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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) who maintained the
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
Historian and author of
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London Studies is an important area of early modern studies, bridging the disciplines of literature, history, geography, and cartography. Early modern London — the centre of English commerce, home to the first purpose-built playhouses in England, and a magnet for both the dispossessed and the upwardly mobile — was the terminus of all roads and many dreams
(Orlin 1). This course will consider the ways in which texts worked to create or resist a new identity for the growing city, to alienate or incorporate the new Londoners, to preserve or re-imagine medieval institutions, re-write rituals of inclusion and exclusion, and enforce or expand the city’s literal and imaginative boundaries.
Taking our cue from
One assignment will introduce students to the use of the
Class 1: Tuesday, 10 May. Mapping London
Class 2: Thursday, 12 May. Topography and Mythography; Conduit Culture
Class 3: Tuesday, 17 May. The Historical and Spatial Axes
Class 4: Thursday, 19 May. The
Class 5: Tuesday, 24 May. Worlds within Worlds;
Class 6: Thursday, 26 May. The
Class 7: Tuesday, 31 May. New Arrivals; Heterotopian Spaces
Class 8: Tuesday, 7 June. The City and the Crown
Class 9: Thursday, 9 June. The City or the Crown
Playreading: Tuesday, 14 June.
Class 10: Thursday, 16 June. Citizen Romance: The King and the Cobbler
Class 11: Tuesday, 21 June. Send up the Citizens
Class 12: Thursday, 23 June. Seasons of Work and Play
Syllabus (.doc file)
Possibilities for Street/Site Presentations and Write-Ups (.docx file)
Contributor Guidelines: Street or Site Short Essays (.docx file).
Researching the Streets and Sites of Early Modern London (.doc file). Use these guidelines to help you find the information you need to complete your presentation and short essay on the street or site you’ve chosen.
Participation (5%) (.docx file). This document gives suggestions for the discussion questions and responses.
Early Text Assignment (.doc file).
Research Question and Major Project Guidelines (.doc file).