Senses of the Self: 2010-11

Senses of the Self: 2014-15

Spring Semester 2015

Course convenor: Prof Margaret Healy, Room: B 233 e-mail: M.J. [email protected]

Office Hours: (B233) to be announced Do come and discuss your essays and obtain feedback (no appointment needed).

Course Outline: The course takes as its starting point a common assumption that one of the roots of modern identity lies in a reconfiguration of ideas concerning subjectivity and the self in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This assumption has aroused a great deal of debate in recent years. The whole area of study has been renewed and transformed by the application of new theoretical approaches (for example, from feminism, psychoanalysis, or textuality) to the study of the past and the interpenetration of the past in the present. The aim of the course is to study a broad range of texts (from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the fourteenth century to Swift's Gulliver's Travels in the eighteenth) in order to investigate changes in the construction of personal and sexual identity through history. The course will contain both canonical and non-canonical texts, written by men and by women, including some European authors studied in translation. Issues covered will range from philosophy to pornography, mythology to autobiography, medicine to travel literature. Part of the excitement of the course lies in the encounter with brilliant but unfamiliar forms of imaginative literature; part lies in the realization, through the study of historical change, of how we have come to be who we are; and part lies in the realization that modern ways of imagining our ‘selves’ are not the only possible ones and that in times past would have seemed as wild and strange as theirs sometimes do to us.

Questions that we shall consider over the course of the term include what we mean by the self, whether the self is a stable concept, and how selfhood relates to social status, gender and sexuality. Centrally, it will examine the self as one of the key elements in literature, and its place in the formation of poetry, drama and the new form of the novel in the early eighteenth century. In the process it examines such issues as life writing, autobiography, confession, memory, the mind-body relation, the representation of interiority, desire, sex, transvestism, dreams and madness. Authors that we shall read include Chaucer, Kempe, More, Montaigne, Marlowe, Sidney, Wroth, Webster, Shakespeare, Donne, Cavendish, Rochester, Behn, Defoe and Swift.

Course Description: An idea of the self seems to be fundamental to modern (at any rate Western) culture. We are encouraged to pursue our psychological and economic goals on the assumption that a personal conception of the self is both the prime motivator and the immediate beneficiary of our actions, even when imagined in collective terms. The self is also often said to be a central problem in the construction of modernity. Descartes (in the seventeenth century) is said by many to have placed the self at the centre of philosophical enquiry through his epigram cogito ergo sum (‘I think therefore I am’) and to have inaugurated a disjunction between the body and mind. At the same time, ideas of the self have been fundamental in the emergence of modern literature. Whether in the idea of the author as the maker of a world; or the ‘I’ of the narrator of a story following a single point of view; or in the competing voices of characters in drama; or in the subjective space of the interpreting reader: the self both creates the space of literature and opens it out into a wider world.

Teaching Methods: One compulsory two-hour seminar per week. There are no lectures for this course. Each student will be expected to give at least one presentation during the course.

Assessment: This course will be assessed by two essays of 1500 words (30%) and 2000 words (70% of the grade).

Two copies of each essay are required and a coversheet must be attached. Citations and bibliographical details should follow the standard form (MLA, MHRA, Harvard, or Chicago style system). All essays should be word processed and double spaced. As usual, this essay should be submitted via the English Office. Charges of plagiarism must be avoided at all costs: it is essential that you reference your work professionally and attribute all quotes and ideas that are not your own to the relevant critics. Please note that there are very severe penalties for handing the essay in late to the English Office unless there are acceptable mitigating circumstances that have been appropriately registered.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course, successful participants will have gained the ability: a) to demonstrate a sound understanding of the key concepts of self and subjectivity and how they are shaped by history and culture; b) to demonstrate detailed knowledge of how the literature studied has both been shaped by, and has helped shape, concepts of self in society; c) to participate in current critical debates about the self while constructing and illustrating a coherent argument.

