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− | =Idea A: | + | =Idea A: Vic Print Culture post-2012= |
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− | + | '''Contemporary methodological approaches to print culture''' | |
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− | + | '''Use approach of review abstracts - articulate: thesis, methodology (inc. archive and specific period covered), evidence/argument, relevance/stakes''' | |
− | + | * reception history toward(?) book history | |
− | + | **start with [[Price 2012|Price]] (referring back to Secord) | |
− | + | **[[Secord 2000]] | |
− | * | + | *book history |
− | * | + | **[[Miller 2013]] |
− | * | + | **[[Fyfe 2012]] |
− | * | + | *periodicals studies |
− | * | + | **[[Houston 2014]] |
− | * | + | **[[Mussell 2012]] |
− | * | + | **[[Hughes 2014]] |
− | * | + | *edge cases |
− | * | + | **[[Gidal 2015]] -- eco-book history |
− | * | + | **[[Shannon 2015]] -- spatial print culture (connection to Houston's network graphs) |
− | * | + | *Imperial print culture |
− | * | + | **[[Hofmeyr & Burton 2014]] |
+ | **''McDonald Jane Eyre chapter(?)'' | ||
+ | *''media theory/studies (cut?)'' | ||
+ | **''Gitelman'' | ||
+ | **''Parikka'' | ||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
*Approaches to print culture post-Leah Price | *Approaches to print culture post-Leah Price | ||
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* Use this to build an exam list | * Use this to build an exam list | ||
* Reception history is important but I (am/am not) doing that —> where you want to go and what you want to find | * Reception history is important but I (am/am not) doing that —> where you want to go and what you want to find | ||
+ | --- | ||
+ | *Notes from seminar | ||
+ | **field-mapping, finding gaps | ||
+ | **helpful for mapping directions groups of scholars are going in | ||
+ | **lay out a question not so much a question | ||
+ | ***discrete, localizable question/field/problem | ||
+ | **relatively narrow: "what are people saying in the last 5 years about political economy in the Vic novel" | ||
+ | **with classic works referenced - what everyone cites | ||
+ | **10-15 books/articles, or 10-15 critics | ||
+ | **payoff: what are people doing and why does that mater? stakes: what kind of research is persuasive to you? | ||
+ | **doesn't need to be evaluative unless you really back it up (gap is one thing but "doing it wrong" needs more explication) | ||
+ | **strategies: | ||
+ | ***constellation of articles around major text | ||
+ | ***read intros of books and say "these are the claims they're making" - take them at their word | ||
+ | ****"this person says x about her argument and that says y about the state of the field" | ||
+ | ***or substantial discussion of 3 books - more evaluative, same for say 5 articles | ||
==Knowledge Gaps== | ==Knowledge Gaps== | ||
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== Potential Sources== | == Potential Sources== | ||
*[[Leckie 2015]] - Leckie, Barbara. “ON PRINT CULTURE: MEDIATION, PRACTICE, POLITICS, KNOWLEDGE.” Victorian Literature and Culture 43.4 (2015): 895–907. Web. | *[[Leckie 2015]] - Leckie, Barbara. “ON PRINT CULTURE: MEDIATION, PRACTICE, POLITICS, KNOWLEDGE.” Victorian Literature and Culture 43.4 (2015): 895–907. Web. | ||
− | * Miller, Slow Print | + | * '''Miller, Slow Print''' |
− | * Mussell, C19 Press in Digital Age | + | *'''Mussell, C19 Press in Digital Age''' |
* Worth, Imperial Media | * Worth, Imperial Media | ||
− | * Shannon, Dickens Reynolds Mayhew on Wellington St | + | * '''Shannon, Dickens Reynolds Mayhew on Wellington St''' |
* Toni Weller(?), Victorians and Information | * Toni Weller(?), Victorians and Information | ||
− | * Hughes, Linda K. “SIDEWAYS!: Navigating the Material (Ity) of Print Culture.” Victorian Periodicals Review 47.1 (2014): 1–30. Print. | + | * '''Hughes, Linda K. “SIDEWAYS!: Navigating the Material (Ity) of Print Culture.” Victorian Periodicals Review 47.1 (2014): 1–30. Print.''' |
* Stauffer, Andrew M. “Victorian Paperwork.” Victorian Poetry 41.4 (2003): 526–531. Print. | * Stauffer, Andrew M. “Victorian Paperwork.” Victorian Poetry 41.4 (2003): 526–531. Print. | ||
* John, Juliet, and Matthew Bradley. Reading and the Victorians. Ed. Juliet John. Farnham: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2015. Web. | * John, Juliet, and Matthew Bradley. Reading and the Victorians. Ed. Juliet John. Farnham: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2015. Web. | ||
