課程名稱 |
維多利亞小說與物質文化 VICTORIAN NOVELS AND MATERIAL CULTURE |
開課學期 |
98-1 |
授課對象 |
文學院 外國語文學研究所 |
授課教師 |
李紀舍 |
課號 |
FL7136 |
課程識別碼 |
122EM5560 |
班次 |
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學分 |
3 |
全/半年 |
半年 |
必/選修 |
選修 |
上課時間 |
星期三2,3,4(9:10~12:10) |
上課地點 |
外研三 |
備註 |
本課程以英語授課。第1、2類。 限碩士班以上 總人數上限:16人 |
Ceiba 課程網頁 |
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/981novel |
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課程概述 |
This seminar offers a survey of high Victorian fiction and in so doing also explores complex socio-historical issues of material culture textualized in novels. We will discuss the Victorian novel within a time of unprecedented material accumulations and, in particular, examine how novels sit between the reproduction of material culture and the reshaping of it. The nexus of novelistic texts and things requires an interdisciplinary approach that cuts across the boundaries of literary studies, historical studies, and material culture studies. Students are encouraged to pay attention to the surface of fiction in addition to the unfolding narrative. This course seeks to foreground the contextual dimensions of novel writing and raise some important questions regarding novel forms and functions: How are writings of objects deployed in the Victorian novels? How is “the realist vision” underpinned by contextual writing of things? What are some potential sociological roles assumed by realist novels to relate the material production and consumption to the ongoing of everyday life? By the end of the course, students are expected to be familiar with selected canonical texts and, furthermore, will demonstrate adequate research skills in conducting socio-historical studies of literature. |
課程目標 |
By the end of the course, students are expected to be familiar with selected canonical texts and, furthermore, will demonstrate adequate research skills in conducting socio-historical studies of literature. |
課程要求 |
1. Finishing designated readings before each session.
2. Class participation.
3. In-class presentation(s): Depending on the class size, each student will give one to two oral presentations to lead class discussions. Ideally, in each session, one student covers the assigned segment of the novel while another discusses the critical texts.
4. A research paper (For the first-year student between 15 and 20 pages; for the others between 18 and 25), due one week after the last class meeting.
5. A proposal of the research paper is due on Dec 16.
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預期每週課後學習時數 |
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Office Hours |
每週二 13:00~15:00 |
指定閱讀 |
1. Novels (Any edition, but the Oxford or Norton edition is preferred.)
A. Jane Eyre
B. Vanity Fair
C. Our Mutual Friend
D. Middlemarch
2. Course Packets
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參考書目 |
Brantlinger, Patrick, and William B. Thesing. A Companion to the Victorian
Novel. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Malden, Mass.:
Blackwell, 2002.
Briggs, Asa. Victorian Things. U of Chicago P ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P,
1989.
Flanders, Judith. Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in
Victorian England. 1st American ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004.
Freedgood, Elaine. The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian
Novel. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.
Lindner, Christoph. Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the
Postmodern. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2003.
Miller, Andrew H. Novels Behind Glass: Commodity, Culture, and Victorian
Narrative. Literature, Culture, Theory. Cambridge [England] ; New York:
Cambridge UP, 1995.
Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England. 2nd ed. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood P, 2009.
Novak, Daniel Akiva. Realism, Photography, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Cambridge,
UK ; New York: Cambridge UP, 2008.
O'Gorman, Francis. The Victorian Novel. Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Oxford,
UK ; Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2002.
Poovey, Mary. Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864.
Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and
Spectacle, 1851-1914. London: Verso, 1990.
Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the
Souvenir, the Collection. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 1984.
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評量方式 (僅供參考) |
No. |
項目 |
百分比 |
說明 |
1. |
Oral presentations |
20% |
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2. |
Term paper |
80% |
A proposal and the final version of the paper |
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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
第1週 |
9/16 |
Introduction__Victorian Novel and Material Culture: A Survey |
第2週 |
9/23 |
Jane Eyre__
Material Studies: Questions and Methods |
第3週 |
9/30 |
History: Methodological Considerations |
第4週 |
10/07 |
Nineteenth-century Material Culture: Examples of Analysis |
第5週 |
10/14 |
Vanity Fair__Portable Property |
第6週 |
10/21 |
Not in session |
第7週 |
10/28 |
Bazaar and Woman |
第8週 |
11/04 |
Finance and Insolvency |
第9週 |
11/11 |
Examples of Analysis |
第10週 |
11/18 |
Our Mutual Friend__The Sanitary Reform |
第11週 |
11/25 |
Interior Decoration |
第12週 |
12/02 |
The Great Exhibition |
第13週 |
12/09 |
Political Economy |
第14週 |
12/16 |
Middlemarch__Realism and Description |
第15週 |
12/23 |
Commodity Culture |
第16週 |
12/30 |
Thingness |
第17週 |
1/06 |
Review |
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