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課程名稱	維多利亞小說與物質文化 Victorian Novels and Material Culture
開課學期	100-2
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	122 M5560
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學分	3
全/半年	半年
必/選修	選修
上課時間	星期一2,3,4(9:10~12:10)
上課地點	外研一
備註	第二、三類。限碩士班以上總人數上限：15人

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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.
課程目標	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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參考書目	Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008. Benedict, Barbara M. Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001. Blake, Andrew. Reading Victorian Fiction: The Cultural Context and Ideological Content of the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Hundmills, Hampshire, Eng: Macmillan, 1989. Brown, Julia Prewitt. The Bourgeois Interior. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2008. Cohen, Deborah. Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions. New Haven: Yale UP, 2006 Crook, J. Mordaunt. The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture. London: Murray, 1999. Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, and Eugene Rochberg-Halton. The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981. Daston, Lorraine. Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science. New York: Zone, 2004. Dyer, Gary R. “The ‘Vanity Fair’ of Nineteenth-Century England: Commerce, Women, and the East in the Ladies’ Bazzar.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 46.2 (1991): 196-222. Fredgood, Elaine. The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. Gallagher, Catherine. The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006. Halliday, Stephen. The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Capital. Thrupp, Gloucestershire, Eng: Sutton, 1999. Houston, Natalie M. “George Eliot’s Material History: Clothing and Realist Narrative.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 29.1 (1996): 23-33. Kaplan, Cora. Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2007. Kingery, W. D. Learning from Things: Method and Theory of Material Culture Studies. Washington: Smithsonian Institution P, 1996. Lindner, Christoph. “Thackeray’s Gourmand: Carnivals of Consumption in ‘Vanity Fair.’” Modern Philology 99.4 (2002): 564-81. Lysack, Krista. Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women’s Writing. Athens: Ohio UP, 2008. Miller, Andrew. “Vanity Fair through Plate Glass.” PMLA 105.5 (1990): 1042- 54. Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England. 2nd ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2009. Paris, Bernard J. Rereading George Eliot: Changing Responses to Her Experiments in Life. SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture. Albany: State U of New York P, 2003. Plotz, John. Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008. Pocock, J. G. A. The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1975. ---. Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. 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. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1990. Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1984. Trotter, David. “Household Clearances in Victorian Fiction.” 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 6 (2008). 22 Sep. 2009 Whitlock, Tammy C. Crime, Gender, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England. The History of Retailing and Consumption. Aldershot, Hampshire, Eng: Ashgate, 2005.
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