Essential Purchases

Most of the texts for this course can be found in Stephen Greenblatt (general ed.), The Norton Anthology English Literature. Ninth edition (2012). Package 1 (comprises vols. A, B, C). It’s a good idea for you to buy this as soon as possible (If you already have the single, Eighth Edition, Volume 1, 2006, this contains the same texts only in a heavier one volume). Purchase of a new Norton anthology will also give you privileged access to a website providing extra readings and contextual material. You will find a registration code at the front of the volume, which will give you access to the website. Other essential texts to buy: Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters, ed, Donald Frame (Everyman Library Classics) Amazon currently have this at £14 hardback—an enormous bargain! This is the best cheap edition because it contains Montaigne’s remarkable Travel Journal but the essays will be our focus in the seminar. Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, ed., Louis Landa (Oxford World’s Classics, 1990). Any edition of Shakespeare, Hamlet. Often, but especially when you are writing your essay, it’s a good idea anyway to consult individual editions since the notes are invariably fuller and the introductions longer and better.

While you are expected to read secondary material as widely as is reasonably possible, it is important to note that the secondary reading lists below are merely suggestions for wider enquiry. The weekly secondary reading is there for you to use both for the seminars and later (and perhaps more importantly) as a basis for essay research. You are, of course, encouraged to seek out further sources in the library and elsewhere.

Contexts and general reading: Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: from More to Shakespeare (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980) Jakob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy [1860], trans. G. S. Middlemore (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990); Margaret Healy and Thomas Healy, eds, Renaissance Transformations: The Making of English Writing 1500-1650 (Edinburgh University Press, 2009); Dalia Judovitz, Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: the origins of modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988); Sarah Kay, Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); Joseph Koerner, The Moment of Self- Portraiture in German Renaissance Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993); Jill Kraye, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); Nicholas Mann and Luke Syson, eds, The Image of the Individual: Portraits in the Renaissance (London: British Museum Press, 1980); John J. Martin, Myths of Renaissance Individualism (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006); Colin Morris, The Discovery of the Individual 1050–1200 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995); Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (London: Allen Lane, 2003); Roy Porter, ed., Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present (London: Routledge, 1997); Jerrold E. Seigel, The Idea of the Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005); Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989); David Wallace, Chaucerian Polity: absolutist lineages and associational forms (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997); Joanna Woods-Marsden, Renaissance Self-Portraiture: the Visual Construction of Identity and Social Status of the Artist (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998); Donn Welton, ed, Body and Flesh: A Philosophical Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998); Kalof and Bynum, eds, Volume 2: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age, 500-1500 (Oxford: Berg, 2010); Volume 3: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance (1400-1650); Vol 4: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment (1650-1800); Darryl Grantley and Nina Taunton, The Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000).

Week 1. (Mon 19 Jan to Sun 25 Jan)

Introduction: Ideas of the Self

What do we mean by the self? What are the key questions we’ll be asking about selves and their representation on this course? The purpose of this class is both to frame, and to open up the field we’ll be studying (as well as introducing you to some of its complexities) so that you’ll begin to gain a sense of the areas that your assessments might address. Your attention will be drawn to the seminal texts and theories that have shaped modern ideas of the self in Western culture.

Essential preliminary reading:

Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Michel de Montaigne, ‘Of Practice’.

In the seminar we shall discuss short extracts (photocopies provided in class) from: Rene Descartes, Discourse 4, ‘Discourse on the Method of Properly conducting One’s Reason and of seeking the Truth in the Sciences’, 1637 (from Descartes, Discourse on Method and the Meditations, trans. F.E.Sutcliffe (London: Penguin, 1968); and The Confessions of Saint Augustine (from Augustine, Confessions of Saint Augustine, trans. F.J.Sheed (Indiana: Hackett Publishing, 1992). We shall also consider self-portraits by the artists Durer, Rembrandt and Catherine van Hemessen.

Essential Secondary Reading:

Roy Porter, ed., Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present (London and New York: Routledge, 1997., especially pp. 1-57. This is the most important secondary text for this course. You can buy it as a Google e-book for £22. The initial chapters are available on your Study Direct site for this week.

Further reading: Jerrold E. Seigel, The Idea of the Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) Jakob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy [1860], trans. G. S. Middlemore (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990). Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: from More to Shakespeare (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980) Joseph Koerner, The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993 John J. Martin, Myths of Renaissance Individualism (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

2. The Medieval confessional self

Essential Reading:

Geoffrey Chaucer, The General Prologue on the Pardoner (ll. 671-716); The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale (NA) See also the interlinear translation (details below). Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe (NA)

If you have not studied Chaucer before you will certainly need some help with translation and I recommend the Harvard University Chaucer site interlinear translation: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/canttales/pardt/ Or simply key Harvard Chaucer Pardoner’s Tale into Google. This is a fantastic and very scholarly resource containing a great deal of information and many links to excellent articles that you can access electronically. (n.b. the Norton anthology on-line section has audios of the Tales)

Highly recommended

Ganim, John M., ‘Identity and Subjecthood’, in Steve Ellis, ed., Chaucer: An Oxford Guide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp.224-38; The Chaucer Oxford Guide contains many good, introductory essays on his life, on religion, etc.. Katherine Lewis, ‘Margery Kempe and Saint Making’ (details below). There are pdfs of both these on your Study Direct site.

