the dunciad, books 1 and 2
On Thursday, September 30, we will discuss books 1 and 2 of Alexander Pope's The Dunciad.
Histories of Writing, Reading, and Publishing
This is the course website for "Histories of Writing, Reading, and Publishing," a course taught by Dr. Williams in Fall 2004 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Links
- Syllabus (PDF)
- Online Discussion Schedule
- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
- the business of print
- johnson's "lives of the poets"
- samuel johnson on richard savage
- darnton to speak in kc
- response to student feedback
- the nature and history of reading
- the nature and history of authorship
- the meaning of "ur"
- reconsidering darnton and others
- online discussion sign-up sheet
2 Comments:
Josh McCreary's questions for Thursday:
What were Pope's intentions concerning the footnotes? If Pope was trying to poke fun at the excessive footnotes during his time, did he expect his reader to actually read the footnotes? If Pope did expect his reader to read the footnotes is he guilty of the same self-absorbed myopic view he is attemting to attack? How do these footnotes differ from what we (the class) are used to seeing, and what inference can we make from this difference?
Thomasena Armstrong's questions for Tuesday
1. What is Pope trying to convey in the passage:
Dire is the conflict, dismal is the din,
Here shouts all Drury, there all Lincoln's inn;
Contending Theatres our empire raise,
Alike their labours, and alike their praise. Book III, page761, line 269
2. What does Pope mean in the Passage:
Lo! thy dread Empire, CHAOS! is restor'd;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! let the curtain fall;
And Universal Darkness buries All. Book IV, page 280, line 253
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