Research as Dialog: A Proposal Form

352:512, Spring 1998, Rutgers-Newark, Prof. Heyward Ehrlich

* Required
** Required and strongly recommended

Please indicate the materials with which you strongly disagree, wish to critically modify, or intend to substantially amplify. <[p> Which existing dialog would your paper address, and how would it modify it? If completed, where should your paper or project be published?

Please indicate your proposed use of other primary texts, journals, and letters. Which specialized finding aids, indexes, guides, or concordances exist for your subject?

USE THIS FORM to reply elecronically to your instructor or print it out on paper as a worhsheet. (I'm not sure whether the discussion web supports reply forms.)

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A. RESEARCH GUIDES:
* GENERAL:
-- Lewis Leary, AL: A Study and Research Guide (1976)
-- James L. Harner, Literary Research Guide, 2nd ed. (1993)
-- Gohdes and Marovitz, Bibliographic Guide to USA, 4th ed (1976); 5th ed (1984)

General Research Guides **************************************


* AUTHORS:
-- James Woodress, ed. Eight American Authors
-- Robert A Rees and Harbert, Fifteen American Authors (rev 1984) (Dickinson)
-- Joel Myerson, ed. The Transcendentalists
** American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1965--

Author research Guides **************************************


* CRITICISM AND THEORY:
-- A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff, et al, Redefining American Literary History, 1990
-- Donald G. Marshall, Contemporary Critical Theory, 1993
-- Stephen Greenblatt, ed. Redrawing the Boundaries

Criticism and Theory Research Guides **************************************


B. HISTORIES, ANTHOLOGIES, AND HANDBOOKS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
* HISTORIES
-- Literary History of the United States, rev, 1974
-- Columbia Literary History of the United States, 1988
-- New Cambridge History of American Literature, 5v, 1995
* ANTHOLOGIES AND HANDBOOKS:
-- Oxford Companion to American Literature, 6th ed (1995)
-- Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed, Vol 1 (1998) (bibliographies)
-- Heath Anthology of American Literature, 3rd ed. Vol 1 (1997)
-- Wm. Rose Benet, Reader's Encyclopedia, 3rd ed (199`1)

Histories, anthologies, handbooks *****************************************


C. BIBLIOGRAPHIES, INDEXES, RESOURCES:
* BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
-- James Woodress, ed. Eight American Authors
-- Stephen Greenblatt, ed. Redrawing the Boundaries
-- Joel Myerson, ed. The Transcendentalists
** American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1965--
** PMLA (CD-ROM, 1961-1980; 1981-1998)
- INDEXES
-- Poole's Index
-- NY Times Index, 1851--
-- Humanities, Social Science, Essay and Genl Lit Indexes (CD-ROM)
-- America: History and Life
-LOCAL RESOURCES:
-- Newark resources: Rutgers, NPL, NJHS
-- New York resources: NYPL, NYHS, Columbia, NY Society Library
-- Area resources: Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Boston PL
- ONLINE, MICROFILM and MICROFICHE
-- RLIN (via Rutgers info)
-- Voice of the Shuttle (http://humanitas.ucsb.edu)
-- Class web pages

Bibliographies, Indexes, Resources: ***********************************

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D: GENERAL SUBJECTS:
-INSTITUTIONS:
-- 19th cent editors and anthologies
-- Griswold, Duyckinck, Lowell (A Fable for Critics)
-- Lyceums and lectures
-- Magazines:
-- Democratic Review (O'Sullivan)
-- Dial (Emerson, Margaret Fuller)
-- Graham's (Poe, Griswold)
-- Literary World (Duyckinck and Mathews)
-- N Y Tribune (Greeley, Margaret Fuller, Henry James Sr, Ripley)
-- North American Review (Lowell)

-MOVEMENTS:
-- Communitarian experiments
-- Feminism and social reform
-- Gothic fiction and radicalism
-- Manifest destiny, 54' 40"
-- Orientalism
-- Postcolonial issues
-- Postmodern re-reinvention: Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida
-- Pseudo-science
-- Religious sects
-- Reforms, temperance, abstinence, water, vegetarianism
-- Slavery and abolition
-- Spiritualism and rappers
-- Technology of communications
-- Transcendentalism
-- Young America and international copyright


E; SELECTED INTERPRETATIONS:

