Instructor: John Lutz
Classroom: Clearihue B215
Course Times: Wednesday, 2:30-5:30.
Office: Clearihue B222 Phone: 721-7392 Email: jlutz@uvic.ca
Office Hours: Tuesday 1 :30-2:30 and Friday 1 :30-2:30 or by appointment.
Website: http://web.UVic.CA/~jlutz/469ind.htm
Objectives:
The goal of this seminar is to unite analytical skills in history with practical skills in editing historical manuscripts. The students in this seminar will collectively edit the unpublished manuscript of the journal held at Fort Victoria from 1846-1850. This will involve transcribing from the handwritten text, copy editing and the more substantive addition of scholarly notes. In the seminars there will be discussion of fur trade history, and of the techniques of historical editing. The ultimate goal would be to see this manuscript published as a class project. We will consider both the possibility of publishing in print and on the web.
Format:
We will meet once a week in seminars which have two parts. One part of the seminar will be to review and discuss readings; the second part will to workshop the editing process.
Readings: Assigned readings are an integral part of the course. They come from the text or articles that will be available from the class website/
Text:
Michael Stevens and Steven Burg, Editing Historical Documents: A Handbook of Practice, (Walnut Creek Calif: Altamira, 1997).
Evaluation:
There will be five components to the grades for this course.
20% will be assigned to in class discussion and participation.
15% will be assigned to having the transcription and copy editing done in a timely and accurate fashion.
30% will be assigned to the annotation of a portion of the journal;
35% will be assigned to an introduction to that part of the journal which has been transcribed.
10% allocated to an index for your section of the journal.
As this is a workshop and seminar course, class participation is necessary. Students who miss three or more classes without a doctor’s note or equivalent, will receive an incomplete for the course.
Writing assignments:
The first of the writing assignments is simple historical legwork. You will have 15-20 pages of the journal to transcribe verbatim from a copy of the original into a word processing file. The second part of the assignment is to do the copy editing, making editorial corrections. Save these two files as rtf files and email them to me so I can compile the transcripts and resend to the whole class.
The second assignment will be to annotate the portion of the journal you have transcribed. This will involve research to identify the people, terms and places in the text. A map showing the location of the events could also be included.
The final assignment is to write a 2,000-3,000 word introduction as if you were introducing and providing an assessment of the entire manuscript.
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January 6th |
Introduction to the Course Background to the History of Fort Victoria |
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January 13th |
Context: Aboriginal World John Lutz, “The Lekwammen,” from Makuk, A New History of Aboriginal White Relations, (UBC Press, 2008) pp. 50-87. Paul Kane, Wanderings of an Artist, (1858) Chap 15 and subsequent pages to May 9th in Chap 16. Print edition (1968) 144-159. Early Canadian Online edition 208-233
Practical: Editing Manuscripts – What are the key decisions? Reading: Text 17-23, |
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January 20th |
Context: Fur Traders World Richard Mackie, “Simpson's Re-organization” from his Trading Beyond the Mountains, 257-282. Margaret Ormsby, ed. Fort Victoria Letters, introduction ix-xxxi. Explore HBC Archives online for Fort Victoria material.
Practical: Workshop on Transcription; Reading: Text 71-95 |
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January 27th |
Context: Transforming Texts Practical: Workshop on Editorial Policy Text: 121-145 |
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February 3rd |
Context: Wilson Duff, “Fort Victoria Treaties,” BC Studies, 3, 1969. 3-57. Aboriginal Accounts of the Douglas Treaties.
Practical: Workshop on annotations Text: 157-190; browse 171-198. |
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February 10th |
Context: Language and the Importance of Context. Mary Black-Rogers, "Varieties of 'Starving': Semantics and Survival in the Subarctic Fur Trade, 1750-1850," Ethnohistory, 33, 4 (Fall 1986). Richard Mackie, “Vancouver Island Fish,” from his MA Thesis, Colonial Land, Indian Labour and Company Capital: The Economy of Vancouver Island, 1849-1858, 46-69.
Practical:Workshop on annotations Charles Cullen, "Principles of Annotation in Editing Historical Documents: Or How to Avoid Breaking the Butterfly on the Wheel of Scholarship," in George Vogt and John Bush Jones, eds. Literary and Historical Editing, pp. 81-95 |
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February 17th |
READING BREAK – CLASS CANCELLED |
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February 24th |
Practical: Maps and Illustrations Field Trip to BC Archives Reading: Richard Ruggles, A country so interesting : the Hudson's Bay Company and two centuries of mapping, 1670-1870 (McGill Queens, 1991) selected pages. |
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March 3rd |
Context: Richard Mackie, “Land Based Diversification,” from his MA Thesis, Colonial Land, Indian Labour and Company Capital: The Economy of Vancouver Island, 1849-1858, 70-103, 122-149 Practical: TBA |
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March 10th |
Practical: Getting Published in Print Reading: text 217-42
Practical: Introductions: Reading “Introduction” to the Fort Langley Journals by Morag Maclachlan, pp 1-19.
Annotated Manuscripts Due |
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March 17th |
Context: Becoming Digital Cohen, Daniel J., and Roy Rosenzweig. “Becoming Digital.” Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2005. Coleman, Stephen. “New Mediation and Direct Representation: Reconceptualizing Representation in the Digital Age.” New Media & Society 7.2 (2005): 177-98. Chartier, Roger. “Books, and Reading from the Printed Word to the Digital Text.” Critical Inquiry 31.1 (2004): 133-52.
Practical: Building a Website Resource Material: W3Schools HTML Tutorial |
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March 24th |
Practical: Building a Website Introduction to XML Resource Material: W3Schools XML Tutorial |
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March 31st |
Context: TBA
Practical: Creating Digital Editions Reading: TBA |
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April 7th |
Context: Catherine Murray Dalgleish, Tales of Fort Victoria 7-23.
Practical: Creating Digital Editions Reading: TBA |
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April 14th |
Introductions due in hard and electronic versions. |
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