Further Secondary reading

Abdalla, Lailla, ‘ “My body to warente…”: Linguistic Corporeality in Chaucer’s Pardoner’, Rhetorics of Bodily Health and Disease in Medieval and Early Modern England, ed., Jennifer C. Vaught (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), 65-86. Atkinson, Clarissa W., Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the World of Margery Kempe (Ithaca and London, 1983) Erwin, Rebecca Schoff, ‘Early Editing of Margery Kempe in Manuscript and Print’, Journal of the Early Book Society, 9 (2006), 75-94 Lewis, Katherine J., ‘Margery Kempe and Saint Making in Later Medieval England’, in John H. Arnold and Katherine J. Lewis, eds., A Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe (Cambridge: Brewer, 2004), pp.195-215. Liz Herbert McAvoy and Diane Watt, eds., The History of British Women’s Writing, 700- 1500 (Palgrave, 2011) Mann, Jill, Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire: the Literature of Social Classes and the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973) Miller, Robert, ‘Chaucer’s Pardoner, the Scriptural Eunuch, and the Pardoner’s Tale’, Speculum, 30 (1955), 180-99 Patterson, Lee, ‘Chaucerian Confession: Penitential Literature and the Pardoner’, Medievalia et Humanistica, 7 (1976), 153-173 Patterson, Lee, Chaucer and the Subject of History (London: Routledge, 1992) Staley, Lynn, Margery Kempe’s Dissenting Fictions (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1994) Pearsall, Derek, The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: a critical biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)

3. Humanism, rhetoric and playing the part

Essential reading:

Thomas More, Utopia (NA) Hamlet revisited. Greenblatt, Stephen, Renaissance Self-Fashioning from More to Shakespeare (University of Chicago Press, 1980), pages 1-11. Erasmus, Praise of Folly (short extract on the stage play world studied in class)

Secondary reading

Rhodes, Neil, ‘Hamlet and Humanism’ in Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion, eds, Sullivan, Cheney, Hadfield (Oxford: OUP, 2006), 120-29. Thomas Healy, ‘Playing seriously in Renaissance writing’ in Renaissance Transformations: The Making of English Writing 1500-1650, eds, Margaret and Thomas Healy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), 15-31. Kraye, Jill, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Baker-Smith, Dominic, More’s Utopia (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000) Carlson, David R., English Humanist Books : Writers and Patrons, Manuscripts and Print, 1475-1525 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993) Greene, Thomas, ‘The Flexibility of the Self in Renaissance Literature’, in The Disciplines of Criticism, eds Peter Demetz, Thomas Greene, and Lowry Nelson, Jr (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968), pp. 241-64 Guy, John, The Public Career of Sir Thomas More (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980) Hutson, Lorna, ‘The Housewife and the Humanists’, in The Usurer’s Daughter: Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in Sixteenth-Century England (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 17-51 Ernest Jones, ‘The Psycho-Analytical Solution’ in Hamlet and Oedipus (London: Victor Gollancz, 1949). Patricia Parker, ‘Othello and Hamlet: Dilation, Spying and the ‘Secret Place’ of Woman’ in Russ McDonald, ed., Shakespeare Reread (New York, 1994). This is also in Parker’s Shakespeare from the Margins: language, Culture, Contexts (Chicago, 1997). Jardine, Lisa, Erasmus, Man of Letters (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) Ackroyd, Peter, The Life of Thomas More (London: Chatto & Windus, 1998)

4. ‘Spying on the self’: scepticism and inwardness

Essential reading :

Michel de Montaigne, Essays (especially ‘To the Reader’ ; ‘Of practice’; ‘Of idleness’; ‘Of imagination’ ; ‘Of the cannibals’ ; ‘Of experience’); Travel Journal (especially section on Italy/Rome available as pdf on Study Direct).

