Emery’s “Queer Casanova” essay for 4/17
Arhh, The link is down.
Link removed. Contact me if you need it.
Critical Reading: Emery on “Queer Casanova” (4/17)
The Luhmann Reading (Theory reading for 4/10)
NB: I wound up with separate files for the readings and notes–and a strangely giant notes file–due to circumstances beyond my control.
Links to readings removed. Contact me if you need them.
The “theory” reading for Th, 4/10 is by Niklas Luhmann. He is a German sociological theorist, whose central foci are systems theory and communication theory–which means that he approaches things very differently from the French (philosophical-literary) theorists and Anglo-American historians and critics we in English studies are used to. I have hewed the pdf of readings from his book so as to emphasize his historical commentary/argument, but I warn you that I am doing this against the grain of Luhmann’s own approach and intentions. So much should be obvious, perhaps, from the discontinuous page numbers. These come because he regularly moves between historical musings and sociological theorizing in a broader mode. Wikipedia has a seemingly trustworthy intellectual bio of Luhmann.
Luhmann’s book, Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy is (luckily) available and searchable from google books and also from amazon.com. But both allow only limited usage.
Be warned that your usage of the book on either site is in a very limited preview mode. The best way to use this is to search for something specific, such as a phrase that Luhmann may have previously explained or defined which has you flummoxed. If one locks you out, try the other. Both, I believe, let you look through the index freely.
The Harvard UP and Stanford UP press web sites each list the book with useful blurbs and summaries. Harvard is more worthwhile because their blurb tries to give an overview of the book.
Further critical readings (suggested)
A few critical readings I wanted to add in somewhere, but couldn’t. Park is on sentimentalism and fetishizing body parts; Budd is on the context of Richardson’s unpopular decision to have a tragic ending without “poetic justice.”
Julie Park, “‘I Shall Enter Her Heart’: Fetishizing Feeling in Clarissa,” Studies in the Novel 37:4 (2005)
and Adam Budd, “Why Clarissa Must Die: Richardson’s Tragedy and Editorial Heroism,” Eighteenth-Century Life 31:3 (2007): 1-28
http://muse.jhu.edu.proxy.lib.siu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_life/v031/31.3budd.html
EDIT: the Park link has been fixed.
Tennenhouse: Critical Reading for 4/3
The critical reading for Th 4/3 provides the link between Clarissa and The Coquette, if somewhat obliquely.
Leonard Tennenhouse, “The Americanization of Clarissa,” Yale Journal of Criticism 11:1 (1998): 177-96.
http://muse.jhu.edu.proxy.lib.siu.edu/journals/yale_journal_of_criticism/v011/11.1tennenhouse.html
(should work from campus computers or prompt you to log in)
That Ninetheenth-Century Painting
Maybe this time the image will be visible? I can only hope. A reminder: this is a speculative and not particularly well sourced imaginative reconstruction of the falling out between Lady Mary and Pope as her sexual rejection of him. It’s entitled The Rejected Poet, and was painted by William Powell Frith in 1863. The Bridgeman Art scan of it is far better looking, but will not link.
Cleaning up: Arthur Gray
Here’s an attempt at a link to Isobel Grundy’s take on Arthur Gray. I mentioned her interpretation in class. It’s from google books, so who knows if it will work, but if you find the Blackwell Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry, edited by Christine Gerrard (2006), and then search for Arthur Gray, that will work. Or use the library!
And here is the account of Arthur Gray from the Newgate Calender, of which the highlight is the conclusion:
The single reflection arising from this story is, that illicit pleasure leads to disgrace: there is no doubt but there was some foundation for this prosecution. If Gray had been previously too intimate with the lady, she was punished by the exposure of a public trial; if otherwise, he was punished for the attempt, in the ignominy of a public conviction. Hence let it be learnt that chastity is a virtue which cannot be prized at too high a rate.
I should have remembered this, but he was in fact tried for burglary, not rape or attempted rape.
Critical Reading for Th 3/20
Katherine Binhammer “Knowing Love: The Epistemology of Clarissa” ELH 74.4, Winter 2007: 859-79.
NB: You will need to be on an SIUC computer or logged in to access this.
http://muse.jhu.edu.proxy.lib.siu.edu/journals/elh/v074/74.4binhammer.html
or
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/toc/elh74.4.html
Course Archive
Dryden, All for Love: in All for Love and The Spanish Fryar, ed. William Strunk. 1911
http://books.google.com/books?id=ELc6AAAAMAAJ
(note: you need to click through to the book itself, which you can then download for free)
Rowe Fair Penitent: Sophie Chantal Hart 1907 edition
http://books.google.com/books?id=O0NMAAAAMAAJ&dq=fair+penitent&as_brr=1
Note there is an unreadable scan also avail. in google books; use this one!
Sanchez, Melissa E. Libertinism Article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v038/38.3sanchez.html
(note: you need to be logged in to your SIUC account or working from an on-campus computer for the link to work.)
From off campus: click this link, log in, then enter “Sanchez, Melissa” in the search box.
http://proxy.lib.siu.edu/login?url=http://muse.jhu.edu/search/search.cgi
Poetry ReadingsTu 3/18
Rumor has it that Pope fell in love with Lady Mary with bad results. It is clear that they started out friends and became enemies.
Alexander Pope
Mary Wortley Montagu
Epistle from Arthur Grey, the Footman
