DURHAM UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH STUDIES
SPECIAL TOPIC
READING LIST
BOOKLET
BOOK 1
2014/2015
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CONTENTS
Arthurian Literature
ENGL2381
Page 2
Animal Stories After Darwin
ENGL2721
Page 6
The Australian Legend 1890s – 1990s
ENGL2501
Page 12
The Campus Novel
ENGL2731
Page 25
Creative Writing: Prose Fiction
ENGL2741
Page 28
Early Modern America
ENGL2661
Page 29
Evelyn Waugh
ENGL2691
Page 40
Fictions of Terrorism
ENGL2581
Page 43
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Archibald, Reading List for Arthurian Seminar (English)
Asterisks mark those to go on short loan if possible, please (where it isn’t spelled
out, as below)
**Editions and Translations: all on short loan if possible, please
The Romance of Arthur, 3rd edn, ed. Norris Lacy and James Wilhelm (London:
Routledge, 2013) [ the 2nd edition would also be OK, but not the 1st]
Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain, tr. Lewis Thorpe
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968);
Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances, tr. W. Kibler (London: Penguin,
1991);
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in Poems of the Pearl Manuscript, ed.
Andrew and Waldron (London, 1978; reissued Exeter, ?)
Marie de France, Lais, tr. G. Burgess and K. Busby, 2nd edn (London:
Penguin, 1999)
Sir Launfal, ed. A. J. Bliss (London: Nelson, 1960)
T. Hahn (ed.), Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, TEAMS (Kalamazoo:
Medieval Institute Publications, 1995)
Malory, Morte Darthur, ed. Helen Cooper (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1998)
----------------------------, ed. E. Vinaver, rev. Field, 3 vols (Oxford: OUP, 1990)
-----------------------------, ed. S. Shepherd (New York: Norton, 2004)
Tennyson, Idylls of the King, ed. J. M. Gray (London: Penguin, 1996)
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court, ed. J. Kaplan
(London: Penguin, 1971)
Mary Stewart, The Wicked Day (London: Hodder, 1984)
Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur (London: Scholastic, 2007)
Reference Books
*The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, ed. Norris Lacy, Updated Paperback edn (New
York and London:
Garland, 1996) [or earlier edition]
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The Arthurian Handbook, ed. Norris Lacy and Geoffrey Ashe (New York and London:
Garland,
1988)
Loomis, Roger Sherman (ed.), Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A
Collaborative History
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959)
*Lupack, Alan, The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend (Oxford: Oxford
University
Press, 2009)
There is a useful series of Arthurian Casebooks published by Garland and later by
Routledge.
Arthurian Characters and Themes, series editor Norris J. Lacy [essays by
various authors, some reprinted, covering medieval and modern texts]:
*King Arthur: A Casebook , ed. Edward Donald Kennedy (New York and London :
Garland, 1996) . Tristan and Isolde: A Casebook , ed. Joan Tasker Grimbert (New
York and London : Garland,1995) Arthurian Women: A Casebook , ed. Thelma
Fenster (New York and London : Garland, 1996). *Lancelot and Guinevere: A
Casebook , ed. Lori J. Walters (New York and London : Garland,1996) . *The Grail:
A Casebook , ed. Dhira Mahoney (New York and London : Garland, 2000).
Perceval/Parzifal: A Casebook , ed. Arthur Groos and Norris J. Lacy (New York and
London:
Routledge, 2002).
Merlin: A Casebook , ed. Peter H. Goodrich and Raymond H. Thompson (New York
and London:
Routledge, 2003) .
*Gawain: A Casebook , ed. Raymond H. Thompson and Keith (New York and
London: Routledge,
2006).
Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, series editors †W. R. J. Barron and Ad
Putter,all published by U of Wales Press. Up to date plot summaries and
surveys of criticism and bibliography, though the Welsh vol is to be revised.
Italian and Spanish vols to come.
The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature , ed.
Rachel Bromwich,
A. O. H. Jarman and Brynley Roberts (Cardiff, 1991).
*The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and
Literature , ed. W. R.
J. Barron (Cardiff, 1999)
The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch
Literature , ed.
W. H. Jackson and S. A. Ranawake (Cardiff, 2000).
*The Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan
Literature , ed.
Glyn S. Burgess and Karen Pratt (Cardiff, 2006)
The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature, ed. Siân Echard (Cardiff, 2011)
The Arthur of the North: the Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus Realms, ed.
Marianne Kalinke,
(Cardiff, 2011)
Companions
* A Companion to Arthurian Literature, ed. Helen Fulton (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell,
2009)
*A Companion to Malory, ed. Elizabeth Archibald and A. S. G. Edwards (Cambridge:
Brewer,
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1996)
*The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend, ed. Elizabeth Archibald and
Ad Putter
(Cambridge: CUP, 2009)
*A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes, ed. Norris J. Lacy and Joan Tasker Grimbert
(Cambridge: D. S.
Brewer, 2005).
*A Companion to the Gawain Poet, ed. Derek Brewer and Jonathan Gibson
(Cambridge: D. S.
Brewer, 1997)
*A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, ed. Carol Dover (Cambridge: D. S.
Brewer, 2003)..
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c. 1350-1550, ed. Peter
Brown (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2007)
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature, ed. Simon Gaunt and
Sarah Kay
(Cambridge: Cambridge UP , 2008) .
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance, ed. Roberta L. Krueger
(Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 2000).
A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary, ed. Corinne Saunders
(Oxford:
Blackwell, 2004)
General Criticism and Background
Barber, Richard, King Arthur: Hero and Legend, 3rd edn revised (Woodbridge:
Boydell P,
1986)
*------------------, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief (London: Allen Lane, 2004)
Beer, Gillian, The Romance (London: Methuen, 1970)
Chambers, E. K., Arthur of Britain (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1927) Cooper,
Helen, The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of
Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004)
*Dean, Christopher, Arthur of England: English Attitudes to King Arthur and the
Knights of
the Round Table in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Toronto: University of
Toronto
Press, 1987)
Faral, Edmond, La Légende arthurienne: études et documents, 3 vols (Paris:
Champion, 1929).
Fletcher, R. H., The Arthurian Material in the Chronicles especially those of Great
Britain and
France (Boston: Ginn, 1906).
Frye, Northrop, The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance
(Cambridge MA:
Harvard UP, 1976)
Gaunt, Simon, Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature (Cambridge:
Cambridge
UP, 1995).
*Girouard, Mark, The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman (New
Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 1981) [on C19th medievalism]
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Kaueper, Richard, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford: OUP, 1999)
---------------------, Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry (Philadelphia: U
of
Pennsylvania P, 2009)
-------------------- and Elspeth Kennedy, The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny:
Text,
Context and Translation (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1996)
Keen, Maurice, Chivalry (London: Yale UP, 1984)
Kennedy, Elspeth, ‘Failure in Arthurian Romance’, Medium Aevum 50.1 (1991), 1632; repr. in The Grail: A Casebook, ed Mahoney, pp. 279-99
*Knight, Stephen Arthurian Literature and Society (London: Macmillan, 1983).
Lacy, Norris J., ed., Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature (New York
and London:
Garland, 1996)
-----------------, The Fortunes of King Arthur (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005)
*Larrington, Carolyne, King Arthur’s Enchantresses: Morgan and her sisters in
Arthurian Tradition
(London: I.B. Tauris, 2006)
Morris, Rosemary , The Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature (Cambridge:
D. S. Brewer, 1982) .
*Padel, Oliver, Padel, O., Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature (Cardiff: U of Wales P,
2000)
Pearsall, Derek, Arthurian Romance: A Short Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003)
*Riddy, Felicity, Sir Thomas Malory (Leiden: Brill, 1987)
Rouse, Robert, and Cory Rushton, The Medieval Quest for Arthur (Stroud: Tempus,
2005)
Schmolke-Hasselmann, Beate, The Evolution of Arthurian Romance: The Verse
Tradition from
Chrétien to Froissart, trans. Margaret and Roger Middleton (Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 1998).
Shichtman, Martin and James Carley, eds., Culture and the King: Social Implications
of the Arthurian
Legend (Albany: State University of New York, 1994) .
*Taylor, Beverly, and Elisabeth Brewer, The Return of King Arthur: British and
American Arthurian
Literature since 1800 (Cambridge: Brewer, 1983)
Vinaver, Eugene, The Rise of Romance (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1971)
*Whitaker, Muriel, The Legends of King Arthur in Art (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1990)
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Special Topic Module: Animal Narratives after Darwin
Instructor: David Herman
Description of the module
This module focuses on animal narratives that post-date Darwin's groundbreaking
contributions to the theory of evolution; these narratives explore, more or less
directly, implications of Darwin's emphasis on the fundamental continuity between
humans and other species. We will discuss how animals and human-animal
relationships are portrayed in texts by major writers of the period, including Anna
Sewell, Jack London, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Ursula K. Le Guin,
Alan Moore, J.M. Coetzee, and others; we will also examine stories about animal
agents in different genres (novels, short fiction, nonfiction) and media (print texts,
graphic narratives, cinema). Situating cultural representations of animals at the
intersection of literature, philosophy, and science, we will combine close readings of
individual texts with a wider investigation of issues raised by narrative engagements
with nonhuman beings.
In exploring how post-Darwinian narratives depict animal worlds and human-animal
relationships, we will draw on ideas from narratology as well as critical animal
studies, a cross-disciplinary field of inquiry that reconsiders assumptions about the
primacy of the human--as well as institutions and practices based on such
assumptions. At the same time, the module will underscore the relevance of
literature as a means for engaging with broader issues related to the environment,
including conservation, biodiversity, and anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems.
I. Reading List: Primary Texts*
*Note: Films are included among our primary texts. Given the difficulties in finding an
acceptable time slot for a group screening, DVDs of the films will be made available
through the department and the main library (online rental is another option). Please
be considerate of the needs of your fellow course-mates when borrowing films and
try, where possible, to watch films with others. If you decide to write on a particular
film, it might be advisable to purchase a copy for yourself.
Week 1. Introduction: modes of narration and questions of animal agency
--Butler, Robert Olen. 'Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot.' From Tabloid
Dreams. New York: Henry Holt, 1996. (<http://www.webdelsol.com/butler/rob5.htm>)
--Carson, Rachel. Under the Sea-Wind, chapters 2 and 3 (pages 22-49 of the
Penguin Classics edition).
--Lessing, Doris. 'An Old Woman and Her Cat.' 1972. The Longman Anthology of
Women’s Literature. Ed. Mary K DeShazer. New York: Longman, 2001. 10101021.
--Williamson, Henry. Tarka the Otter, chapter 1.
Week 2. Fictional worlds and animal ethics
--Coetzee, J. M. The Lives of Animals (including appendices); also read Franz Kafka,
'A Report for An Academy' (1917), trans. Ian Johnston.
<http://records.viu.ca/%7Ejohnstoi/kafka/reportforacademy.htm>
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Week 3. Nineteenth-century animal autobiography
--Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty (1877):
<https://archive.org/details/blackbeauty00271gut
--Saunders, Margaret Marshall. Beautiful Joe (1893):
<https://archive.org/details/beautifuljoe10226gut>
Week 4. Fin-de-siècle and modernist animals
--Wells, H.G. The Island of Dr Moreau (1896):
<http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/159>
--Lawrence, D.H. St Mawr (1925):
<http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700621h.html>
Week 5. Modernist animals continued
--London, Jack. The Call of the Wild (1903): <http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/215>
--Woolf, Virginia. Flush (1933): <http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301041h.html>
Week 6. Human-canine relationships later in the twentieth century
--J. R. Ackerley, My Dog Tulip (1956); also watch the 2009 animated film based on
this text
--Paul Auster, Timbuktu (1999)
Week 7. Diversifying our fictional bestiary
--Byatt, A.S. 'Morpho-Eugenia.' In Byatt, Angels and Insects (1994).
--Le Guin, Ursula. 'The White Donkey.' From Buffalo Gals and Other Animal
Presences. 1987. New York: Roc Trade, 1994. 139-42.
-----. 'The Wife's Story.' From Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences. 1987. New
York: Roc Trade, 1994. 67-71.
-----. 'Mazes.' From Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences. 1987. New York: Roc
Trade, 1994. 61-66.
-----. 'She Unnames Them.' From We Are the Stories We Tell: The Best Short
Stories by North American Women since 1945. Ed. Wendy Martin. New York:
Pantheon Books, 1990. 270-73.
-----. 'The Author of the Acacia Seeds.'
<http://interconnected.org/home/more/2007/03/acacia-seeds.html>
Week 8. Graphic animal agents
--Reklaw, Jesse. Thirteen Cats of My Childhood. From The Best American Comics
2006. Ed. Harvey Pekar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 232-251.
--Morrison, Grant, and Frank Quitely. We3. DC Comics/Vertigo, 2004.
--Moore, Alan, et al., Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book One. DC Comics, 2012.
Week 9. Contemporary primate narratives and the question of the human
--Gonzales, Laurence. Lucy (2010).
--Fowler, Karen Joy. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013).
Week 10. Human-animal relationships revisited
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--Blackfish, dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite. CNN Films/Manny O Productions, 2013.
--Lethem, Jonathan. 'Pending Vegan.' The New Yorker, April 7, 2014, pp. 58-63.
