Literature and Humanities
Honors Global Scholars
Fall 2024
Literature & Humanities \ Fall 2024
Exam Words
Exam Words: Brennan, “The Servants’ Dance”
Name of American magazine in which “The Servants’ Dance” first appeared ••• Penname that Maeve Brennan sometimes used when writing for that publication ••• American magazine where Brennan worked as a fashion and lifestyle journalist ••• Irish fashion designer who Leona’s red linen shorts likely evoke ••• Name of principal maid in story (works for Leona); nickname or generic name given to Irish maids in America ••• Model for Charles Runyon: New York City-based Gerald Murphy, who entertained authors, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald (author of The Great Gatsby) ••• What Charles is known as being, in addition to a “wit” ••• Know significance of “Big House” ••• Know the architectural term used to describe Leona’s deck ••• Libidinal ••• Noun that refers to a grimace, such as an ape or monkey might make ••• Three profession with which Irishmen in story are associated ••• What/who the statues on Leona’s lawn portray ••• Maeve Brennan’s father’s challenge when Irish ambassador to the United States: Irish neutrality in which war? ••• Name of author of “The Crisis of America Masculinity” ••• Name of author of The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life ••• Terms: “sign vehicles”; “impression management” ••• Truman Capote character possibly based on Maeve Brennan ••• Strategy that maids use against their employers at the dance ••• Character Dolly’s family name ••• How Dolly’s husband characterizes the “atmosphere” at the prior year’s dance ••• Debt bondage ••• Actual community, north of New York City, on which Brennan based Herbert’s Retreat
Exam Words: Maugham, “P&O”
Title of short story collection in which “P&O” first appeared (all stories written by Maugham) ••• Name of work by Thomas More that posits an ideal island society ••• Christian season during which “P & O” takes place ••• Asian city in which story opens ••• How Gallagher may suggest aspects of three real-life Irish men: Oscar Wilde; Roger Casement; Michael Collins ••• Gallagher’s plan for when he returns to his native county in the west of Ireland ••• Gallagher’s cause of death ••• Two-word term used to identified Casement’s notes about his sexual encounters ••• Type of home Gallagher lived in when on the rubber plantation ••• Scottish city where the European doctor trained ••• Married woman with whom doctor carries on an affair while aboard the ship ••• Married women who befriends Gallagher on the ship; her husband has left her for an older woman ••• Part of the ship into which Mr. Price “slither[s] down” ••• Type of metal mined on a large scale in Federated Malay States; nationality of people most associated with the mining ••• British Empire: color of possessions on world maps; roughly, a quarter of earth’s land and people by 1900 ••• Name of king of Belgium who controlled The Congo and its rubber industry ••• Political movement or philosophy that causes the first-class passengers anxiety ••• What wife of Christian missionary opines about inviting second-class passengers to party ••• Battle in which cricket star Percy Jeeves was killed ••• Meaning of Irish boy’s name Aidan ••• What the gall in “Gallagher” stands for • How Irish-language word aisling may be relevant to Gallagher’s final minutes, prior to his death ••• Subaltern ••• Cockney
Exam Words: Douglass & O’Connell
Springtime of the Peoples ••• Slavery Abolition Act (1833) ••• Maoris ••• United Kingdom Jewry; Isaac Goldsmid ••• Westminster ••• Catholic Emancipation (also known as Catholic Relief) ••• Act of Union: January 1, 1801 (created United Kingdom) ••• Repeal of the Union (Repeal Association/Clubs) ••• St. Patrick’s Cross (on Union Jack) ••• British statesman who deemed O’Connell the “greatest popular leader” ever ••• Irish political philosopher who coined the term “inalienable rights” ••• two-word terms: (1) what the Irish call the potato famine that devastated their country in the 1840s; (2) what the contemporary media called O’Connell’s large-scale rallies; (3) Dublin building in which O’Connell delivered the Cincinnati Address ••• diaspora ••• Lynn ••• official (three-word) name of the Quakers ••• significance in O’Connell’s speech of Jamaica ••• significance in Douglass’s speech (or speeches) of: Cambria; Madison Washington (Creole) ••• Douglass’s book The Heroic Slave ••• religious denomination Douglass targeted in his Belfast speech ••• Edward Williams Clay’s cartoon: O’Connell’s Call and Pat’s Reply ••• anti-slavery campaigners: gradualists versus immediatists ••• “most hideous crime that has ever stained humanity” ••• title of William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper ••• appeal to rationality; appeal to affectivity ••• thinker associated with notion of “doing the greatest possible good to the greatest possible number” ••• World Anti-Slavery Convention (London, 1840) ••• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott ••• James Buffum ••• Richard Webb; Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society ••• Joseph Poole (Wexford, Ireland) ••• The Columbian Orator, edited by Caleb Bingham ••• Richard Brinsley Sheridan ••• misunderstanding about phrase “a fine young Negro” ••• mobocrats ••• what Georgia’s Slave Code did or did not permit as regards teaching enslaved persons to read and write