− | * Gitelman, Lisa, and Geoffrey B Pingree. New Media, 1740-1915. MIT Press, 2004. Print. | + | * '''Gitelman, Lisa, and Geoffrey B Pingree. New Media, 1740-1915. MIT Press, 2004. Print.''' |
*Hack, Daniel. The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel. University of Virginia Press, 2005. Print. | *Hack, Daniel. The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel. University of Virginia Press, 2005. Print. | ||
*King, Andrew, Alexis Easley, and John (John S.) Morton. The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers. Ed. Andrew King, Alexis Easley, and John (John S.) *Morton. Abingdon, Oxon : Abingdon, Oxon , 2016. Print. | *King, Andrew, Alexis Easley, and John (John S.) Morton. The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers. Ed. Andrew King, Alexis Easley, and John (John S.) *Morton. Abingdon, Oxon : Abingdon, Oxon , 2016. Print. | ||
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*Mussell, James. “THE PASSING OF PRINT: Digitising Ephemera and the Ephemerality of the Digital.” Media History 18.1 (2012): 77–92. Web. 15 Jan. 2015. | *Mussell, James. “THE PASSING OF PRINT: Digitising Ephemera and the Ephemerality of the Digital.” Media History 18.1 (2012): 77–92. Web. 15 Jan. 2015. | ||
*Parikka, Jussi. The Anthrobscene. University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Print. | *Parikka, Jussi. The Anthrobscene. University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Print. | ||
− | *Parikka Media Archaeology | + | *'''Parikka Media Archaeology''' |
*Rigney, Ann. “Things and the Archive: Scott’s Materialist Legacy.” Scottish Literary Review 7.2 (2015): 13–34. Print. | *Rigney, Ann. “Things and the Archive: Scott’s Materialist Legacy.” Scottish Literary Review 7.2 (2015): 13–34. Print. | ||
*Stauffer, Andrew M. “Ruins of Paper: Dickens and the Necropolitan Library.” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net: 47 (2007): n. pag. Web. 15 Jan. 2015. | *Stauffer, Andrew M. “Ruins of Paper: Dickens and the Necropolitan Library.” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net: 47 (2007): n. pag. Web. 15 Jan. 2015. | ||
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*Rubery, Matthew. The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News. | *Rubery, Matthew. The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News. | ||
*Stiphas, Theodore. The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. | *Stiphas, Theodore. The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. | ||
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+ | =Idea B: Victorian Thing Culture= | ||
+ | ==Notes== | ||
+ | * Work responding to or in the orbit of [[Freedgood 2006]] | ||
+ | **constellation of articles around a major text (per JOT) | ||
+ | **or read intros of books and say "these are the claims they're making" - taking them at their word | ||
+ | **"this person says x about her argument and that says y about the state of the field" | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==Knowledge Gaps== | ||
+ | *how to connect the narrative unconscious and the textual unconscious? A McLeodian and Freedgoodian reading? | ||
+ | **it's striking that both use the metaphor of the subconscious and of memory | ||
+ | *what about anachronistic things like old books? | ||
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+ | ==Reading List== | ||
+ | *[[Freedgood 2006]] | ||
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+ | == Potential Sources== | ||
+ | * Freedgood, "Ghostly Reference" | ||
+ | * Barthes, "Reality Effect" | ||
+ | * Stallybrass, "Marx's Coat" | ||
+ | *[[Price 2012]] | ||
+ | * Marcus (?) new description/literalism | ||
+ | * Sedgwick Reparative Reading | ||
+ | * Asa Briggs, Victorian Things | ||
+ | * Andrew H Miller, Novels Behind the Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative | ||
+ | * Emily Apter, Feminizing the Fetish (about france) | ||
+ | * Apter and Pietz, eds, Fetishism as a Cultural Discourse | ||
+ | * Bill Brown, The Material Unconscious | ||
+ | * ibid., A Sense of Things | ||
+ | * ibid., "Thing Theory" | ||
+ | * Jones and Stallybrass, Ren Clothing and the Materials of Memory | ||
+ | * Spyer, ed, Border Fetishisms (Stallybrass's "Marx's Coat" is in it) | ||
+ | * Schor, Reading in Detail | ||
+ | * McLeod, [[McLeod 1994#FIAT fLUX|FIAT fLUX]] | ||
+ | *Leighton and Surridge, Object Lessons: Victorians and the Material Text, Cahiers victoriens et eduoardiens ([https://cve.revues.org/2864 that whole issue]) | ||