II. Critical sources and other relevant materials*
*Note: the following list of sources provides an indication of the scope and variety of
the scholarly work now being done in this area of inquiry. (I have somewhat
arbitrarily categorized these items: some sources belong in more than one category.)
As we proceed through the module, I will direct you to sources particularly relevant
for individual seminars; but for useful overviews of some of the key issues see the
'Animal Studies' cluster of essays published in PMLA in 2009 and also Erica Fudge's
2002 book Animal, both listed in the 'General sources' category immediately below.
General sources
--'Animal Studies.' Cluster of essays published in 'Theories and Methodologies' and
'The Changing Profession' sections of PMLA 142.2 (2009): 472-575.
--Berger, John. 'Why Look at Animals?' From The Animals Reader: The Essential
Classic and Contemporary Writings. Eds. Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald.
New York: Berg, 2007. 251-61.
--Burroughs, John. 'Real and Sham Natural History.' Atlantic Monthly 91.545 (1903):
298-310.
--Darwin, Charles. Chapter III of The Descent of Man: 'Comparison of the Mental
Powers of Man and The Lower Animals.' 1871. From The Origin of Species
and The Descent of Man. New York: Modern Library, 1936. 445-470. Or
access The Descent of Man here:
<http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34967/34967-h/34967-h.htm>
--DeKoven, Marriane, and Michael Lundblad, eds. Species Matters: Humane
Advocacy and Cultural Theory. New York: Columbia UP, 2012.
--DeMello, Margo, ed. Speaking for Animals: Animal Autobiographical Writing.
London: Routledge, 2013.
--Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents, chapters III and VII. 1930. Trans.
and ed. James Strachey. New York: W.W. Norton, 1962. 33-45 and 70-80. Or
access Freud's complete text here:
<http://www.archive.org/details/CivilizationAndItsDiscontents>
--Fudge, Erica. Animal. London: Reaktion, 2002.
--Gross, Aaron, and Anne Vallely, eds. Animals and the Human Imagination: A
Companion to
Animal Studies. New York: Columbia UP, 2012.
--Gruen, Lori. Ethics and Animals: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
2011.
--Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New
York: Routledge, 1991.
--Herman, David, ed. 'Animal Worlds in Modern Fiction.' Special issue of Modern
Fiction Studies 61.3 (fall 2014).
--London, Jack. 'The Other Animals.' From Revolution and Other Essays. New York:
Macmillan, 1909.
<http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/Revolution/animals.html>
--Rohman, Carrie. Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal. New York:
Columbia UP, 2009.
--Serpell, James. In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human Animal
Relationships.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
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--Smith, Julie A., and Robert W. Mitchell, eds. Experiencing Animal Minds: An
Anthology of Animal-Human Encounters. New York: Columbia UP, 2012.
--Waldau, Paul. Animal Studies: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013.
Weil,
Kari. Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now? New York: Columbia UP,
2012.
Relevant websites
--ICAS (Institute for Critical Animal Studies), including a link to the Journal for Critical
Animal Studies (full-text articles) <http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org>
--Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies (full-text articles)
<http://www.depauw.edu/humanimalia/>
--'Animal Studies Bibliography' maintained by Linda Kalof, Steven Bryant, and Amy
Fitzgerald of Michigan State University
<http://www.animalstudies.msu.edu/bibliography.php>
--Animals and Society Institute, including a link to archived issues of Society and
Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies (full-text articles)
<http://www.animalsandsociety.org/main/>
--Hühn, Peter, John Pier, Wolf Schmid, and Jörg Schönert, eds. The Living
Handbook of Narratology <http://www.lhn.uni-hamburg.de>
--Jahn, Manfred. Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative <http://www.unikoeln.de/~ame02/pppn.htm>
Narratological perspectives
--Herman, David. 'Storyworld/Umwelt: Nonhuman Experiences in Graphic
Narratives.' SubStance 40.1 (2011): 156-81.
-----. 'Toward a Zoonarratology: Storytelling and Species Difference in Animal
Comics.' Narrative, Interrupted: The Plotless, the Disturbing, and the Trivial in
Literature. Eds. Markku Lehtimäki, Laura Karttunen, and Maria Mäkelä. Berlin:
de Gruyter, 2012. 93-119.
--Herman, Luc, and Bart Vervaeck. 'Ideology.' The Cambridge Companion to
Narrative. Ed. David Herman. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. 217-30.
--Nelles, William. 'Beyond the Bird's Eye: Animal Focalization.' Narrative 9.2 (2001):
188-94.
--Prince, Gerald. 'Narratology.' The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 8.
Ed. Raman Selden. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. 110-30. [ER]
--Ryan, Marie-Laure. 'Narrative.' Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Eds.
David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan. London: Routledge,
2005. 344-48.
Visual and multimodal representations of animals
--Baker, Steve. Artist Animal. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2013.
-----. Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation. Champaign, IL: U of
Illinois P,
1993.
--Broglio, Ron. Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art. Minneapolis: U of
Minnesota
P, 2011.
--Brown, Lisa. 'The Speaking Animal: Non-Human Voices in Comics.' Demello 73-77
[see 'General sources' above].
--Brown, Lisa, ed. Antennae 16 (Special Issue on 'The Illustrated Animal') 2011: 199.
--Keen, Suzanne. 'Fast Tracks to Narrative Empathy: Anthropomorphism and
Dehumanization in Graphic Narratives.' SubStance 40.1 (2011): 135-55.
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--Pick, Anat, and Guinevere Narraway, eds. Screening Nature: Cinema beyond the
Human. Oxford: Bergahn, 2013.
Animals and questions of gender
Adams, Carol J. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory.
New York: Continuum, 1990.
Adams, Carol J. 'The Sexual Politics of Meat.' In The Animals Reader: The Essential
Classic and Contemporary Writings. Eds. Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald.
New York: Berg, 2007. 171-81.
Adams, Carol J., and Josephine Donovan, eds. Animals and Women: Feminist
Theoretical Explorations. Durham: Duke UP, 1995.
Le Guin, Ursula K. 'Introduction.' Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences. 1987.
New York:
Roc, 1994. 9-13.
Philosophical perspectives and issues in animal ethics
--Agamben, Giorgio. The Open: Man and Animal. Trans. Kevin Attell. Stanford:
Stanford UP, 2003.
--Buchanan, Brett. Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexküll,
Heidegger, MerleauPonty, and Deleuze. Albany: SUNY P, 2008.
--Calarco, Matthew. Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to
Derrida. New York: Columbia UP, 2008.
--Cavalieri, Paola, ed. Etica & Animali 9 (Special Issue on 'Nonhuman Personhood')
(1998): 3-128.
--Derrida, Jacques. The Animal that Therefore I Am. Ed. Marie-Louise Mallet; trans.
David Wills. New York: Fordham UP, 2008.
--Hribal, Jason. Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance.
Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2010.
--Nagel, Thomas. 'What Is It Like To Be a Bat?' Philosophical Review 83.4 (1974):
435-50.
--Patterson, Charles. Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the
Holocaust. New York: Lantern, 2002.
--Nussbaum, Martha. 'The Moral Status of Animals.' From The Animals Reader: The
Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings. Eds. Linda Kalof and Amy
Fitzgerald. New York: Berg, 2007. 30-36.
--Regan, Tom. The Case for Animal Rights. Berkeley: U of California P, 1983.
--Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation. 1975. New York: Avon Books, 1990.
--Sunstein, Cass R., and Martha C. Nussbaum, eds. Animal Rights: Current Debates
and New Directions. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
--Tyler, Tom. Ciferae: A Bestiary in Five Fingers. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P,
2012.
Posthumanist perspectives
--Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. 'Becoming-Animal' (excerpt from chapter 10 of
Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus). From The Animals Reader:
The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings. Eds. Linda Kalof and Amy
Fitzgerald. New York: Berg, 2007. 36-50.
--Haraway, Donna. When Species Meet. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2008.
--McHugh, Susan. Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines. Minneapolis: U of
Minnesota P, 2011.
--Van den Hengel, Louis. 'Zoegraphy: Per/forming Posthuman Lives.' Biography 35.1
(2012): 110
20.
--Wolfe, Cary. What is Posthumanism? Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010.
Wolfe,
Cary, ed. Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal. Minneapolis: U of
Minnesota P,
2003.
Perspectives from anthropology, geography, and sociology
--Arluke, Arnold, and Clinton R. Sanders. Regarding Animals. Philadephia: Temple
UP, 1996.
Crist, Eileen. Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind.
Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1999.
--Daston, Lorraine and Gregg Mitman, eds. Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives
on
Anthropomorphism. NY: Columbia UP, 2005.
--Peggs, Kay. Animals and Sociology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
--Philo, Chris, and Chris Wilbert, eds. Animal Spaces, Beastly Places: New
Geographies of Human-Animal Relations. London: Routledge, 2000.
--Whatmore, Sarah. 'Hybrid Geographies: Rethinking the 'Human' in Human
Geography.' From The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and
Contemporary Writings. Eds. Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald. New York:
Berg, 2007. 336-48.
Biosemiotics/zoosemiotics
--Maran, Timo, Dario Martinelli, and Aleksei Turovski, eds. Readings in
Zoosemiotics. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012.
--Uexküll, Jakob von. A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans. 1934. Trans.
Joseph D. O'Neill. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010.
Modernist and postmodernist animals
--Calarco, Matthew. 'Boundary Issues: Human-Animal Relationships in Karen Joy
Fowler's We Are All Completely beside Ourselves.' Modern Fiction Studies
61.3 (fall 2014).
--Herman, David. 'Modernist Life Writing and Nonhuman Lives: Ecologies of
Experience in Virginia Woolf's Flush.' Modern Fiction Studies 59.3 (2013):
547-68.
--McHale, Brian. 'Postmodern Narrative.' Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative
Theory. Eds. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan. London:
Routledge, 2005. 456-60.
--Kendall-Morick, Karalyn. 'Mongrel Fiction: Canine Bildung and the Feminist Critique
of Anthropocentrism in Virginia Woolf's Flush.' Modern Fiction Studies 61.3
(fall 2014).
--Payne, Tonia L. 'Dark Brothers and Shadow Souls: Ursula K. Le Guin's Animal
'Fables.'' From What Are the Animals to Us? Approaches from Science,
Religion, Folklore, Literature, and Art. Ed. Dave Aftandilian, Marion W.
Copeland, and David Scofield Wilson. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2007.
169-79.
--Rohman, Carrie. Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal. New York:
Columbia UP, 2009.
--Stevenson, Randall. 'Modernist Narrative.' Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative
Theory. Eds. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan. London:
Routledge, 2005. 316-21.
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University of Durham
Department of English Studies
Special Topic (ENGL2501)
2014-15
The Australian Legend, 1890s-1990s
(Dr Carver)
Aims
This module is designed to introduce students to the (often under-appreciated) riches of
Australian Literature. It focusses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary texts, but
uses them to explore and interrogate notions of Australian identity from the earliest
European encounters with this ‘Fatal Shore’ (and its indigenous inhabitants), right up until
the modern day. We examine the roles of the convict past, geographical isolation, an
alien (and generally hostile) natural environment, and a rigorously enforced White
Australian Policy, in creating ‘The Australian Legend’, a collection of behavioural
stereotypes and rhetorical tropes that helped to define national identity within the six
colonies in the years leading up to Federation (1901), becoming a common referencepoint (or point of departure) for the literature of the following century. In tracing Australia’s
development from an Anglo-Celtic penal colony to a multi-cultural democracy, we also
bring out differences in cultural perception, between those who see Australian literature
as essentially autochthonous (born, so to speak, from the very soil of Australia) and those
who regard it as embedded in, and contributing to, a much larger (and longer) Western
Tradition.
Schedule
Seminar 1. Introduction: Conceptualizing ‘Australia’
Seminar 2. Convict Tales
Seminar 3. Explorers (Patrick White, Voss)
Seminar 4. The Legend of the Bush, Part I: Battlers (Henry Lawson)
Seminar 5. The Legend of the Bush, Part II: “Australia’s Book of Genesis”(?)
Seminar 6. The Legend of the Bush, Part III: Bushrangers (Peter Carey on Ned Kelly)
Seminar 7. Resisting the Legend: Australian Modernism / Australian Classicism
Seminar 8: Indigenous Voices (Aboriginal Writing)
Seminar 9: Writing Women in Australia (Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career)
Seminar 10: From Legend to Myth (Murray Bail, Eucalyptus)
A. BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR PURCHASE (REQUIRED READING)
Bail, Murray. Eucalyptus. London: Harvill, 1999. [Any of the various editions will do].
Carey, Peter. True History of the Kelly Gang. St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland
Press, 2000; London: Faber, 2002. ISBN: 0571209874. Amazon.co.uk: £4.79.
Franklin, Miles [nom de plume of Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin]. My Brilliant Career.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1901. Rept. London: Virago,
1980. The edition by Bruce K. Martin (Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2008. ISBN:
9781551116778 / 1551116774) is particularly recommended: it has (inter alia) very
useful material relating to the publication history of the novel.
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Hughes, Robert. The Fatal Shore. London: Harvill Press, 1996.
Jose, Nicholas (gen. ed.). The Literature of Australia: An Anthology. Foreword by
Thomas Keneally. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2009. Amazon.co.uk: £26 (1504
pages) [ESSENTIAL PURCHASE: MODULE ANTHOLOGY]
Keneally, Thomas. The Playmaker. London: Sceptre, 1988. [Any of the various editions
will do]
______ The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, 1972. [Any of the various editions will do]
Lawson, Henry. Selected Stories. A& R Classics. ?Sydney: HarperCollins, 2002. 566 pp.
