English 510: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
Scholarship Journal, Assignment and Readings

Assignment:

Scholarship Journal: This assignment requires graduate students to read an additional scholarly work a week, one that I will choose and make available to you.  Unlike other secondary research you may perform this semester, these readings will be taken from works by major scholars in the field—the secondary canon if you will.  For each article, simply write a 1-2 page summary and response.  This is an informal writing assignment, so do not feel pressured to write a well organized essay.  I am simply looking for a grasp of the material and a considered response.

Reading #1: Canfield, J. Douglas. "The Ideology of Restoration Tragicomedy,"  ELH 51.3 (1984): 447-464.
Reading #2: Corman, Brian. "What is the Canon of English Drama," Eighteenth-Century Studies 26.2 (1992): 307-320.
Reading #3: Diamond, Elin. "Gestus and Signature in Aphra Behn's The Rover" ELH 56 (1989): 519-541.
Reading #4: Rosenthal, Laura. "Masculinity in Restoration Drama."  A Companion to Restoration Drama.  Ed. Susan J. Owen.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.  92-108. Rosenthal Masculinity.PDF
Reading #5: Kroll, Richard W. F. "Discourse and Power in The Way of the World."  ELH 53.4 (1996): 727-758.
Reading #6: Kenny, S.S. "Richard Steele and the 'Pattern of Genteel Comedy'" Modern Philology 70.1 (1972): 22-37. JSTOR.
Reading #7: Davis, Vivian.  "Dramatizing the Sexual Contract: Congreve and Centlivre."  Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 51.3 (2011): 519-543.