Exam Words: Lahiri, “Once in A Lifetime”
Know with which region of India the characters identify ••• Calcutta (also known as Kolkata) ••• East India Company ••• Raj ••• The Namesake; Gogol ••• Gotra (a term that our notes associate with Kaushik) ••• Bindi (a term that our notes associate with Hema’s mom) ••• Food words: khichuri; pullao; trifle; fool ••• Shakespeare’s King Lear ••• Meanings of names: Hema; Kaushik; Choudhuri ••• What Hema finds problematic about the pajamas her grandmother mails to her as a gift ••• Atavistic ••• Diaspora ••• “tiger parenting” ••• Mass General; North Shore ••• European country of origin of founders of Indian corporation for which Dr. Choudhuri worked (when in Bombay) ••• Name of that corporation ••• Know which movie in the Star Wars series the story invokes ••• Movie Now, Voyager and cigarettes ••• Names of famous Irish hunger striker (initials = TM) and famous Indian one (JD) ••• Name of French perfume used by Hema’s mother; distinguishing feature of bottle top ••• Johnnie Walker brand ••• Album by Rolling Stones (released in 1969): overall album title; title of opening track ••• Widespread use of rape after British abandoned India ••• Yasmin Khan ••• Name of Hema’s Irish-American piano teacher ••• Religion of cook employed by Kaushik’s mom when their family lived in Bombay ••• Bengal exists today as Hindu-majority state of West Bengal (part of country of India) and Muslim-majority country of Bangladesh (“Bangla” refers to “Bengal”) ••• Mountbatten Plan ••• Jordan Marsh; Enchanted Village of St. Nicholas ••• Kevin McGrath ••• girl memorialized on tombstone: personal name; family name ••• distinguishing feature of home that Choudhuri family finally purchases ••• talking cure; therapeutic role-playing; Jacob L Moreno; psychodrama ••• Great Bengali Famine: first, 1769-1770; second, 1943-1944 ••• Ian Stephens; Statesman newspaper
Exam Words: Tóibín, Brooklyn
Know who the following characters are: Georgina ••• Jack, Pat, Martin ••• “Nettles” (page 16) ••• “the bastards” (page 47) ••• Mrs. Kehoe ••• the “leftover Irishmen” (page 88) ••• Miss Keegan (page 100) ••• Joshua Rosenblum (page 124) ••• Miss Fortini ••• Anthony (page 198) ••• Eily (page 258)
Know: Who enrolls Eilis in a night class ••• The name of the educational establishment that Eilis attends ••• Who (according to Miss Bartocci) wants “Red Fox stockings” (page 115) ••• What happens in the fitting room at Bartocci’s department store, after hours ••• How, in Tony’s mother’s opinion, “Irish girls aren’t like Italian girls” (page 139) ••• The first movie that Eilis and Tony see together (page 143) ••• How Tony’s maternal grandfather died (page 153) ••• What Tony “hate[s]” (page 167) ••• Where Tony, Laurence, and Maurice have “bought at a bargain price a plot of land” ••• Place name that is present in both Enniscorthy and Brooklyn (page 222) ••• Type of business that Jim Farrell’s father owns ••• Where Eilis finds it “hard not to think that she was Rose’s ghost” (page 227) ••• What makes Jim “bad-mannered” (page 231) ••• Sport of greatest interest to Jim ••• Familial relationship between Miss Kelly and Mrs. Kehoe (page 254) ••• What Eilis’s mother means when she asks Eilis if she was “in trouble” (page 258)
Know what happens in/at: “the Tan Yard Lane” (page 8) ••• “the Athenaeum” (pages 17-18) • “the Gresham Hotel” (page 33) ••• Bartocci’s department store after Eilis “had been there for three weeks” (page 65) ••• “Cush Gap” (pages 229-230)
Notes
Heads Up about Th-Sep-12-2024
On Thursday, September 12, our 9:30 AM class session will center on a presentation by Charlotte McDonald, an Honors College graduate who majored in International Studies. Charlotte will present on her career journey. At present, she is a geopolitical intelligence analyst with United Airlines.
Basic Presentational Template for Write Now Exercises
You are welcome to use these answers when attempting the Write Now exercise about Brennan
Texts
Click text’s title to go to text, lecture in written form, and Write Now (homework assignment)
Ba Barrett = “Whoever Is There”
Br Brennan = “The Servants’ Dance'‘
D Douglass & O’Connell = Anti-Slavery Polemics
J Jen = “Who’s Irish?”