ISBN: 0207197083. Amazon.co.uk: £7.68.
OR
Lawson, Henry. The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories. Ed. John Barnes. New introd.
John Kinsella. Penguin Classics. Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin, 2009.
White, Patrick. The Tree of Man. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956. ?London:
Vintage, 1994. ISBN: 0099324512
White, Patrick. Voss. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956. London: Vintage, 1994. [Any of the
various editions will do].
B. RECOMMENDED READING (asterisked items are particularly recommended)
Background Studies
Literary and Cultural History
Bird, Delys, Robert Dixon, and Christopher Lee. Authority and Influence: Australian
Literary Criticism, 1950-2000. St Lucia, Qld: UQP, 2001. DUL 820.96 AUT
Dutton, Geoffrey, ed. The Literature of Australia. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964. DUL
820.91 LIT
Goldberg, S. L., and F. B. Smith, eds. Australian Cultural History. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1988. DUL 994 AUS
Hergenhan, Laurie (gen. ed.), Bruce Bennett, ed. The Penguin New Literary History of
Australia. Penguin, 1988. DUL 820.11 PEN
Hergenhan, Laurie, ed. The Australian Short Story Collection, 1890s-1990s. 3rd edn. St.
Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1997. DUL 821.59 AUS
Australian National Identity
Alomes, Stephen. A Nation at Last? The Changing Character of Australian Nationalism,
1880-1988. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1988. DUL 321.0210994 ALO
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Dixson, Miriam. The Imaginary Australian: Anglo-Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present
Day. Sydney: UNSW P, 2000. DUL 320.540994 DIX
*Blainey, Geoffrey. The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia’s History.
Melbourne: Sun Books, 1966. Rept. 1968. DUL 911.94 BLA
Boyd, Robin. The Australian Ugliness. Melbourne: Cheshire, 1960. Rev. ed, 1963. DUL
711.0994 BOY
Carter, Paul. The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History. New
York: Knopf, 1987. DUL 911.94 CAR
Dutton, Geoffrey. The Squatters: An Illustrated History of Australia’s Pastoral Pioneers.
Penguin, 1989. DUL 994.02 DUT
Gibson, Ross. The Diminishing Paradise: Changing Literary Perceptions of Australia.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1984. DUL 809.933294 GIB
Nile, Richard, ed. Australian Civilisation. Melbourne: OUP, 1994. DUL 994 AUS
*______, ed. The Australian Legend and Its Discontents. St Lucia, Qld: UQP in
association with the API Network, 2000. 994 AUS (3 copies)
*Palmer, Vance. The Legend of the Nineties. Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 1954. DUL +
994.03 PAL
Phillips, A. A. The Australian Tradition: Studies in a Colonial Culture. Melbourne:
Cheshire, 1958. DUL 820.11 PHI
Serle, Geoffrey. From Deserts the Prophets Come: The Creative Spirit in Australia 17881972. Melbourne: Heinemann, 1973. DUL 700.994 SER
Soutphommasane, Tim. Reclaiming Patriotism: Nation-building for Australian
Progressives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; [Clayton, Vic.]: Monash
University, National Centre for Australian Studies, 2009. DUL [electronic resource]
Turner, Graeme. National Fictions: Literature, Film, and the Construction of Australian
Narrative. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986. DUL 820.95 TUR
*Ward, Russel. The Australian Legend. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1966. Oxford: Oxford UP,
1995. DUL Level 4, 994 WAR (3 or more copies)
Welsh, Frank. Great Southern Land: A New History of Australia. London: Penguin, 2005.
DUL 994 WEL
*White, Richard. Inventing Australia: Images and Identity 1688-1980. Sydney: Allen &
Unwin, 1981. DUL 994 WHI (3 copies)
Australian Cinema
Collins, Felicity, and Theresa Davis, eds. Australian Cinema after Mabo. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004. DUL [electronic resource]
Craven, Ian, ed. Australian Cinema in the 1990s. London : Frank Cass, 2000. DUL
791.430994 AUS
Women and Gender
Dixson, Miriam. The Real Matilda: Women and Identity in Australia, 1788 to the Present
Day. 4th ed. Sydney: UNSW P, 1999. DUL 305.420994 DIX
Coad, David. Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities. Valenciennes:
Presses universitaires de Valenciennes, 2002. DUL 305.310994 COA
Martin, Susan K. “Dead White Male Heroes: Ludwig Leichhardt and Ned Kelly in
Australian Fictions.” Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New World. Ed.
Judith Ryan and Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004. DUL
820.11 IMA
*Schaffer, Kay. Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural
Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988. DUL 820.11 SCH
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Spender, Dale. Writing a New World: Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers.
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988. DUL 820.11 SPE; 820.992870994 SPE
*Summers, Anne. Damned Whores and God’s Police: The Colonization of Women in
Australia. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975. DUL 305.420994 SUM
Salusinszky, Imre, ed. Oxford Book of Australian Essays. Melbourne: OUP, 1997.
(Contains Louisa Lawson’s “The Australian Bush-Woman.”) DUL 820.14 OXF
Woollacott, Angela. To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and
Modernity. New York: OUP, 2001. [DUL: ORDERED 16 June 2014]
War and National Identity
Dapin, Mark, ed. The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing. Camberwell, Vic: Viking,
2011. DUL 809.93358 PEN
C. SEMINAR READING
Seminar 1. Introduction
First Encounters
Selections will be provided from:
Dampier, William. A New Voyage round the World: A Continuation of A Voyage to NewHolland, &c. in the Year 1699. London: James Knapton, 1709.
Beaglehole, J. C., ed. The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of
Discovery, vol. 1, The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771. Cambridge: Hakluyt
Society, 1955.
Darwin, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the
Countries Visited during the Voyage of H. M. S. “Beagle” round the World, under the
Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R. N. London: John Murray, 1845.
Conceptualizing ‘Australia’
Poems: W. C. Wentworth, ‘Australasia’; Bernard O’Dowd, ‘Australia’; James McAuley,
‘Terra Australis’; A. D. Hope, ‘Australia’ (copies supplied).
Australian Bucolic: A. B. (“Banjo”) Patterson, “The Man from Snowy River”; “Clancy of the
Overflow”; “The Man from Ironbark”; “Waltzing Matilda” (copies supplied).
Timeline of Major Historical and Literary Events
Overview of Themes and Genres
Seminar 2. Convict Tales
Required reading:
Keneally, Thomas. The Playmaker. London: Sceptre, 1988. [Any of the various editions
will do]
Hughes, Robert. The Fatal Shore. London: Harvill Press, 1996.
Selections will be supplied from:
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Tench, Waktin. 1788: Comprising: A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and a
Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson. Ed. Tim Flannery. Melbourne:
Text Publishing Company, 1996.
Savery, Henry. Quintus Servinton. Hobert Town: [n.p.], 1830-31. Repr. Brisbane:
Jacaranda P, 1962.
Mudie, James. The Felonry of New South Wales. London: Whaley, 1837. Repr.
Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1964.
Warung, Price (pseudonym of William Astley). Tales of the Early Days. London: George
Robertson, 1894.
Ward, Russell, ed. The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads. London: Penguin, 1964.
Seminar 3. Explorers
Required reading:
White, Patrick. Voss. London: Vintage, 1994. [Any of the various editions will do].
Selections will be supplied from:
Leichhardt, F. W. L. (Ludwig). The Letters of F. W. L. Leichhardt. 3 vols. Ed. M.
Aurousseau. London: Hakluyt Society, 1968.
Mitchell, T. L. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia. London:
Longmans, 1848.
Seminar 4. The Legend of the Bush, Part I: Battlers
Required Reading:
Henry Lawson, Selected Short Stories (inc. “The Drover’s Wife”).
Geoff Page, “Grit”; Les Murray, “The Widower in the Country” (copies supplied)
Recommended Reading:
Baynton, Barbara. Bush Studies. Intro. Elizabeth Webby with a memoir by H. B. Gullett.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1993. DUL 828.5 BAY
Seminar 5. The Legend of the Bush, Part II: “Australia’s Book of Genesis”(?)
Required Reading:
Patrick White, The Tree of Man.
Seminar 6. The Legend of the Bush, Part III: Bushrangers
Required Reading:
Poetry: A. B. (“Banjo”) Patterson, “How Gilbert Died” (copy supplied)
Prose: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang.
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7. Resisting the Legend: Australian Modernism / Australian Classicism
Required Reading:
A. D. Hope; James McAuley (1917-76) and Harold Stewart.
Recommended Reading:
Heyward, Michael. The Ern Malley Affair. Introd. Robert Hughes. London: Faber and
Faber, 2003. 392 pp. ISBN: 0571221211. Amazon.co.uk:£6.99. Availability: usually
dispatched within 24 hours.
Suggested Further Reading: Peter Carey, My Life as a Fake. London: Faber, 2003. DUL
829.4 CAR
Seminar 8: Indigenous Voices
Required reading:
Keneally, Thomas. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, 1972. [Any of the various editions
will do]
Selections will be provided from:
Ramsay Smith, W. Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals. London:
Spottiswood, 1930. Repr. Dover, 2003.
Gilbert, Kevin. Black from the Edge. Melbourne: Hyland House, 1994.
Walker, Kath (Oodgeroo Noonuccal). Stradbroke Dreamtime. Sydney: Angus and
Robertson, 1993.
Recommended Reading:
Healy, J. J. Literature and the Aborigine in Australia. St Lucia, QLD: UQP, 1978.
Shoemaker, Adam. Black Words White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988. New ed.
Canberra: ANU E Press, 2004. http://epress.anu.edu.au/bwwp_citation.htm
Johnson, Colin (Mudrooroo Narogin). Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the
Ending of the World. London: Hyland House, 1987. [Any of the various editions will
do]
Seminar 9: Writing Women in Australia
Required reading:
Franklin, Miles. My Brilliant Career. London: Virago, 1980. [Any of the various editions will
do]
Selections will be provided from:
Henry Lawson. ‘The Drover’s Wife.’
Murray Bail. ‘The Drover’s Wife.’
Wright, Judith. Collected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994.
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Recommended Reading
Richardson, Henry Handel (nom de plume of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, 18701946). The Getting of Wisdom. Ringwood, VIC: Penguin, 1998. DUL 828.5 RIC
Seminar 10: From Legend to Myth
Required reading:
Bail, Murray. Eucalyptus. London: Harvill, 1999. [Any of the various editions will do].
D. SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
Australian Literature
Durham University Library Holdings
(A Selection)
PRIMARY
Bail, Murray. Eucalyptus. London: Harvill, 1998. DUL 829.4 BAI
Carey, Peter (b. 1943). Bliss. 1981. London: Faber, 1991. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. Oscar and Lucinda. London: Faber, 1988. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. The Tax Inspector. London: Faber, 1991. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith. London: Faber, 1994. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. Collected Stories. London: Faber, 1995. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. Illywhacker. London: Faber, 1996. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. Jack Maggs. London: Faber, 1997. DUL 829.4 CAR
______. My Life as a Fake. 2003. London: Faber, 2003. DUL 829.4 CAR
Chatwin, Bruce (1940-?). The Songlines. London: Pan, 1988. (5 copies). Queen’s
Campus 823.912 CHA
Clarke, Marcus (1846-81). For the Term of His Natural Life. 1913. DUL N5, Store XX
828.4 CLA
Franklin, Miles (1879-1954). My Brilliant Career. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1901. New
introd. Carmen Callil. Virago Modern Classics. London: Virago, 1980. 828.5 FRA
Hope, A. D. (1907-199?). Collected Poems, 1930-1970. Sydney: Angus and Robertson,
1972. DUL 829.2 HOP
______. Selected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet, 1986. DUL 829.2 HOP
Lawson, Henry (1867-1922). The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories. Ed. and introd.
John Barnes. Ringwood, VIC: Penguin Books, 1986. 229 pp. (2 copies) DUL 828.5
LAW
______. Best Stories of Henry Lawson. Selected by Cecil Mann. Sydney: Angus &
Robertson, 1966. Rept. 1981. DUL 828.5 LAW
Lindsay, Norman. The Magic Pudding: Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His
Friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1963.
