Course Schedule

8/22 Introduction: High Modernity's Seventeenth Century

Introductory Comments

Webcast: Historicizing Modernity, Part I
Webcast: Historicizing Modernity, Part II
Webcast: Historicizing Modernity, Part III
Webcast: Historicizing Modernity, Part IV
Webcast: Historicizing Modernity, Part V

History of Modernity Powerpoint 1
History of Modernity Powerpoint 2
History of Modernity Powerpoint 3
History of Modernity Powerpoint 4
History of Modernity Powerpoint 5

8/30 Individualism and the Private Self

Anthony Easthope, "Problematizing the Pentameter"

Longman Anthology:

"The Early Modern Period" (667-88)
Sir Thomas Wyatt, 695-705 (especially "The Long Love that in my Thought Doth Harbor, 696)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (706-713), (especially "Love That Doth Reign and Live within my Heart" 706)
"John Donne" (1668-9)
Poems: "The Canonization," (1674), "The Flea" (1678), "The Relic,"(1684)

Further Reading of Interest:

Robert Scholes, "Canonicity and Textuality"
Anthony Easthope, "Problematizing the Pentameter"

9/5 Donne's Ambiguity and the New Criticism

Cleanth Brooks, "The Language of Paradox"
John Guillory, "Paradoxy"

9/12 New Critics vs Old Historicists

Introductory Comments

Cleanth Brooks, "Criticism and Literary History: Marvell's Horation Ode"
Douglas Bush, "Marvell's Horation Ode"
Cleanth Brooks, "The Limits of History and the Limits of Criticism"

Poem:
Andrew Marvell, "An Horation Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"

9/19 Second-Wave Feminism and the Metaphysical Poets

Perspectives on Women and Gender (Longman 1508-34)

Poems:

Donne: "The Good Morrow" (1671), "Elegy 19" (1685) "Holy Sonnets, III, IV, V, VII, VIII" (1686-ff) "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (1680); "Good Friday 1613, Riding Westward"

Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress" (1749),

Robert Herrick: "Delight in Disorder," "Corinna's Gone a Maying" (Longman 1707), "To the Virgins . . . " (1709)

Adrienne Rich, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" (handout)

Ilona Bell, "The Role of the Lady in Donne's Songs and Sonets"
Janel Mueller, "Women Among the Metaphysicals"

Some Possible Topics for the First Paper

Lady Mary Wroth (Longman, 1692-3)

Poems and excerpt from Urania (Longman 1692-1704)

9/26 Poststructuralism and the Metaphysical Poets

Andrew Marvell (Longmann 1743-58)

Poems: "The Garden" (1753), "The Mower Against Gardens (1751)

William Empson, "Marvell's Garden"
Paul De Man, "The Dead End of Formalist Criticism
Terry Eagleton , "The Critic as Clown"

10/3 Psychoanalytic Theory and 17th-century poetry

John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4 (Longman, 1888-1911)

Christine Froula, "When Eve Reads Milton"
Edward Pechter, "When Froula Reads Milton"
Jacques Lacan, "The Mirror Stage," from Ecrits

Sparknotes summaries of Paradise Lost

10/10 Authorship Issues:

Perspectives: The Rise of Print Culture (Longman 1079-1114)

J. W. Saunders, "The Stigma of Print"
Wimsatt and Beardsley, "The Intentional Fallacy"
Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author
Michel Foucault, "What is an Author"
Arthur Marotti, "Donne and the Conditions of Coterie Verse"

10/17

John Donne, Anniversaries
Frank Manley, "The Anniversaries"
Ron Strickland, "Pageantry and Poetry as Ideological Discourse"
Ron Striclkand, "Not So Idle Tears"
John Dryden, "Elegy on the Lord Hastings"

First Formal Essay Due

10/24 Habermas: The Emergence of the Public Sphere
Craig Calhoun, "Introduction" from Habermas and the Public Sphere (Calhoun, pp. 2-48)

Some Possible Topics for the Second Paper

10/31Habermas: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
David Zaret, "Religion, Science and Printing in the Public Spheres of England" ( Calhoun, pp. 212-35)

11/7 Habermas: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Keith Michael Baker, "Defining the Public Sphere in Eighteenth Century France (Calhoun, pp. 181-211)
Lloyd Kramer, "Habermas, History, and Critical Theory" (Calhoun, pp. 236-258)

11/14 Habermas: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Nancy Fraser, "Rethinking the Public Sphere" (Calhoun, pp. 109-142)
Michael Schudsen, "Was There Ever a Public Sphere?" (Calhoun, pp. 143-163)

11/28 Habermas; The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Jurgen Habermas, "Further Reflections on the Public Sphere" (Calhoun, pp. 421-461)

12/5 Habermas: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Kevin Pask, "The bourgeois public sphere and the concept of literature"

Second Formal Essay Due