ENGL31122
2013/14 Spring Semester
READING LIST
Animals, Angels, Machines: Refiguring the Human 1600-1670
Excerpts will be provided in a course handbook available in week 0.
Week 1: introduction
Michel de Montaigne, An Apology for Raymond Sebond [excerpt, handbook]
Edward Topsell, The History of Four-footed Beasts [excerpt, hb]
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things [excerpt, hb]
Week 2: Hamlet and the beast
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Jacques Derrida, The Animal that Therefore I Am [excerpt, hb]
René Descartes, Discourse on the Method [excerpt, hb]
Week 3: cyborg Coriolanus
William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan [excerpt, hb]
Aristotle, Politics [excerpt, hb]
Week 4: bad weather, bad nature
William Shakespeare, King Lear
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus [excerpt, hb]
Week 5: spirits and monsters
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Monster Theory [excerpt, hb]
Week 6 – READING WEEK
Week 7: art, artifice, animal disruptions
William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale
Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time [excerpt, hb]
Week 8: citizen fox: animals, power and the city
Ben Jonson, Volpone
Machiavelli, The Prince [excerpt]
Week 9: feminine machines and ‘that dead sea of life’
Ben Jonson, Epicoene
Selected popular sayings on women [hb]
Ben Jonson, selected poems [hb]
Week 10: Herbert’s animal transformations
George Herbert, The English Poems of George Herbert, ed. by Helen Wilcox (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) [selected poems]
Jean-Luc Nancy, Corpus [excerpt]
Week 11: Donne’s telescope bodies
John Donne, John Donne’s Poetry, ed. by Donald R. Dickson (New York: Norton, 2007) [selected poems]
John Donne, Ignatius his Conclave and Devotions upon Emergent Occasions [excerpts, hb]
Week 12 Milton: angel sex and the fall
John Milton, Paradise Lost, ed. by Gordon Teskey (New York: Norton, 2005) [long excerpt]
John Milton, Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle [excerpt]
Further Reading:
On animals:
Laurie Shannon, ‘The Eight Animals of Shakespeare’, PMLA 124.2 (2009), 472-479
Laurie Shannon, The Accomodated Animal: Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Andreas Höfele, Stage, Stake and Scaffold: Humans and Animals in Shakespeare’s Theatre (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
Bruce Boehrer, Shakespeare among the Animals: Nature and Society in the Drama of Early Modern England (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002)
Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert and Susan Wiseman, eds., At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and National Philosophy in the Early Modern Period (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002)
Bruce Boehrer, A Cultural History of Animals in the Renaissance (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011)
Brigitte Resl, A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011)
Bruce Boehrer, Animal Characters: Non-human beings in Early Modern Literature (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
On nature:
Man and the natural world: changing attitudes in England 1500-1800 (London: Allen Lane, 1983)
Gabriel Egan, Green Shakespeare: From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism (London and New York: Routledge, 2006)
On machines:
Jonathan Sawday, Engines of the Imagination: Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine (London: Routledge, 2007)
Adam Max Cohen, Shakespeare and Technology (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006)
Howard Marchitello, The Machine in the Text: Science and Literature in the Age of Shakespeare and Galileo (Oxford: Oxford University, 2011)
Jessica Wolfe, Humanism, Machinery and Renaissance Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
On angels:
Katherine Hodgkin, ed, Reading the Early Modern Dream: The terrors of the Night (London and New York: Routledge, 2008)
Joad Raymond, Milton’s Angels: The Early Modern Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University, 2010)
Alexandra and Peter Marshall Walsham, Angels in the Early Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2006)
Karma deGruy, ‘Desiring Angels: The Angelic Body in Paradise Lost’, Criticism, 51.12 (2012), 117-149
Laure Sangha, Angels and Belief in England, 1480-1700 (London: Pickering & Chatto 2012)
On the question of the human:
Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus, ‘What is a Posthumanist Reading?’ Angelaki 13.3 (2008), 95-111
Cary Wolfe, What is Posthumanism? (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009)
Jean-François Lyotard, The Inhuman (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988)
Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus, Posthumanist Shakespeares (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2012)
Neil Badmington, ed., Posthumanism (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2000)
Neil Rhodes, ‘Hamlet and Humanism’ in Early Modern English Drama: A Companion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
Eric P. Levy, Hamlet and the Rethinking of Man (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2008)
Further reading on early modern literature:
Mark Robson and James Loxley, Shakespeare, Jonson and the Claims of the Performative (London and New York: Routledge, 2013)
Julia Reinhard Lupton, Thinking With Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life (Chicago: Unviersity of Chicago Press, 2011)
Janette Dillon, The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Tragedies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Alexander Leggatt, The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Comedies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Philippa Berry, Shakespeare’s Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies (London and New York: Routledge, 1999)
James Loxley, Ben Jonson (London and New York: Routledge, 2001)
Julie Sanders, ed, Jonson in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Alexander Leggatt, Ben Jonson: His Vision and His Art (London: Methuen, 1981)
Jonathan Goldberg, ‘The Dead Letter: Herbert’s Other Voices’ in Voice Terminal Echo (London: Methuen, 1986)
Michael Schoenfeldt, Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship (Chicago; University of Chicago Press, 1991)
Achsah Guibbory, ed, The Cambridge Companion to Donne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
John Donne, John Donne’s Poetry: Authoritative texts, Criticism, ed. by Arthur Clements (New York and London: Norton, 1992)
Dennis Richard Danielson, The Cambridge Companion to Milton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
Catherine Belsey, John Milton: Language, Gender, Power (London: Basil Blackwell, 1988)
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