Education,TRC 823/LIN
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Murray, Les (b. 1938). Selected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet, 1986. (151 pp.). DUL
829.3 MUR
______. Collected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet, 1991. DUL 829.3 MUR
______. Subhuman Redneck Poems. Manchester: Carcanet, 1993. DUL 829.3 MUR
______. Translations from the Natural World (67 pp.). Manchester: Carcanet, 1993. DUL
829.3 MUR
______. Fredy Neptune. (A Verse Novel). Manchester: Carcanet, 1998. DUL 829.3
MUR
______. Conscious and Verbal. Manchester: Carcanet, 1999. DUL 829.3 MUR
_____, ed. Fivefathers: Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era. Presented and
Edited by Les Murray. Manchester: Fyfield, 1994. (Kenneth Slessor – Roland
Robinson –David Campbell –James McAuley – Francis Webb). 207 pp. DUL 821.29
FIV
______ , compiler. Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry. North Blackburn: Collins
Dove, 1986. DUL 821.29 ANT
Porter, Peter (b. 1929). The Cost of Seriousness. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1978. DUL 829.3
POR
______. Collected Poems. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. DUL 829.3 POR
Richardson, Henry Handel (nom de plume of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, 18701946). The Getting of Wisdom. Ringwood, VIC: Penguin, 1998. DUL 828.5 RIC
______.Maurice Guest. London: Heinemann, 1935. DUL 828.5 RIC
______. Letters of Henry Handel Richardson to Nettie Palmer. Ed. Karl-Johan Rossing.
Essays and Studies on English Language and Literature 14. Uppsala: Lundequistska
bokhandeln; Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, [1953]. XX 828.5 RIC
Wallace-Crabbe, Chris (b. 1934). I’m Deadly Serious. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988. DUL
829.4 WAL
Webby, Elizabeth, ed. Colonial Voices: Letters, Diaries, Journalism and other Accounts
of Nineteenth-Century Australia. St Lucia, Qld: U of Queensland P, 1989. DUL
821.78 COL
White, Patrick (1912-1990). The Living and the Dead. 1941.London: Eyre &
Spottiswoode, 1962. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. The Tree of Man. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. Voss. [London]: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. 2 copies. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. The Burnt Ones.London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1964. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. Four Plays. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1965]. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. The Solid Mandala: A Novel. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1966. DUL 829.2
WHI
______. The Vivisector. London: Cape, 1970. DUL 829.2 WHI; N5, Store XX 829.2
WHI
______. The Eye of the Storm. London: Cape, 1973. DUL N5, Store XX 829.2 WHI
______. The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories. London: Cape, 1974. DUL 829.2
WHI
______. A Fringe of Leaves. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977. DUL 829.2 WHI
______. Flaws in the Glass: A Self-portrait. London: Cape, 1981. DUL 829.2 WHI
Anthologies
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A Book of Australian Verse. Selected and with and introduction by Judith Wright.
London: Oxford UP: 1956. 266 pp. DUL 821.21 WRI
The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse. Chosen by Les A. Murray. Melbourne: Oxford
UP, 1996. DUL 821.21 NEW
The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories. Ed. Murray Bail. London:
Faber, 1988. DUL 821.59 FAB
The Oxford Book of Australian Religious Verse. Ed. Kevin Hart. Oxford: Oxford UP,
1994. 286 pp. 821.29 OXF
Thieme, John, ed. The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. London:
Arnold, 1996. Generous selection in Part II: Australia, from Charles Harpur to David
Malouf (pp. 150-307). DUL 821.19 ARN
The Penguin Book of Australian Verse. Selected and edited by John Thompson, Kenneth
Slessor and R. G. Howarth. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958. St Aidan’s College Library:
821.29
Jose, Nicholas (gen. ed.). The Literature of Australia: An Anthology. Foreword by
Thomas Keneally. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. DUL 820.80994 LIT
SECONDARY
Ackland, Michael. That Shining Band: A Study of Australian Colonial Verse Tradition. St
Lucia, Qld: U of Queensland P, 1994. xii, 243pp. DUL 820.92 ACK
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and
Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 1989. viii, 246p; 20cm.
DUL Reserve 820.91 ASH.
Dixon, Robert. Writing the Colonial Adventure: Race, Gender and Nation in AngloAustralian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. DUL
820.15 DIX
Goodwin, Ken.
A History of Australian Literature.
London: Macmillan, 1986.
DUL 820.11 GOO
Hodge, Robert, and Vijay Mishra. Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the
Postcolonial Mind. North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991. DUL 820.91 HOD
Huggan. Graham. Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism.
Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
DUL 820.91 HUG
Morgan, Wendy. Writings from Australia. Melbourne: Cambridge UP, 1994. Not in DUL.
Murray, Les A. The Paperbark Tree: Selected Prose. Manchester: Carcanet, 1992. 390
p. DUL 829.3 MUR.
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. London:
Routledge, 1992. DUL 809.93 PRA.
Samuels, Selina, ed. Australian Literature, 1788-1914. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. DUL
Ref 803 DIC(230) xx, 499 p : ill ; 29 cm. [Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 230]
______. Australian Writers, 1915-1950. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, c2002. DUL Ref 803
DIC(260).
______. Australian Writers, 1950-1975. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, c2004. DUL Ref 803
DIC(289)
Schaffer, Kay. In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser Stories. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1995. Queen’s Campus 820.9351 SCH
Stewart, Ken.
Investigations in Australian Literature.
Sydney: Sydney Studies:
Shoestring Press, 2000. DUL 820.11 STE.
Sturrock, John, ed. The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing. Oxford: Oxford UP,
1997. (Repub’d as The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature. Oxford:
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Oxford UP, 1997). Contains a chapter on ‘Australia’ by Peter Craven (pp. 39-55).
DUL 809.04 OXF
Wright, Judith. Preoccupations in Australian Poetry. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1965. xxi +
217 pp. Contents: Introduction: Australia’s Double Aspect. – Charles Harpur. – Henry
Kendall. – The Growth and Meaning of the Bush. – Adam Lindsay Gordon and
Barcroft Boake. – The Reformist Poets. – Christopher Brennan – The Affirmation of
Hugh McCrae. – John Shaw Neilson. – Vision. – Kenneth Slessor, Romantic and
Modern. – R. D. Fitzgerald. – J. P. McAuley. – A. D. Hope. – Poets of the ’forties and
’fifties. DUL N5, Store XX 820.12 WRI
STUDIES OF INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS
Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
Clark, Manning. Henry Lawson: The Man and the Legend. Melbourne University Press
Australian Lives. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1995. (Originally published
as In Search of Henry Lawson. [South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1978]). DUL 828.5
LAW/CLA
Murray-Smith, Stephen. Australian Writers and Their Work: Henry Lawson. Oxford: OUP,
1975.
Roderick, Colin, ed. and introd. Henry Lawson Criticism, 1894-1971. Sydney: Angus and
Robertson, 1972. (Includes bibliography). DUL 828.5 LAW/HEN
Wright, David McKee. Poetical Works of Henry Lawson. Angus & Robertson, 1979.
#Eggert, Paul. Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson’s ‘While the Billy Boils’. Sydney:
Sydney UP, 2013. 432 pages. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-06196-2. Paperback ISBN:
978-0-271-06197-9.
#Lawson, Henry. While the Billy Boils: The Original Newspaper Versions. Ed. Paul
Eggert. Explanatory notes by Elizabeth Webby. Sydney: Sydney UP, 2013. 450 pp.
ISBN-10: 1743320094. ISBN-13: 978-1743320099.
#Lawson, Henry. The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories. Ed. John Barnes. New
introd. John Kinsella. Penguin Classics. Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin, 2009.
Miles Franklin
#Franklin, Miles. My Brilliant Career. Ed. Bruce K. Martin. Peterborough, ON: Broadview,
2008. ISBN: 9781551116778 / 1551116774.
Barnard, Marjorie. Miles Franklin: The Story of a Famous Australian. 1967. St Lucia:
UQP, 1988.
Pratt, C. Walking round the World: Miles Franklin, Henry Handel Richardson and
Christina Stead as Expatriate Australian Writers. Routledge, 1998.
Roderick, Colin. Miles Franklin: Her Brilliant Career. Adelaide: Rigby, 1982.
Patrick White
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Argyle, Barry. Patrick White. Writers and Critics. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1967. (109
pp.). DUL 829.2 WHI/ARG
Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. Vision and Style in Patrick White: A Study of Five Novels.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 1989.
Giffin, Michael. Arthur’s Dream: The Religious Imagination in the Fiction of Patrick White.
Paddington, NSW: Spaniel Books, 1996. DUL 829.2 WHI/GIF
Hall, Jeremy David Rumney. ‘The Religious Quest of Patrick White.’ MA thesis,
University of Durham, 1989. DUL: Thesis 1989/HAL
Hansson., Karin. The Warped Universe: A Study of Imagery and Structure in Seven
Novels by Patrick White. Lund : CWK Gleerup, 1984. DUL 829.2 WHI/HAN
Lawson, Alan. Patrick White. Australian Bibliographies. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1974.
xi, 131 pp. DUL Ref 012 WHI/LAW
Marr, David. Patrick White: A Life. London: Cape, 1991. DUL 829.2 WHI/MAR
Morley, Patricia A. The Mystery of Unity: Theme and Technique in the Novels of Patrick
White. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1972. DUL 829.2 WHI/MOR
Walsh, William. Patrick White: “Voss.” Studies in English Literature 62. London: Edward
Arnold, 1976. 53 pp. DUL 829.2 WHI/WAL
Kenneth Slessor
Semmler, Clement. Kenneth Slessor. Writers and Their Work 194. London: Longmans,
Green, [c. 1966]. 44 pp. DUL Pam 829.2 SLE/SEM
Les Murray (b. 1938)
Kinsella, John, ed. ‘The Republic of Sprawl.’ Poetry Review 89.1 (1999): 3-120.
Matthews, Steven. Les Murray. Contemporary World Writers. Manchester: Manchester
UP, 2001. 184 pp. DUL 829.3 MUR/MAT
Peter Carey
Hassall, Anthony J. Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey’s Fiction. St Lucia, QLD: U
of Queensland P, 1998. xxi, 251 pp. DUL 829.4 CAR/HAS
Larsson. Christer. The Relative Merits of Goodness and Originality: The Ethics of
Storytelling in Peter Carey’s Novels. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Anglistica
Upsaliensa 116. Dissertation (Ph.D) in English, Uppsala University, 2001. Uppsala:
Uppsala University, 2001. DUL 829.4 CAR/LAR
Woodcock, Bruce. Peter Carey. Contemporary World Writers. 2nd ed. Manchester:
Manchester UP, 2003. DUL 829.4 CAR/WOO
Murray Bail
“Enchanted Forest.” Review of Bail’s Eucalyptus, by Michael Upchurch. New York Times,
4 October 1998 (Books section).
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E4DA1439F937A35753C1A96E
958260
Frow, J. ‘A Pebble, a Camera, a Man who Turns into a Telegraph Pole.’ Critical Enquiry 1
(Autumn 2001): 270-85.
JOURNALS
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (from 1965). DUL 058.2 JOU.
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Quadrant: An Australian Quarterly Review. (Sydney: H. R. Krygier, for the Australian
Committee for Cultural Freedom). Holdings Vols 1-7, vol. 8 (no. 29-31), 1956-64.
DUL Store XX 050
Southern Review: Literary and Interdisciplinary Essays. (Dept. of English, Univ. of
Adelaide). Vol.15-27 (1982-94). DUL 058.2 SOU
COMPANIONS etc.
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature. Ed. William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton, Barry
Andrews. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1985. DUL Ref 820.11 OXF
The Oxford History of Australian Literature. Ed. Leonie Kramer; with contributions by
Adrian Mitchell ... [et al.]. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1981. DUL 820.11 KRA
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature.
Cambridge Companions to
Literature. Ed. Elizabeth Webby. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 348 pages.
Hardback £45. Paperback (£16.99). DUL 820.11 CAM. [electronic resource]
The Oxford Companion to Australian History. Ed. Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and
Stuart Macintyre. Oxford: OUP, 1998. DUL (Level 4) Ref 994 OXF
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia. Ed. Ed. Susan Bambrick. Cambridge: CUP,
1994. DUL (Level 4) + 994 CAM
#Jupp, James. The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and
Their Origins.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [Previous ed.: North Ryde, N.S.W.:
Angus & Robertson, 1988] DUL + 994 AUS
#Pierece, Peter. The Cambridge History of Australian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009. DUL 820.9994 CAM
BACKGROUND
Australian Dictionary of Biography. General ed. D. Pike ... [et al.]. London: Melbourne
UP., 1966- Library has: vols 1-12 (1788-1939), vols 13-16 (1940-2002) A-Z. DUL Ref
920.994 AUS
This is now available in a free on-line edition hosted by the Australian national University
(ANU): http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm
The Australian National Dictionary: A Dictionary of Australianisms on Historical
Principles. Ed. W. S. Ramson. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1988. DUL Ref 427.994
AUS
Carboni, Raffaello. The Eureka Stockade. 1855. Boston, MA: Indypublish Com., 2003.
(210 pp.). DUL 994.503 CAR
Clark, C. M. H. A History of Australia. 6 vols. [Parkville, VIC]: Melbourne UP; London:
Cambridge UP, [1962]-1987. DUL 994 CLA
Contents:
1: From the Earliest Times to the Age of Macquarie.
2: New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, 1822-1838.
3: The Beginning of an Australian Civilization, 1824-1851.
4: The Earth Abideth Forever, 1851-1888.
5: The People Make Laws, 1888-1915.
6: The Old Dead Tree and the Young Tree Green, 1916-1935, with an Epilogue.