Secondary reading

Starobinski, J, Montaigne in Motion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985) Healy, Margaret, ‘Journeying with the “stone”: Montaigne’s Healing Travel Journal’, Literature and Medicine, 24:2, (Fall, 2005). Bakewell, Sarah, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (London: Chatto & Windus, 2010) Boutcher, Warren, ‘Humanism and Literature in Late Tudor England: Translation, the continental book and the case of Montaigne’s Essais’, in Reassessing Tudor Humanism, ed. Jonathan Woolfson (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2002), 243-68 — — ‘ Marginal Commentaries: The Cultural Transmission of Montaigne’s Essais in Shakespeare’s England’, Shakespeare et Montaigne: vers un nouvel humanisme, eds Jean- Marie Maguin and Pierre Kapitaniak, (Paris: Actes du Congrès de la Société Française Shakespeare 2004), pp. 13-28 [URL: http://www.societefrancaiseshakespeare.org/document.php?id=116] Brody, Jules, ‘Montaigne: Philosophy, Philology, Literature’, Philosophy and Literature, 22.1 (1998), 83-107 Ellrodt, Robert, ‘Self-Consciousness in Montaigne and Shakespeare’, Shakespeare Survey 28 (1975), 37-50 Merleau-Ponty, M., ‘Reading Montaigne’, in Signs, translated by Richard McCleary (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964), pp. 198-210 Popkin, Richard, History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)

5. Petrarch and the self in the sonnet

Essential reading:

Thomas Wyatt (NA), ‘The Long Love’, ‘Whoso list’, ‘Farewell Love’, ‘I find no peace’, ‘My galley’, ‘Divers doth use’. Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (NA) especially 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 20, 45, 106. William Shakespeare (NA) especially, 1, 20, 127, 129, 130, 144. Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (entire selection in NA)

Miniature portrait in class, ‘Young Man Among the Roses’.

Secondary reading Fumerton, Patricia, 'Secret Arts: Elizabethan Miniatures and Sonnets' in Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991). Cheney, Hadfield and Sullivan, Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion (OUP, 2007). There are many good, relevant essays in this collection. Greenblatt, Stephen, Renaissance Self-Fashioning from More to Shakespeare (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1980), ch. 3 Ferry, Anne, The ‘Inward’ Language: Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983) Margaret P. Hannay, Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth (CUP, 2010). Margaret Ezell, ed., The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500-1610 (Palgrave, 2010). Greene, Thomas M., The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982) Heale, Elizabeth, Wyatt, Surrey and Early Tudor Poetry (London and New York: Longman, 1998) Muir, K., Life and Letters of Sir Thomas Wyatt (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1963) Margreta de Grazia, 'The Scandal of Shakespeare's Sonnets', Shakespeare Survey 46, 1993. James Schiffer, Shakespeare’s Sonnets: critical essays (New York: Garland, 1989). Michael Schoenfeldt, ed., A Companion to Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Blackwell, 2008) M. Spiller, The Development of the Sonnet: An Introduction (Routledge, 1992). This book is excellent. Hallet Smith, Elizabethan Poetry: A Study in Conventions, Meanings and Expression (Harvard, 1952). Michael Schoenfeldt, Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England. (Cambridge, 2000) Burrow, Colin, ‘Horace at Home and Abroad: Wyatt and Sixteenth Century Horatianism’, in Charles Martindale and David Hopkins, eds, Horace Made New: Horatian Influences on British Writing from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 27-49 Danielle Clarke, The Politics of Early Modern Women’s Writing (Longman, 2001). R. D’Monte and N.Pohl, Female Communities: 1600-1800 (Macmillan, 2000). Paul Salzman, Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing (OUP, 2006) Anne Haselkorn and Betty Travitsky, The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print (Univ. of Mass. Press, 1991). Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker, eds, Women, ‘Race’, and Writing in the Early Modern Period (Routledge, 1994). Barbara Lewalski, Writing Women in Jacobean England (Harvard University Press, 1987). Louise Schleiner, Tudor and Stuart Women Writers (Indiana University Press, 1994). For useful surveys of women’s writing and criticism see ELR (English Literary Renaissance 14 (3), 1984, pp.409-25 and pp.426-39; and ELR 24 (1), 1994, pp.229-42 and pp.243-74. Also an update in ELR 30 (3), 2000.