-- D. H. Lawrence
-- V. L. Parrington
-- F. O. Matthiessen
-- Perry Miller
-- Marius Bewley
-- Harry Levin
-- Richard Chase
-- Henry Nash Smith
-- R. W. B. Lewis
-- Leslie Fiedler
-- Jacques Derrida
-- Roland Barthes
-- Michel Foucault
-- David Reynolds
-- Larry Reynolds
-- Sacvan Berkovitch
Recent Books on Hawthorne or American Renaissance
Sacvan Bercovitch, The Office of the Scarlet Letter
Michael Colacurcio, Doctrine and Difference
David Leverenz, Manhood in the American Renaissance
Richard Millington, Practicing Romance
Frederick Newberry, Hawthorne's Divided Loyalties
Lee Persons, Aesthetic Headaches
Joel Pfister, The Production of Personal Life
Christina Zwang, Feminist Conversations [Margaret Fuller]

F: AUTHOR TREATMENTS

-POE:
-- Influence on New Criticism, Formalism, Derrida
-- Notions of collocation and originality
-- Political and social ideas
-- Reception in France by Baudelaire, others
-- Reviewer of American literature
-- Topical sketches, satires, fantasies
-- Traditions of sentimental romance
-- Use of Burke, Schlegel, Coleridge
-- Use of gothic, horror, terror traditions

- EMERSON;
-- Anti-slavery, reform. political movements
-- Conversation, writing, lecturing, printing
-- Influence on Frost, Wallace Stevens, Ellison
-- Influence on Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson
-- Journals as principal documentation for era
-- Margaret Fuller, feminists, gender issues
-- Radicalism, revolution, 1848
-- Rejection by Hawthorne, Melville
-- Semiotics and decontruction

- HAWTHORNE:
-- 17th century American history; 19th century historians
-- Appreciations by Poe and Melville
-- Democratic Party, patronage, Pierce biography
-- Narrators, oral narrative and the printed text
-- Old fashioned style
-- Peabody sisters, Margaret Fuller
-- Prefaces, theories of romance and the novel
-- Reputation in England
-- Science, feminism, reform
-- Sermons, fable, parable, allegory, myth
-- Theories of character, literary psychology
-- Topical, non-fiction, children's works
-- Use of gothic, sentimentalism, sublime

- THOREAU:
...TBA

- MELVILLE:
-- Political theory and practice
-- Postcolonial issues: Europe, America, Oceana
-- The ship (of state, as voyage, as anatomy of society, of fools)
-- Writing novels vs. magazine pieces vs. poems
-- Civilization vs. noble savage (e.g. cannibalism)
-- Social order vs violent/revolutionary action
-- Theories of art: "Hawthorne and his Mosses" (1850), "Art"
-- Autobiography, confession, self-revelation
-- Art as vexation, paradox, satire, fragmentary allegory
-- Natural history: science as philosophy
-- Linked analogies: political, moral, natural worlds
-- Reconstructed texts/editions of Billy Budd, Pierre
-- Democratic party, Gansevoort and Allan Melville, patronage
-- "Young America" (Duyckinck and Cornelius Mathews), Literary World
-- Slavery, race, ethnicity, ethnography
-- Simple novels (Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White Jacket, Israel Potter)
-- Complex novels (Mardi, Moby Dick, Pierre, Confidence Man)
-- Magazine tales, sketches, paired pieces
-- Relations to Hawthorne, Emerson, Evert Duyckinck
-- Correspondence (to Hawthorne, Evert Duyckinck)
-- Influences; Irving/Dickens/Carlyle and travel literature, Calvinism, Jeffersonian democracy, Jacksonian egalitarianism, utopian egalitarianism
-- Sexuality, incest

- WHITMAN
-- Revisions of "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass
-- Young America (Mathews)
-- Emerson and Thoreau
-- George Sand
-- Barnburners of 1848
-- Swedenborg, Fourier, utopianism
TBA

- DICKINSON:
TBA

-OTHER AUTHORS:
-- Amos Bronson Alcott
-- Charles F. Briggs
-- Lydia Maria Child
-- Frederick Douglas
-- Fanny Fern
-- Margaret Fuller
-- Harriet Jacobs
-- Henry James Sr.
-- Cornelius Mathews
-- Theodore Parker
-- George Ripley
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

- ADDITIONAL BRITISH, IRISH, AND AMERICAN AUTHORS
-- Blake
-- Burke
-- Carlyle
-- Coleridge
-- Edwards
-- Franklin
-- William Godwin
-- Keats
-- Mangan
-- Paine
-- Mary Shelley
-- Shelley
-- Wordsworth