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Hughes, Robert. The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to
Australia, 1787-1868. London: Collins Harvill, 1987. London: Vintage, 2003. (3
copies). DUL 994.02 HUG
Molony, John. Eureka. 1984. Carlton South, VIC: Melbourne UP, 2001. DUL 994.503
MOL
Ward, Russell. The History of Australia: The Twentieth Century, 1901-1975. London:
Heinemann Educational Books, 1978. DUL 994.04 WAR
USEFUL WEBSITES
Australian Dictionary of Biography. A free on-line edition hosted by the Australian national
University (ANU): http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm
The Complete Review: lists reviews of recent books (with some web-links to actual
reviews, e.g. from The Economist and New York Times) as well as providing a “review of
reviews” of each work.
http://www.complete-review.com/maindex/maindex.html
www.ernmalley.com Samela Harris & Shyl-Lee Kerr
R. H. F. Carver
File name: AustLegReading20June2014.doc
Updated: 20 June 2011; 23 April 2013; 20 June 2014
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The Campus Novel
Seminar Schedule and Reading List
Module convenor: Dr Alastair Renfrew
alastair.renfrew2@durham.ac.uk
Elvet Riverside A76
This module will examine the emergence and proliferation of the campus novel in the
post-war period against the background of earlier fictions of university life. As well as
looking at the main generic features of the campus novel, its interaction with other
literary models, and its thematic and stylistic evolution, we will also examine how the
campus novel has responded to developments in British and American higher
education over the period.
In advance of the course, and during vacations, it would be advisable to read as
many of the primary texts listed below as possible and perhaps also familiarise
yourself with some of the issues surrounding the campus novel by looking at the
background reading section. Most of the novels listed are available in paperback
editions (these are indicated), while others (marked *) can be acquired second-hand
(through sites such as www.abe.com). A full reading list will be available on the Duo
site, along with scanned copies of some of the secondary reading and links to digital
resources.
Seminar Schedule
Michaelmas
1. Beginnings: England
C. P. Snow, The Masters (1951) [House of Stratus]
Kingsely Amis, Lucky Jim (1953) [Penguin]
2. Beginnings: USA
Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe (1952)*
Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (1954) [Penguin]
3. Tragedy versus Farce
John Williams, Stoner (1965) [Vintage]
Richard Fariña, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1966) [Penguin]
4. Satire and Gender
Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man (1975) [Picador]
Gail Godwin, The Odd Woman (1974)*
5. Inside and Outside
David Lodge, Small World (1984) [Vintage]
Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985) [Picador]
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Epiphany
6. Research
A. S. Byatt, Possession (1990) [Vintage]
7. Students
Donna Tartt, The Secret History (1992) [Penguin]
8. Science
Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 (1995) [Atlantic]
Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table (1997) [Faber & Faber]
9. The Contemporary University (Novel)
James Hynes, The Lecturer’s Tale (2001) [Picador]
Susan Choi, My Education (2013) [Viking]
Easter
10. All the World’s a Campus
John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy (1966)*
Background Reading
The most accessible, recent survey of the campus novel is Elaine Showalter’s
Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and its Discontents (Oxford University Press,
2005)
The following also provide useful background to different aspects of campus fiction:
Ian Carter, Ancient Cultures of Conceit: British University Fiction in the Post-War
Years (Routledge, 1990); a broadly sociological account of how the post-war
campus novel struggles with the legacy of the ‘Oxbridge’ or ‘varsity’ novel that
dominated earlier university fiction.
Mark McGurl, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
(Harvard University Press, 2009); argues that the rise of university creative
writing programmes has been the most significant influence on contemporary
American fiction, thereby re-situating the idea of ‘university fiction’.
Merritt Moseley (ed.), The Academic Novel: New and Classic Essays (Chester
Academic Press, 2007); a wide-ranging collection of essays on the context of
contemporary campus fiction and on some of the best-known examples.
Mortimer R. Proctor, The English University Novel (University of California Press,
1957); a useful survey of the university – or largely ‘Oxbridge’ – novel from its
beginnings in the nineteenth century through the pre-war period of the
twentieth.
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Prescribed reading on individual authors and novels will be provided in the full
reading list for the course.
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BA Module: Writing Prose Fiction
Vidyan Ravinthiran
Reading List
When we think of fiction, we think of plot, characterisation – maybe themes. But
novels and short stories are ultimately constructed out of prose: words, clauses,
sentences and paragraphs. In this module, the close reading of prose becomes a
way of learning how to write it. (And vice versa, because writing helps us enter into
the compositional practice of other authors and understand the stylistic decisions
they’ve made.) Looking closely at effects of sound, rhythm and syntax in literary
prose, you’ll explore how authors shape the experience of reading – and learn how
to create similar effects in your own writing.
For each seminar, you’ll read a novel or collection of short stories, some of which I
list below to get you started. These works of fiction will (I hope!) inspire you to writing
of your own, which we’ll consider in class alongside extracts from the text in
question.
I also include here some critical texts to start you thinking about ‘prose’, ‘fiction’ and
the relationship between the two. The Wood and Forster are particularly lively – as
readable, in fact, as novels!
A more detailed reading list and description of seminars will be provided at our first,
on James Joyce. Before this seminar, I would like you to read both DUBLINERS and
PORTRAIT (they add up to the length of your average novel) and select a paragraph
of Joyce’s prose you think worthy of interest. We will discuss these choices in class.
Criticism
E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
Wayne Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction
James Wood, How Fiction Works
Walter Benjamin, ‘The Storyteller: Reflections on the Work of Nikolai Leskov’;
available in many editions, and also online – try Googling it!
Fiction
James Joyce, Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King
Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis
Zadie Smith, NW
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Richard Sugg
Early Modern America: Outline and Reading List
In the case of works available in modern editions, please do ensure that you obtain
the ones listed below. Date of publication may vary, but aside from the value of
certain introductions, we do need to be referring, in classes, to texts with the same
pagination.
Week One: Beginnings and the Black Legend
José de Acosta, Natural and Moral History of the Indies (1604)
BOOK I - Chaps 1, 9, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23-25
BOOK II - Chaps 3, 8-9
BOOK III - Chaps 15, 25
BOOK IV - Chaps 2-5, 22, 34-36
BOOK V - Chaps 1-5, 7, 19-22
Bartolomé de las Casas, 1474-1566
The Spanish Colony (1583)
Week Two: Early British Adventurers
Thomas Harriot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588).
Walter Ralegh, The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana
(1596) (EEBO) or: The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana,
ed. Neil L. Whitehead (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997).
Week Three: Cannibals
André Thevet, The New Found World (1568)
Chaps 61, 63, 77-78.
'The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthonie Knivet', in:
Purchas his Pilgrims (1625), pp. 1201-1232 - 2nd edn - STC 20509.
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Michel de Montaigne, 'Of the Cannibals', in Essays, trans John Florio (1613), 100107.
Week Four: Wonder and Danger: the Poetry of the New World
Donne's Poems and Elegies
Elegy 18, ‘Love’s Progress’
Elegy 19, ‘To his Mistress Going to Bed’
‘A Valediction: of Weeping’, 'The Sun Rising', 'The Good Morrow'
Verse Letters: 'To the Countess of Huntingdon' ('That unripe side of earth...'); To Mr
RW ('If, as mine is...')
George Chapman, 'De Guiana' (this poem will be available on duo).
The Penguin edition of Donne's poems (ed. A.J. Smith) is recommended.
Week Five: Dramatising Utopia
Shakespeare, The Tempest.
A True Reportory of the Wracke, and redemption of Sir THOMAS GATES Knight;
vpon, and from the Ilands of the Bermudas: his comming to Virginia, and the estate
of that Colonie then, and after, vn|der the gouernment of the Lord LA WARRE, Iuly
15. 1610. written by WILLIAM STRACHY, Esquire, in:
Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrims (1625), STC (2nd ed.) / 20509, Part I, 17341742; Part III, 1747-1758.
Council for Virginia, A True and Sincere Declaration of the Purpose and Ends of the
Plantation begun in Virginia (1610).
The Oxford World's Classics edition of The Tempest (ed. Stephen Orgel) is the most
useful for this course.
Week Six: Evangelism or Annihilation? The Struggle for Protestant Conversion
in the Early Seventeenth Century
John Donne, sermon: 'To the Honourable, the Virginia Company' in: Four Sermons
Upon Special Occasions (1625), or: Five Sermons upon Special Occasions (1626)
William Symonds, Virginia. A Sermon Preached … 25 April 1609 (1609)
Christopher Brooke, A Poem on the Late Massacre in Virginia (1622) (this poem will
be available on duo).
Edward Waterhouse, A Declaration of the State of the Colony and affairs in Virginia
With a relation of the barbarous massacre (1622) - pp.1-34 (do not use image
numbers, which begin earlier).
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Week Seven: Writing America
(sels from): Thomas Hutchinson, A History of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 2 vols
(1795)
VOL I 259-mid280 - incl footnotes; 310-313 - incl footnotes; 404-425
VOL II 101-105; 126-135; 152-58 236-240 266-69 284-88
Mary Rowlandson, The Account of Mary Rowlandson and other Indian Captivity
Narratives (Dover, 2005).
Week Eight: Hybrid America (I)
John Tanner, The Falcon, intr. Louise Erdrich (Penguin, 2008).
(You may want to order this book soon; it is not expensive, but can sometimes be
slow to obtain.)
Week Nine: Hybrid America (II)
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757, ed. John
McWilliams (1826; Oxford World's Classics).
Week Ten: The Mother of America: Pocahontas
EEBO: Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia... (1615), 111.
John Smith, The General History of Virginia (1624), Chap Two, 44-50; Chap Seven,
66-70; Chap Eight, 74-78; Chap Ten, 83-85: Chap Twelve, 89-94; 111-117 (‘The
Govt returned again to Sir T Gates’ – ‘The Declaration of the contents of the lottery’);
121- end of 123.
ECCO: William Stith, The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia
(1753), 127-138, 142-145.
'The History of Pocahontas' in: Caleb Bingham, The American Preceptor (1795),
148-151.
Hannah Webster Foster, The Boarding School (1798), 206-207.
LION: L.H. Sigourney, 'Pocahontas' (1841).
READING LIST
* Asterisk indicates books which are well worth buying. Ones thus marked are all
available cheaply.
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Primary
Unless otherwise indicated, early-modern texts are available (usually in digitised
form) on Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections
Online (ECCO). You should also find Literature Online (LION) valuable for a range of
texts, especially nineteenth century and after.
As your interests develop, you may also want to make use of newspaper databases
such as Nineteenth Century newspapers; Times Online; New York Times online; and
Gale Newsvault. Most scholars now agree that these resources have revolutionised
the possibilities of primary research.
For excellent general introductions to authors and other relevant historical figures,
please use the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) and American
National Biography. All these are available under library databases. Preliminary
reading and use of these should be undertaken as soon as possible. Similarly,
please do make active use of Jstor, MLA, and hard copy and electronic journal
searches/articles in order to shape and follow your particular interests in the subject.
This list is suggestive, rather than exhaustive. It is probably best to start with some
good secondary overviews, and then move to some of the primary texts on EEBO
and other databases. This subject is a very large and rich one, and you will be
encouraged to develop your own interests among the many possible angles
available.
Please do get in touch with any questions as soon as you wish. I will be contactable
on e-mail more or less continuously across the vacation period.
PRIMARY
(I have standardised spelling here; when searching on EEBO please use 'variant
spellings' or just begin searching via authors' names).
Jean de Lery: History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, otherwise called America
trans. Janet Whatley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)
Bartolomé de las Casas, The Spanish Colony (1583)
- The Tears of the Indians (1656).
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These are integral to Protestant notions of 'The Black Legend'. There are many other
versions under las Casas' name on EEBO.
Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)
José de Acosta, Natural and Moral History of the Indies (1604)
Walter Ralegh, The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana
(1596)
or: The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana, ed. Neil L.
Whitehead (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997).
Joannes Boemus, The Manners, Laws, and Customs of all Nations ... the like also
out of the history of America, or Brasil, written by John Lerius
(1611)
John Smith (on Pocahontas esp)
- A True Relation (1608)
- A Map of Virginia (1612)
- The General History of Virginia (1624)
John Donne: Complete English Poems, ed. AJ Smith (Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1990)
William Strachey, The History of Travel into Virginia (1612), ed. R.H. Major (London:
Hakluyt Society, 1849)
- For the colony in Virginea Britannia. Lavves diuine, morall and martiall (1612).
(A brief look at this text gives a good sense of the social and class problems which
beset the early Virginian colony.)
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, ed. Stephen Orgel (Oxford: World's Classics,
1994)
Edward Waterhouse, A Declaration of the State of the Colony and affaires in Virginia
With a relation of the barbarous massacre in the time of peace and league (1622).
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John Donne, sermon: 'To the Honourable, the Virginia Company' in: Four Sermons
Upon Special Occasions (1625), or: Five Sermons upon Special Occasions (1626)
William Symonds, Virginia. A Sermon Preached … 25 April 1609 (1609)
Patrick Copland, Virginia's God be Thanked (1622)
(this sermon is a useful compaative text for anyone interested in early evangelism).
Anthony Knivet, 'Anthony Knivet, his coming to the R de Janeiro...' in Purchas his
Pilgrims (1625)
Thomas Hutchinson, A History of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 2 vols (1795)
Mary Rowlandson, The Account of Mary Rowlandson and other Indian Captivity
Narratives (Dover, 2005)
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826)
John Tanner, The Falcon: A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John
Tanner (1830; Penguin, 1994)
Secondary
General
Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: an Interpretation (Cambridge : Cambridge University
Press, 1991).