6. Staging gender and desire

Essential reading:

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (NA) William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (NA)

Secondary reading:

David Scott Kastan and Peter Stallybrass, Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Routledge, 1991). Cox and Kastan, eds, A New History of Early English Drama (Columbia, 1997) Catherine Belsey, ‘Disrupting Sexual Difference: Meaning and Gender in the Comedies’, in Russ McDonald, ed., Shakespeare: an anthology of criticism and theory 1945-2000 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), pp. 633-49. Valerie Traub, ‘The Homoerotics of Shakespearean comedy’, in Russ McDonald, ed., Shakespeare: An anthology of criticism and theory 1945-2000 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), pp.704-26. L. Hutson, ‘On Not Being Deceived: Rhetoric and the Body in Twelfth Night’, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 38 (1996) 140-74. Jonathan Dollimore, Radical Tragedy (1984). T. Sedinger, “If sight and shape be true”: the epistemology of cross-dressing on the London stage’, Shakespeare Quarterly (1997). Bruce Smith, Homosexual Desire in Renaissance England (Chicago, 1991) S. Orgel, Impersonations: the performance of gender in Shakespeare’s England (1997). J. Pequigny, ‘The Two Antonios and ‘Same-Sex Love in Twelfth Night and the Merchant of Venice’ in Barker and Kamps, eds, Shakespeare and Gender: a history (1995) . Jonathan Goldberg, Queering the Renaissance (Durham, 1994). Kenneth Borris, ed., Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: a sourcebook of texts, 1470-1650 (London: Routledge, 2004). Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York, 1985). C. Malcolmson, “‘What You Will’: Social mobility and Gender in Twelfth Night”, in Wayne, ed, The Matter of Difference: materialist feminist criticism of Shakespeare (1991). R. Maslen, ‘Twelfth Night, Gender and Comedy’ in Early Modern English Drama, eds, Sullivan, Cheney, Hadfield (Oxford University Press, 2006). J. Dollimore, ‘Early Modern: cross-dressing in early modern England’, Sexual Dissidence (1991). T. Sedinger, “If sight and shape be true”: the epistemology of cross-dressing on the London stage’, Shakespeare Quarterly (1997). L. Levine, ‘Men in Women’s Clothing’ in Men in Women’s Clothing: antitheatricality and effeminization (1994). S. Orgel, Impersonations: the performance of gender in Shakespeare’s England (1997). S. Greenblatt, ‘Fiction and Friction’ in Shakespearean Negotiations (1988). Dympna Callaghan, ‘Women, tragedy and Transgression’, Women and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy (Harvester, 1989). Dympna Callaghan, ‘The Duchess of Malfi and Early Modern Widows’ in Early Modern English Drama. Carol Rutter, Chapter 1, in Enter the Body: women and representation on Shakespeare’s stage (Routledge, 2001) Mark Breitenberg, Anxious Masculinities in Early Modern England (Cambridge: CUP, 1996).

7. Reading week (Mon 2 March to Sun 8 March); reading for second essay

8. The Reformation and the religious self

Essential reading:

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (NA) John Donne, Holy Sonnets, 14, 17, 18, 19 (NA) Aemilia Lanyer, ‘Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women’. (NA)

Secondary reading

Poole, Kirsten, ‘Dr. Faustus and Reformation Theology’, in Garrett A. Sullivan Jr., Patrick Cheney and Andrew Hadfield, eds, Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) ‘Donne’s Religious Poetry and the Trauma of Grace’ in Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion (OUP, 2007). Healy, Thomas, Christopher Marlowe (Plymouth: Northcote House, 1994) Sachs, Arieh, ‘The Religious Despair of Doctor Faustus’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 63 (1964), 625-647 Bevington, David, From Mankind to Marlowe (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1962) ———, ‘Marlowe and God’, Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 17, (1991), 1-38 Cheney, Patrick, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) Dollimore, Jonathan, ‘Subversion through transgression’, in Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, eds David Scott Kastan and Peter Stallybrass (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 122-32 [this is a much reprinted essay, originally published in Dollimore’s highly influential Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries] Guibbory, Achsah, The Cambridge Companion to John Donne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) Schoenfeldt, Michael, Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2000). Wilson, Richard, ed., Christopher Marlowe, Longman Critical Readers (Harlow: Longman, 1999) Michael Schoenfeldt, ‘Eloquent Blood and deliberative Bodies: the physiology of metaphysical poetry’, in Renaissance Transformations, eds, Margaret Healy and Thomas Healy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), 145-160 Cheney, Hadfield and Sullivan, Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion (OUP, 2007). There are many good, relevant essays in this collection Davies, Stevie, ed., Renaissance Views of Man (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1978) Debus, Allen G., Man and Nature in the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978) Empson, William, Essays on Renaissance Literature, vol. 1: Donne and the New Philosophy, ed. John Haffenden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) Guibbory, Achsah, The Cambridge Companion to John Donne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) Danielle Clarke, The Politics of Early Modern Women’s Writing (Longman, 2001). R. D’Monte and N.Pohl, Female Communities: 1600-1800 (Macmillan, 2000). Paul Salzman, Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing (OUP, 2006) Anne Haselkorn and Betty Travitsky, The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print (Univ. of Mass. Press, 1991).

