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=Idea A: Victorian Thing Culture=
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=Idea A: Vic Print Culture post-2012=
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==Notes==
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==Structure==
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* Work responding to or in the orbit of [[Freedgood 2006]]
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'''Contemporary methodological approaches to print culture'''
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**constellation of articles around a major text (per JOT)
 
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**or read intros of books and say "these are the claims they're making" - taking them at their word
 
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**"this person says x about her argument and that says y about the state of the field"
 
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==Knowledge Gaps==
 
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*how to connect the narrative unconscious and the textual unconscious? A McLeodian and Freedgoodian reading?
 
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**it's striking that both use the metaphor of the subconscious and of memory
 
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*what about anachronistic things like old books?
 
  
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==Reading List==
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'''Use approach of review abstracts - articulate: thesis, methodology (inc. archive and specific period covered), evidence/argument, relevance/stakes'''
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*[[Freedgood 2006]]
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* reception history toward(?) book history
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**start with [[Price 2012|Price]] (referring back to Secord)
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== Potential Sources==
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**[[Secord 2000]]
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* Freedgood, "Ghostly Reference"
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*book history
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* Barthes, "Reality Effect"
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**[[Miller 2013]]
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* Stallybrass, "Marx's Coat"
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**[[Fyfe 2012]]
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* Marcus (?) new description/literalism
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*periodicals studies
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* Sedgwick Reparative Reading
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**[[Houston 2014]]
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* Asa Briggs, Victorian Things
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**[[Mussell 2012]]
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* Andrew H Miller, Novels Behind the Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative
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**[[Hughes 2014]]
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* Emily Apter, Feminizing the Fetish (about france)
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*edge cases
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* Apter and Pietz, eds, Fetishism as a Cultural Discourse
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**[[Gidal 2015]] -- eco-book history
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* Bill Brown, The Material Unconscious
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**[[Shannon 2015]] -- spatial print culture (connection to Houston's network graphs)
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* ibid., A Sense of Things
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*Imperial print culture
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* ibid., "Thing Theory"
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**[[Hofmeyr & Burton 2014]]
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* Jones and Stallybrass, Ren Clothing and the Materials of Memory
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**''McDonald Jane Eyre chapter(?)''
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* Spyer, ed, Border Fetishisms (Stallybrass's "Marx's Coat" is in it)
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*''media theory/studies (cut?)''
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* Schor, Reading in Detail
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**''Gitelman''
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* McLeod, [[McLeod 1994#FIAT fLUX|FIAT fLUX]]
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**''Parikka''
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*Leighton and Surridge, Object Lessons: Victorians and the Material Text, Cahiers victoriens et eduoardiens ([https://cve.revues.org/2864 that whole issue])
 
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* Cynthia Wall, "The Rhetoric of Description and the Spaces of Things," C18 Genre and Culture, ed. Dennis Todd and Cynthia Wall
 
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* Michael Taussig, My Cocaine Museum
 
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* Bizup, Manufacturing Culture: Vindications of Early Victorian Industry
 
  
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=Idea B: Vic Book History post-2012=
 
 
==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
 +
---
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*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.
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* Miller, Slow Print
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* '''Miller, Slow Print'''
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* Mussell, C19 Press in Digital Age
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*'''Mussell, C19 Press in Digital Age'''
 
* Worth, Imperial Media
 
* Worth, Imperial Media
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* Shannon, Dickens Reynolds Mayhew on Wellington St
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* '''Shannon, Dickens Reynolds Mayhew on Wellington St'''
 
* Toni Weller(?), Victorians and Information
 
* Toni Weller(?), Victorians and Information
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* Hughes, Linda K. “SIDEWAYS!: Navigating the Material (Ity) of Print Culture.” Victorian Periodicals Review 47.1 (2014): 1–30. Print.
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* '''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.
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* Gitelman, Lisa, and Geoffrey B Pingree. New Media, 1740-1915. MIT Press, 2004. Print.
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* '''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.
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*Parikka Media Archaeology
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*'''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?
 +
 +
==Reading List==
 +
*[[Freedgood 2006]]
 +
 +
== 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
 +
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From Google Scholar:
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*Ketabgian, Lives of Machines
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* Plotz, Portable Property
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* Wynne, Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel
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* Buurma, "Anonymity, corporate authority, and the archive: The production of authorship in late-Victorian England" (VS 2007)
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* Rappaport, "Imperial possessions, cultural histories, and the material turn: Response" (VS 2008)
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* Kucich, "The Unfinished Historicist Project: In Praise of Suspicion" ('''counterargument??''')
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* The Storied Lives of Non-Human Narrators Lars Bernaerts, Marco Caracciolo, Luc Herman, Bart Vervaeck
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* [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

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

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
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