172T: MODERN LITERARY LONDON 176T: LITERARY LONDON: ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODS

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1 172T: MODERN LITERARY LONDON 176T: LITERARY LONDON: ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODS MONDAY, July 30, 2018 Friday, August 31, 2018 PROF. SUSAN ZIEGER This special double course takes place in central London, UK. Students will study the modern poems, short stories, novels, and cultural history that have constructed London as a global city, while living there and experiencing it firsthand. The research methods portion of the course builds on these primary materials, training students in practices of urban geography and history, and literary, feminist, and psychoanalytic criticism, so that by the end they may produce a high-quality research paper. Special group excursions to the Charles Dickens Museum, 221b Baker Street (the abode of Sherlock Holmes), the Tate Britain for material culture related to Oscar Wilde s arrest for acts of gross indecency, and the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, among others, will help students critically analyze literary tourism, historical archives, and the politics of urban space. Students will encounter London as a global city, a status it earned as the seat of the British Empire in the nineteenth century, and which has recently transformed again with Russian investment and Brexit. Informed by critical race studies and queer studies, Modern Literary London will encourage not reverence for British traditions, but critical engagement with London as a seat of power and world city in the 21st century. Required texts: City State: New London Poetry (2010) ISBN-13: Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ISBN-13: ISBN-13: Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ISBN-13: ISBN SCHEDULE OF READINGS, MEETINGS, AND EXCURSIONS Week 1: Monday, July 30 Thursday, August 2: Course Introduction Mon, July 30 Modern Poems about London 9-11 a.m. 172T William Blake, London William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 George Eliot, In a London Drawing Room Amy Levy, A London Plane Tree Amy Lowell, A London Thoroughfare 12-2 p.m. 176T T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land Introduction to literary research methods Tuesday, July 31: Modern Urban Writing 9-11 a.m. 172T George Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life Walter Benjamin, from The Arcades Project 12-2 p.m. 176T From Doreen Massey, World City

2 Introduction to social geography research methods 7-10 p.m. Optional Excursion: Alice s Adventures Underground immersive theater Launcelot Street, Lambeth Weds. Aug. 1: Contemporary Poems about London 9-11 a 172T Selections from City State: New London Poetry (2010) Methods laboratory: interviewing an author Visit from Jacob Sam-La Rose or Chris McCabe Thurs. Aug. 2 Charles Dickens & The Dickens Museum 9-11a 172T Dickens, selections from Sketches by Boz and The Uncommercial Traveler Research Methods: Archiving and Curating a Writer s Life Excursion: The Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, Holborn Week 2: Monday, Aug. 6 Thursday, Aug. 9 Mon, Aug. 6 Urban Crime and Mysteries Edgar Allan Poe, The Man in the Crowd Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (selections) Research methods: literary criticism Thomas, Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science (selection) Siddiqi, Anxieties of Empire (selection) Tues., Aug. 7 Detective Fiction and Literary Tourism Conan Doyle, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (selection) Michael Saler, As If (excerpt) Research methods: critical tourism studies Excursion: The Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221b Baker Street, Marylebone 2-3 Optional added excursion: Platform 9 ¾, Kings Cross Wed., Aug. 8 Jack the Ripper 4-6 p.m. 172T Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Night 6-7 break 7-9 p.m. 176T Research methods: critical tourism studies Excursion: Jack the Ripper Tour: The Original London Terror Walk Aldgate East Underground Station

3 Thurs., Aug. 9 Urban Psychology Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Research Methods: close-reading Week 3: Monday, Aug. 13 Thursday, Aug. 16 Mon., Aug. 13 Urban Psychology concluded Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Research methods: psychoanalytic criticism Freud, The Uncanny Tues. Aug. 14 London and Victorian Sexuality I Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (excerpt) Research methods: sexuality studies, queer studies Ed Cohen, Talk on the Wilde Side Eve Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (excerpt) Weds, Aug. 15 London and Victorian Sexuality II Wilde, De Profundis Douglas, Two Loves Research methods: material culture Excursion: Tate Britain Museum private tour of Wilde archive Thurs., Aug. 16 London and Victorian Sexuality III Michael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper), selected poems Research methods: close-reading for queer studies Field, selected poems Week 4: Monday, Aug. 20 Thursday, Aug. 23 Mon., Aug. 20 Introduction to Bloomsbury

4 Research methods: investigating modernism Berman, All That is Solid Melts into Air Tues., Aug. 21 Bloomsbury Research methods: feminist criticism Rebecca Solnit, from The Mother of All Questions Weds., Aug. 22 Bloomsbury Research methods: creative urban inspiration Excursion: walking tour of Bloomsbury (London Parks & Gardens Trust) Thurs., Aug. 23 Bloomsbury concluded Research laboratory: brainstorming and outlining Week 5: Monday, Aug. 27 Thursday, Aug. 30 Mon., Aug. 27 Black London Research method: postcolonial criticism Winkiel and Doyle, Geomodernisms (1-8): Mao and Walkowitz, The New Modernist Studies Tues., Aug. 28 Black London Research methods: writing the introduction Weds., Aug. 29 Black London

5 Research Methods: urban history Excursion: Museum of the City of London, Docklands No. 1 Warehouse, West India Quay Thurs., Aug. 30 Black London & Conclusion Research Methods: urban history Excursion: Black Cultural Archives 1 Windrush Square, Brixton Thurs., Sept T: Final Papers Due via to susan.zieger@ucr.edu ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING More than an ordinary course, this one relies on students attendance and participation. You are expected to attend EVERY course meeting and excursion, having completed the reading; perform all inclass individual and group assignments, and produce a 10-page research paper, due via one week after the course concludes. Attendance: 20% Participation in discussion: 25% In-Class Writing Assignments: 20% Research Paper: 35%