Primary texts:
William Shakespeare: Othello, ed. Edward Pechter (New York: Norton, 2004)
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, ed. J. Paul Hunter (New York: Norton, 1996)
Lord Byron: Manfred and Don Juan, in Byron’s Poetry, ed. Frank D. McConnell (New York: Norton, 1978)
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights, ed. Richard J. Dunn (New York: Norton, 2001)
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie (New York: Norton, 2006)
Theory:
*In Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies, ed. James L. Machor and Philip Goldstein (London: Routledge, 2001):
• Jauss, ’The Identity of the Poetic Text in the Changing Horizon of Understanding’, pp.7-28
• Tompkins, Jane P., ‘Masterpiece Theater. The Politics of Hawthorne’s Literary Reputation’, pp.133-5
• Taylor, Gary, ’1790’, pp.80-104
• Smith Allen, James, ‘Reading the Novel’, pp.180-202
*Articles in compendium 'ENG2329 Reception Studies' (available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika):
• Fish, Stanley, ‘Interpreting the Variorum’
• Chartier, Roger, ‘Labourers and Voyagers: From the Text to the Reader’
• De Certeau, Michel, ‘Reading as Poaching’
• Iser, Wolfgang, ‘The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach’
Recommended secondary literature (not obligatory):
Cavallo, Guglielmo and Roger Chartier (eds.), A History of Reading in the West (Cambridge: Polity, 1999)
Finkelstein, David and Alistair Cleery (eds.), The Book History Reader (London: Routledge, 2002):
Rem, Tore, Bokhistorie (Oslo: Gyldendal, 2003)
Bennett, Andrew (ed.), Readers and Reading (London: Longman, 1995)
Chartier, Roger, The Order of Books (Cambridge: Polity, 1994)
Fish, Stanley, Is There a Text in This Class?
Freund, Elizabeth, The Return of the Reader: Reader-Response Criticism (London: Methuen, 1987)
Jauss, Hans Robert, Toward an Aesthetic of Reception (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P., 1982)
Tompkins, Jane P., Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism
Tompkins, Jane P., Sensational Designs (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1980)