M.A. Issues in Modern Culture Reading List 2020–21 AUTHORS AUTUMN TERM 1. Gustave Flaubert Dr Scarlett Baron Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary [1857], trans. Margaret Mauldon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Gustave Flaubert, ‘A Simple Heart’, in Three Tales [1877], trans. A.J. Krailsheimer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991). Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas [1913], in Bouvard and Pécuchet, with the Dictionary of Received Ideas, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977). Further Reading: Gustave Flaubert, Selected Letters, trans. Geoffrey Wall (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997). Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot (London: Jonathan Cape, 1984) Jonathan Culler, Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty (London: Paul Elek, 1974). Stephen Heath, Flaubert: Madame Bovary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). Christopher Prendergast, The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). Francis Steegmuller, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour [1972] (Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1996). Geoffrey Wall, Flaubert: A Life (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001). Tim Unwin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Jennifer Yee, The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). 2. Henry James Professor Philip Horne Henry James, The Golden Bowl (1904), ed. Ruth Bernard Yeazell (Penguin Classics, 2009) This contains the ‘Preface’ to the (only very slightly different) New York Edition version of the novel (1909); the other Prefaces (collected in The Art of the Novel, ed. R.P. Blackmur, 1934; now U. of Chicago Press) Henry James, ‘The Lesson of Balzac’ (1905) Available at: https://archive.org/details/questionourspee01jamegoog/page/n9/mode/2up Secondary Reading: Nicola Bradbury, Henry James: The Later Novels (Oxford University Press, 1979). Jean Gooder, ‘The Golden Bowl, or Ideas of Good and Evil’, The Cambridge Quarterly , Vol. 13, No. 2 (1984), 129-146. 1 Philip Horne. ed. Henry James: A Life in Letters (Penguin, 1999) Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Language and Knowledge in the Late Novels of Henry James (Chicago, 1976). (The best book on the late style and the late fiction generally.) Thomas Galt Peyser, ‘James, Race, and the Imperial Museum’, American Literary History, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring, 1994), pp. 48-70. Stuart Burrows, ‘The Golden Fruit: Innocence and Imperialism in The Golden Bowl’, Henry James Review, Vol. 21 No. 2 (Spring 2000), 95-114. Jonathan Freedman, ‘The Poetics of Cultural Decline: Degeneracy, Assimilation, and the Jew in James’s The Golden Bowl’, American Literary History, Vol. 7, No. 3, Imagining a National Culture (Autumn, 1995), 477-499. 3. James Joyce Dr Scarlett Baron James Joyce, Ulysses [1922], ed. Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior (New York: Random House, 1986) – available as a Vintage reprint. This is the best critically edited version of the text and the one referenced in most academic writing about Joyce. For a helpful introduction and useful notes (as well as for an interesting variant text), see Ulysses, ed. Jeri Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). It can also be useful to have to hand Don Gifford and Robert J. Seidman, ‘Ulysses’ Annotated: Notes for James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ (London: University of California Press, 1989). Further Reading: James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1916] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). This edition has a good introduction and notes by Jeri Johnson. James Joyce, Dubliners [1914] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). This edition has a good introduction and notes by Jeri Johnson; I have written an introduction to the 2012 Vintage edition of the stories. James Joyce, Selected Letters of James Joyce, ed. Richard Ellmann (London: Faber and Faber, 1975). Derek Attridge, Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Derek Attridge and Marjorie Howes (eds), Semicolonial Joyce (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Vincent Cheng, Joyce, Race, and Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, revd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982). Hugh Kenner, Joyce’s Voices (London: Faber and Faber, 1978). Terence Killeen, ‘Ulysses’ Unbound: A Reader’s Companion to James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ (Dublin: Wordwell, 2005). Sean Latham (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to ‘Ulysses’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Karen Lawrence, The Odyssey of Style in ‘Ulysses’ (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1981). 