Inga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Louis B. Wright, The Cultural Life of the American Colonies, 1607-1763 (London:
Hamish Hamilton, 1957)
Lewis Hanke, Aristotle and the American Indians: a study in race prejudice in the
modern world (London : Hollis & Carter, c1959; repr. 2011)
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William S. Maltby, The Black Legend in England: the Development of anti-Spanish
Sentiment, 1558-1660 (Durham, N.C : Duke University Press, 1971)
D.B.Quinn, England and the Discovery of America, 1481-1620 (London: G. Allen &
Unwin Ltd, 1974) (electronic resource)
Hugh Honor, The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the
Discoveries to the Present Time (Allen Lane, 1975)
Discovering the New World: based on the works of Theodore de Bry, ed. Michael
Alexander (London: London Editions, 1976)
First Images of America: the Impact of the New World on the Old, ed. Fredi Chiapelli
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
The Westward Enterprise: English Activities in Ireland, the Atlantic, and America
1480-1650 ed. K. R. Andrews, N. P. Canny and P. E. H. Hair (Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 1979)
Alden T. Vaughan, New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675 (New
York : Norton, 1979)
Bernadette Bucher, Icon and Conquest: a Structural Analysis of the Illustrations of de
Bry's Great Voyages, trans. Basia Miller Gulati (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1981)
Puritans among the Indians: Accounts of Captivity and Redemption, 1676-1724 ed.
Alden Vaughan and Edward W. Clark (Harvard University Press, 1981) (e-book)
Robert Silverberg, The Golden Dream: Seekers of El Dorado (1967; repr. Athens:
Ohio University Press, 1996)
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas Volume 1, North
America, ed. Bruce G Trigger, Wilcomb E Washburn, 3 vols (CUP, 1996-99)
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Patricia Seed, Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World,
1492-1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) (also as electronic
resource).
Gary L Ebersole, Captured by Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian
Captivity (Univ Press of Virginia, 1995)
Michael Leroy Oberg, Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native
America, 1585-1685 (London: Cornell UP, 1999).
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, ed. Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) (also as electronic resource).
Karen Kupperman, The Jamestown Project (London: Harvard University Press,
2007)
Ken Macmillan, Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: the Legal
Foundations of Empire, 1576-1640 (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Religion and Evangelism
Lewis Hanke, Aristotle and the American Indian: A Study in Race Prejudice in the
Modern World (London: Hollis & Carter, 1959)
W.S. Maltby, The Black Legend in England: The Development of Anti-Spanish
Sentiment, 1558-1660 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1971)
Claire Jowitt, ‘Radical Identities? Native Americans, Jews and the English
Commonwealth’, The Seventeenth Century, 10 (1995), 101-19.
Walter S. H. Lim, The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism From Ralegh to
Milton (London: Associated University Press, 1998)
Tom Cain, ‘John Donne and the Ideology of Colonization’, English Literary
Renaissance, 31 (2001), 440-76.
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Cannibalism
Hermann Helmuth, 'Cannibalism in Paleoanthropology and Ethnology', in Man and
Aggression, ed. Ashley Montagu, (New York, 1973), 229-254
Philip L Boucher, Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763
(Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1992) (electronic resource)
Ellen B. Basso, The Last Cannibals: a South American Oral History (Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1995)
Frank Lestringant, Cannibals : the discovery and representation of the cannibal from
Columbus to Jules Verne, trans. Rosemary Morris (Cambridge : Polity Press, 1997)
Eating their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity ed. Kristen
Guest
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001)
Beth L Conklin, Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian
Society (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001)
Daniel Korn, Mark Radice & Charlie Hawes, *Cannibal: the History of the PeopleEaters (London: Channel 4 Books, 2002).
Merrall Llewelyn Price, Consuming Passions: the Uses of Cannibalism in Late
Medieval and Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 2003)
Hans Staden's True History : an Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil, ed. Neil L.
Whitehead ; trans. Michael Harbsmeier (Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press,
2008).
Richard Sugg, Mummies, Cannibals, and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine
from the Renaissance to the Victorians (London: Routledge, 2011)
Culture and Anthropology
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L.P. Kellogg, 'Pocahontas and Jamestown', The Wisconsin Magazine of History,
25.1 (1941): 38-42.
Stanley Johnson, ‘John Donne and the Virginia Company’, English Literary History,
14 (1947), 127-38
Philip Young, 'The Mother of Us All: Pocahontas Reconsidered', The Kenyon
Review, 24.3 (1962): 391-415
Philip L Barbour, Pocahontas and her World: a Chronicle of America's First
Settlement (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970)
John Berger, Ways of Seeing (Penguin, 1977).
David L. Greene, ‘New Light on Mary Rowlandson’, Early American Literature 20.1
(1985): 24-38.
Peter Hulme, Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492- 1797
(London: Methuen, 1986).
Kathryn Zabelle Derounian, ‘The Publication, Promotion, and Distribution of Mary
Rowlandson's Indian Captivity Narrative in the Seventeenth Century’, Early American
Literature 23.3 (1988): 239-261.
Stephen Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World
(Oxford, 1991)
Louis Montrose, ‘The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery’,
Representations 33 (1991), 1-41.
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (London: Fontana,
1993)
New World Encounters, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1993)
(and as electronic resource)
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Tiffany Potter, ‘Writing Indigenous Femininity: Mary Rowlandson's Narrative of
Captivity’, Eighteenth Century Studies 36.2 (2003): 153-167.
Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: the Evolution of an American Narrative (CUP, 1994)
Rene Girard, Violence and the Sacred, trans. Patrick Gregory (London: Athlone
Press, 1995)
Karen Robertson, 'Pocahontas at the Masque', Signs, 21.3 (1996): 551-583
Anne Abrams, The Pilgrims and Pocahontas: Rival Myths of American Origin
(Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1999)
Bryce Traister, ‘Mary Rowlandson and the Invention of the Secular’, Early American
Literature 42.2 (2007): 323-354
Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
(New York : W.W. Norton, 2008)
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Evelyn Waugh
Module Convenor: Dr Jason Harding
This module examines in depth a range of writing by Evelyn Waugh, exploring the
cultural, religious, intellectual and historical contexts which inform his work. It is
designed to encourage students to analyze in detail the formal techniques of
Waugh’s fiction and non-fiction, to appraise the force of his critique of the modern
world, and to what extent he can be viewed as an experimental writer. In addition, by
including some consideration of film and television adaptations of Waugh’s books,
notably Brideshead Revisited, this module provides students with the opportunity to
reflect critically on film adaptations of novels. Seminars will be supplemented by
material from Waugh’s non-fiction prose writings (autobiographical, travel writing,
essays and reviews).
Primary Reading
Decline and Fall (1928)
Vile Bodies (1930)
Black Mischief (1932)
A Handful of Dust (1934)
Waugh in Abyssinia (1936)
Scoop (1938)
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Please attempt to read as many of these texts as possible over the summer
vacation. All the primary texts have been reprinted in Penguin editions, which are
affordable and adequate for our purposes (an annotated scholarly edition from OUP
is in progress with two Durham staff members among the editorial team).
The following bibliography is selective rather than exhaustive [Durham shelfmark in
square brackets]. Remember that in a single author special topic there will be a great
demand for books from the library. There are a couple of ways to minimize this
pressure: (i) please do recall books that are out on loan (it is possible that additional
copies can be purchased by the librarian when books are under high demand); (ii)
make use on the Online Resources (e.g. JSTOR articles) including the Waugh
websites listed below.
A Little Learning, 1964, first volume of a projected autobiography [829.2 WAU]
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Michael Davie, 1976 [829.2 WAU]
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory, 1980 [829.2 WAU]
The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Donat Gallagher, 1983
[829.2 WAU]
The Complete Short Stories and Selected Drawings, ed. Ann Pasternak Slater, 1998
[829.2 WAU]
Evelyn Waugh: A Checklist of Primary and Secondary Material, ed. Robert Murray,
Davis, Paul A. Doyle, Heinz Kosok & Charles E. Linck Jr., 1981 [STORE 47763, see
also 829.2 WAU/BIB]
Evelyn Waugh: A Chronology, ed. Norman Page, 1997 [829.2 WAU/PAG]
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Secondary Criticism:
Beaty, Frederick L., The ironic world of Evelyn Waugh : a study of eight novels, 1992
[829.2 WAU/BEA]
Bradbury, Malcolm, Evelyn Waugh, 1964 [829.2 WAU/BRA]
Brennan, Michael G., Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family, 2013 [electronic
resource]
Carpenter, Humphrey, The Brideshead Generation, 1989 [829.2 WAU/CAR]
Carens, James F. The Satiric Art of Evelyn Waugh, 1966 [829.2 WAU/CAR]
Connolly, Cyril. Enemies of Promise, 1938 [829.2 CON]
Davis, Robert Murray, Evelyn Waugh, Writer, 1981 [829.2 WAU/DAV]
De Vitis, A. A., Roman Holiday: The Catholic Novels of Evelyn Waugh, 1958 [829.2
WAU/DEV]
Dyson, A. E., “Evelyn Waugh and the Mysteriously Disappearing Hero” in The Crazy
Fabric, 1965 [820.11 DYS]
Eagleton, Terry, Exiles and Emigres, 1970 [820.91 EAG]
Fussell, Paul, Abroad, 1980 [820.97 FUS]
Garnett, Robert, From Grimes to Brideshead : the early novels of Evelyn Waugh,
1990 [829.2 WAU/GAR]
Green, Martin, Children of the Sun, 1977 [820.98 GRE]
Hastings, Selina, Evelyn Waugh: A Biography, 1994 [829.2 WAU/HAS]
Heath, Jeffrey, The Picturesque Prison, 1982 [829.2 WAU/HEA]
Hollis, Christopher, Evelyn Waugh, 1966 [829.2 WAU/HOL]
Kermode, Frank, “Mr Waugh’s Cities” in Puzzles and Epiphanies, 1962 [809.304
KER]
Lodge, David, Evelyn Waugh, 1971 [Pam 829.2 WAU/LOD]
McCartney, George, Evelyn Waugh and the Modernist Tradition, 2004 [829.2
WAU/MCC]
McDonnell, Jacqueline, Waugh on Women, 1986 [829.3 MCD]
Myers, William, Evelyn Waugh and the Problem of Evil, 1991 [829.2 WAU/MYE]
O’Donnel, Donat [Conor Cruise O’Brien], Maria Cross: Imaginative Patterns in a
Group of Modern Catholic Writers, 1952 [809.94 OBR]
Patey, Douglas Lane, The Life of Evelyn Waugh, 1998 [829.2 WAU/PAT]
Pryce-Jones, David. Evelyn Waugh and his World, 1973 [829.2 WAU/PRY]
Spender, Stephen, “The World of Evelyn Waugh” in The Creative Element, 1953
[820.91 SPE]
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Stannard, Martin, Evelyn Waugh: The Critical Heritage, 1984 [829.2 WAU/STA]
Stannard, Martin, Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903-1939, 1986 (volume one of
the fullest biography) [829.2 WAU/STA]
Stannard, Martin, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992 (volume two of
the fullest biography) [829.2 WAU/STA]
Stopp, Frederick J., Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of an Artist, 1958 [829.2 WAU/STO]
Online Resources
An Evelyn Waugh Website: http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/.
Doubting Hall: http://www.doubtinghall.com/.
Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies:http://www.lhup.edu/jwilson3/newsletter.html.
Evelyn Waugh Society: http://evelynwaughsociety.org/
Seminar Plan
Seminar 1: Approaches to Waugh
Seminar 2: Decline and Fall
Seminar 3: Vile Bodies
Seminar 4: Black Mischief
Seminar 5: A Handful of Dust
Seminar 6: Waugh in Abyssinia
Seminar 7: Scoop
Seminar 8: Brideshead Revisited I
Seminar 9: Brideshead Revisited II
Seminar 10: Brideshead Legacies (1960 edition; TV & film versions)
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Fictions
of terrorism
Tutor: Dr S. Thomas
samuel.thomas@durham.ac.uk
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FICTIONS OF TERRORISM
Module Convenor:
Dr Samuel Thomas
This module explores the relationship between various types of fiction and
various types of terrorism. In doing so, the module is both wide-ranging and
strategically focused. Organised around a series of historical/conceptual
‘snapshots’, it begins with dynamite violence at the dawn of the twentieth century
and moves forward to encompass the mass-media spectacles and neo-colonial
wars of the present day. Within this framework, the module touches down in a
range of geopolitical settings and contexts — from Sheffield to Nablus, New York
to Khartoum. The structure of the module is therefore designed to actively
dramatise the complex network of global relations that defines the reality and
representation of terror. If, as Salman Rushdie asserts, “everywhere is now a
part of everywhere else” — if “our lives, our stories” flow “into one another’s”
(with potentially explosive results) — then the texts and topics we will study
together reflect this.
Special attention will be paid to the following questions: What is the precise
nature of the relationship between fiction and terrorism? And in what ways might
the line between reality and representation become blurred? How has our
understanding of terrorism been shaped, influenced or subverted by textual
production? Is it possible to speak of an ‘aesthetics’ of terrorism? And can a
terrorist ever be described as a kind of ‘author’ or ‘interpreter’ of culture? Why do
fantasies of terroristic destruction have such a hold on the creative imagination?
Does the critical analysis of fiction take us closer to (or indeed further away from)
a stable definition of what terrorism actually is? The module will also address
ongoing debates about multiculturalism, globalization, civil liberties, trauma, the
legitimacy of violence and so on.
Students will give short seminar presentations and the module will be examined
by two extended essays.
