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Erste Vorlesung: 17. Oktober 2017
Die Anmeldung findet im Rahmen des allgemeinen Verfahrens der Fachrichtung Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen statt. Bitte beachten Sie die Mitteilungen auf der Website der Fachrichtung und die Aushänge.
Chronologically, Romanticism is a short epoch of British and Irish literary history. In terms of its importance, however, it is a great epoch, in every sense of the word. In this “age of revolutions”, the modernity we know today became recognisable. The political and philosophical upheavals on the European continent and in the newly founded United States of America deeply influenced a British society that was undergoing radical changes itself, many of which were caused by scientific discoveries and inventions such as the steam engine. British and Irish literature at the time commented on these many revolutionary changes while it developed new ways of writing and thinking. We will discuss works by the following authors: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, George Colman, William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas de Quincey, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.), John Clare, Alfred Tennyson.
There will be a final test (45 mins) in the second half of the last lecture (30th of January, 2018).
Texts:
Stephen Greenblatt et al., eds, The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ninth Edition. Package 2: Volumes D, E, F. New York: Norton, 2012. ISBN 9780393913002 [In this semester, you will only need Volume D – the other volumes will be of use to you in other lecture courses and for your studies in general.] |