9. Restoration selves: sex, slavery and female fictions Essential reading:

Aphra Behn, Oroonoko and ‘The Disappointment’ (NA) Margaret Cavendish, ‘A True Relation of my birth, breeding…’ and The Blazing World (extract NA) John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, selected poems (NA)

Secondary reading

Brant, Clare, and Diane Purkiss eds, Women, Texts and Histories, 1575-1760 (London: Routledge, 1992) S.J.Wiseman, Aphra Behn: Writers and Their Work (1996; Plymouth: Northcote House, 2007) Janet Todd, Aphra Behn (Macmillan, 1999) Laura Brown, Ch.2, ‘The romance of Empire: Oroonoko and the trade in slaves’, in The New Eighteenth Century: theory, politics, English Literature, eds, F. Nussbaum and L. Brown (New York: Methuen, 1987), pp. 41-61. Adam Sills, ‘Surveying the Map of slavery’, Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol. 36, Number 3, Fall 2006, pp. 314-40. Margaret W. Ferguson, ‘Juggling the Categories of Race, Class and Gender: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko’, Women’s Studies (1991), 19, pp.159-181. Jacqueline Pearson, ‘Gender and Narrative in the fiction of Aphra Behn, The Review of English Studies, New Series, 42: 166 (May 1991), pp.179-90. Chalmers, Hero, Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Mihoko Suzuki, ed., The History of British Women’s Writing 1610-1690 (Palgrave, 2011). Crawford, Patricia, and Laura Gowing, ed., Women’s Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England (London: Routledge, 2000) Grundy, Isobel, and Susan Wiseman, eds, Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740 (London: Batsford, 1992) Kegl, Rosemary, ‘“The World I Have Made”: Margaret Cavendish, Feminism, and the Blazing World’, in Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects, eds Valerie Traub, Lindsay Kaplan, and Dympna Callaghan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Keller, Eve, ‘Producing Petty Gods: Margaret Cavendish’s Critique of Experimental Science’, ELH 64:2 (1997) Knoppers, Laura Lunger, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) Leslie, Marina, ‘Gender, Genre, and the Utopian Body in Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World’, Utopian Studies 7:1 (1996) Mendelson, Sara, and Patricia Crawford, Women in Early Modern England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998) Sherman, Sandra, ‘Trembling Texts: Margaret Cavendish and the Dialectic of Authorship’, English Literary Renaissance 24:1 (1994) Whitaker, Katie, Mad Madge (London: Chatto, 2003) Woodbridge, Linda, Women and the English Renaissance (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984) See also the several essays on Cavendish in vol. 4:3 of the journal Women’s Writing (1997) and vols. 40:2 and 40:3 of Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (2000) Fisher, Nicholas, ed, That Second Bottle: Essays on Rochester (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000) Hammond, Paul, Figuring Sex Between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002) Love, Harold, ed., Restoration Literature: Critical Approaches (London: Methuen, 1972) Thormählen, Marianne, Rochester: The Poems in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) Toulalan, Sarah, Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) Treglown, Jeremy, ed., Spirit of Wit (Oxford: Blackwell, 1982) Turner, James, Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics and Literary Culture, 1630-1685 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) Vieth, David M., ed., John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Critical Essays (New York: Garland, 1988) J. Webster, Performing Libertinism in Charles II’s Court (2005) Zwicker, Steven, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Literature 1650-1740 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)

10. Spiritual accounting, the journal and the rise of the novel

Essential Reading:

Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), ed., Louis Landa, Introduction, David Roberts (Oxford World’s Classics, 1990). David Roberts, Introduction, A Journal of the Plague Year, vii-xxii.