Eighteenth Century Reading Group: Helen Deutsch, "Disability, Irony, Untimeliness: The Lateness of Jonathan Swift"
Eighteenth Century Reading Group: Helen Deutsch, "Disability, Irony, Untimeliness: The Lateness of Jonathan Swift"
Helen Deutsch is a professor and VC of graduate studies at UCLA. Her research interests include eighteenth-century British literature, disability studies, poetry, gender studies, and literary theory. Recent publications include Loving Dr. Johnson (University of Chicago Press, 2005), Resemblance and Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture (Harvard University Press, 1996), Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (University of Toronto Press, 2012) (co-edited with Mary Terrall), and "Defects": Engendering the Modern Body (University of Michigan Press, 2000) (co-edited with Felicity Nussbaum).
Readings are posted on line under "Files" in the Canvas community for the Eighteenth Century Studies Reading Group. To join the ECRG community, contact Vincent Carretta, vcarretta@hotmail.com
Readings:
- Jonathan Swift, “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” and Gulliver’s Travels, Book IV
- Edward Said, “Timeliness and Lateness,” chapter one of On Late Style (Pantheon, 2006), pp. 3-24
- Edward Said, “Swift’s Tory Anarchy,” in The World, The Text and the Critic (Harvard UP, 193), pp. 54-71
- Allison Kafer, Introduction and chapter one of Feminist, Queer, Crip (Indiana UP, 2013), pp. 1-46
Optional:
- John Traugott, “Swift, Our Contemporary,” Irish University Review 4.1 (Spring 1967): 11-34. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25510081
- Ato Quayson, Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (Columbia UP, 2007), Introduction, pp. 1-31
Helen Deutsch is a professor and VC of graduate studies at UCLA. Her research interests include eighteenth-century British literature, disability studies, poetry, gender studies, and literary theory. Recent publications include Loving Dr. Johnson (University of Chicago Press, 2005), Resemblance and Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture (Harvard University Press, 1996), Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (University of Toronto Press, 2012) (co-edited with Mary Terrall), and "Defects": Engendering the Modern Body (University of Michigan Press, 2000) (co-edited with Felicity Nussbaum).
Readings are posted on line under "Files" in the Canvas community for the Eighteenth Century Studies Reading Group. To join the ECRG community, contact Vincent Carretta, vcarretta@hotmail.com
Readings:
- Jonathan Swift, “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” and Gulliver’s Travels, Book IV
- Edward Said, “Timeliness and Lateness,” chapter one of On Late Style (Pantheon, 2006), pp. 3-24
- Edward Said, “Swift’s Tory Anarchy,” in The World, The Text and the Critic (Harvard UP, 193), pp. 54-71
- Allison Kafer, Introduction and chapter one of Feminist, Queer, Crip (Indiana UP, 2013), pp. 1-46
Optional:
- John Traugott, “Swift, Our Contemporary,” Irish University Review 4.1 (Spring 1967): 11-34. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25510081
- Ato Quayson, Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (Columbia UP, 2007), Introduction, pp. 1-31