+ | * Cynthia Wall, "The Rhetoric of Description and the Spaces of Things," C18 Genre and Culture, ed. Dennis Todd and Cynthia Wall | ||
+ | * Michael Taussig, My Cocaine Museum | ||
+ | * Bizup, Manufacturing Culture: Vindications of Early Victorian Industry | ||
+ | *Goldhill, The Buried Life of Things | ||
+ | |||
+ | From Google Scholar: | ||
+ | *Ketabgian, Lives of Machines | ||
+ | * Plotz, Portable Property | ||
+ | * Wynne, Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel | ||
+ | * Buurma, "Anonymity, corporate authority, and the archive: The production of authorship in late-Victorian England" (VS 2007) | ||
+ | * Rappaport, "Imperial possessions, cultural histories, and the material turn: Response" (VS 2008) | ||
+ | * Kucich, "The Unfinished Historicist Project: In Praise of Suspicion" ('''counterargument??''') | ||
+ | * The Storied Lives of Non-Human Narrators Lars Bernaerts, Marco Caracciolo, Luc Herman, Bart Vervaeck | ||
+ | * [http://www.jstor.org/stable/25614434?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Brown, Textual Materialism, PMLA] |
Latest revision as of 17:00, 16 March 2017
Contents
Idea A: Vic Print Culture post-2012
Structure
Contemporary methodological approaches to print culture
Use approach of review abstracts - articulate: thesis, methodology (inc. archive and specific period covered), evidence/argument, relevance/stakes
- reception history toward(?) book history
- start with Price (referring back to Secord)
- Secord 2000
- book history
- periodicals studies
- edge cases
- Gidal 2015 -- eco-book history
- Shannon 2015 -- spatial print culture (connection to Houston's network graphs)
- Imperial print culture
- Hofmeyr & Burton 2014
- McDonald Jane Eyre chapter(?)
- media theory/studies (cut?)
- Gitelman
- Parikka
Notes
- Approaches to print culture post-Leah Price
- book history
- media theory/studies
- periodicals studies
- eco-book history (Gidal)
- information/library history
- history of reading
- Liz Miller, Leah Price — maybe not so narrow time-wise
- Priya Joshi, In Another Country
- How those fields meet and how a book history approach intersects with and is different from reception history
- Joshi and Gidal are reception history
- James Seacord Victorian Sensation
- Price 2012 as "anti-reception history"?
- Distinct from binding and wood pulp —> literal material history is not so much done (ecological/industrial underpinnings)
- Wooden Os
- acid, hazardousness in print industry
- Use this to build an exam list
- Reception history is important but I (am/am not) doing that —> where you want to go and what you want to find
---
- Notes from seminar
- field-mapping, finding gaps
- helpful for mapping directions groups of scholars are going in
- lay out a question not so much a question
- discrete, localizable question/field/problem
- relatively narrow: "what are people saying in the last 5 years about political economy in the Vic novel"
- with classic works referenced - what everyone cites
- 10-15 books/articles, or 10-15 critics
- payoff: what are people doing and why does that mater? stakes: what kind of research is persuasive to you?
- doesn't need to be evaluative unless you really back it up (gap is one thing but "doing it wrong" needs more explication)
- strategies:
- constellation of articles around major text
- read intros of books and say "these are the claims they're making" - take them at their word
- "this person says x about her argument and that says y about the state of the field"
- or substantial discussion of 3 books - more evaluative, same for say 5 articles
Knowledge Gaps
- Labor
- Straight up material history
- Reprint culture (Shakespeare, other "classics")
- More granular periodization (cf. Miller 2013 and Leckie 2015)
Reading List
- Price 2012 - Price, Leah. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain.
- Gidal 2015 - Gidal, Eric. Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age. University of Virginia Press, 2015. Print.
- Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire (which chapters?)
Potential Sources
- Leckie 2015 - Leckie, Barbara. “ON PRINT CULTURE: MEDIATION, PRACTICE, POLITICS, KNOWLEDGE.” Victorian Literature and Culture 43.4 (2015): 895–907. Web.
- Miller, Slow Print
- Mussell, C19 Press in Digital Age
- Worth, Imperial Media
- Shannon, Dickens Reynolds Mayhew on Wellington St
- Toni Weller(?), Victorians and Information
- Hughes, Linda K. “SIDEWAYS!: Navigating the Material (Ity) of Print Culture.” Victorian Periodicals Review 47.1 (2014): 1–30. Print.
- Stauffer, Andrew M. “Victorian Paperwork.” Victorian Poetry 41.4 (2003): 526–531. Print.
