![]() ![]() ![]() Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (1982).Roland Barthes, The Grain of the Voice (1972).Jacques Derrida, Speech and Phenomena (1967).Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964).Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944).Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility (1936).Students will find their own texts and technological objects to present.Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates (1920) – 79 min.Helen Keller, Deliverance (1919) – 90 min.Lule Warrenton, When Little Lindy Sang (1916) – 10 min.George Veditz, The Preservation of the Sign Language (1913) – 15 min.Thomas Edison, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1903) – 19 min.Louis Lumiere, Now that Takes the Cake (1903) – 1 min.James Lastra, “Fidelity versus Intelligibility”.Michele Hilmes, “Radio and the Imagined Community”.John Durham Peters, “The Telephonic Uncanny and the Problem of Communication”.Jessica Kuskey, “Listening to the Victorian Telephone”.Wole Soyinka, “Telephone Conversation” (1962).Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Seven African Romances (musical settings for Dunbar, 1897).Paul Laurence Dunbar, Majors and Minors (1895).Telephone (1876): From One-on-One to Broadcasting Jerusha McCormack, “Domesticating Delphi: Emily Dickinson and the Electro-magnetic Telegraph”.Jonathan Sterne, “Audile Technique and Media” in The Audible Past, pp.Telegraph (1837): Networks and Transmission Robert Aguirre, "Photographing Panama: Eadweard Muybridge and Trans-Hemispheric Modernity".Mathew Brady’s Civil War and African American photographs.Julia Margaret Cameron’s and Lewis Carroll’s photographs of eminent Victorians.Frederick Douglass, “Lecture on Pictures” (1861).John Picker, “English Beat: The Stethoscopic Era’s Sonic Traces”.Jonathan Sterne, “Mediate Auscultation and Medicine’s Acoustic Culture,” pp.Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing (1859).Mary Seacole, The Wonderful Adventures of Mary Seacole in Many Lands (1857), pp.selections from Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey.Smith, “The Garden in the Machine: Listening to Early American Industrialization” Ellen and William Craft, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860).Hollis Robbins, “Fugitive Mail: The Deliverance of Henry ‘Box’ Brown and Antebellum Postal Politics”.Julian Lucas, “Can Slavery Reenactments Set Us Free?”.Henry "Box" Brown, Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself (1851).William Wells Brown, Panoramic Views of the Scenes in the Life of an American Slave (1849).Jennifer Wicke, “Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and Its Media”.Key to readings below (nb: readings are subject to change):īolded texts are literature or primary sources. This module will emphasize engagement with the material archive as a means of thematizing literature and will require students to think deeply about the material archive’s relationship to literature and scholarship. While literature is the dominant focus of the module, we will also examine machines, tools, sound recordings, art, automatons, and other objects. The module’s aim is to investigate how these artifacts contribute to an understanding nineteenth-century literature and culture, especially regarding gender, sexuality, race, and disability. This module investigates what constitutes “technology” and “literature” as they evolve together, and the politics and theorization that inevitably accompany such evolution. Literature, which is itself a kind of technology, existed long before these developments, but treated them as valuable disseminators, rival media, sources of inspiration and lamentation, and everything in between. We will focus on the numerous technologies that interact with and in writing of the period. MA Modules - complete list (Restricted permissions)ĭr Justin Tackett ( nineteenth-century’s fascination with the increasingly mechanical and diverse material culture of the time has become a central concern for literary studies.Staff Intranet (Restricted permissions).Undergraduates (Restricted permissions).PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies. ![]()
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