Literature and the Media – Beginnings

General Introduction — Literature and the Modern Media Ecology
The Pencil of Nature — Writings by Hand and Writing with the Sun

• Historical snapshots of photography I, II
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (chap. I - XIII)
• Jennifer Green-Lewis, "Fiction's Photographers and Their Works: Villains Outside the Frame," Framing the Victorians, 65-94
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, Seven Gables (chap. XIV-XXI)
• "Daguerreotypy and Other Technologies," Norton, 293-313
• Alan Trachtenberg, "Seeing and Believing: Hawthorne's Reflections on the Daguerreotype in The House of the Seven Gables," Norton 418-438
• Seven Gables _________________________________ (presentation)

Gender and Information Processing I — Telegraphy, Class, and Female Power

• Henry James, In the Cage
• John Carlos Rowe, "Gender, Sexuality and Work in In the Cage," in Norton, 483-502
• Hayles, N. Katherine, "The Dream of Information. Escape and Constraint . . . ," My Mother was a Computer. Chicago: The U of Chicago P, 62-71.
• In the Cage I _________________________________
• In the Cage II ________________________________

Sound and Silence — Early Interactions between Literature Print and Phonography (or, Gender again)

• John M. Picker, "Introduction: The Tramp of a Fly's Footstep," Victorian Soundscapes. OUP, 2003: 3-11
• History of Sound Recording I, II
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, — "The Voice of Science"
  "The Story of the Japanned Box"
• Jean-Marie Guyau, "Memory and Phonograph"
• Doyle/Writers and sound recording _________________________________
• George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1913), or alternative text TBA
• Pygmalion ____________________________________

Machined Writing (I) — From Manuscript to Typescript

• Typewriter History I, II, III, IV
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Case of Identity"
• Martin Heidegger, on The Hand and the Typewriter (from Parmenides, 1942/43)
• Writers and the Typewriter _________________________________

Vampires and Information Culture — Dracula

• Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)
• Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, "Undead Networks: Information Processing and Media Boundary Conflicts in Dracula," Literature and Science, Ed. Donald Bruce and Anthony Purdy. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1994. 107-129
• Jennifer Wicke, "Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and its Media," ELH 59 (1992): 467-93
• Dracula (I) _________________________________
• Dracula (II) ________________________________

American Literary Naturalism and the Modern Media Ecology

• Frank Norris, McTeague
• Paul Young, "Telling Descriptions, Frank Norris's Kinetoscopic Naturalism and the Future of the Novel, 1899," Modernism/modernity 14.4 (2007): 645-668
• (Sergei Eisenstein, "Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today," Film Form: Essays in Film Theory, ed. Jay Leyda esp. pp. 195-234)
• McTeague _________________________________

Frank Norris's McTeague (II) - Agency and Angst: Mangled Hands and Machined Writing

• Frank Norris, McTeague (ctd.)
• Michael Fried, "Stephen Crane's Upturned Faces," Realism, Writing, Disfiguration—On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1987: pp. 93-121.
• McTeague _________________________________

Machined Writing (II) — Identity, Gender, Power)

• J. M. Barrie, The Twelve-Pound Look
• Dorothy West, "The Typewriter"
• D. H. Lawrence, selected essays from Phoenix II

The Poetics and Politics of (European) Media Modernism

• Italian Futurism, Futurist Manifestos, F-Technopoetics & Beyond
• Guillaume Apollinaire, "The New Spirit and the Poets," Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire. Ed. and trans. Roger Shattuck. New York: New Directions, 1971: 227-237
• Guillaume Apollinaire, "Lettre-Ocean"
• Italian Futurism _________________________________
• Modernist Media Poetics _________________________

Artificial Summary & Conclusion

• Twilight of the Books, Google going Retro, Fast-Forward Publishing
• Student End-of-the Semester Project Thumbnails