L Lahiri = “Once in a Lifetime”
M Maugham = “P&O”
Tó Tóibín = Brooklyn
Tr Trollope = “The Telegraph Girl”
V Voltaire = Candide (not on the Fall 2024 syllabus)
W Wexford-Savannah Axis = Doing & Leveraging Research
Jhumpa Lahiri
”Once in a Lifetime” (2006)
GENRE — Short story (first published in 2006; then included in the 2008 collection, Unaccustomed Earth)
Mandatory Work
>> Read: TEXT — “Once in a Lifetime”
>> Study: WRITTEN LECTURE — Lahiri
>> Produce for a Grade: WRITE NOW — Lahiri
>> View: POWERPOINT (as PDF)
>> View: IMAGE — British Empire 1907 Map
>> View: IMAGE — Partition of India
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
Candide; or Optimism (1759)
GENRE — Picaresque satirical novella that critiques several Enlightenment phenomena
Mandatory Work
>> Read: TEXT (Phase One of Three) — Candide
>> Study: WRITTEN LECTURE (1.4) — Voltaire
>> Produce for a Grade: WRITE NOW (1.4) — Voltaire
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>> Read: TEXT (Phase Two of Three) — Candide
>> Study: WRITTEN LECTURE (2.4) — Voltaire
>> Produce for a Grade: WRITE NOW (2.4) — Voltaire
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>> Read: TEXT (Phase Three of Three) — Candide
>> Study: WRITTEN LECTURE (3.4) — Voltaire
>> Produce for a Grade: WRITE NOW (3.4) — Voltaire
Additional Resources (Optional)
>> Read: TEXT — Essay by Adam Gopnik about Voltaire
>> Study: WRITTEN LECTURE (4.4) — Voltaire (Focus: Essay by Gopnik)
>> FYI: WRITE NOW (4.4) — Voltaire (Focus: Essay by Gopnik)
Frederick Douglass and Daniel O’Connell
Selected Antislavery Polemics (1843, 1845)
GENRE — Campaigning Political Speeches Captured and Circulated by Print Media
>> First — Addresses delivered by Douglass in 1845: one in Cork, Ireland; the other in Belfast, Ireland
>> Second — The so-called Cincinnati Address, delivered by O’Connell in Dublin, Ireland, in 1843
Mandatory Work
>> Read: TEXT — Antislavery Polemics
>> Study: WRITTEN LECTURE (1.2) — Douglass and O’Connell
>> Study: WRITTEN LECTURE (2.2) — Douglass and O’Connell
>> Produce for a Grade: WRITE NOW — Douglass & O’Connell
Additional Resources (Optional)
>> Watch: VIDEO — Christine Kinealy on Douglass in Ireland
>> Listen:PODCAST — The History Show (RTÉ) on Douglass in Ireland
Wexford-Savannah Axis
Doing & Leveraging Research (since 2015)
GENRE — Grant-funded research that has yielded a European micro-campus, a multi-partner transatlantic trade initiative, and several public history/edutourism products
Mandatory Work
>> Study: WEBSITE — Wexford-Savannah Axis (Password: RiverStreet)
>> Study: WEBSITE — Father Peter Whelen: Wexford Savannahian
>> Study: SCHOLARLY ARTICLE — Keeley and Engel on Wex-Sav and Print Media
Additional Resource (Optional)
>> Study: SCHOLARLY ARTICLE — Monica Hunt on Black and Irish Longshoremen in Savannah
>> Read: SHORT PIECE — Spotlight on County Wexford (for the Sep-2024 Hibernian Society of Savannah’s quarterly newsletter)
Colin Barrett
“Whoever Is There, Come on Through” (2018)
GENRE — Short story (first published in 2018; then included in the 2022 collection, Homesickness)
Mandatory Work
>> Read: TEXT — “Whoever Is There”
>> Study: WRITTEN LECTURE — Barrett
Additional Resource (Optional)
>> Listen: AUDIO — Colin Barrett Reads “Whoever Is There”
>> View: VIDEO — Colm Tóibín Interviews Colin Barrett about Homesickness
Anthony Trollope
“The Telegraph Girl” (1877)
GENRE — Short story (first published in a periodical)
Mandatory Work
>> Read: TEXT — “The Telegraph Girl”
>> Study: WRITTEN LECTURE — Trollope
>> Produce for a Grade: WRITE NOW — Trollope
Additional Resource (Optional)
>> Study: SCHOLARLY ARTICLE — Katie Hindmarch-Watson on Telegraphy in Victorian London
W. Somerset Maugham
“P & O” (1926)
GENRE — Short story
Mandatory Work
>> Read: TEXT — “P & 0”
>> Study: WRITTEN LECTURE — Maugham
>> Produce for a Grade: WRITE NOW — Maugham
>> Listen: PODCAST — Documentary on One (RTÉ) on Roger Casement
Maeve Brennan
“The Servants’ Dance” (1954)
GENRE — Short story (first published in The New Yorker, a periodical)
Mandatory Work
>> Read: TEXT — “The Servants’ Dance”
>> Study: WRITTEN LECTURE — Brennan
>> Produce for a Grade: WRITE NOW — Brennan (At end of document, “Charlotte” should read “Scarlett”)
>> Review: Lecture Structure (format of Lectures #1 & #2)
Additional Resources (Optional)
>> Study: Margaret Lynch-Brennan on “The Work World of the Irish Bridget”
>> Study: Margaret Lynch-Brennan on “The Social World of the Irish Bridget”
>> Read: Aspects of “The Servants’ Dance” Presented as a Dramatic Reading (at the Write By The Sea Festival in Kilmore Quay, County Wexford, Ireland, in September 2024)
Gish Jen
“Who’s Irish?” (1999)
Colm Tóibín
Brooklyn (2009)
GENRE — Novel
Mandatory Work
>> Study: RESEARCH NOTES — American Swimsuits in the 1950s
Additional Resource (Optional)
