H-ALBION: IMAGINING EMPIRE PROFESSORS-syllabus

Imagining Empire Professors Coyle and O'Neill

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From: poneill@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Patricia O'Neill)

Professor O'Neill Professor Coyle

REQUIRED TEXTS--PRIMARY SOURCES
William Makepeace Thackeray, From Cornhill to Cairo. [photocopy] (1846) Benjamin Disraeli, .Tancred or the New Crusade. [photocopy] (1847) Richard Francis Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa. (1856) H. Rider Haggard, She. (1887)
Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four (1890)
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)
Rudyard Kipling, Kim. (1901)
E. M. Forster, .A Passage to India (1922-1924) George Orwell, Burmese Days. (1934)

REQUIRED TEXTS--SECONDARY SOURCES:

Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Is the Post in Postmodern the Same as the Post in Post-Structuralist?" (1990)
Stephen Greenblatt, "The Improvisation of Power" (1980) Fredric Jameson, "Romance and Reification" (1981) Renato Rosaldo, "Imperialist Nostalgia" (1989) Edward Said, Orientalism [on reserve] (1978) Gauri Viswanathan, Masks of Conquest [on reserve] (1989)

ALTERNATIVE TEXTS:

In every case, the women's narratives that we ordered proved to be unavailable; at first we tried substituting other texts by women. When our substitutions also proved out of stock we opted to go with books that were advertised as still in print. But evn here, as the first two texts on our syllabus illustrate, we were surprised after placing our final order. We've decided therefore to offer a few of you the option of substituting one or two narratives by women. Possibilities include: Lucie Duff Gordon "Letters from Egypt" (1865); Isabel Burton, "The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land" (1875); Amelia Edwards, "A Thousand Miles Up the Nile" (1877); Mary Henrietta Kingsley, "Travels in West Africa" (897); or Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse, "The Lacquer Lady" (1929). See one of us for more information.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

--class attendance, including a conference on Saturday 9 April; --response papers of one page due each Thursday, except for the two Thursdays after you have

submitted your essays;
--two essays of 5-8 pages each, due 1 March and 19 April, and a final examination.
READING CALENDAR:

18 Jan. Introduction.
20 Jan. Greenblatt, "The Improvisation of Power";

Thackeray, "From Cornhill to Cairo", 261-263, 313-336.

25 Jan. Thackeray, "From Cornhill to Cairo", 336-end. 27 Jan. Said, "Orientalism", 1-92.

1 Feb. Disraeli, "Tancred", Books I-III (1-235). 3 Feb. Disraeli, "Tancred", Book IV.

8 Feb. Disraeli, "Tancred", Books V-VI (341-end). 10 Feb. Rosaldo, "Imperialist Nostalgia"; Said, "Orientalism", 166-201.

15 Feb. Burton, "First Footsteps in East Africa", Volume 1, xi-xvi, xxix-xxxiv, 1-45,

70-93, 128-209; Volume 2, 1-41. 17 Feb. Burton, "First Footsteps in East Africa", Volume 2, 42-106.

22 Feb. Haggard, "She", 1-152. 24 Feb. Haggard, "She", 152-238.

1 March Doyle, "The Sign of Four", all. .MDBO/FIRST ESSAY DUE BEGINNING OF CLASS".
3 March Conrad, "Lord Jim", Chapters 1-5.

8 March Conrad, "Lord Jim", Chapters 6-37. 10 March Conrad, "Lord Jim", Chapters 38-end.

SPRING BREAK (two weeks).

29 March        Jameson, "Romance and Reification."
31 April        Kipling, "Kim", Chapters I-VIII.

5 April Kipling, "Kim", Chapters IX-end. 7 April Viswanathan, excerpts from "Masks of Conquest" [on reserve].

.MDBO/9 April Saturday conference. Visiting speakers Stephen Arata and Jon Thompson

12 April        Forster, "A Passage to India", Chapters I-XVI.
14 April        Forster, "A Passage to India", Chapters XVII-XXV.

19 April        Forster, "A Passage to India", Chapters XXVI-end.
 .MDBO/SECOND ESSAY DUE."
21 April        Orwell, "Burmese Days", Chapters 1-5.

26 April        Orwell, "Burmese Days", Chapters 6-end.
28 April        Appiah, "Is the "Post" in "Postmodern"

the Same as the "Post" in "Post- " "Structuralist"?" (1990)

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