- John, Juliet, and Matthew Bradley. Reading and the Victorians. Ed. Juliet John. Farnham: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2015. Web.
- Gitelman, Lisa, and Geoffrey B Pingree. New Media, 1740-1915. MIT Press, 2004. Print.
- Hack, Daniel. The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel. University of Virginia Press, 2005. Print.
- King, Andrew, Alexis Easley, and John (John S.) Morton. The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers. Ed. Andrew King, Alexis Easley, and John (John S.) *Morton. Abingdon, Oxon : Abingdon, Oxon , 2016. Print.
- Krajewski, Marcus. Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929. MIT Press, 2011. Print.
- Lee, Maurice S. “Searching the Archives with Dickens and Hawthorne: Databases and Aesthetic Judgment after the New Historicism.” ELH 79.3 (2012): 747–771. Print.
- Mussell, James. “‘Scarers in Print’: Media Literacy from Our Mutual Friend to Friend Me on Facebook.” Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 21 (2015): 163–179. Print.
- Mussell, James. “THE PASSING OF PRINT: Digitising Ephemera and the Ephemerality of the Digital.” Media History 18.1 (2012): 77–92. Web. 15 Jan. 2015.
- Parikka, Jussi. The Anthrobscene. University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Print.
- Parikka Media Archaeology
- Rigney, Ann. “Things and the Archive: Scott’s Materialist Legacy.” Scottish Literary Review 7.2 (2015): 13–34. Print.
- Stauffer, Andrew M. “Ruins of Paper: Dickens and the Necropolitan Library.” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net: 47 (2007): n. pag. Web. 15 Jan. 2015.
- Young, Alan R. “John Dicks’s Illustrated Edition of ‘Shakspere for the Millions.’” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 106.3 (2012): 285–310. Print.
- Brake, "On Print Culture: The State We're In." Journal of Victorian Culture (2001)
- Gitelman, Lisa. Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents
- Guillory, John. "On Genesis of the Media Concept." Critical Inquiry (2010)
- Howsam, Leslie. Old Books and New Histories. Toronto UP, 2006.
- Palmer and Buckland, eds. A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel.
- Rubery, Matthew. The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News.
- Stiphas, Theodore. The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control.
Idea B: Victorian Thing Culture
Notes
- Work responding to or in the orbit of Freedgood 2006
- constellation of articles around a major text (per JOT)
- or read intros of books and say "these are the claims they're making" - taking them at their word
- "this person says x about her argument and that says y about the state of the field"
Knowledge Gaps
- how to connect the narrative unconscious and the textual unconscious? A McLeodian and Freedgoodian reading?
- it's striking that both use the metaphor of the subconscious and of memory
- what about anachronistic things like old books?
Reading List
Potential Sources
- Freedgood, "Ghostly Reference"
- Barthes, "Reality Effect"
- Stallybrass, "Marx's Coat"
- Price 2012
- Marcus (?) new description/literalism
- Sedgwick Reparative Reading
- Asa Briggs, Victorian Things
- Andrew H Miller, Novels Behind the Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative
- Emily Apter, Feminizing the Fetish (about france)
- Apter and Pietz, eds, Fetishism as a Cultural Discourse
- Bill Brown, The Material Unconscious
- ibid., A Sense of Things
- ibid., "Thing Theory"
- Jones and Stallybrass, Ren Clothing and the Materials of Memory
- Spyer, ed, Border Fetishisms (Stallybrass's "Marx's Coat" is in it)
- Schor, Reading in Detail
- McLeod, FIAT fLUX
- Leighton and Surridge, Object Lessons: Victorians and the Material Text, Cahiers victoriens et eduoardiens (that whole issue)
- Cynthia Wall, "The Rhetoric of Description and the Spaces of Things," C18 Genre and Culture, ed. Dennis Todd and Cynthia Wall
- Michael Taussig, My Cocaine Museum
- Bizup, Manufacturing Culture: Vindications of Early Victorian Industry
- Goldhill, The Buried Life of Things
From Google Scholar:
- Ketabgian, Lives of Machines
- Plotz, Portable Property
- Wynne, Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel
- Buurma, "Anonymity, corporate authority, and the archive: The production of authorship in late-Victorian England" (VS 2007)
- Rappaport, "Imperial possessions, cultural histories, and the material turn: Response" (VS 2008)
- Kucich, "The Unfinished Historicist Project: In Praise of Suspicion" (counterargument??)
- The Storied Lives of Non-Human Narrators Lars Bernaerts, Marco Caracciolo, Luc Herman, Bart Vervaeck
- Brown, Textual Materialism, PMLA