ENGL-490  BIOGRAPHY: ROYAL LIVES

Dr. Margaret Hannay

Spring 2009

 

Office hours:                        Mon 9:30-11:30                                  Kiernan Hall 230

                                                TTh 11:30-12:30                                 Email: hannay@siena.edu

                                                Wed 3:35-4:35                                     783-4282

                                                and by appointment                           http://www.siena.edu/hannay

                                                                                                               

TEXTS: Byatt, Possession

                Shakespeare, Richard III

                Stoppard, Arcadia

                Tey, Daughter of Time

                Introduction to British Monarchs

                Scholarly articles on reserve/Project Muse

 

Jan 21    Introduction

 

Jan 28    Benton, “Literary Biography: The Cinderella of Literary Studies” [Project Muse]

                Middlebrooke, “The Role of the Narrator in Literary Biography”

                Hibbard, “Biography and Subject”

                Hannay, Lady Mary Wroth: A Sidney Though Unnamed and Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke [MLPH report on process of writing biography]                          

               

Feb 4      Richard III           

 

Feb 11    Tey, Daughter of Time; portrait of Richard III at http://www.npg.org.uk/collections        

 

Feb 18    Introductory reports

 

Feb 25    WINTER BREAK

 

Mar 4     Byatt, Possession, Chapters 1-14

 

Mar 11   Byatt, Possession                , Chapters 15-end

                Erin O’Connor, “Reading The Biographer’s Tale” [Project Muse]

 

Mar 18   Report/paper on Scholarly Controversies      

 

Mar 25  FILM in L26: “Possession”

 

Apr 1      Stoppard, Arcadia              

 

Apr 8      Stoppard, Arcadia

 

Apr 15    Final Report/Paper: Popular Culture and History of Reception

 

Apr 22    Final Report/Paper: Popular Culture and History of Reception

 

Apr 29    Integrative essay/discussion