2 4. Virginia Woolf Dr Scarlett Baron Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway [1925], ed. David Bradshaw (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse [1927], ed. Margaret Drabble (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). Further Reading: Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out [1915] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries (London: Vintage, 2008). Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters (London: Vintage, 2008). Virginia Woolf, Selected Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: Autobiographical Writings, ed. Jeanne Schulkind, rev. Hermione Lee (London: Pimlico, 2002). Rachel Bowlby, Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997). Julia Briggs, Reading Virginia Woolf (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006). Hermione Lee, The Novels of Virginia Woolf (London: Methuen, 1977). Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (London: Chatto & Windus, 1997). Sue Roe and Susan Sellers (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Anna Snaith, ‘Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Writing against Empire’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature (50:1), 19-32. Anna Snaith, ‘Race, Empire and Performative Activism in Late Edwardian Bloomsbury’, in The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group, ed. D. Ryan and S. Ross (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), 94-108. 5. D. H. Lawrence Dr Hugh Stevens D. H. Lawrence, Birds, Beasts and Flowers! (1923) – any edition, also available on Kindle on from Project Gutenberg Further reading: A Banerjee, D. H. Lawrence’s Poetry: Demon Liberated. A Collection of Primary and Secondary Material (1990) Amit Chaudhuri, D. H. Lawrence and ‘Difference’: Postcoloniality and the Poetry of the Present (2003) Sandra Gilbert, Acts of Attention: The Poems of D. H. Lawrence (1972) Holly A. Laird, Self and Sequence: The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence (1988) M. J. Lockwood, A Study of the Poetry of D. H. Lawrence: Thinking in Poetry (1987) 3 Gail Porter Mandell, The Phoenix Paradox: A Study of Renewal Through Change in the Collected Poems and Last Poems of D. H. Lawrence (1984) Ross C. Murphin, The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence: Texts and Contexts (1983) Helen Sword, Engendering Inspiration: Visionary Strategies in Rilke, Lawrence and H. D. (1995) *** Reading week *** 6. Zora Neale Hurston Dr Julia Jordan Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Further Reading: Adrienne Brown, ‘Hard Romping: Zora Neale Hurston, White Women, and the Right to Play’, Twentieth-Century Literature, 64, no. 3 (2018): 295-316. Brian Carr and Tova Cooper, ‘Zora Neale Hurston and Modernism at the Critical Limit’, MFS Modern Fiction Studies 48, no. 2 (2002): 285-313. Sharon Davie, ‘Free Mules, Talking Buzzards, and Cracked Plates: The Politics of Dislocation in Their Eyes Were Watching God’, PMLA (1993) 108: 446–59. Rachel Blau DuPlessis, ‘Power, Judgment, and Narrative in a Work of Zora Neale Hurston: Feminist Cultural Studies’, in New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God, ed. Michael Awkward, pp. 95– 123. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988). Rosemary V Hathaway, ‘The Unbearable Weight of Authenticity: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and a Theory of “Touristic Reading”’ Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 117, Number 464 (Spring 2004): 168-190. David Kadlec, ‘Zora Neale Hurston and the Federal Folk’, Modernism/modernity 7, no. 3 (2000): 471-485. 7. T. S. Eliot Dr Dennis Duncan ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ – ‘Portrait of a Lady’ – ‘Preludes’ – ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ – ‘Gerontion’ – ‘Whispers of Immortality’ – The Waste Land – ‘Sweeney Agonistes’ – Four Quartets All in Collected Poems (Faber) or The Poems of T.S. Eliot, Vol. 1 ed. Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue (Faber) Further Reading: Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot (ed. Frank Kermode) The Letters of T.S. Eliot (Vols. 1-6) 4 Ackroyd, Peter, T.S. Eliot (1984) Asher, Kenneth, T.S. Eliot and Ideology (1998) Bergonzi, Bernard, ed. T.S. Eliot, Four quartets: a casebook (1994) Bush, Ronald, ed. T.S. Eliot: the Modernist in History (1991) Cheyette, Brian, ‘Eliot and “Race”: Jews, Irish, and Blacks’, in David E. Chinitz, A Companion to T. S. Eliot (2001) Cooper, John Xiros, ed., The Cambridge introduction to T.S. Eliot (2006) Donoghue, Denis, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot (2000) Ellmann, Maud The poetics of impersonality : T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (1987) Gordon, Lyndall, Eliot’s Early Years (1977) Julius, Anthony, T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form (1995) Laity, Cassandra, and Nancy. K. Gish, eds. Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T.S. Eliot, (2004) Moody, David, Tracing T.S. Eliot’s spirit: essays on his poetry and thought (1996) Murphy, Russell Elliott, Critical companion to