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Research Exercise 7: Aurora Leigh from a distance
“The words ‘cousin’ and ‘friend’ are constantly recurring in this poem, the last pages of which have been finished under the hospitality of your roof, my own dearest cousin and friend: –cousin and friend, in a sense of less equality and greater disinterestedness than ‘Romney’ ‘s.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning, dedication to Aurora Leigh.
Research Exercise 7: Aurora Leigh from a distance
“The words ‘cousin’ and ‘friend’ are constantly recurring in this poem, the last pages of which have been finished under the hospitality of your roof, my own dearest cousin and friend: –cousin and friend, in a sense of less equality and greater disinterestedness than ‘Romney’ ‘s.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning, dedication to Aurora Leigh.
Research Exercise 6: epigraph, paratext, republishing
English 111: Victorian Novel Research Seminar Research Exercise 7: Letters, Authors, Pseudonyms, Publishers, Paratexts This research exercise draws on your skills in working with Victorian periodicals, and introduces you to finding specific materials within the published edition of an author’s
Research Exercise 6: epigraph, paratext, republishing
English 111: Victorian Novel Research Seminar Research Exercise 7: Letters, Authors, Pseudonyms, Publishers, Paratexts This research exercise draws on your skills in working with Victorian periodicals, and introduces you to finding specific materials within the published edition of an author’s
Week 15
Looking back, summing up, opening out: what is the relation between the canon, the syllabus, the archive, and the novel?
Week 14
“This metaphoric suspension [of closure in book VII] constitutes a kind of narrative suspense, an unresolved harmony that keeps “mysterious tune” with the sacramental cosmic processiveness Aurora has invoked in book 5. It also places in epic perspective the novelistic realism that ostensibly superintends the final two books.” (Tucker pg. 79)
Week 14
“This metaphoric suspension [of closure in book VII] constitutes a kind of narrative suspense, an unresolved harmony that keeps “mysterious tune” with the sacramental cosmic processiveness Aurora has invoked in book 5. It also places in epic perspective the novelistic realism that ostensibly superintends the final two books.” (Tucker pg. 79)
Week 13
“It is clear, I hope, that my concern with authority does not entail analysis of what lies hidden in the Orientalist text, but analysis rather of the text’s surface, its exteriority to what it describes.” (Said, Orientalism p. 20)
Week 12
Paratextual material maps out the margins of Middlemarch. Divided into eight books and eighty-six chapters, and bookended by a prelude and a finale, the novel itself contains a plethora of classificatory forms and organizational schemata. Among these ordering principles, the collected epigraphs and “mottos” that preface each chapter serve as paratextual synopsis (Sierra’s seminar paper, 2).
Week 12
Paratextual material maps out the margins of Middlemarch. Divided into eight books and eighty-six chapters, and bookended by a prelude and a finale, the novel itself contains a plethora of classificatory forms and organizational schemata. Among these ordering principles, the collected epigraphs and “mottos” that preface each chapter serve as paratextual synopsis (Sierra’s seminar paper, 2).
Week 10
Some have argued that Daniel Deronda IS a “silly novel,” but is The Mill on the Floss a reparative reading of “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”?
