Eng. 500 Syllabus continued

 

Very Selective Bibliography for English Literary Graduate Study                                           

 

General Introductions to English Studies/Critical Practices

 

Abrams, M. H.  Doing Things with Texts.  New York:  Norton, 1989.

Barthes, Roland.  The Pleasure of the Text. New York:  Hill and Wang, 1975.

Bennett, Andrew and Nicholas Royle. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism, and Theory: Key Critical Concepts. New York: Prentice Hall, 1995.

Bernheimer, Charles  Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism.  Johns Hopkins UP, 1995.

Chandler, James, Arnold I. Davidson, and Harry Harootunian, eds. Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines. Chicago:  Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991.

Eliot, Simon.  A Handbook to Literary Research. London: Routledge, 1999.

Fish, Stanley. Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies. Chapel Hill: Duke, 1995.

_____.  Is There a Text in this Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities.  Cambridge: Harvard U P, 1980.

Graff, Gerald, Professing English: An Institutional History. Chicago:  Univ. of Chicago P, 1987.

Jay, Paul.  “Beyond Discipline? Globalization and the Future of English,” PMLA, vol. 116, no. 1 (Jan. 2001): 32-47.

Kaplan, E. Ann and Levine, George, eds.  The Politics of Research. New Brunswick, Rutgers Univ. Press, 1997.

McGowan, John. Democracy’s Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics. Ithaca:  Cornell U P, 2002.

Scholes, Robert.  The Rise and Fall of English:  Reconstructing English as a Discipline.  New Haven:  Yale U P, 1998.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Outside the Teaching Machine. New York: Routledge, 1993.

 

Bibliographies

CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, Gail E. Hawisher, Cynthia L Selfe, eds. Carbondale, Ill:  Southern Illinois U. P., 1993.

Greenblatt, Stephen and Giles Gunn, eds.  Redrawing the Boundaries:  The Transformation of English Studies.  New York:  MLA, 1992.

Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  New York:  MLA 1995.

Harner, James L. ed. Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of References Sources in English Literary Studies, New York:  Modern Language Association, 2007, 5th. ed.

MLA International Bibliography (electronic/ or print) Norwood, Mass. Silver Platter, updated yearly. 

The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, Ian Ousby, ed. Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge U P, 1993.

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer, eds. Oxford/New York: Oxford U P., 1996.

New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL, George Watson, ed.)

 

Textual Scholarship

Greetham, D. C., ed. The Margins of the Text. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Greetham, D. C. , ed. Theories of the Text.  Oxford/New York: Oxford U. P., 1999.

McGann, Jerome. The Textual Condition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U P, 1991.

Sutherland, Kathryn, ed. Electronic Text:  Investigations in Method and Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press/ New York: Oxford UP, 1997.

 

Methodology/Theory

Altick, Richard D. and John J. Fenstermaker, eds. The Art of Literary Research. New York: Norton, 1993, 4th. ed.

Benjaminson, Peter, Publish without Perishing: A Practical Handbook for Academic Authors. Washington, DC, NEA Professional Library, 1992.

Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory:  A Very Short Introduction.  London:  Oxford U P, 1997.

During, Simon, ed. Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1993.

Eagleton, Terry.  After Theory.  New York:  Basic Books, 2003.

_____. The Idea of Culture.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

_____. Marxist Literary Theory:  A Reader. Oxford:  Blackwell, 1996.

Eliot, Simon and W. R. Owens, A Handbook to Literary Research, eds. London: Routledge/ the Open University, 1998.

Felski, Rita.  Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture. New York: New York U P, 2000.

Kumar, Amitava, ed. Class Issues: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies and the Public Sphere. New York:  New York Univ. Press, 1997.

McGann, Jerome J. The Beauty of Inflections:  Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory. Oxford Clarendon Press/ New York: Oxford U P, 1985.

Newmeyer, Fredrick J.  Language Form and Language Function. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.

Strauch, Eduard H.  Beyond Literary Theory: Literature as a Search for Meaning of Human Destiny. New York: Univ. Press of America, 2001.

 

John Keats/ British Romanticism

Abrams, M. H.  The Mirror and the Lamp:  Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. New York:  W. W. Norton, 1959.

-----.  Natural Supernaturalism:  Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature.  New York:  W. W. Norton, l971.

Bate, W. Jackson. John Keats.  Cambridge:  Harvard U P, 1963.

Barnard, John.  John Keats.  Harvard U P, 1987.

Brooks, Cleanth. “History without Footnotes, An Account of Keats’ Urn,”   in The Well Wrought Urn. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947.

Bush, Douglas.  Mythology and the Romantic Tradition in English Poetry.  New York:  Pageant, 1932.

Butler, Marilyn.  Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries:  English Literature and its Background, l760-1830.  Oxford:  Oxford U P, l981.

Chandler, James, England in 1819:  The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism.  Chicago:  Chicago U P, 1998.

Curran, Stuart.  Poetic Form and British Romanticism.  New York:  Oxford U P, l986. 

Daunton, M. J.  Progress and Poverty:  An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1700-1850.  Oxford:  Oxford U P, 1995.

DeMan, Paul. The Rhetoric of Romanticism.  New York:  Columbia U P, l985.

Eagleton, Terry. The Ideology of the Aesthetic. Oxford:  Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Erickson, Lee.  The Economy of Literary Form:  English Literature and Industrialization of Publishing, 1800-1850.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins U P, 1996.

Frye, Northrop, ed. Romanticism Reconsidered.  New York:  Columbia U P, l963.

Fry, Paul H.  The Poet’s Calling in the English Ode.  New Haven, Yale U P, l980.

Gilmartin, Kevin.  Print Politics:  The Press and Radical Opposition in Early 19c. England. Cambridge:  Cambridge U P, 1996.

