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課程名稱

十九世紀英國自然歷史與文學
Natural History and Literature in the Nineteenth-century Britain

開課學期

108-2

授課對象

文學院外國語文學研究所

授課教師

吳雅鳳

課號

FL7235

課程識別碼

122EM3560

班次

學分

3.0

全/半年

半年

必/選修

選修

上課時間

星期一6,7,8(13:20~16:20)

上課地點

外文會議室

備註

本課程以英語授課。第二、三類。
限碩士班以上
總人數上限：10人

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課程概述

Course Description:
The development of natural history began to gather pace drastically in the nineteenth century, with impetus from industrialization and imperial expansion, political reforms, etc. It not only provided background to intellectual endeavours but actively participated in the inflections of aesthetic production, including literature and arts.

課程目標

Course Objectives:
Students will be enabled to understand the ways in which the forms and contents of literature evolve from the conjoined efforts to investigate the physical world. This course is designed to familiarize graduate students with the interconnected development of natural history and literature of the 19th century Britain. Three areas of natural history are covered: thing theory/collecting, geology, and botany. Related literary works will be chosen to accompany discussion of texts written in these four areas to gain a better picture of the crucial period in British literature and intellectual history.

課程要求

Requirements:
Students are to read the assigned materials beforehand. Weekly reading notes are to be sent to the instructor before the class session. Each student is to lead 2 discussions in the form of presentation (50 min) with Power Point slides, and to produce a term paper around 18-20 pages in MLA style (8th edition).

預期每週課後學習時數

Office Hours

指定閱讀

Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden
Keats, John. Poems.
Clare, John. Northborough Sonnets, etc.
Smith, Charlotte. “Beachy Head”
Shelley, Percy B. “Mont Blanc”
Byron, Gordon Lord. “Cain”
Hardy, Thomas. A Pair of Blue Eyes.

參考書目

For updated version, please refer to the file uploaded in Ceiba.

General:
Altick, Richard. The Shows of London. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1978. Print.
Beer, Gillian. Darwin’s Plot: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and 19th Fiction. Cambridge : Cambridge UP, 2000. Print.
Benedict, Barbara M. Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry. Chicago: Chicago UP, 2001. Print.
Bewell, Alan. “William Jones and Cosmopolitan Natural History.” European Romantic Review 16.2 (2005): 167-80.
Bewell, Alan. “Romanticism and Colonial Environmental History.” European Romantic Review 23.3 (2012): 393-398.
Bewell, Alan. “Romanticism and Colonial Natural History.” European Romantic Review 43.1 (2004): 5-34.
Chandler, James, ed. The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. Print.
Christie, John, and Sally Shuttleworth, eds. Nature Transfigured: Science and Literature, 1700-1900. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1989. Print.
Clarke, Bruce and Manuela Rossini, eds. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science. London, England: Routledge; 2011. Print.
Coriale, Danielle. “Gaskell's Naturalist.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 63.3 (2008): 346-75.
Cunningham, Andrew and Nicholas Jardine, eds. Romanticism and the Sciences. Cambridge UP, 1990. Print.
Fulford, Tim, ed. Romanticism and science, 1773-1833. 4 vols. London: Routledge, 2002. Print.
Jordanova, Ludmilla. “Gender and the Historiography of Science.” British Journal for the History of Science 26 (1993): 469-83.
Kelley, Theresa M. “Romantic Nature Bites Back: Adorno and Romantic Natural History.” European Romantic Review 15.2 (2004): 193-203.
Kuhn, Bernhard. Autobiography and Natural Science in the Age of Romanticism: Rousseau, Goethe, Thoreau. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. Print.
Shaffer, Elinor S. and Elinor S. Berlin, eds. The Third Culture: Literature and Science. Germany: de Gruyter, 1998. Print.
Smith, Jonathan. “Darwin and the Evolution of Victorian Studies.” Victorian Studies 51.2 (Winter 2009): 215-21.
Shteir, Ann B. and Bernard Lightman, eds. Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture. Hanover: UP of New England, 2006. Print.
Theodorides, Jean. “Humboldt and England.” The British Journal for the History of Science 3.1 (June 1966): 39-55.

Thing Theory / Collecting
Campbell, Colin. The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Print.
Elsner, John and Roger Cardinal, eds. The Cultures of Collecting. London: Reaktkion Books Ltd., 1994. Print.
Pascoe, Judith. The Hummingbird Cabinet: a Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collections. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006. Print.
Thomas, Sophie. “Assembling History: Fragments and Ruins.” European Romantic Review 14.2 (June 2003): 177-86.

Natural Theology:
Craig, William Lane and J. P. Moreland, eds. The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology. Hudson: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Print.
Eddy, M. D. “The Rhetoric and Science of William Paley's Natural Theology.” Literature & Theology: An International Journal of Religion, Theory, and Culture 18.1 (2004): 1-22.
Jager, Colin. “Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology.” Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History 63.1 (2002): 31-63.
Jones, Christine Kenyon. “Byron, Darwin, and Paley: Interrogating Natural Theology.” Wilson 187-96.
McGrath, Alister E. The Open Secret: A New Vision for Natural Theology. Hudson: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. Print.
Peterfreund, Stuart. “From the Forbidden to the Familiar: The Way of Natural Theology Leading Up to and beyond the Long Eighteenth Century.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 37 (2008): 23-39.
Wilson, Cheryl A., ed. Byron: Heritage and Legacy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Print.
Geology:
Blix, Goran. From Paris to Pompeii: French romanticism and the cultural politics of archaeology. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2009. Print.
Buckland, Adelene. “'The Poetry of Science': Charles Dickens, Geology, and Visual and Material Culture in Victorian London.” Victori

評量方式
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No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	Term Paper	50%
2.	Presentation	20%
3.	Reading notes and participation	30%

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	3/02	Introduction I
第2週	3/09	Introduction II
第3週	3/16	Collecting I
第4週	3/23	Collecting II
第5週	3/30	Botany I: overview
第6週	4/06	Botany II: Erasmus Darwin
第7週	4/13	Botany III: Keats
第8週	4/20	Botany IV: John Clare
第9週	4/27	Geology I: overview
第10週	5/04	Geology II: Charlotte Smith
第11週	5/11	Geology III: Shelley and his Circle
第12週	5/18	Geology IV: Thomas Hardy 1
第13週	5/25	Geology V: Thomas Hardy 2
第14週	6/01	Term Paper Proposal interview
第15週	6/08	Mini-conference
第16週	6/15	Term Paper Writing UP
第17週	6/22	Term Paper due
第18週	6/29	Term Paper Individual Interview