PRIMARY TEXTS
▪ Texts marked with an asterisk * will be provided as photocopies.
▪ You are strongly advised to get ahead with your reading/viewing over the course of
the summer.
▪ A note on films: I will pass on plenty of tips and pointers on film studies for those
of you who haven’t worked in this area before. Group screenings will be set up when
appropriate. However, given the difficulties in finding a time slot to suit everyone,
DVDs of all the films included here will be made available through the department
and the main library (online rental/streaming is another option). Please be
considerate of the needs of your fellow course-mates when borrowing films and try to
watch with others. If you decide to write on a particular film, you will be encouraged
to closely engage with formal aspects of filmmaking and to use screengrabs to
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support your analysis. You might therefore find it useful to purchase a copy for
yourself. Lastly, remember that Carlos (dir. Olivier Assayas) is a very substantial
piece of work (it was originally screened as a mini-series and is around 338 minutes
in total, divided into 3 parts on DVD). You will need to plan your viewing accordingly.
▪ “We half-read a lot of theory, which we fully understood” (Anonymous
member of the Baader-Meinhof Gang). A note on theory: You should bear in
mind that this module will, necessarily, involve engaging with a range of theoretical
material. As such, it should complement and/or extend the work you’ve done (or are
doing) on ‘The Theory & Practice of Literary Criticism’. The ‘narrative’ of the course
is dependent on certain theoretical concepts and you will be expected to respond to
these in class discussions and in your written work. I should stress, however, that the
course adheres to no fixed theoretical approach (although the lessons and legacies
of Marxism, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis and trauma studies will figure
prominently). You should see this as an open-ended opportunity to explore and
critique a variety of contested theoretical positions on your own terms.
▪ For those of you looking for some initial background reading, I would recommend
Matthew Carr, The Infernal Machine: An Alternative History of Terrorism (2011) as a
good starting point.
I. Explosions, Passions and After-Shocks (Introductory Session)
Slavoj Žižek, extracts from Welcome to the Desert of the Real! Five Essays on
September 11 and Related Dates (2002).*
II. “Countermoves in the same game”: Anarchism, Dynamite & Modernity
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (1907).
G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday (1908).
III. Letter Bombs: Authorship & Incorporation
Don DeLillo, Mao II (1991).
Paul Auster, Leviathan (1992).
Note: You may also want to consult Theodore Kaczynski’s ‘Industrial Society and its
Future’, aka The Unabomber Manifesto (1995). Available via DUO.
IV. “Yours in Revolution”: Celebrity, Spectacle & the Cause
Film: Carlos (dir. Olivier Assayas, 2010). Please watch the full 3-part version.
V. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce…
Film: Paradise Now / ‫( جآلا ةّ جلا‬dir. Hany Abu-Assad, 2005).
Film: Four Lions (dir. Chris Morris, 2010).
VI. Archaeologies of Terror / Civil War and International Justice
Michael Ondaatje, Anil’s Ghost (2000).
VII. Globalization and its Discontents
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Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown (2006).
VIII. Trauma Culture / Works of Mourning
Film: United 93 (dir. Paul Greengrass, 2006).
Bharati Mukherjee, ‘The Management of Grief’ (from The Middleman and Other
Stories, 1988).*
IX. No Compromise in the Defense of Mother Earth! Eco-Resistance / EcoTerror?
Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975).
Film: Earth First! The Politics of Radical Environmentalism (dir. Chris Manes, 1987).
Available via youtube here: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhTTAVbDEfw>
Film: If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (dir. Marshall Curry and
Sam Cullman, 2011).
X. Scat Attack / Entertaining Pain
David Foster Wallace, ‘The Suffering Channel’ (from the collection Oblivion: Stories,
2004).*
Note: You should also try to read Wallace’s short magazine pieces ‘Just Asking’ and
‘9/11: The View From the Midwest’ (both available via DUO).
FURTHER READING
▪ It would be impossible to reproduce every critical work that might be relevant to a
particular author, filmmaker or theme. The following information (divided into clear
categories to help with your planning) is therefore not exhaustive by any means and
should not prevent you from exploring the field for yourself: journalism and
reportage, legislation, documentary evidence etc. The possibilities are near enough
endless, especially if you embrace the interdisciplinary spirit of the module. I will
provide more specific tips about theoretical and contextual/historical reading as the
weeks roll by. Also note that there are numerous studies of the major authors
featured on the primary list. You can of course use these in your research,
regardless of whether the question of terrorism is directly addressed. In terms of
seeking out materials on the most recent work we’re looking at (where secondary
criticism might be thin on the ground), browsing reviews and culture blogs can be a
useful starting point.
▪ Books on fiction and terrorism
Almeida, Rochelle. The Politics of Mourning: Grief Management in Cross-Cultural
Fiction (Farleigh Dickinson, 2004).
Boehmer, Elleke and Stephen Morton (eds). Terror and the Postcolonial (WileyBlackwell, 2009).
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Bradley, Arthur and Andrew Tate. The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy and
Polemic After 9/11 (Continuum, 2010).
Bragard, Véronique et al. Portraying 9/11: Essays on Representations in Comics,
Literature, Film and Theatre (McFarland, 2011).
Cilano, Cara (ed). From Solidarity to Schisms: 9/11 and After in Fictions from
Outside the US (Rodopi, 2009).
Cole, Sarah. At the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland
(Oxford University Press, 2012).
Clymer, Jeffory. America’s Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the
Written Word (University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
Cvek, Sven. Towering Figures: Reading the 9/11 Archive (Rodopi, 2011).
Durand, Alain-Philippe and Hilary Mandel (eds). Novels of the Contemporary
Extreme (Continuum, 2007).
Eagleton, Terry. Holy Terror (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Gomel, Elana. Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject (Ohio University Press,
2003).
Gourley, James. Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and
Don DeLillo (Bloomsbury, 2013).
Gray, Richard. After the Fall: American Literature Since 9/11 (Wiley, 2011).
Greenberg, Judith (ed). Trauma at Home: After 9/11 (Bison Books, 2003).
Hapgood, Lynne and Nancy Paxton (eds). Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the
English Novel, 1900-30 (Palgrave, 2000). [See chapter by R. Caserio, ‘G. K.
Chesterton and the Terrorist Outside Modernism’]
Houen, Alex. Terrorism and Modern Literature (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Hyvärinen, Matti and Lisa Muszynski (eds). Terror and the Arts: Artistic, Literary, and
Political Interpretations of Violence from Dostoyevsky to Abu Ghraib (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2008).
Kabir, Ananya Jahanara. Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir
(University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Kaplan, Ann. Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and
Literature (Rutgers University Press, 2005).
Keeble, Arin. The 9/11 Novel: Trauma, Politics and Identity (McFarland & Co, 2014).
Keniston, Ann (ed). Literature After 9/11 (Routledge, 2008).
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Kubiak, Anthony. Stages of Terror: Terrorism, Ideology and Coercion as Theatre
History (Indiana University Press, 1991).
Leggott, James and Jamie Sexton (eds.) No Known Cure: The Comedy of Chris
Morris, (Palgrave MacMillan / BFI, 2013). [See chapter by S. Lockyer, ‘Dad’s Army
side to Terrorism: Chris Morris, Four Lions and Jihad comedy’, digitised by library]
Lentricchia, Frank and Jody McAuliffe, Crimes of Art and Terror (University of
Chicago Press, 2003). Also available online via ‘MyiLibrary Reader’.
Liao, Pei-Chen. Post 9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction: Uncanny Terror (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2013).
Melnick, Jeff, 9/11 Culture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Osborne, Richard. Literature and Terrorism (Pluto Press, 2007).
Pesso-Miguel, Catherine and Klaus Stierstorfer (eds). Fundamentalism and
Literature (Palgrave, 2007).
Randall, Martin. 9/11 and the Literature of Terror (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).
Ray, Gene. Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory: From Auschwitz to
Hiroshima to September 11 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
Scanlan, Margaret. Plotting Terror: Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction
(University of Virginia Press, 2001). Also available online via ‘MyiLibrary Reader’.
Schopp, Andrew and Matthew Hill (eds). The War on Terror and American Popular
Culture: September 11 and Beyond (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009).
Siddiqi, Yumna. Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue (Columbia University
Press, 2007). [See chapters on Ondaatje and Rushdie]
Tew, Philip. The Contemporary British Novel (Continuum, Second Edition, 2007).
[See final chapter ‘The Post-Millennial, 9/11 and the Traumatological’]
Versluys, Kristiaan. Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel (Columbia
University Press, 2009).
Wisnicki, Adrian. Conspiracy, Revolution and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the
Modern Novel (Routledge, 2007).
▪ Selected Articles (these are available through Project Muse unless otherwise
indicated)
Go to library website. Select ‘Resources and Collections’ > ‘Online Resources’ >
‘Databases’ > Select appropriate letter e.g. ‘P’ for ‘Project Muse’. Enter Durham login details when prompted. Search for article titles, journals, authors, keywords etc.
Anker, Elizabeth S. ‘Allegories of Falling and the 9/11 Novel’, American Literary
History, 23.3, 2011.
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Appelbaum, Robert and Alexis Paknadel. ‘Terrorism and the Novel 1970-2001’,
Poetics Today, 29:3, 2008. <http://goo.gl/6p7jcA>
Baker, Peter. ‘The Terrorist as Interpreter: Mao II in Postmodern Context’,
Postmodern Culture, 4.2, 1994.
Blessington, Francis. ‘Politics and the Terrorist Novel’, Sewanee Review, 116.1,
2007.
Bolland, John. ‘Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost: Civil Wars, Mystics, and
Rationalists’, Studies in Canadian Literature, 29.4 (2004).
Bowen, Deborah. ‘Spaces of Translation: Bharati Mukherjee’s “The Management of
Grief”’, Ariel, 28.3, 1997.
Buell, Lawrence. ‘What is Called Ecoterrorism’, Gramma: Journal of Theory and
Criticism, 16, 2009. <http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4262048>
Burgoyne , Robert. ‘Embodiment in the War Film: Paradise Now and The Hurt
Locker’, Journal of War & Culture Studies , 5.1, 2012.
Burrows, Victoria. ‘The Heterotopic Spaces of Postcolonial Trauma in Michael
Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost’, Studies in the Novel, 40.1-2, 2008.
Cole, Sarah. ‘Dynamite Violence and Literary Culture’, Modernism/Modernity, 16.2,
2009.
DeLillo, Don. ‘In the Ruins of the Future’, The Guardian, Saturday 22 December
2001. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/dec/22/fiction.dondelillo>
Duvall, John N. and Robert P. Marzec. ‘Narrating 9/11’, MFS: Modern Fiction
Studies, 57.3, Fall 2011.
Fernández-Kelly, Patricia. ‘On Shalimar the Clown’, Sociological Forum, 24.2, 2009.
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1573-7861.2009.01110_5.x/pdf>
Gamal, Ahmed. ‘Encounters with Strangeness in the Post- 9/11 Novel’,
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 14.1, 2012.
Gana, Nouri. ‘Reel Violence: Paradise Now and the Collapse of the Spectacle’.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Volume 28.1, 2008.
Haines, Christian. ‘The Biopolitical Ambivalence of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret
Agent’, Criticism, 54.1, 2012.
Hantke, Steffen. ‘God Save Us from Bourgeois Adventure: The Figure of the
Terrorist in Contemporary American Conspiracy Fiction’, Studies in the Novel, 28.2,
1996.
Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. ‘Symbolic Terror’, Critical Inquiry, 28.2, 2002.
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Hegarty, Emma. ‘The Practice of Solitude: Agency and the Postmodern Novelist in
Paul Auster’s Leviathan’, Textual Practice 23.5, 2009. <http://goo.gl/j0dK1V>
Houen, Alex. ‘The Secret Agent: Anarchism and the Thermodynamics of Law’,
English Literary History, 65.4, 1998.
Marrouchi, Mustapha. ‘Neither Their Perch Nor Their Terror: Al-Qaida Limited’,
Callaloo, 31.4, 2008.
McClanahan, Annie. ‘Future’s Shock: Plausibility, Preemption, and the Fiction of
9/11’, Symplokē, 17.1-2, 2009.
Medovoi, Leerom. ‘Terminal Crisis?: From the Worlding of American Literature to
World-System Literature’, American Literary History, 23.3, 2011.
Michaels, Walter Benn. ‘Empire of the Senseless: (The Response to) Terror and (the
End of) History’, Radical History Review, 85, 2003.
Miller, DeMond Shondell et al. ‘Civil Liberties: The Line Dividing Environmental
Protest and Ecoterrorists’, Journal for the Study of Radicalism 2.1, 2008.
Morag, Raya. ‘The Living Body and the Corpse — Israeli Documentary Cinema and
the Intifadah’, Journal of Film and Video, 60.3-4, 2008.
Roberts, Gillian. ‘Ethics and Healing: Hospital/ity and Anil’s Ghost’, University of
Toronto Quarterly, 76.3, 2007.
Rowe, John Carlos. ‘Mao II and the War on Terrorism’, South Atlantic Quarterly,
103.1, 2004.
Scanlan, Margaret. ‘Anil’s Ghost and Terror’s Time’, Studies in the Novel, 36.3,
2004.
Shostak, Debra. ‘In the Country of Missing Persons: Paul Auster’s Narratives of
Trauma’, Studies in the Novel, 41.1, 2009.
