards, Chapter Two (.Frances Sargent Osgood, Salon
Poetry, and
the Erotic Voice of Print.), from Gender and the Poetics of
Reception
in Poe.s Circle (forthcoming, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004).
Recommended:
Paula Bennett, Introduction and
Chapter
One (.Literary Sentimentality and the Genteel Lyric.), from
Poets
in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women.s
Poetry,
1800-1900 (Princeton: Princeton Univ.
Press, 2003),
1-39.
Mary G. DeJong, .Her Fair Fame: The Reputation of Frances Sargent
Osgood,
Woman Poet,. Studies in the American Renaissance, 1987
(Charlottesville:
Univ. Press of Virginia,1987), 265-83.
____. .Lines from a Partly Published Drama: The Romance of
Frances Sargent
Osgood and Edgar Allan Poe. In Patrons and Protegees,
Shirley Marchalonis,
ed. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1988),
31-58.
Joanne Dobson .Sex, Wit, and Sentiment: Frances Osgood and the
Poetry
of Love,. American Literature 65:4, 631-50.
Mary Loeffelholz, .Who Killed Lucretia Davidson? Or, Poetry in
the Domestic-Tutelary
Complex,. The Yale Journal of Criticism 10: 2, 271-93.
Eliza Richards, . .The Poetess. and Poe.s Performance of the
Feminine,.
Arizona Quarterly 55: 2, 1-29.
Virginia Jackson and Yopie Prins, .Lyrical Studies,.
Victorian Literature
and Culture 7: 2, 521-29.
Useful Website:
Edgar Allan Poe Society in Baltimore: Extensive collection of
Poe.s work
and background and contextual information on Poe
http://www.eapoe.org/index.htm
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| 2:45-3:00 |
Break |
| 3:00-5:00 |
Session XIII. Poetry (cont.d) (Hands-On) (Council
Room)
Anthologies:
Rufus W Griswold, ed. The Female Poets of America.
Philadelphia,
Carey and Hart, 1849.
_____. The Poets and Poetry of America. Philadelphia:
Carey and
Hart, 1842.
Caroline May, ed. The American
Female Poets.
Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1848, 1850.
Thomas Buchanan Read, ed. Female
Poets
of America. Philadephia, E.H. Butler, 1852, 1857.
Newspapers and Magazines:
Broadway Journal issues while Poe was editor, 1845-1846.
Graham.s Magazine from the 1840s
Godey.s Lady.s Book from the 1840s
Democratic Review
Home Journal
New York Tribune
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| 6:00 p.m. |
Dinner at the home of John and Lea Hench |
June 24 (Thursday)
| 9:00-10:30 |
Session XIV. Synthesis (GDH)
Reading: David D. Hall, .Readers and Reading in America:
Historical and
Critical Perspectives,. Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian
Society 103 (1993), 337-58; reprinted in Hall, Cultures of
Print,
169-88.
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
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10:45-12:00
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Session XV. Roundtable: Seminar
Participants
(GDH) (For these sessions, each participant should prepare a 2-3 pp.
(double-spaced)
précis of his or her research interest. We will make copies for all
the
participants. This description of your project will form the basis
for
your presentation). |
| 12:15 |
Lunch (GDH) |
| 1:15-2:45 |
Session XVI. Roundtable (GDH) |
| 2:45-3:00 |
Break |
| 3:00-5:00 |
Session XVII. Roundtable (GDH) |
| 7:00-8:30 |
(tentative) Session XVIII. Roundtable
(GDH) |
June 25 (Friday)
| 9:00-10:30 |
Session XIX. Roundtable (GDH) |
| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45-12:00 |
Session XX. Needs and Opportunities. Valediction.
(GDH)
Reading: Joan S. Rubin, .What Is the History of the History of
Books?.
Journal of American History (September 2003), 555-75.
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| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch and Farewell |
| 1:15-1:45 |
Library Tour (optional) (Marie Lamoureux) |
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