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Canon Dreaming, 1996


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(Created Dec. 1996; last revised 12/1/98)



   OVERVIEW
Hypothetical anthologies & curricula designed by students in the course practicum for Alan Liu's graduate seminar, Canon Revision: History, Theory, Practice (U. California, Santa Barbara, Fall 1996) (For projects created during the 1998 version of this course, go here).
Electrifying the Renaissance: Hypertext, Literature, and the World Wide Web
("Early Modern paradigms for access to a variety of different texts provides both a way of discussing the WWW and a new way of looking at the western literary canon. Perhaps one of the most manageable ways to navigate through a possibly unlimited number of texts may be to deal with them based on a Renaissance paradigm") (Robert Hamm & Rebecca Wood)

Romantic Movements
("online anthology intended to geographically situate writings of the period between 1760 and 1830. Knowledge of place is central to the literary history of the period, since it encompasses not only fiercely localized poetry centered in the Lake District, but also the European wanderings of the younger generation of writers") (Sheila Minn Hwang & Vince Willoughby)

The Victorian Canon
("web site devoted to investigating the problem of taste and aesthetics with regard to the Victorian canon in particular, and to the canon debates in the academy in general . . .contains on-line syllabi [e.g. Victoriana: The Popular Canon; The Victorian Novel; Victorian Poetry; The Novel and the Long 19th Century; Literature of Empire], on-line texts [including short stories by Lady Jane Wilde and Mary Elizabeth Braddon], images, external links, and a theory archive") (Jennifer Jones & Rita Raley)

Novel Courses
("Creating a course on the novel? In response to current directions in the canon debate, this site provides an anthology of courses that approach the syllabus at the nexus of pedagogical concerns, genre concerns, and historical concerns") (Alexandra Cook, E. Kim Stone, Benjamin Strong, Eric Weitzel)

1996-97 Course Home Page
Alan Liu, Dept. of English, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Fax: (805) 893-4622 E-mail: ayliu@humanitas.ucsb.edu