Simmons, Ryan. ‘What Is a Terrorist? Contemporary Authorship, the Unambomber
and Mao II’, Modern Fiction Studies, 45.3, 1999.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. ‘Terror: A Speech After 9-11’, Boundary, 31.2, 2004.
Stadtler, Florian. ‘Terror, Globalization and the Individual in Salman Rushdie’s
Shalimar the Clown’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 45.2, 2009.
Staels, Hilde. ‘A Poetic Encounter with Otherness: The Ethics of Affect in Michael
Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost’, University of Toronto Quarterly, 76.3, 2007.
Taylor, Bron. ‘The Tributaries of Radical Environmentalism’, Journal for the Study of
Radicalism 2.1, 2008.
Thomas, Samuel. ‘Outtakes and Outrage: The Means and Ends of Suicide Terror’,
MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 57.3, 2011. [discusses Paradise Now]
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— ‘Yours in Revolution: Retrofitting Carlos the Jackal’, Culture Unbound: Journal of
Current
Cultural
Research
5,
2013.
<http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/v5/a27/cu13v5a27.pdf>
Walker, Joseph S. ‘Criminality and (Self) Discipline: The Case of Paul Auster’, MFS:
Modern Fiction Studies, 48.2, 2002.
— ‘A Kink in the System: Terrorism and the Comic Mystery Novel’, Studies in the
Novel, 36.3, 2004.
Whitebrook, Maureen. ‘Reading Don DeLillo’s Mao II as a Commentary on
Twentieth-Century Politics’, European Legacy 6.6, 2001.
▪ General Resources
Amis, Martin. The Second Plane: September 11 2001-2007 (Vintage, 2008).
Aust, Stefan. The Baader-Meinhof Complex (Bodley Head, revised edition, 2008).
Braudy, Leo. From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of
Masculinity (Knopf Doubleday, 2010).
Burleigh, Michael. Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism (HarperPress,
2008).
Burke, Jason. Al Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam (Penguin, 2003).
Carr, Matthew. The Infernal Machine: An Alternative History of Terrorism (Hurst &
Co., 2011).
Chomsky, Noam. The Culture of Terrorism (Pluto Press, 1988).
Crenshaw, Martha and John Pimlott (eds). Encyclopedia of World Terrorism, 3 vols.
(Sharpe Reference, 1997).
Davis, Mike. Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (Verso, 2007).
Follain, John. Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the
Jackal (Arcade, 2011).
Gearty, Conor. Terrorism (Phoenix, 1997).
Graham, Robert (ed). Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Vols.
1 and 2 (Black Rose Books, 2005 and 2007).
Graham, Stephen (ed). Cities, War and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004).
Hobsbawm, Eric. Globalization, Democracy and Terrorism (Little-Brown, 2007).
Hoffman, Bruce. Inside Terrorism (Columbia University Press, 2006).
Husain, Ed. The Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and
why I left (Penguin, 2007).
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Jalal, Ayesha. Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia (Harvard University Press,
2008).
Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious
Violence (University of California Press, 2000).
Kushner, Harvey (ed). The Future of Terrorism: Violence in the New Millennium
(Sage Publications, 1998)
Laqueur, Walter. The Age of Terrorism (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987).
— A History of Terrorism, New Edition (Transaction Publishers, 2001).
— The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction (Phoenix,
2001).
— No End to War: Terrorism in the 21st Century (Continuum, 2004).
Liddick, Don. Eco-terrorism:
Movements (Praeger, 2006).
Radical Environmental and
Animal Liberation
Mukherjee, Bharati and Clark Blaise. The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting
Legacy of the Air India Tragedy (Viking, 1987).
Napoleoni, Lorretta Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror
Networks (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005).
O’Sullivan, N (ed). Terrorism, Ideology and Revolution (Westview Press, 1986).
Pedahzur, Amir. Suicide Terrorism (Polity, 2005).
Pyszczynski, Tom et al. In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror (American
Psychological Association, 2003).
Roy, Arundhati (ed). 13 Dec: A Reader: The Strange Case of the Attack on the
Indian Parliament (Penguin, 2010).
Rubenstein, R. E. Alchemists of Revolution: Terrorism in the Modern World (Basic
Books, 1987).
Smith, Colin. Carlos: Portrait of a Terrorist: In Pursuit of the Jackal, 1975-2011
(Penguin, 2012).
Townshend, Charles. Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press,
2002).
Various. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report on Terrorist Attacks Upon the
United States (W. W. Norton & Co, 2004).
Wall, Derek. Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement: Radical Environmentalism &
Comparative Social Movements (Routledge, 1999).
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Whittaker, David (ed). The Terrorism Reader (Routledge, 2003).
Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda’s Road to 9/11 (Penguin, 2006).
Zulaika, Joseba and William Douglass. Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables and
Faces of Terrorism (Routledge, 1996).
▪ Interrogations: Terror, Trauma and Critical Theory
Afary, Janet and Kevin B. Anderson (eds). Foucault and the Iranian Revolution:
Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Agamben, Giorgio. States of Exception (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Baudrillard, Jean. The Spirit of Terrorism (Verso, 2003).
— ‘Our Theatre of Cruelty’ (1982), in Chris Kraus and Syvlvère Lotringer (eds),
Hatred of Capitalism: A Reader (Semiotext (e), 2001).
Battersby, Christine. The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference (Routledge, 2007).
Borradori, Giovanna (ed). Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen
Habermas and Jacques Derrida (University of Chicago Press, 2003).
Buck-Morss, Susan. Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left
(Verso, 2003).
Butler, Judith. Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence (Verso, 2006).
Cavarero, Adriana. Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence (Columbia University
Press, 2008).
Chomsky, Noam. 9/11 (Open Media / Seven Stories Press, 2001).
— Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (Owl Books,
2004).
Fukuyama, Francis. America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the
Neoconservative Legacy (Yale University Press, 2006).
Gray, John. Al-Qaeda and What It Means to be Modern (Faber and Faber, 2004).
— Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (Allen Lane, 2007).
Gregory, Derek. The Colonial Present: Afghanistan-Palestine-Iraq (Blackwell, 2004).
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000).
— Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (Penguin, 2006).
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Hauerwas, Stanley and Frank Lentricchia (eds). Dissent from the Homeland: Essays
After September 11 (Duke University Press, 2003).
Jackson, Richard. Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and CounterTerrorism (Manchester University Press, 2005).
Klein, Naomi. Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Allen Lane, 2007).
Krishnaswamy, Revathi and John C. Hawley, The Postcolonial and the Global
(University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
Luckhurst, Roger. The Trauma Question (Routledge, 2008).
Said, Edward. The Question of Palestine (Vintage, 1980).
Virilio, Paul. Ground Zero (Verso, 2003).
— The Original Accident (Polity Press, 2006).
Zimmerman, Michael E. Contesting Earth’s Future:
Postmodernity (University of California Press, 1994).
Radical Ecology and
Žižek, Slavoj. Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Verso, 2002).
— Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle (Verso, 2005).
— The Universal Exception: Selected Writings (Continuum, 2007).
— Violence (Big Ideas Series: Profile Books, 2008).
— In Defense of Lost Causes (Verso, 2008).
— First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (Verso, 2009).
— Living in the End Times (Verso, 2010).
▪ Some Online Resources
The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV):
<http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wwwir/research/cstpv/>
Academic Info.Net. Terrorism Studies / War on Terrorism Directory of Online
Resources:
<http://www.academicinfo.net/terrorism.html>
Library of Congress September 11 Web Archive:
<http://september11.archive.org/>
University of Göteborg Resistance Studies Network:
<http://resistancestudies.org/>
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▪ Some Audiovisual Resources
— Discussion of Literature & Political Violence at the Royal Society for Literature,
Monday 27 October 2008. Participants: Adam Foulds, Pankaj Mishra, Chris Petit,
Kamila Shamsie. Available as MP3 via ‘Course Documents’ on DUO.
— Discussion of Literature and Terrorism at the Centre for New Writing, Manchester
University, 3 December 2007. Participants: Martin Amis, Ed Husain, Maureen Freely.
Available via DUO.
— European Graduate School (An excellent collection of videos of various key
theorists relevant to this course — Žižek, Baudrillard, Agamben, Hardt, Badiou etc).
Highly recommended. <http://www.youtube.com/user/egsvideo>
▪ More Fiction to Explore…
Again, neither an exclusive nor exhaustive list. However, for those of you inclined to
seek out fictional works beyond the primary list, here are a few suggestions of how to
orientate yourself in this ever-widening field. Basic themes have been indicated.
Note that this list does not include film.
Abish, Walter. How German Is It (1980). Baader-Meinhof-style radical group/Postwar
Germany.
Aldiss, Brian. Remembrance Day (1993). Irish Republicanism.
Aslam, Nadeem. The Wasted Vigil (2008). Roots of conflict in Afghanistan.
Ballard, J. G. Millennium People (2003). Middle Class terrorism/ Dystopia.
Brady, John. Kaddish in Dublin (1992). Irish Republicanism.
Castel-Bloom, Orly. Human Parts (trans. D. Bilu, 2004). Israel/Palestine.
Choi, Susan. A Person of Interest (2008). FBI investigation/American life and
paranoia.
Cleave, Chris. Incendiary (2005). Deals with the aftermath of a (fictional) terror attack
in London, written in the form of a private letter to Osama Bin Laden.
Coetzee, J. M. The Master of Petersburg (1994). Includes fictionalised version of
Russian anarchist Sergei Nechayev.
Beigbeder, Frédéric. Windows on the World (trans. F. Wynne, 2005). Post-9/11.
DeLillo, Don. Players (1977). American anarchism/Anti-establishment violence.
— Libra (1988). Assassination of JFK.
— Falling Man (2007). Post-9/11.
Easton Ellis, Bret. Glamorama (1998). Models-as-terrorists/Consumer culture and
violence.
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Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). Post-9/11
trauma narrative/Child’s perspective/Experimental form.
Gauhar, Feryal Ali. No Space for Further Burials (2006). Afghanistan/War on Terror.
Gibson,
William.
Pattern
Recognition
thriller/Technology/Globalization etc.
(2003).
Post-9/11/Cyber-punk
Greene, Graham. The Quiet American (1955). Terrorism and espionage in
Vietnam/CIA conspiracy.
— The Honorary Consul (1973). Paraguayan revolutionary group/Kidnapping.
Halaby, Laila. Once in a Promised Land (2007). Post-9/11 and Arab-American
identity.
Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). Post-9/11 and AmericanPakistani relations.
Hanif,
Mohammed.
The
Case
of
Exploding
Pakistan/Conspiracy/Assassination of General Zia.
Mangoes
(2009).
Harris, Frank. The Bomb (1908). Novelisation of the Haymarket Bomb in
Chicago/Anarchism.
Houellebecq, Michel. Platform (trans. F. Wynne, 2002). Islamist terrorist attack in
Thailand/Tourism/Globalization.
James, Henry. The Princess Casamassima (1886). Fin de siècle anarchism.
Khadra, Yasmina. The Attack (trans. J. Cullen, 2006). Israel/Palestine.
Khalifah, Sahar. Wild Thorns (trans. T. LeGassick and E. Fernea, 1984).
Israel/Palestine.
Kuehn, Felix and Alex Strick van Linschoten (eds). Poetry of the Taliban (2012).
Le Carré, John. The Little Drummer Girl (1983). Espionage thriller/Israel-Palestine.
— Absolute Friends (2003). International espionage.
Leonard, Elmore. Djibouti (2011). Crime thriller/Globalization/Al-Qaeda/Piracy.
Lessing, Doris. The Good Terrorist (1985). British revolutionary group/Decline of the
radical left/Class politics/Femininity and Domesticity.
McCabe, Patrick. Breakfast on Pluto (1998). Irish Republicanism/Sexual identity.
McCarthy, Mary. Cannibals and Missionaries (1979). Hijacking/Middle East/Art and
Terror.
McEwan, Ian. Saturday (2005). Post-9/11.
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McNamee, Eoin. Resurrection Man (1994). Northern Irish Ultras.
Messud, Claire. The Emperor’s Children (2006). Post-9/11.
Moore, Lorie. A Gate at the Stairs (2009). American life post-9/11.
Naipaul, V. S. Guerrillas (1977). Caribbean revolutionary politics.
O’Neill, Joseph (2008). Netherland. Expatriate life in New York post-9/11.
Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club (1996). Anti-establishment violence/Masculinity etc.
Pamuk, Orhan. Snow (trans. M. Freely, 2004). Political Islamism in Turkey/Terror
and Theatricality.
Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto (2001). Peruvian revolutionary group.
Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (2006). Complex, metahistorical reimagining of
fin de siècle anarchism in United States and Europe.
Robertson, James. The Professor of Truth (2013). Lockerbie investigation.
Roth, Philip. American Pastoral (1997). Weathermen-style anarchists.
Sacco, Joe. Palestine (2001). Graphic novel.
Speigelman, Art. In the Shadow of No Towers (2004). Post-9/11 graphic novel.
Shamsie, Kamila. Burnt Shadows (2009). Post-9/11/Migrancy/Globalization.
Stevenson, Robert Louis and Fanny Van de Grift. The Dynamiter (1884). Short
stories about a bomb plot on behalf of Irish independence.
Updike, John. Terrorist (2006). Much debated (and criticised) story of an ArabAmerican teenager drawn into a suicide plot.
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