Gittings, Robert.  John Keats.  London: Heinemann, 1968.

Hertz, Neil.  The End of the Line.  Essays on Psychoanalysis and the Sublime. New York:  Columbia U P, 1985

Levinson, Marjorie. Keats’ Life of Allegory:   The Origins of a Style. Oxford:  Basil Blackwell, 1988.

-----.  The Romantic Fragment Poem.  Chapel Hill:  Univ. of North Carolina P, l986.

Lovejoy, Arthur.  “On the Discrimination of Romanticisms,” in Essays in the History of Ideas.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins U P, 1948.

Mellor, Anne. K.  Romanticism and Feminism. London: Routledge, 1988.

Mellor, Anne and Richard E. Matlak, eds.  British Literature, 1780-1830.  Philadelphia:  Harcourt, Brace, 1996.

Polhemus, Robert.  Erotic Faith. Being In Love, from Jane Austen to D. H. Lawrence Chicago:  U of Chicago Press, 1990.

Richardson, Alan.  Literature, Education, and Romanticism:  Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832. Cambridge:  Cambridge U P, l994.

Ross, Marlon B. The Contours of Masculine Desire:  Romanticism and the Rise of Women’s Poetry .  New York:  Oxford U P, l989.

Ryan, Robert M.  The Romantic Reformation:  Politics in English Literature, 1789-1824.       Cambridge:  Cambridge U P, 1997.

Slote, Bernice. Keats’ Shakespeare: A Descriptive Study, Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1928.

Vendler, Helen.  The Odes of John Keats.  Cambridge: Belknap, 1983.

Wasserman, Earl.  The Subtler Language:  Critical Readings of Neoclassical and Romantic Poetry. Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins U P, 1959.

Weiskel, Thomas.  The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins U P, 1976.

Wolfson, Susan.  Formal Changes:  The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism. Stanford:  Stanford U P, l997.

 

Theories of Realism

Auerbach, Eric. Memesis:  The Representation of Reality in Western Literature.  Princeton:  Princeton U P, 1953.  (Famous chapter on Mrs. Dalloway)

Bakhtin Mikhail.  The Dialogic Imagination. trans. Emerson and Holquist.  Austin:  Univ.  of Texas P, l981.

Booth, Wayne.  The Company We Keep:  An Ethics of Fiction.  Berkeley:  U of Calif. Press, 1988.

----------.  The Rhetoric of Fiction.  Chicago:  University of Chicago P, l961.

Brooks, Peter.  Reading for the Plot:  Design and Invention in Narrative. New York:  Knopf, 1984.

Girard, Rene.  Deceit, Desire and the Novel.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins U P, 1965.

Leavis, F. R.  The Great Tradition. New York: New York U P, 1948.

 

Postcolonial Novels

 

Roy, Arundhati. The Cost of Living. New York: Modern Library, 1999.

_____.  “Dam/age” : A Diverse Production For BBC ; Producer & Director, Aradhana Seth, 2003. 

_____.  An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire. Cambridge: South End, 2004.

_____.  Power Politics.  Cambridge: South End, 2001.

Secondary for Conrad/ Roy:

Booth, Howard. Modernism and Empire.  Manchester: Manchester U P, 2000.

Childs, Peter. Ed. Postcolonial Theory and English Literature: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh U P, 1999.

DeKoven, Marianne. Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism.  Princeton: Princeton U P, 1987.

Donaldson, Laura.  Decolonizing Feminism. London: Routledge, 1993.

Dryden, Linda.  Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance. Houndsmills: Macmillan, 2000.

Durakovic, Ferida.  Hearts of Darkness: Poems. Fredonia, N.Y.: White Pines Press, 1998.

Elwark, Paul. “The Loss of Sophie Mol: Debased Selfhood and the Colonial Shadow in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things,” South Asian Review 25. 2 (2004): 178-88.

Firchow, Peter Edgerly, Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad and HD. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 2000.

Friedman, Susan Stanford.  Mapping: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter Princeton: Princeton U P, 1998.

Grewal, Inderpal.  Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel. Duke; Duke U P, 1996.

Jayawardena, Kumari. Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World. London: Zed: 1986.

Jones, Susan. Conrad and Women.  Oxford U P, 1000.

Joshi, Priya. In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India. New York: Columbia U Press, 2002.

Loomba, Ania. Gender, Race, and Renaissance Drama. Delhi: Oxford U P, 1992.

Marcus, Jane.  Hearts of Darkness:  White Women Write Race. New Brunswick, Rutgers U P, 2004.

McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context. London: Routledge, 1995.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, Duke: Duke U P, 2003.

Navarro-Tejero, Antonia. Gender and Caste in the Anglophone-Indian Novels of Arundhati Roy and Gita Hariharan: Feminist Issues in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Lewiston: Mellen Press, 2005),

Nico, Israel.  Outlandish: Writing between Exile and Diaspora. Stanford: Stanford U P, 2000.

Punter, David. Postcolonial Imagining: Fictions of a New World Order. Boulder: Rowman, 2000.

Roberts, Andrew Michael. Conrad and Masculinity. Houndsmill: Macmillan/ St. Martin’s 2000.

Shaffer, Brian W. The Blinding Torch: Modern British Fiction and the Discourse of Civilization. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1992.

Stape, J. H. The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1996.

Suleri, Sara. The Rhetoric of English India. Chicago: Chicago U P, 1992.

Thornman, Janet.  “The Ethical Subject of the God of Small Things,” Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. 8.2 (Fall 2008), 299-307.

Vishwanathan, Gauri. Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India. New York: Columbia U P, 1989.

Watt, Ian.  Conrad in the Nineteenth-century. Berkeley: U of Calif. Press,  1979.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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