99479

HIST 2551 Joyce’s Ulysses, Modernity, and Nationalism

Gregory Moynahan

M . W . .

12:00 -1:20 pm

RKC 200

HIST

Cross-listied: Irish & Celtic Studies; STS; Victorian Studies Although it concerns only the day of June 16^th, 1904, each chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses is famously written in a radically different historical and literary style. In this course, we will complement Joyce’s stylistic innovation by using contemporary documents (newspaper accounts, advertising, folksongs, etc.) and historical texts (epic, medieval chronicle, heroic, modern ironic) to unfold the historical context and resonance of each of Joyce’s chapters. The course as a whole will then question how these various means of casting the reader in time and history illuminate the modernism and political reality of Dublin in 1904, and particularly the ethnic, religious, and social tensions that led Joyce to a life of exile from the Ireland of his text. The goal will be both a survey of historical methodologies and an historical introduction to the problems of modernism and nationalism using this highly documented example. Key issues addressed will be the function of historical and mythical time in everyday life, Joyce’s narrative as an anti-nationalist (yet, somehow, nationalist) epic, the role of popular scientific writing and technology in the creation of reality, the politics of gender and sexuality in the fin-de-siècle, the function of terrorism in politics, and the effect of politics and mass media on “personal” experience. Required Texts: James Lydon, The Making of Ireland: A History ; James Joyce, Hans Walter Gabler (Editor), Ulysse; Stuart Gilbert, James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study; James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin)

99066

LIT 215 Victorian Essays & Detectives

Terence Dewsnap

M . W . .

1:30 - 2:50 pm

RKC 200

ELIT

Cross-listed: Victorian Studies, Related interest: STS Essays long and short  by Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Henry Mayhew and Oscar Wilde addressing Victorian issues such as crime, art and science. Detective stories and novels by Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle and other inventors of the detective genre. The syllabus will emphasize such pairings as Thomas Henry Huxley writing on the scientific method, and Doyle’s Study in Scarlet, Pater’s The Renaissance and Doyle’s “The Sign of Four,” Wilde’s De Profundis and Sheridan Le Fanu’s “The Murdered Cousin.”

99108

LIT 252 English Literature III

Terence Dewsnap

. T . Th .

10:30 - 11:50 am

HEG 200

ELIT

Cross-listed: Victorian Studies English Literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: from  Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley through Tennyson, Carlyle and  Ruskin to modernist writings by Joyce, Lawrence, T.S. Eliot and  Virginia Woolf.