Satisfies a GE area G and a Writing requirement Not open for credit to students who have completed English 30.

This class on British and American literature of the "long 18th century" (1660s-1790s) will examine a range of anglophone representations of authority and authorship in the politically and culturally lively period that extends from the English Civil Wars through the American War of Independence. We'll be reading works by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, and Benjamin Franklin, among others, that map out some of the period's national and transatlantic conversations.

This course is recommended for students interested in doing a future Early Modern specialization. English 10 is required for all English majors and recommended for English minors. This course satisfies the last half of the GE Area A requirement.

This introduction to literary study, offered through the Early Modern Center, will focus on 16th and 17th Century British literature. The course will be interested in looking at representations of love, courtship, romance (and Romances), sexualities, genders and gender roles(including queer genders). Additionally, we'll be thinking about what makes literature "popular" or "good." Toward that end, texts for the class will include ballads, sonnets, excerpts from prose romances, Sheakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, and Jonson's Epicoene.

This course is recommended for students interested in doing a future Early Modern specialization. English 10 is required for all English majors and recommended for English minors. This course satisfies the last half of the GE Area A requirement.

Satisfies a GE area G and a Writing requirement Can be used for the Early Modern specialization. If this course is used to fulfill the Shakespeare requirement for English major, it cannot also be used as an upper-division English elective.

The course will cover five of Shakespeare’s plays from the first half of his theatrical career: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Richard II, Henry IV part 1, and Hamlet. Video productions will supplement lectures and discussion as a way of understanding the dramatic character and values of the plays. Students can expect to write two essays, a midterm and a final exam.

This conference features exceptional work by undergraduates at UCSB. Reception to follow.

Frank Lestringant, Professor of French Renaissance Literature at the Sorbonne, is the author of more than 30 books on travel, geography, religion, and many other aspects of the Renaissance. He has edited a book on French colonization of the Americas, Le France-Amérique (16th-18th centuries), and is author of Jean de Léry ou l’invention de sauvage, which examines representations of Brazilian Indians in Jean de Lery’s 16th century travel writings.

This event is co-sponsored by the Renaissance Studies and the Department of French and Italian.

TIME: Tuesday, 24 April at 3:30 pm in HSSB 4020.

Professor Tuttle is an Assistant Professor of History at Kansas. Her current research focuses on the role of gender and sexuality in the solidification and centralization of royal power in seventeenth and eighteenth-century France. The book project she is working on, tentatively titled "Sacred and Politic Unions: Natalist Policy in Absolutist France," examines Old Regime policies that accorded privileged status to men who married and fathered large families.

This event is sponsored by Renaissance Studies and the EMC.

Richard Halpern, professor of English at Johns Hopkins, is author of Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud and Lacan (Penn, 2002), which explores relations between sexuality and aesthetics. Previous books include Shakespeare Among the Moderns (Cornell, 1997) and The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the Genealogy of Capital (Cornell, 1991).

An illustrated lecture and performance of seventeenth-century English broadside ballads by renowned British performer and BBC radio host, Lucie Skeaping, accompanied by instrumentalist Robin Jeffrey. For more infomation, visit www.lucieskeaping.co.uk (click on "Illustrated Lecture-Recital"). Reception will follow in the IHC.

This event is co-hosted with the Renaissance Studies Program.

2/8/2007 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Seminar at SH 2635

2/9/2007 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Lecture at State Street Room

We are very pleased to announce that Professor Roger Chartier, Annenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études in Paris, will direct the Everett Zimmerman Seminar, to be held February 8 and 9, 2007. Professor Chartier’s scholarship in early modern European history has been central to the study of print culture and the history of the book.

The Zimmerman Seminar, established in honor of Everett Zimmerman, Professor of English, brings a distinguished eighteenth-century scholar from a field such as literary studies, history, history of science, history of art, philosophy, law, religion, or music to campus to discuss his or her work with students and faculty. The Zimmerman Seminar is hosted by the Early Modern Center in the Department of English.

Paul Yachnin, Professor of English, McGill University; Title of talk: "Hamlet and the Social Thing in Early Modern England." Description: --"How can we best describe the socio-political dimension of the play Hamlet?" The ideas about artistic and intellectual works and public making that are emerging from the Making Publics project can yield an answer to this question likely to be more historically and critically illuminating than either old-style or new-style readings for ideological content. A focus on public making will be able to explain the play's socio-political dimension in terms of meaningful practices rather than textual meanings and in terms of the social agency of things such as performances and books rather than the agency of writers like Shakespeare. Such a focus is not at all to exclude textual meanings or artistic agency, but only to shift the interpretive task away from what could be called the imaginary field of literary public utterance."

Dena Goodman, Professor of History, University of Michigan; Title of talk: "Habermas and Feminist Scholarship: Going Beyond the Public Sphere" Description: Jürgen Habermas’s Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere has been informing scholarship in eighteenth-century studies for the past twenty years. German scholars took note of it when it appeared in 1962, but it was not until the French translation (1978) and especially the English one (1989) appeared, that it began to play an important role in the interdisciplinary and transnational field of eighteenth-century studies. The publication in 1988 – a year before the English translation of Habermas – of Joan Landes’s Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution meant that from the beginning, the question of gender has been central to debates about Habermas and the public sphere as these have developed in eighteenth-century studies, just as Habermas and Landes have been central to the “cultural turn” in the history of women and gender in the eighteenth century, and to the interdisciplinary “cultural” ground at the intersection of women’s studies and eighteenth-century studies as this has taken shape. In other words, as debates on Habermas and the public sphere have taken gender as a central topos and problematic, Habermas and the public sphere have been equally central to debates concerning women and gender in the eighteenth century. In this talk, I would like to give a brief account of where this interest in Habermas, the public sphere, and women and gender in the eighteenth century has taken us and to suggest where we should go from here. I will draw on my own current research on women and letter writing in eighteenth-century France for examples of how Habermas can take us in new directions. In particular, I will propose that we leave the public sphere behind and take more seriously what Habermas has to say about privacy.

Each presenter will speak for 40-50 minutes, with a 10 minute discussion after each talk; Ken Hiltner and William Warner will be our faculty respondents, and Eric Nebeker and Laura Miller will be the EMC graduate respondents. The colloquium will conclude with a roundable discussion followed by a reception.

Please bring your lunch to this showcase of EMC Graduate Students' work, including:

Each presenter will speak for 15-20 minutes and the event will provide ample time for response and discussion.

Please join the long-18th-Century Reading Group for an informal discussion of William St. Clair’s book, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, Thursday, May 4th, at 4pm in the EMC.

The readings—Chapter One (Chapter Two optional); “The Political Economy of Reading” (St. Clair’s Coffin Lecture for the School of Advanced Study, University of London); and Andrew Elfenbein’s very short review of the book—will be available shortly at the front desk in the department office in a file marked “18th-c Discussion Group.”

Please bring your lunch to this showcase of EMC Graduate Students' work, including:

· Mac Test, English: "Aztec Sacrifice in Spenser's Faerie Queene"

· Vanessa Coloura, English: "Science and Spectacle in Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon"

· Maggie Sloan, English: "'My brain is on fire!': Aggression, Knowledge, and Mentorship in Frances Burney and Maria Edgeworth"

Each presenter will speak for 15-20 minutes and the event will provide ample time for response and discussion.