EN126 History and Textuality
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Convenors: Dr. Jonathan Schroeder, Department of English; Dr. Stuart Middleton, Department of History Office hours 2019-20: Middleton Tuesdays 12-1, Thursdays 12-1 and by appointment; Schroeder tbc Lectures: Tuesdays, 2-3 (Term 1, week 1 - OC1.07, then H0.03 for all future weeks) Seminars: Thursdays, 11-12, H5.42 (Humanities Building)
Paul Klee, Angelus Novus (1920). See Unit 5, week 21. |
History and Textuality explores how history and literary studies operate as distinct fields of intellectual inquiry. It examines some of the chief methods that historians and literary scholars use; the kinds of knowledge or understanding they produce; and particularly the ways in which that knowledge or understanding is shaped by its textuality.
REQUIRED TEXTS - to be purchased if possible:
Please make sure to purchase the edition specified above to ensure that we can all refer to the same page numbers. (In particular, note that we shall be reading the original, 1818 text of Frankenstein in the most recent Penguin Classics edition.)