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Erste Vorlesung: Achtung!!! Wegen einer Kommissionssitzung am 15. April und einer Konferenz am 22. April findet die erste Vorlesung erst am 29. April statt!!!
Die Anmeldung findet im Rahmen des allgemeinen Verfahrens der Fachrichtung 4.3 statt. Bitte beachten Sie die Mitteilungen auf der Website der Fachrichtung und die Aushänge.
The ‘long nineteenth century’, which we will extend to 1918 in order to include World War I, was one more golden age of British literature, at a time when British power in the world reached its apogee. Certainly, both the splendour and the problems of the nineteenth century, which saw some of the most radical changes in the history of Western societies, found their way into the literature of the age. The most common categorization within the century’s poetry is to distinguish between Romantic and Victorian literature – and we will of course discuss these labels. Some of the other topics to be discussed are: the glorification and fear of the French Revolution, the shock of industrialization and urbanization, the condition-of-England question, the crisis of faith, the novel as the most successful genre of the age, the (re)formulation of love and gender roles, nonsense-literature, aestheticism, the ’Nineties, (anti)imperialist literature and the literature of World War I. Among the authors whose works are to be discussed are William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Ranke Graves.
There will be a final test (45 mins) in the second half of the last lecture (22nd of July, 2014).
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 978-0-393-91301-9
[For this lecture course, you’ll need volumes D and E. You’ll be able to use volume F in other courses.]
Diese Vorlesung ist innerhalb der neuen Studiengänge für folgende Module verwendbar:
Neue Lehrämter: Literatur und Kultur Vertiefung
Literatur und Kultur Hauptfach – BA
Literatur und Kultur Nebenfach – BA
Britische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft – MA
Britische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft Hauptfach – MA |
