ENG457F:
Secondary readings
Yes, yes, I know, a
daunting and unreasonable list, as if this is the only course you’re taking and
you aren’t holding down 3 part-time jobs to boot. I’m not expecting you to read
every article! but they’re readable (mostly) and accessible, and I guarantee
that the more you read, the more you’ll enjoy the course. I’ve put ** beside
titles that are particularly useful for this course; however, if you read any
three or four articles in the first weeks you’ll be getting what you need – and
when you’re writing up take-home test #2, you’ll appreciate that you kept up
with it. Langford’s social history is a great
way of getting a sense of the period. Stir yourselves and head over to STL =
Robarts Library, 9th floor, Short-term loans department.
Week 1 (September 12th):
Dictionaries and grammars
**David Crystal, “Early
Modern English (p.74-75)” and “Modern English”, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Cambridge: CUP,
1995). PE 1072 C68 1995 Robarts, Vic, and Trinity Reference.
Susan Fitzmaurice, “The
Commerce of Language in the Pursuit of Politeness in Eighteenth-Century
England”, English Studies 1998.4:
309-328. STL article #3655.
**Nicholas Hudson,
“Johnson’s Dictionary and the
Politics of Standard English”, The
Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998), pp. 77-93. PR3 Y4 1998 STL.
Nicholas Hudson, “Review
Essay: Eighteenth-Century Language Theory”, Eighteenth
Century Life 20.3 (November 1996), pp. 81-91. Available online through U of T library home page: look for the journal
title under Electronic Resources/Journals.
**Carey McIntosh, “The
Instruments of Literacy”, The Evolution
of English Prose 1700-1800. Style, Politeness, and Print Culture
(Cambridge: CUP, 1998), pp. 169-194. PR 769 M38 1998 STL.
Lynda Mugglestone, “The
Rise of a Standard: Process and Ideology”, `Talking
Proper’: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995).
PE1074.7 M84 1995 STL.
Janet Sorensen, “`A
Grammarian’s Regard to the Genius of Our Tongue’: Johnson’s Dictionary, Imperial Grammar, and the
Customary National Language”, The Grammar
of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing (Cambridge: CUP, 2000). PR
448 I5 STL.
Dieter Stein, “Sorting
out the variants: standardization and social factors in the English language
1600-1800”, Towards a standard English
1600-1800, ed. Dieter Stein & Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Berlin
& New York: Mouton, 1994), pp. 1-17. PE 1083 T69 1994 STL.
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van
Ostade, “Robert Dodsley and the Genesis of Lowth’s Short Introduction to English Grammar”, Historiographia Linguistica 27.1 (2000), 21-26. STL, article #
1257.
Week 2 (September 19th):
Language and its users 1: class & gender
Sheridan,
The Rivals
The History of Little
Goody Two-Shoes
(1765; London: for J. Newbery, 1766), facsimile 1881. PR 3291 A1 G6 1766A STL.
**Paul
Langford, “The progress of politeness”, chapter 3 of A Polite and Commercial People England 1727-1783 (Oxford: OUP, 1989). DA 480
L26 STL at Robarts and Trinity.
Amanda Vickery's The Gentleman's Daughter (1998): a summary of language issues
**Michele
Cohen, “The English Gentleman and His Tongue”, “The Accomplishment of the
Eighteenth-Century Lady”, Fashioning
Masculinity: National Identity and Language in the Eighteenth-Century (London and New York: Routledge,
1996). PR 448 N38 C64 STL, and "non-circulating" at
Vic.
**Carey McIntosh,
“Politeness; Feminization”, The Evolution
of English Prose 1700-1800. Style, Politeness, and Print Culture
(Cambridge: CUP, 1998). PR 769 M38 1998 STL.
Janet Sorensen, “The
Figure of the Nation: Polite Language and its Originary Other”, The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century
British Writing (Cambridge: CUP, 2000). PR 448 I5 STL.
Week 3 (September 26th).
Language and its users 2: region & race
**James
Basker, “Scotticisms and the Problem of Cultural Identity in Eighteenth-Century
Britain”, Eighteenth-Century Life 15 (February and May 1991),
81-95. STL article # 1154.
Garland Cannon, “Sir
William Jones and the New Pluralism over Languages and Cultures”, Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998),
pp. 128-143. PR3 Y4 1998 STL.
Linda
Colley, “Peripheries”, Britons: Forging
the Nation 1707-1837
(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992), esp. 117ff. DA485 C65 1992
STL.
**David Crystal, “World
English”, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of
the English Language (Cambridge: CUP, 1995). PE 1072 C68 1995 Robarts, Vic,
and Trinity Reference.
Thomas Frank, “Language
Standardization in Eighteenth-Century Scotland”, Towards a standard English 1600-1800, ed. Dieter Stein & Ingrid
Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Berlin & New York: Mouton, 1994), pp. 51-62. PE
1083 T69 1994 STL.
Paul J. Korshin,
“Reconfiguring the Past: the Eighteenth Century Confronts Oral Culture”, Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998),
pp. 235-249. PR3 Y4 1998 STL.
**Dick Leith, “English –
colonial to postcolonial”, chapter 5 of English:
History, Diversity, Change (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), pp.
180-221. PE 1075 E58 1996 STL.
Carey McIntosh, “The New
Rhetoric”, The Evolution of English Prose
1700-1800. Style, Politeness, and Print Culture (Cambridge: CUP, 1998). PR
769 M38 1998 STL.
**Pat Rogers, “Boswell
and the Scotticism”, New Light on
Boswell: Critical and Historical Essays on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of
the Life of Johnson, ed. Greg Clingham (Cambridge: CUP, 1991), pp. 56-71.
STL article # 1151.
Romaine, Suzanne. "Introduction." The Cambridge History of the English Language Vol. IV 1776-1997. Ed. Suzanne Romaine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. PE 1072 C36 1992 STL.
**Janet Sorensen, “Essay
Review. Peripheral Visions: Remaking the map of British Cultural history”, The Eighteenth Century 40.1 (1999), pp.
68-79. Available online from U of T library homepage.
Janet Sorensen, “Women,
Celts, and Hollow Voices: Tobias Smollett’s brokering of Anglo-British
Linguistic Identities”, The Grammar of
Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing (Cambridge: CUP, 2000). PR 448
I5 STL.
Richard
Steadman-Jones, “Learning Urdu in the late eighteenth century: dialogues and
familiar phrases”, History of
Linguistics 1996. Volume 1: Traditions in Linguistics Worldwide, ed. David Cram, Andrew Linn and
Elke Nowak (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999), pp. 165-172. STL
article #2781.
Week 4 (October 3rd):
Language and its uses 1: an overview of literary language
**Sylvia
Adamson, “Literary language: 7.5ff The neo-classical phase, 1660-1776”, The English Language. Volume III 1476-1776, ed. Roger Lass (Cambridge: CUP,
1992- ). PE 1072 C36 STL.
**Sylvia
Adamson, “Literary language”, The
English Language. Volume IV 1776-1997, ed. Suzanne Romaine (Cambridge: CUP, 1992- ). PE 1072 C36
STL.
**Paul
Langford, “The Birth of Sensibility”, A
Polite and Commercial People England 1727-1783 (Oxford: OUP, 1989). DA 480 L26. STL,
Trinity College and Robarts
Week 5 (October 10th):
Language and its uses 2: scientific and technological change
Just
show up: your take-home tests are due today. But sometime, read
**Paul
Langford, “New improvements” and “Opulence and Glory”, A Polite and Commercial People England 1727-1783 (Oxford: OUP, 1989). DA 480 L26.
To be put on STL, Trinity College and Robarts